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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1941
Page
3
An alert receiver could be built into standard radios to auto turn on during a mid broadcast alarm and ring a bell until an all clear. The device would not interrupt ongoing programs and is being reviewed by RCA chief David Sarnoff and New York Mayor LaGuardia.
One hundred eighty four city employees will receive a five cent per hour raise effective August 1. The parks and public properties unit totals 118 and the water works division about 5,000 annually under Mayor Barber. Streets department employees, 114 in number, also gain the same increase with final reading of the ordinance set for the next council meeting.
Duane Buford, 19, of Johnsonburg, severely cuts both feet when he tramped on glass at Glen Hazel while swimming and leaving the water. He remains hospitalized at Elle County General. right big toe also injured. Left foot tendon and tissue damaged, substantial bleeding, condition reported as satisfactory today.
Governor Arthur James vetoed a 2500 appropriation to buy the site of the old fort near Brenner Creek and Allegheny rivers. The measure backed by the Daughters of the American Revolution, who celebrated the fort’s history, involved land from the estate of the late Dr. J Irwin Zerbe. General John A Wiley had previously cleared the fort ruins. The fort, built in 1796, served as a last defense against Indians.
Mrs. Johanna Higgins, 88, of Erie, widow of former Erie police detective sergeant James Higgins, died at home on East Fourth Street after a lengthy illness. Survived by three daughters Mrs. Michael White, Mrs. Al Zenner, Miss Helen Higgins. son James Higgins of Adrian, Mich. fourteen grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral from the home Friday at 9:80 a.m. with Mass at St. Patrick’s Church at 10. Burial in Trinity Cemetery.
A giraffe’s tongue can narrow to a thin width allowing it to slip between thorn clusters of the African thorn tree and pluck tiny leaves. This adaptation enables feeding in dense, spiny growth where other animals struggle.
An unclear text fragment references a 1003 date and a Furman PhD named Hiettey, mentioning Smollett and an alleged quote about a mouth. The readable portion is incomplete and does not establish a clear event, person, or source beyond uncertain attributions.
Harrisburg July 30 The United States Department of Agriculture announced 1942 farm conservation program payments for Pennsylvania farmers. Payments cover soil building and planting within special crop allotments, with rates set per acre for cropland non crop pasture land orchards and forest tree planting. Wheat marketing quotas for 1942 43 are projected with a quota level near 998 million bushels, requiring a May 15 proclamation if supply exceeds normal domestic consumption and exports by 5 percent or more.
N J Cladakis administrator of the New York metropolitan milk market informed handlers the latest amendments to the federal state milk marketing order set fluid milk price at 2.88 per hundredweight and cream at 2.10 per hundredweight effective August 1. He said the farm income would rise by about 955000 in August based on expected absorption of 200 million pounds of fluid milk and 65 million pounds of cream, with larger volumes in August 1940 compared with last year.
Cen tral Electric Co operative Inc awards a contract to Gamble and Gibson of Bolivar Pa for a modern office building at Parkers Landing across the river Route 254 Perryville Clarion county. Construction started and should finish by October 1. Parkers Landing Community Club members helped fund the six acre site. Building will be gray brick and modern in design under supervision of Tillmull Scheere and others. The Central Electric Co operative Inc has energized 1 084 miles of line in Armstrong Butler Clayton Forest and Venango counties serving about 6 000 homes.
The U S treasury department disclosed that 18 Japanese fishing boats in Hawaiian waters were seized on false registry charges. Reports say some vessels carried radio and photographic gear and navigational charts linked to espionage. Several ships were forfeited, and three Japanese fishing companies faced indictments.
ERIE July 90 Steve Parkoff 683 held in county prison over fatal beating of John Phillips 62 at a Russian boarding house on Parade Street early Sunday. District attorney Burton R Laub says Pankoff’s self defense claim appears plausible pending new facts. Officers found what is believed to be human hair on the blunt tool. Investigators sent the weapon to Washington for examination. if tests support the defense Phillips may avoid prosecution.
Wide search in Ridgway area for Bartolo Bartoletti of Caledonia after he fled from a hospital Saturday. State police report the missing man last seen near Gallagher Run and the W. H. Hyde residence, as Boy Scouts relatives and police continued tracking through woods and roadside.
Erie plans to boost motor patrols for two weeks starting July 30 with four high men from civil service to reassigned traffic duty. Mayor Barbey announced the move as part of expanding traffic enforcement and emergency response with additional officers and transfers from the ranks.
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