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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1947
Page
3
A report details the first day regal use of new automobile license tags with both front and rear M-1 consignments issued. The piece also notes tax deadlines, a police search for two Erie schoolgirls, weather outlook through March 19, and various local civic updates including court actions and utility financing.
Dairy marketers in the New York milkshed will receive a uniform price of 4.57 dollars per hundredweight for February milk production, higher than the 3.58 dollars paid in February 1949. Dr. C J Blanford, market administrator, noted February output per day per dairy was the highest for any February in federal state marketing orders history.
U S Secretary of State Marshall proposed a five point democratic framework for postwar Germany including individual rights free parties free unions a free press and unified movement of people and goods Molotov called it helpful yet warned against Nazi propaganda use The dispute signals broader U S Russian clashes on democracy and German reconstruction at the peace talks in Moscow
The article notes a February record of 287 pounds per day, established in 1945, surpassing the prior figure.
Addison J. Jones, 78, of Ashville, was found dead Friday morning by a neighbor. A carving knife lay near the body and Coroner Samuel T. Bowers ruled death by suicide citing severed jugular and hemorrhage. He had been ill and despondent, leaving home around 6 a.m. to a creekside high point.
March 15 workers at the Pittsburgh Shawmut and Northern Railroad in St. Marys were told their jobs end at midnight March 31. About 160 Shawmut employees received notices amid gloom as many have long service, including some with 40 years. Of 150 involved, 35 work in the St. Marys office, with an annual payroll near $600,000.
Paul A Blakeslee and Frank Firth visited Franklin on business. Community notes report visits to Wilmington Erie Titusville and Linesville and a large western Pennsylvania bus lines hearing set for October in Warren. The letter lists many residents attending Eastern Star in Union City and local school and club activities including a Quieter Farmers initiation and a magazine subscription drive.
A Corry Pennsylvania Pennzoil service station at 101 West Smith Street offers complete service and new equipment. The ad promises pickup and delivery for customers and provides contact phone 38-101.
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