Corry News Roundup Highlights Local Incidents and War News
Weather bounces from 90s with storms overnight while town copes with power outages and traffic mishaps. A man fled police after shoplifting, a boy scouts camp at Waterford impressed with a campfire pageant, and civil defense updates include labor injury stats and counterfeit ten dollar bills in Erie. Public notices cover bus service times, air travel plans, unemployment checks, and Mead Park Association meeting planned at the municipal building.
County Chief Warns Ballot Returns Slow Ahead of July Vote
Erie county chief clerk Ralph Benedict reports very few military ballot address cards returned as house to house canvass proceeds. He estimates about 18 000 names remain to be gathered by June 28 and processed by district for military ballots due July 1. Election boards will be on duty at voting places if homes are missed.
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Erie
Ralph C. Benedict
Benedict
Erie County Civilian Defense Board
Pittsburgher Named as Head of State Shrine
Erie June 19 Artermus Leslie of Pittsburgh was elected president of the Pennsylvania State Shrine Association at its annual meeting in the Shrine Club. Officers elected include J C Mumma Reading vice president George Williams Philadelphia second vice president and Edward A Miller Harrisburg secretary treasurer. Representatives visited Zem Zem Hospital for Crippled Children and attended a dinner Saturday night with J Ramsey Taylor Pittsburgh retiring president presiding. The next annual meeting will be held in Pittsburgh.
Erie Officer Missing In War Shuttle Raid To Russia
Lieut. John G. Karle twenty two son of Mr and Mrs George H Karle was reported missing in action. The War Department said he piloted an 8 P-51 Mustang fighter on a combat mission somewhere over Yugoslavia last May. Parents speculate he may have been part of shuttle raids between Italy and Soviet Russia and hope he is safe in the Soviet Union.
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John G. Karle
George H. Karle
Erie
War Department
Yugo-Slavia
Italy
Soviet Russia
Appeal to Harvest Milkweed to Save Life Preservers
Clyde A Zehner of the Agricultural Adjustment Agency urges Pennsylvania farmers to save milkweed plants this year to supply life preservers. He notes Java’s fall cut Kapok supply and cites milkweed floss as an effective Kapok substitute for life preservers.
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Agricultural Adjust
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Pennsylvania
Java
Mr. Zehner
Jaya
Milkweed Harvest Campaign Aids Children and Farmers
The seed pods of milkweed are ripe and students across America will join a campaign to gather and cure floss. The government will provide open mesh onion sacks for curing pods. Instructions reach school children as fall approaches. Farmers urged to mow pastures and clear fence rows to preserve milkweed for harvesting. highway workers advised to be careful mowing weeds.
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America
Pennsylvania
Mr. Abner
Corry Officer Joins New Twentieth Air Force Staff
First Lieut J Leonard Burkhardt of Cony joins the Twentieth Air Force at One Washington HQ to assist the adjutant general. He previously served at Alamagordo New Mexico on a B 29 base and says the force is the biggest Army Air Forces project, with more to come as the B 29 program grows.
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Leonard Burkhardt
Adjutant General
Headquarters
J. Leonard Burkhardt
Cony
Twentieth Air Force
Corry
Washington
Air Force
H. E. Arnold
Amy Air Force
Charles Burkhardt
Japan
Burkhardt
Alamogordo
New Mexico
Army Air Forces
Baboon Causes Mayhem on Erie Express Train
A baboon escaped its crate on the Erie Railroad Pacific Express in Oswego and ran riot for two and a half hours, damaging crates of honey cakes potato chips and edge and eating much of the cargo. Railway workers lured it with a banana near Hornell 100 miles away and recaptured it en route toward Beloit Wisconsin.
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Pacific Express
Oswego
B. C
Jones
Hornell
Ant Baboon
Antmil
Beloit
Wis
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