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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1937
Page
3
The city installed a new forty foot extension ladder on the White truck for immediate use during fires at higher buildings or where a ladder of this type is needed. Director Fred J Weaver reported the purchase satisfaction at Monday night’s council meeting.
The city considers a broad street graveling and grading program to begin in late fall and winter weather permitting. Councilman Nichols urged immediate drafting of a plan for graveling ditching and guttering on streets including Avenue A Chestnut Shady Second West Washington Lemon Prospect York and others, with work to start under the WPA when feasible and presented to WPA for approval.
Erie July report details Patrolman Will Sunday giving Miss Misumo Meaito a driving demonstration near Cambridge Springs. Sunday’s guidance ended when the vehicle struck a tree after misjudging a turn, causing lacerations to Miss Meaito.
The 29th Pennsylvania Congressional District Board of Townsend Clubs met with Union City Club and Grange members in Union City last Wednesday. About four hundred attendees supported Townsend, with plans for a district wide series of mass meetings in the next sixty days. President B Ross Bunting announced a Congressional District Townsend Picnic at Glenwood Park, Erie, Pa., on August 11. The Corry Club vacancy from Frank Strannizan death was filled by electing A J Lewis as vice president of the local organization.
United Press reports President Roosevelt signed a 194,936,083 dollar appropriation bill for war department functions. It includes 52.5 million for Navy central work and 18 million for rivers and harbors. The act earmarks 82.5 million from the re wer fund to satisfy a canine provision dispute.
Forty five individuals in Union City and surrounding areas are ordered to repay aid fraudulently received from the state department of public assistance. Robert Cain, supervisor, reports 20 have paid $640.57 in full, 27 paid $11,12 with 11,549 still due. 14 cases totalling $423.51 await court action.
County registration officials warn that many residents will lose voting privileges unless they report address changes to the courthouse registration bureau. Every change must be recorded, even within the same precinct, with no exceptions allowed by law.
The Erie WPA district sheds twenty six workers in a sweeping staff reduction. The notices name Mundy, Jenkins and DrCertin among others, with tenured staff facing reassignment or removal as temporary projects wind down.
Funeral services for Frank Stannigan were held at his late home in Columbus with officiant William Garnett. Burial followed at West Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, with pallbearers George Hill, Thomas Millan, Richard Hild, Charles Carlson, Clyde Lyng, and Joseph Musing assisting. out of town friends attended.
July 20 appointment of Robert Morgan Davis, a Philadelphia attorney, as secretary of Pennsylvania's labor relations board was announced. Davis will earn 5000 dollars a year while Richard Wand, formerly with the revenue department at New Castle, is named chief investigator at 2800 dollars. Chairman Levi Licniter announced other appointments will follow later in the week.
Two dam records were set in Gaan Cot as workers pushed to finish a local project. Mrs Currie Mapp, 24, Bullie, was injured last night when a dispute with her husband A Scapp led to a brush-turned assault, with authorities reporting non-fatal injuries and ongoing investigations in Harmisburg on July 2.
A garbled quote from Uncle Rhen discusses taming an animal and keeping it still. The text suggests a muted or restrained approach, with emphasis on eye contact and calm behavior, though the exact meaning is obscured by OCR errors. The piece reads like a fragment of dialogue from a late nineteenth century column.
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