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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1947
Page
4
The Medical Society of Pennsylvania reports appendicitis deaths have fallen sharply over the past decade and half as advances in medical care, early diagnosis, and new drugs reduce fatalities. Public education discourages laxatives during abdominal pain and delays in treatment, noting peritonitis risk rises with delay.
A classed page quiz asks who declared a moratorium on intergovernmental debt payments after World War I, who wrote Mission to Moscow, and who defeated Jack Dempsey for the heavyweight title. It asks if carnivorivores are omnivorous, whether passenger pigeons are extinct, the author behind a famous pledge to hang together, the year rent controls began, Vincent Auriol’s republic, violin string count, and Washington’s burial site.
Lillian B. Avery, 78, died at St Vincent's Hospital Erie from multiple injuries after being struck by a car driven by Andrew Zuber at 26th and Cascade streets. She was listed in serious condition with possible fractures and head injuries. police to investigate today.
The 254 day strike by Local 338 UAW-CIO against Marlin Rockwell Corp in Jamestown ends with a new contract signed in the Green Room of Hotel Samuels. The deal includes a weekly pay raise of 1.874 cents, 1945-46 vacation pay, and 12 month vacations for 1946-47, accepted by Local 338 members after management terms were offered by S. W. Brande and union officials. The contract follows a lengthy stalemate and parallels a Ford agreement inked by Brande earlier.
Retorres notes 18 percent pay rate and a $50 per worker average for a work return bonus. Harvard Business Review Essay by William Cunningham argues all transportation forms need unified regulation and fair taxation. He asserts railroads largely cover their costs while other carriers depend on public subsidies and calls for user charges on trucks buses ships and aircraft to fund facilities used by private gain.
The article argues for new costly highways and airports to handle growing traffic of trucks and buses. Professor Cunningham suggests carriers should pay a fair fee for use of publicly built facilities, calling it simple justice.
Five members of the Robert E. Davis family were left homeless when a house on Dugan road near Seneca avenue burned to the ground yesterday. The fire started in the kitchen chimney from a wood range. volunteers from Weston Mills could not control it, and Engine Company 1 from Olean arrived too late due to a stuck mowdrift. Neighbors housed the family. no water lines existed on the road.
Funeral service for Jewell E Mount was held Wednesday at 3 PM at Bracken-Keating Funeral Home with Rev. Gilbert L Boyd officiating. Honorary bearers included C H Holden B W Peldt J Hubert Heer Jeln Dallas Smiley Carl Gustafson Donald Wiggers William Myers. Interment was in the mausoleum at Fine Grove Cemetery. Teachers from Concord School and many Raymond Mig Company office workers attended. Attendees from away included Mr and Mrs Robert Newell and daughter Caro of Dover NH Mrs Jean Vincent and son Michael of Walla Walla WA Mr and Mrs Waller Bertram of Cleveland Mr and Mrs William Lindholm of Buffalo Mrs Rose Stellrecht of Lancaster NH and others including Mr and Mrs Norman Mount of Cuyahoga Falls Mr and Mrs Harold Mount of Akron Mr and Mrs Henry Dahistrand Mr and Mrs Carl Taylor Sr John B Taylor Mr and Mrs Howard Woodworth Mrs Carl Freeburg Mrs Milford Pfeffer Mrs Marie Taylor Charles Dahistrand and Miss Joan Dahistrand Eric and Mr and Mrs Ernest Taylor and son Robert of New Castle
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