Panadar RAGRAT Morning Brisk for Maple Syrup Season
Cold and crisp morning across Panadar RAGRAT as maple syrup producers hurry to tap lines and begin collection, touting springlike conditions for an early season dash to boil and bottle.
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1944
Page
3
Cold and crisp morning across Panadar RAGRAT as maple syrup producers hurry to tap lines and begin collection, touting springlike conditions for an early season dash to boil and bottle.
Major Post arrives home from German prison camp aboard the Gripsholm, his son William Shearman Post greeting him with his wife Catherine Partridge in Elmira. The return follows his B 17 crash over Holland during overseas duty. Major Post remains in service with the Air Corps.
Union City jurors for May term include Mrs Rose McElroy the sole Corry caller. George Goggins driving license restored after suspension. Police arrest Mark Lindsey after trouble at bus terminal. Gas thefts linked to a parked car. roller skates and flashlight taken from West Main. Chautauqua villages elected trustees mayors. Fredonia election earlier. Julius King in New York considers Wilfred Pelletier conductor for Chaulauang Symphony Orchestra. War Department lists 608 wounded including Sgt Rocco Agostino of Erie. Divorces filed in Erie for Corry residents. Union City license Clifford V Jones and Vera Stephens. Mercury coupe stolen license 44X74 Erie. Bernard I Vid indicted for assault on Westmoreland draft board clerk Latrobe. Commonwealth plans $9,357,000 state institution improvements pending WPS action. Possible special session on soldier vote law. continued use of war powers. 1021 of 7165 draft resistants listed as 4-E in Pennsylvania.
Bert W. Ayers aged 26, aviation chief machinist’s mate who served from Pearl Harbor through battles from Midway to the Gilberts and earned seven ribbons, died suddenly of a heart attack in Jacksonville Florida Monday night. His mother Mrs Lucy W Ayers received word from the Navy Department telegram and a Florida telephone call. She presides over the Ralph J Bennett Navy Mothers Club.
Wally and Rose Wally pleaded no contest in federal court to charges under the Rent Control Act. Judge F P Schoonmaker fined them a total of 25 and ordered court costs paid. They faced 12 counts, six for overcharging rents by 1 to 2 dollars and six for failure to register housing with the Rent Control Board. Their attorney said the overcharge involved adding 1 to 2 dollars to monthly rent after removing water rent for some tenants.
On Eniewetok Atoll a Pennsylvania Marine corporal sacrificed himself by lying on a live hand grenade to save two comrades during a Japanese counterattack. Corporal Anthony Daimato, 21, of Shenandoah, died when the grenade exploded at 6:07 am. He served as an assistant squad leader with the 22nd Marines and helped spearhead the North Atoll assault. His actions, recorded by Lt Richard Pfuhl, saved lives in a night of intense combat amid tree-covered ridges and heavy sniping. Daimato would have turned 22 in March.
Police and volunteers continued the search for Chris Nelson, a Pleasant Township man who disappeared Saturday. Theories include him slipping from a railroad bridge into the river or being in the water. An airplane scan over the river yielded no clues. Officers checked known haunts and Mirror Works vicinity where he was seen buying pie, but no corroboration emerged. Family members joined the hunt, hoping for a discovery or information.
Navy explains ending contract with American Aviation for a special aircraft type. Changes in fleet needs make production unnecessary, with a limited number of planes to be completed. Company says 180 workers laid off as plant scales back operations.
Salamanca sergeants returned home after leading 40 aerial raids over Europe. They earned Air Medals with seven clusters. The pair began basic training in Miami Beach and shipped to North Africa in May 1943, serving six months before moving to Sardinia.
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