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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1943
Page
3
A brief sports item notes a tense curling event featuring multiple teams on a farm rink. Highlights include close scores, standout performances from unnamed skippers, and a dramatic finish with both sides pushing for victory in a friendly regional competition.
Regular city council session planned for plonday evening. Police investigate a near nighttime assault on a young woman in Fairhaven area near Mine Grove Cemetery. suspect not caught, strong description provided. Also reports of freight car movements, war rationing actions, local thefts, Navy training moves, and war price administration notes amid a busy local record.
June 18 speech before the 24th annual Dairymen's League Cooperative Association convention at the Hotel Pennsylvania. Pred H Sexauer of Auburn attacked price fixing on food, urged removing 80 percent of OPA and related payrolls to boost dairy production, and cited the league's 86 million dollar business last year with member income rising to 2578 dollars.
The Buffalo Red Cross mobile unit set up at First Methodist church for its 18th visit, collecting 172 pints and naming Walter M. Ishman Sackett as the 1,000th donor. The process began at 1 p.m. and ended at 7 p.m., bringing Kane’s seven visit total to 1005 pints of blood plasma.
Private First Class Jack Sugarman, hailed as Guadalcanal’s No 1 war hero after earning a Cross, returns home on furlough and endures crowds and questions about heroism. He recalls hardships, missing shoes, burned days and frozen nights, and a fellow Marine who survived on streams and berries.
More than 100 corporators and directors of the Community and War Fund of Erie County met in St. Paul’s Chapter House to elect officers and hear a review of the National War Fund. H. R. L. Emmett was re-elected president with Erle Worksman as manager, and Judge William Hirt became chairman of the board, succeeding Normen W. Wilson. Nine members were chosen for three-year terms and four for one-year terms to fill expiring board slots. Rabbi Max Carrick chaired the nominating committee.
June 18 at Portsmouth Navy Yard the submarine Burrfish was launched sponsored by Miss Jane E. Davis daughter of Senator James J. Davis. It was the seventh underwater craft launched at the yard in 1943 with Miss Davis from Washington D C attended by her sister Miss Jewel Davis as maid of honor.
Jamestown city officials consider restoring part or all of the former trolley system as a post war protest amid concerns over bus service cuts. Judge Allan Bargar proposed the idea in a letter to Mayor Samuel A. Stroth as the city weighs transit options and public unrest grows over reduced transportation to events.
Corporal Les ter E Kenison of Salamanca New York fell from an Army dive bomber at 8000 feet after a miscue in flight. He pulled his ripcord automatically and survived the descent while the plane en route from St. Louis to a Florida air base was found to be missing its rear passenger. A call from Waynesboro Mississippi confirmed Kenison’s alert return.
Demand grows for more buses for air purposed. The mayor hints at wiring the Office of Defense Transportation in Buffalo urging partial restoration of cut schedules. He cites the ODT action tying IRGC permission to restore half its curtailed Buffalo service.
A temporary Elk County Flood Control Committee formed in Pittsburgh includes eleven local representatives and U S Army Engineers. Bev F Thompson of Ridgway named chairman with J E Pile as secretary. A permanent body will convene tonight on Broad Street to elect full officers and authorize broader participation from Elk County towns and Clarion River watershed communities.
A fire at the Lakeview Forge and Clevis Company plant at 1725 Pittsburgh Avenue injured two men and caused about 4000 in damage. Fire Chief Lawrence P. Scully said a 190 gallon oil tank used for forging heated and spread burning oil across the concrete floor, threatening more workers before four fire companies stopped the blaze after about an hour and a half. Production will be hampered as motors and pulleys were destroyed. Firefighters laid 3600 feet of hose to reach the blaze.
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