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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1944
Page
3
A damaged OCR fragment mentions extual Bp converition ight and a brief reference to an incident. The readable parts note a figure about eight and vague descriptions of actions or persons. Further details are unreadable in this excerpt.
A brief item questions a local sound project titled Just A S Sonus, outlining community reaction and upcoming meeting on its impact and future plans.
Daily heat records were set in Corry on June 27 with a 91 degree reading and a 92.5 degree peak in the afternoon as officials noted possible further climbs. Marriage licenses were filed in Erie for several residents including Arlington Lee and Mary Fleming. War Bond sales will occupy all state insurance agents tomorrow per War Finance bulletin, with about four thousand agents expected to participate. OPA checks on gasoline ration stickers were reported planned in nearby cities, part of tighter fuel controls.
Jamestown June 28 Mayville Park hosted the lake season’s first near drowning when Neil Johnson, of near Mayville, was pulled from the water by Rev Ralph S Findley pastor of the Falcomer First Methodist Church who was visiting with his wife and small son. Johnson recovered after an hour on the bank and recounted water flooding his mouth as he wandered out with a companion. Findley swam to the spot about 25 yards from shore and pulled him to safety.
Dunkirk, Jie DUNIGIRK reports the Dunkirk common council ended a three session deadlock for city board of assessors clerk by electing Mond A. Nowak, Democrat, nominated by Mayor Bartel. The vote was party split with Stein absent due to illness. nowak formerly worked for the Federal Home Loan Administration.
Morgan Louis Hodges, a World War II veteran from Jamestown, was found not guilty of second degree criminal assault after a two hour jury deliberation. The trial heard testimony from the alleged victim aged 12 and her mother, with Hodges denying the charge and supporting character witnesses testifying for him.
Delya W Haenel and her husband George Haenel filed in Erie County suing Arlene Olsen for 35000 damages from a July 17 1941 automobile crash at 11th and Powell. Mrs Haenel was hospitalized 106 days with a fractured leg. husband seeks 10000 for car damage and wife care costs.
Fradiontes claim to increase egg production by radionites and to hatch and grade eggs by the same method. Dairy barns use germicidal lamps and electric screens to destroy flies and insects around milking quarters. Milk bottles are sterilized by radionic devices reducing contamination risks.
The Board of Education reports a surge in registration for the playground program. Director Tinson says about 125 children are enrolled this week with roughly 50 at Conemct, 50 at the Washington School, and three hundred expected once all registrations are processed. Activities run each weekday morning except Saturdays.
About 100 German prisoners of war arrived late yesterday under Army military police at Fredonia. They were unloaded from trucks at county subprovisions and moved to amurlers. The War Department provided the prisoners to ease civilian labor shortages in local food processing plants, mainly at Produnta.
In Greenville Pennsylvania on June 2 the soldier's model will be presented posthumously to Sgt. William E. Black of Grove City at Camp Reynolds during a regimental review and retreat parade. His father John G. Black will accept the award. Sgt. Black of the Army Air Corps died in Alaska last February while attempting to rescue a fellow soldier.
Mrs. Frieda Thompson reports her son Donald Thompson, a Marine, has been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry. Thompson, a veteran of Guadacanal and Bougainville, has served three years with 18 months overseas. He spent part of his service at Jacksonville and Camp Lejeune. A local Red Bank drive set a new record with 214 pints donated during a five hour blood collection event.
The piece highlights women in the Women's Army Corps serving in critical hospital duties lip-reading Braille work and hospital laboratories. It notes their roles as pharmacists psychiatric aides ambulance drivers and more, portraying them as a new, galvanizing force in American history during World War II.
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