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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1938
Page
3
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A fragmentary news page notes an American Legion rally tonight, a Children’s Day exercise in Corry church, and a regular board or education meeting. It also reports auto industry production estimates, two arrests after a girl-related dispute, a stalled eight-ton tractor-trailer incident with intact cargo, traffic policing plans for Main and Center Streets, and a potential auto theft attempt on West Smith Street. Additional items include weather outlooks for the north and mid Atlantic states, Roosevelt’s postmaster nominations, Pennsylvanian postmasters confirmations, a Young Democrats gathering in Erie, May car registrations down 21 percent, and a public utility safety review proposal alongside civil service exams and a truckers’ rate conference.
June 11. Printe booklets containing the annual financial report filed with the court last February are available in the office of Controller Harvey M. Willis. The booklet lists in detail all county receipts and expenditures during 1987. A facsimile of a dollar on the cover shows where each part of the tax dollar was expended. Photographs of the courthouse, tuberculosis hospital, county almshouse and county officials are included. About 400 copies have been printed and will be distributed free.
The ninth annual Jewell Cobb Families reunion met Wednesday June 5 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Logan in West Spring Creek. A picnic dinner was served to about twenty relatives and friends. Officers elected for the coming year: Grace Thomson president, Bertha Davis vice president, Dorothy Morton secretary-treasurer. The next reunion will be at the home of Mrs. Bertha Davis in Youngstown New York. Relatives from out of town included Bertha Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Oris Jewell, Mrs. Alfred Theis and son Allen of Youngstown NY, Bessie Northrop of Erie, and Grace Thomson and daughters Kathryn and Barbara, Harry Jewell and Mrs. Nelson of Corry.
Fishermen W Schrader his son Bud and Bill Lewa near Cape Girardeau describe a bass leaping from water into the boat during a lake fishing trip. The incident highlights an unexpected catch and the dramatic moment as the fish landed aboard.
Erie June 11 The Port and Harbor committee of the Erie Chamber of Commerce urged establishing a radio beacon on the Peninsula. The beacon would guide ships via radio beams, aid bad weather navigation, and be funded by the federal government. Letters were sent to U S Senators Davis and Guffey. Rostoe House Buffalo Lighthouse Service head has been asked to assist. no nearby beacons exist between Buffalo and Cleveland.
Cornwallis, famed for surrender at Yorktown, later served as the Samite governor general of India.
Bernard J. Cochran received a temporary Erie appointment as tax and lien clerk during a council meeting. The move follows Cochran’s alleged handling of evidence in the Continental Rubber bond case brought to the city, with Vicely Palmer cited as responsible by a court ruling. City officials filed exceptions to the prior decision.
Ridgway June 14 five hundred Pennsylvania potato growers and volunteers dismantled the Civilian Conservation Corps Camp P-10 three miles west of Ridgway preparing to transport salvaged buildings to Denton Hill Potter County for use at the State College potato experiment station The motorcade of trucks will move the salvaged materials twenty miles to the Denton Hill site passing Ridgway St Marys Emporia Keating Summit Austin and Sweden Valley A vocational school group aided in dismantling and will assist in erection at the station
A pigeon landed at the home of Mrs. Warren Jones in Santa Rosa seeking food. The exhausted bird stayed long enough to be fed and then regained strength before flying away.
United Press reports only two women won nominations in the May 17 Pennsylvania primary. Ruth Grige Horting of Lancaster and Anna M Brancato of Philadelphia secured Democratic nomination seats in the General Assembly. Horting faced opposition in her district. Brancato topped a large field for her seat. Other female candidates, including Edith B DeWitt for Secretary of Internal Affairs and Sara T Wash for State Senate, were defeated.
Ewing Cort of Westmoreland county and Sarah J. Bunker of Luzerne are named in the report. The sole woman candidate for the Republican nomination for a state office, Mary P. Walthour of the ninth Allegheny district, is described as the fifth unsuccessful female candidate in her sex in the House campaign.
Massoula month was maven ft tapwal, Tda., Wag sentenced to federal penitentiary at the rate of a month a mile, to repeat his theft of 15 miles of copper Weld wire which disappeared from a emergency relief ramp on the Clearwater forest reserve.
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