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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1946
Page
8
N Pa July 26 A threat by 60 public works workers was averted when the Mercer county committee granted a 10 percent raise to all municipal labor. The new scale pays 95 cents per hour for laborers, 792.00 for truck drivers, and 1.10 for special equipment operators. The top wage for a goats jumps to 220 per month while a Herm an rises to 217.
Erie will host two 20-foot SPGR type vessels assigned by the Navy Department for permanent use by the U S Naval Reserve unit. Commander B W Strickland said the PCE type ships for ocean going convoy duty are underway and expected within 20 weeks in Erie.
The article notes President Truman will sign a renewal operation today. It describes a new pricing standard for ceilings on manfacturers producers and processors and outlines changes to postwar profit margins for reconversion items such as autos radios and appliances. It mentions base price figures from 1940 and projected car price increases.
Three nearby routes will be resurfaced in Crawford County. Route 27 from Titusville to the Warren county line will receive two coats after a drag treatment. Spring Creek road from Titusville to the Warren line near Stony Hollow will be repaired similarly. A short stretch of North Perry Street near Union and Park will be recovered. A force feed loader will speed work, replacing berm sod and grading, with interchangeable Ford parts.
Mrs. Logan, wife of William John Logan a bank executive and former Flower Hill mayor, is killed during a break in at their Port Washington area home. Miss Logan describes the assailant forcing clothes removal before firing at her and escaping into the woods.
John Barber, brother of missing Jamestown airman Joseph Barber, traveled from Jamestown to Lock Haven Pennsylvania to join the search for the Cub light plane that landed in the wilds of northwestern Canada over three weeks ago. He aims to share insight from the site with Piper Aircraft officials to keep hopes alive.
Jamestown July 26 Vaunet te Ellis 35 Fredonia registered nurse arraigned before U S Commissioner B R Bootey on narcotics charges. Accused of forging prescriptions from a Fredonia physician to obtain morphine tablets from Dunkirk druggists she pleaded not guilty and requested a hearing set for August 19. Released without bail to her attorney Frank Sawyer Fredonia.
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