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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1941
Page
8
June 23. About 61,000 dairy farmers were eligible to vote in the New York milk marketing orders referendum. N J Cladakis announced that 6,200 additional eligible producers are voting through cooperative associations. Some cooperatives chose not to cast unit votes. An extra 21,100 farmers not in cooperatives vote individually.
Edwin Stafford 78 retired court crier for Erie county courts died Saturday in the home of his daughter Mrs. R A McReynolds on Waterford road Erie. A lifelong Erie resident he served twenty years as court crier before retiring in 1940. Survived by daughter Mrs McReynolds a son Sidney Blafford three stepsons George Earnest Stafford of Erie and William Stafford of McKennell
Report shows continued private effort and donations for Mead Park improvements on West Wayne Street. Mr Mead contributes labor and funds, while local industries and groups pledge further support. Community appeal urges voluntary gifts to Water Street to accelerate completion.
Harrisburg report notes the Ephrata Cloisters, once a Seventh Day Baptist haven, have been acquired by the state commerce department and will be preserved as a historic and religious history mecca between Lancaster and Reading. The site, dating to 1732, housed monastic-style living, a printing press, mills, and a hospital during the Brandywine era, with exile from Beissel’s death leading to decline around 1775.
Navy honors 39 men of the sunken submarine O 9 after abandoning body recovery and salvage. Divers determined further operations would risk lives, with Admiral Harold R Stark stating the loss is to be accepted as the men remaining at their posts. A naval inquiry is planned in New London or Portsmouth. A public service on deck of the Triton honored the crew with solemn speeches and a blessing, as admirals and sailors observed in mourning.
County authorities report the arrest of Howard Eugene Holtzapple on embezzlement charges linked to thefts from volunteer fire departments in the district. His companion Charles J. Huger remains detained or to be arrested, with joint information filed by Franklin state police. They will be returned to Venango County to face charges of embezzling funds from the Reno volunteer fire department.
Senator Joseph P. Guffey, during a busy Pittsburgh weekend, asked John M. Huston to pursue the Democratic mayoral nomination in the September primary. Observers see this as Guffey building a statewide machine for a 1939 showdown with David J. Lawrence, while leaders like Lawrence, P. J. Kirk, and Cornelius D. Scully weigh their positions. Kane and others have not pledged support, complicating a Guffey-sponsored bid.
June 23 a slim gunman in sunglasses and a slender partner robbed a West 26th Street liquor store, taking about $1,100 in cash before 9 p.m. They fled in a car stolen earlier from in front of Coca Cola Bottling Works.店
Mrs. Margaret W. Delp, 56, died from a fall down basement stairs at her East 17th Street home. Police say she mistook the basement door for a hallway door in darkness. Ill with flu, she was found by husband Furry E. Delp with boarder Richard Leynan. Coroner and Hamot Hospital confirmed death.
At a yard party in Cuddy village a car lost control while passing another, struck a tree and plowed into the lawn, killing two year old Lois Man Healing and injuring four relatives including grandfather John Williamson and mother Lena Williamson. Deputy Coroners said the driver was detained on a temporary basis pending investigation.
The first annual Pymatuning Lake derby is planned for July 17 to 19 with over 500 entrants registered and 4 000 to 9 000 expected to compete for prizes ranging from outboard motors to fish hooks. The event includes amateur and professional bait casting with prizes, and clubs from Youngstown and Wilkinsburg plan big outings. Gates and measuring points will be set at four stations along the 10 mile shoreline.
Amanda Fertig Quick of Titusville Pa celebrated her 90th birthday with a quiet Sunday observance. Born June 22 in Pertaps Venango County she was one of the region’s early oil era settlers. She married Miles W Quick in 1872 and spent her life in Titusville.
Rogers Bros Corporation receives contracts totaling about 4.05 million dollars to build military vehicles at the Albion plant. Plans call for doubling the facility size, rapid production of 45 and 50 ton tractors, and supplying army tanks and recoveries with special pulley blocks and winches for US and British use. The project includes orders for 500 heavy duty trailers, 80 trappers, 240 prime movers, and 90 more units, with a likely expansion timeline to meet wartime needs.
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