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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1942
Page
2
Notice lists schedule changes and events including March 1 meeting and March 3 practice times. Walter Scott speech on March 29 is noted along with chorus attendance and wardens air paid details.
Westfield Coast Guardsmen will be sent here shortly to fingerprint Lake Hile fishermen in this area. Field Secretary Howard M. Jones of the Chautauqua County Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs cited Saliday as aligning with government calls for registration of at least one man on pleasure or fishing craft in coastal waters such as Lake Erie. Local notices list bingo events, church meetings, and road work alongside incident reports and community updates.
Associated Press reports the RAF raid on Rhodes targeted two locations on the Thalian island, with no clear details on any overt Turkish threat. The piece notes Turkey's non-belligerent status and pressure from Germany to join the European conflict, given Rhodes’ proximity to Turkish territory.
Four men from this district were charged with selling liquor without a license after surprise raids Friday by a dozen State Liquor Control Board officers. Those notified to appear for a resignation were Charles Proprietor, Clifford L. Beddow, Jay Einikson, and Terome Casket.
The Board of Education, meeting as a committee of the whole, will discuss no raise in salaries for local school teachers with a County Teachers Association delegation. A pupil petition from the Senior High follows last week’s protests over a member of the Inquir y also to be presented. The board earlier received a petition seeking a $900 salary increase for all district professional staff starting September 1941. The issue was referred to the instruction committee and then to the full board. The meeting will also consider the pupil petition and reports of calls from parents about alleged non passing grades.
Corry area milk producers will receive 2975 per hundred pounds for 35 milk delivered to the Cay men’s League Cooperative Association plant. February’s price is seven cents below January, but 55 cents above February 1941. N. d. Cladatis, administrator, notes February marked the first month since last October when local milk sales exceeded the prior year, with 185,258,078 pounds sold, up one percent daily average over January.
Chief County Detective Charles Leitix said 18 year old Vincent Rocco, who surrendered to Swissvale police 12 hours after his sister was seriously wounded, admitted shooting the girl as she slept claiming she tormented him. Marie Rocco, nine, daughter of Mr and Mrs Jack Rocco of Swissvale, was shot last night while the parents visited relatives of friends who had died.
Mrs Della Rosey Blakeslee 78 widow of Curtis Blakeslee died yesterday at the home of her son Floyd Blakeslee in Salamanca New York She was born in Crawford county and lived in Spartansburg Survived by brother Ernest Rosey and daughter Mrs Myrtle Hees of Smethport Funeral services will be at Torvey funeral home Spartansburg with interment at Rose Hill cemetery Also notes two Penn Infantry officers Louis Hedman and Charles Monzon from Kane and Lane attending a training center in Texas with return to duty after April 14
A garbled OCR snippet lists various local incidents including an accident on Wrightville Street and a few names such as Judith and the Congrey Thomas family. It references emergency responses, a police car on Grand Valley, and injuries from a fall, with scattered names and phrases about cleaning, a garage, and a stream.
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