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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1936
Page
3
A crowded civic scene in Corry features a regular City Council meeting tonight, committee sessions at Wim Thi ite Garden Party, and St Thomas church event plans. Police report 140 driver license withdrawals last week, 67 driving privileges restored, with 94 revoked and 86 suspended.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. McCabe of Corry were honored at St. Thomas church with a special mass for their sixty fifth wedding anniversary. The couple, long residents of 156 Wright Street, renewed vows in a high mass celebrated by Rev. Francis J. Graves. Attending were their son Charles J. McCabe of Youngstown and daughter Mrs. P. S. Sullivan of Buffalo, among relatives and church members. A reception followed, with four generations present, as the couple prepare to move to Youngstown.
Washington July 20 United Press reports Senator Pat Harrison may be named comptroller general of the United States if he fails to win renomination in the Mississippi Democratic primary next month Roosevelt plans to hold the job for Harrison until after the August 25 primary Harrison, a New Deal loyalist, faces strong opposition for renomination McCarl, a Republican appointee, left office July 1 after a 15 year term Roosevelt has indicated his appointee, McCarl, was not eligible for reappointment
The article notes wide improvements at Camp A including new quarters for Maj Gen Edward C. Shannon and staff, a hospital in a former farm house, and a three by seven mile artillery range between Blue Mountain and Second Mountain cleared by Civilian Conservation Corps workers. The 29th Division, with units from Pennsylvania Maryland Virginia and the District, breaks camp August 1.
Readable parts show a housing notice inviting readers to explore a Journal classified section for room rental listings. The snippet suggests a standard early newspaper ad promoting available rooms with contact or pricing details not fully legible.
The week ended July 11 shows a net reduction of 1 650 relief cases in Pennsylvania amid a fund shortage that nearly halts grants statewide. Only 4 559 cases received aid at week's start, with 4 417 in Allegheny and 172 008 cases comprising 661 084 people remaining eligible for unemployment relief.
A series of land acquisitions approved by the State Game Commissioners adds dozens of acres to multiple State Game Lands across Crawford Huntington Bedford Luzerne Lackawanna Sullivan Centre and Fayette counties. Totals include tracts in Tioga Sparta Harrison Londonderry Georges Lehigh and more totaling over 12 million acres under consideration with counter offers and postponed actions noted.
Three young men were rescued from Tudley Lake after their canoe capsized near Whittlesey college beach. Paul Weber Jr and Joseph Barkoski guided lifeguards to the scene from Corry, while two others were unable to free themselves before help arrived. A motorboat speeding nearby was blamed for generating waves contributing to the capsizing.
Jay Franklin lauds Rexford Tugwell as a national asset amid the 1930s drought. Tugwell’s Resettlement Administration is celebrated for mobilizing staff, funds, and a program to combat dust bowl hardship, drought, floods, and related disasters.
William Blackburn, a paralyzed man with a love of travel, has begun a 2 000 mile tour of England from London in a self built wheel chair. The contraption uses two bicycle wheels and a bar and can cover about 60 miles each day.
A garbled report describes a Japanese soldier stationed on a mareh afiun farm receiving daily rations of pickled phim and suilices for 24 Jinurs. The text notes he must endure meager food provisions and harsh conditions as part of wartime hardship.
Six hundred and sixty three youths were employed on National Youth Administration projects in Erie County as of May 1 1988. Nationwide 19271 persons worked on NYA and related projects in New York State with 18291 drawn from relief rolls. Projects covered playgrounds camps community centers libraries vocational training crafts rural services and social welfare studies. More than 20 percent of all WPA workers are youths.
President Roosevelt planned a fishing trip with his three sons aboard the schooner Sewanna off Shelburne Nova Scotia. The party sought tuna baddock pollock and cod in abundant numbers weather permitting they would weigh anchor early for the voyage from the harbor. Charles Shuss departed by motor for a business trip toward Mound and other points during the warm spell.
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