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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1947
Page
6
Multiple injuries reported as young people from Franklin and Old City struck by another car on Sugarcreek road. Driver Miss Florence A Dehner, 22, suffers back injury. seven others lacerations and bruises. Sheriff P S Ellis and State Police from the Tyrone barracks investigate.
Harold Lavelle Thompson of 110 Liberty Street was acquitted by an 11 man and one woman jury after deliberating half an hour of a case charging impersonating a federal officer. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael J. McMorran led the prosecution. Thompson allegedly posed as a Treasury agent seeking information about a Town Club robbery in Jamestown on January 16, 1917.
Area residents who held policies with the Keystone Indemnity Exchange, which failed in the early 1940s, are receiving refund checks for 25 percent of their assessments. The checks, dated July 1, 1987, come from the liquidation division of the State Insurance Department in Harrisburg, under Dauphin County court order from November 18, 1946, after the state took over the company and levied assessments to cover claims.
Funeral services for Demdyne Mais Jale Fred Logan were held yesterday afternoon from his home in Emporium. Burial followed in Emporium Cemetery. He is survived by his wife Mrs. Katie Logan and two children Melvin of Emporium and Mrs. Marvel Troutman of Detroit. Also surviving are brothers Delbert of Pittsburgh and Wilbur of Tacoma Park and a sister Mrs. Henry Cole of Corry. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cole and Mrs. Gerald Whaley with daughter Betty Jean attended.
The state sought to collect damage assessments by filing salts in various courts after policyholders refused to pay, aiming to recover funds for the alms pending and address compensation shortfalls across the commonwealth.
The Pennsylvania Aeronautic Commission announced plans to begin work on 20 airfields across the Commonwealth this year. It said $250,000 had been appropriated by the 1945 legislature for airport planning and development, to be supplemented by local funds and Federal aid. The program aims to advance airport planning and development across the state.
A statewide aviation development program is expected to cost nearly 12 million dollars. It includes building and upgrading airfields from smallest to largest across the state. Planned projects cover Beaver County Airport Frank Uncottings Greenville Allentown Bethlehem Lock Haven and Williamsport.
Coroner reports 16 year old Marjorie Maul died after leaping from a moving auto on route home from work. Death attributed to a fractured skull and internal injuries with time of death about 15 minutes after the incident near her home last night.
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