Steel Scarcity and Prices Dominate Corry Journal
The Corry Evening Journal reports on steel scarcity driving price pressures as demand outstrips supply. Industry data show bid prices for scrap rising, plus continued capacity limits and shifting production. Analysts discuss implications for auto, construction, and other sectors and note subcommittee review of government loan options.
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BUS One
Sharon
Tron Age
Wade
Department of Commerce
Cellar House Judiciary
Tee
Geller
Seele
Automobile Crash Injures City Residents on Roosevelt Highway
Twenty years ago a collision on the Roosevelt Highway seriously injured Mrs. Albert McIlroy and William McElroy, with their daughter escaping harm. The report notes facial injuries and shock, while road work by Hage Dorm Company advances on the Corry Spartanshuro project. A separate burglary at Hage’s West Smyth Street station is mentioned, along with visits by Virginia Hoones and L. J. Kelly's party.
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Go Corryiles
Roosevelt Highway
Albert McIlroy
William McElroy
Sixth Avenue
McElroy
Worle
Corry-Spartanshuro
Hagedorm Company
Jameson and Knapp Company
Mercer County
Traffic rules left or right in Sweden and other quiz items
A quiz style note asks if Sweden drives on the right or left, how anniversaries are counted this year, whether washing eggs speeds spoilage, and asks about Soviet parliament, headgear clues from drogans, status of passenger pigeons, correction of a station broadcast sentence, the only U.S. president never married, dragonflies harmlessness, Payson Maxon Youke Weems life book, plus a society note on Miss Martha Burnett’s June marriage to Russell Briggs with a gift presentation to the Newsboys guests.
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Sweden
Radie
Soviet Russia
United States
Payson
Maxon Youke Weems
Martha Burnett
Russell Briggs
Mise Burnett
Peake to Receive Advanced Law Degrees at Michigan
Walter Peake, son of Atty. and Mrs Walter L. Peake of East Street, will receive the Master of Laws at the University of Michigan on Friday. He has also passed exams for Doctor of Juridical Science and is preparing a thesis. He plans to return to Corry with his parents after graduation and will practice law with his father in summer, then teach at the University of Pennsylvania in the fall.
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Water 5
Peake
Atty
Walter L. Peake
East, Street
University of Michigan
Corry
Ann Arbor
Mich
Attwich
Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
UMW Union Signs Contract at Erie
Erie reports United Mine Workers of America District 80 signed a new contract for Urick Foundry workers and noted progress in wage reopening talks at Robeson Process Co. Urick Foundry workers won three weeks vacation after 15 years.
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Erie
Omemis
Unitd Mine Workers of America
District 80
Urick
Robeson Process Co
Ubick Foundry
You May Not Be Interested Bul You May Not Be Interested
Pan American Canal operating expenses rose 79 percent from 1938 to 1948 while tolls stayed flat. Calls to reduce government and improve efficiency urge Congress to implement Hover commission recommendations. Corry’s congressmen, Senators Myers and Martin, and Rep. Kearns in Washington DC named.
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Congress
Hover Commission
Corry
Francis Myers
Edward H. Martin
Senate
Carroll D. Kearns
Washington, DC
Plant Workers Reach Four Day Strike End and New Contract
The workers halted work for four days last week and ratified a new contract through June 2, 1982. It includes wage reopener in June 1954, hospitalization and surgical benefits for 120 employees and families, a $1,000 life insurance policy, and a $1,000 dismemberment plan. The vacation and strike issues were resolved with an involved pay plan.
Erie County Plans Sesquicentennial Celebration
Erie County commissioners opened plans for a county wide Sesquicentennial in 1950. They noted Pennsylvania has nine counties celebrating 160th birthdays including Butler and Mercer in western Pennsylvania and began studying a county wide celebration to mark Erie’s 150th anniversary with a potential large event.
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Erie
Younty
Gre
Pennsylvania
Butler
Mercer
Erle County Triad Formed and District Status Declared
Erle was incorporated as a judicial county on March 12 1800 and designated a district in 1803. It was formed from Crawford and Allegheny counties. Commissioners with judges Elmer J Evil and Burton R Laub will pursue the festival led by an older sesquicentennial Adams county. The Hudson River flow reaches Troy New York, with head navigation 150 miles upstream.
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Erle
Crawford Aind
Allegheny
Elmer J. Evil
Burton R. Laub
Anoler Sesquicentennial County
Adams
Hudson River
Troy
N.Y
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Corry Evening Journal
H. B. Reed
West Smyth Street
Burghire
Virginia Hoones
Boston
Fred Hoones
L. J. Kelly
The
Kelly News
Washington St
Shorty
Bemberg
Chambray
Katherine
Center St
Walter Peake
UMW
Shaw
Dad
SLO
Stah L Jewelers
Rove
Thomas Motors
Erie County
Lakeview
Strongheart Dog Food
Rocker
Wood Gliders
Sun Dodgers
Meerdink’s Home
West Main and
Spring
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