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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1950
Page
4
A special Board of Education meeting is set for Friday to review administration and instruction committee plans to organize aid for a boys through the city schools. Rotary Club may sponsor if approved by the board.
Corry residents note new horn sounds on diesel locomotives while railroads seek horn designs to mimic steam. Spartansburg fires and Penns gas office heat issues are reported beside calls for faster Beeby crossing protection. A Middlebury, Indiana man offers to stage a puppet show for Corry Hospital as thanks for care. Ajax Iron Works highlights years of wages and engine output. City directory delays, a Rider College student teacher, fraternal election talk, and Salvation Army paper drives appear amid local notes. Privates Wickwire arrives at Fort Monmouth for Army communications training.
Civil defense programs are being revived after World War II with new leadership. The National Security Resources Board created a Civilian Mobilisation Office led by Pavil Larsen, former Los Alamos and Sandia head, to plan wartime civil defense. Government agencies expand readiness including dispersion of facilities, underground shelters, and disaster stockpiles. The Defense Department recruits 150,000 aircraft observers and a $320 million radar screen is under construction. Oregon and Washington reactivate air raid warning systems as plans for nationwide drills proceed. A series of radiological training courses is slated to begin in March by the Atomic Energy Commission.
The community weighs taxing all wages earned within Union City and those living there but working elsewhere. Officials warn enforcement may be limited to wages paid in the city, while residents employed outside face uncertainty. The rest of the page covers a church anniversary fund raise and police notes on school bus law compliance.
In Hershey Pennsylvania on March 4 a 19 year old youth named Paul Hoover of Stewarts Town was arrested on eight charges for throwing a dynamite cap into a crowd at a basketball spectators. The blast injured two spectators slightly. Hoover is jailed in Dauphin County awaiting a hearing. charged by Hershey Estates police chief John H Williams with malicious mischief.
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