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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1937
Page
8
Unofficial hints point to three instructors seeking 1937 38 contracts as Kane board meets to discuss resignations and alleged duress claims involving Glennis H Rickert and others. The session could pressure the superintendent to reveal reasons behind staff dismissals and potential public hearings.
Funeral services for Corson M. Jackson, 80, who died Friday at the Corry hospital, were held Sunday at 3 30 p m at the home of Mr and Mrs Earl Jackson 53 East Irving street. Interment was in Fine Grove cemetery. Bearers included Robert Jackson George Jackson Ray Jackson Bant White Frank Bishop and Kenneth Jackson. Relatives from out of town attended.
Pennsylvania direct relief rolls fell for the ninth straight week ending May 29 with 143 583 open cases covering 430 278 people. The week saw 3 856 cases opened and 5 985 closed, expenditures totaling 1 039 019, down 15 044 40 from the prior week.
Warren June 7 A new NYA camp for girls to run like CCC camps will open next week at the former US forestry service camp near Grander ville Pleasant township about three miles west of here. Accommodation for 260 girls, replacing Jumonville Camp near Uniontown closing June 11. Enrollees expected from wider area. eligibility includes eighth grade completion age 18 to 25 relief certification veterans or WPA families. Staff includes a resident director home economics director two RNs business manager and several counselors.
The widow of the founder of our financial system first introduced ice cream in Washington. She recounted President Andrew Jackson tasting it, liking it greatly and swearing he would have it at the White House. Guests at the next reception, especially from rural districts, were pleasantly surprised by this delicacy.
Seven people were injured in a two-car crash on the Oil City to Rouseville road near the Al Med Barrel Works early Sunday. Six remain hospitalized in Oil City. The victims include Lillian Mayfield 44 Titusville. Paul Burnett 85 Roustville. Thomas Burns 22 Titusville. Beatrice Mayfield 17 Titusville. Lloyd Tarr 18 Franklin R D 30. Francis Slocum 31 Titusville. Alice Burnett of Roseville. Conditions range from serious to not serious. one passenger left hospital after first aid. Carlton Pitt and Miss Thelma Williams of Akron were guests nearby.
June 7 Ridgway Matt McAulay 33 a mail messenger at Ridgway post office is hospitalized at Elk County General after a side swipe on the B P highway near Belvedere left his left arm severed between the elbow and shoulder. Driver Leo Beers of Brandy Camp is jailed. McAulay’s condition improved. Beers cannot yet be interviewed due to his injuries.
In Turnberry Scotland a field of over 100 golfers teed off for the British women's open. Pam Burton 22, holder of both British and American titles, was favored to defend. Dorothy Traung of San Francisco was seen as a likely finalist, with Barbara Beach Thompson of Santa Cruz and Betty Bueschner of Glen Cove also among the American entrants.
In Warren on April 7 a kerosene explosion caused severe burns to Eugene Waite 8 after sister Eleanor 11 started a kitchen fire. He died at Warren General Hospital last night at 7 50. Funeral services will be at the Downe residence Tuesday at 2. Interment Pinegrave Cemetery Russell. Siblings Everell 5 and Lois 7, also burned, remain hospitalized but are expected to recover.
Four young men including three brothers and the wife of one of them were held on criminal attack charges in Erie after an assault on Miss Helen Anderson, 37, and Harley B. Shull, 40, in Shull's car at 25th and Randolph Avenue at 9 30 p m. Those charged were Alfonse Dembrowski, Peter Mysnyk, George Mysnyk, Franke Mysnyk, and his wife Stella Mysnyk. Holand S. Morgan returned to Oil City after visiting Erie over the weekend.
An elaborate cockfighting program staged at an abandoned Tonawanda site was interrupted by authorities. Seventy eight men faced police as six bodies were removed and all participants posted bail to avoid court today. Names recorded at the Tonawanda station, with bail set from 11 to 25 dollars.
Fragmentary OCR yields a brief note about Fort Pi with garbled end of day details and unclear event or outcome. The readable bits show a place name Fort Pi and a reference to a final or end of day moment, but missing context for a full summary.
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