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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1939
Page
3
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A tag day for the Civic Employees Association is announced and a regular City Council meeting is scheduled for Monday evening. The report also covers divorces granted, tax actions, business earnings, construction statistics, weather outlook, and other local notices from Corry and surrounding areas.
Harrisburg reports the 160 mile all weather toll road from Middlesex to Irwin has 1000 plus workers already on site. Turnpike Commission payroll runs about 80000 dollars monthly with 600 draftsmen engineers and office staff, six contracts underway covering 85 miles. Expect full award by June and widespread economic boost with local hotels stores and quarries benefiting.
The Lyceum series at the senior high school ends with a Radio Operetta Revue on Monday at 8 o'clock. Soprano Hileen Huston and tenor Wil Tred Cushing, noted magicians, perform excerpts from operettas and operas and stage a short farce It's Life about a young aspiring writer and a solicitous secretary. The duet program features electrically transcribed accompaniment and coordinated dialogue with unseen music. The season has drawn sizable, enthusiastic crowds all season.
In Pennsylvania's fourteen State Teachers Colleges during the current term 8357 students are enrolled. Dr. Lester K. Ade reports 460 are men and 4907 are women. Enrollments range from 165 to 1549 across the colleges.
Erie leaders warned that several small elementary schools could close to balance the 1939 40 budget and cover an estimated 150000 needed before May 1. Superintendent Herman Liese presented a detailed financial review at the public library, outlining the impact on boundary lines and student assignments while officials weigh options to avoid drastic cuts.
Harrisburg March 4 Dr Lester K Ade superintendent of public instruction announced the dates for the annual state scholarship examinations to be held in every county seat on Friday May 5 High school seniors compete for one hundred dollar scholarships usable at any approved Pennsylvania college or university Eighty scholarships are awarded each year with eight to Philadelphia six to Allegheny and two to Luzerne counties
Welfare Secretary Arthur Sweeny said Pennsylvanias population has only 9 percent with college training versus New Yorks 14 percent. He added that Pennsylvanias criminals lag behind New York by 1.3 percent in eighth grade graduates and 0.2 percent in high school graduates, as Harrisburg cements its rank behind New York in wealth and population.
John Bollinger was brought to a Denver hospital after an uncontrollable urge to walk backward. Psychiatrists puzzle over the case, with officials linking it to the loss of a dishwashing job that allegedly sent his mind into reverse.
Paul J. Donaldson of Gerland paid a $25 fine after a hearing before Justice of the Peace Hurley in Youngsville yesterday. An agent of the Public Utility Commission arrested him for violating the trucking act and he was arraigned in the Youngsville court.
The balance in Pennsylvania's Unemployment Trust Fund stood at more than $81,000,000 on February MW, as fourth quarter 1988 employer contributions swelled the fund to a new high. State officials cited the fund's financial soundness and noted contributions of $16,295,095 for the last quarter of 1988, bringing total contributions to $156,262,545, with interest earned and benefits paid totaling notable amounts.
Funeral services were held Friday at 2 PM from Davison Funeral Home for Mrs Charlotte Lenora Sears Cactla 85 who died Tuesday evening after a brief illness Rev William J Kuhn of Emmanuel Episcopal Church officiated Interment followed at David Curtis cemetery Columbus Attending from out of town included Donald Sears Buffalo NY and Mr and Mrs Tivavell Nortr fast Hessilia with several from Cohasbus and vicinity.
Fragmentary text references a previous high balance and unemployment compensation law. Mentions fund, Februayp 1988, employer contributions, and expenses of a state agency. Overall content is garbled and difficult to interpret, with several misspellings and missing context.
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