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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1962
Page
4
A Pennsylvania audience responds to an editorial urging voters to abstain in a rigged May governor primary. Letters from J Collins McSparran and George M Selgworth praise the stand, while others question party control and demand merit based candidacy.
The column cites a circular promoting renting temporary workers to dodge fringe benefits and taxes. It analyzes costs from Social Security to vacation pay and questions legality, ethics, and the practice’s impact on employers and displaced workers. The author notes a labor market shortage and worries about agency practices and contract labor as a workaround.
Mayor Zaleck orders the time consuming minutes reading reduced to speed council business. Enlistees meet diploma standards as high school programs lure graduates. Local notices mention a longtime policy breach and local civic resgents, YMCA secretary Sterling Wees, and Maple syrup farming declines amid hard maple log prices.
War Department announced that General Douglas MacArthur will assume supreme United Nations command in the Asia Pacific region. The note followed a day of local activity with residents including LeRoy Cady who saw eight large Canadian timber wolves captured in a fox trap.
The Municipal Club event drew over 125 members and their ladies, marking the most successful gathering to date. Corry ministers invite all to Go To Church Sunday, while local plans target a strong bid for regional baseball honors with a 123 team lineup.
City elders and chamber members discuss suggesting to the Simon company that it donate a motor to the museum and historical building planned for Mead Park. Rotarians expect about 375 from the Rubinoff concert while a master fiddler earned nearly twice that. Cultural notes include out of town patrons and a jest about Erie DA ties to gambling. Plans for an industry recognition day in Corry are mentioned for May Tet.
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