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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1939
Page
3
A packed school week includes the Board of Education meeting tonight while reports show gas output up 10.7 percent to 93,072,520 kWh for the week ended March 3. Public notices reference tax deadlines, dietary concerns, and a variety of local civic events.
Pittsburgh reports police conduct traffic clinics in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to study accident repeaters those with more than one crash in 12 months. Tests cover braking steering vision glare color perception and speed estimation. Visual defects account for about 1 percent. The system uses a reactometer with a moving highway scene to gauge driver response.
Ridgway borough adopts its 1939 budget totaling 55 702 41 dollars with a 0.25 mill tax cut saving taxpayers about 600 dollars. The total millage stands at 7.7 mills and recreation funding is set at 465 86 dollars as part of the annual levy and bond retirement. Also notes a bond retirement that enabled the tax reduction.
The notice warns that Wednesday, March 15, marks the final day for filing 1938 income tax returns. A deputy collector of internal revenue visited the city two weeks ago to offer help in return preparation. accountants and notaries have been working in the last minute rush through today and Tuesday.
Thomas D. McCarty, 17, captain of Cathedral Prep football last year and student council president, died suddenly of a heart attack. His father found him in bed at 1749 Rosemont Kahkwa Park in Erie shortly before 10 a.m. He was in apparently good health and had no known heart ailment, leaving a pall over classmates who saw him as a standout scholar and leader.
Corry will host visiting officials meeting the Holby Club tomorrow to finalize participation in airmail pickup and delivery lines serving 28 towns in Pennsylvania West Virginia Ohio and Delaware. All-American Aviation plans May 1 inaugural flights via Routes 101 and 1002 with local pickup stations and shared costs. Col Carl Estes recovering in Wilkes Barre after stomach ailment.
United Press reports Penn State women are diligent borrowers with more than three quarters of the 12 465 loans repaid over five years. Loans ranged 25 to 75 dollars, averaging just over 60. unemployment and early marriage cited as delays. NYA work and cooperative housing help repayment.
Lock Haven March 1 The board unanimously voted to dismiss Rose Flynt Lehner from public school staff after a special meeting that stretched over more than an hour. Three tenure charges were found true incompetence immorality and wilful negligence in votes of unanimous six to seven and four to eight respectively. Two charges temperance and mental derangement were ignored.
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