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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1940
Page
3
A Warren forest fire, likely caused by careless human activity, swept about 25 acres Monday near West Avenue, damaging the Craft and Hertzel properties, wells and a power plant. Damage is estimated between $2,000 and $3,000, with Craft property damages $800 to $1,000 and Hertzel lease wells and power facilities suffering additional losses.
In Wabois Pennsylvania on May 1 a slow moving Baltimore and Ohio freight train struck 40 year old John Swanson. Partially blind and deaf with a prior leg injury he could not move in time. His body was torn and scattered along the right of way as spectators freed him from the wreckage.
A diary kept by B W Stennett recalls Corry in 1881 with a general store opened sixty years earlier in the North Center street area. The entry notes a drought year, Garfield assassination news, and the city’s rough streets, robberies of grocers, and a shift from wood sidewalks to newer paving as Corry moved toward 1940.
While excavations for the Maginot Line, inspectors uncovered a 3000 year old fortification built by the Gauls to repel the Huns. The structure appeared to mirror the earthworks planned for the modern frontier, highlighting ancient methods of defense nearby.
Roundtable discussion on current industrial relations will anchor the tenth annual Western Pennsylvania Industrial Conference at Cornell Lake Park June 28 and 29. Directors say more than a thousand executives and supervisors from at least two hundred Pittsburgh area plants will attend. Topics include production methods personnel handling safety and wage payment plans in open discussions led by speakers and moderators.
Industrial conference registration at Conneaut Lake announces eligibility rules for the November 5, 1940 election. Joseph C. Williams, county registration chief clerk, urges voters who changed addresses on April 4 to file notices to be eligible. Registrations accepted through October 5, 1940 with party and address changes. many invalidated ballots in the primary due to moving.
Continued from Page One the rush of applications may cause delays. State sets fee for examinations and blood tests about $5 with free tests if unable to pay. Applications must be filed within a set number of days after tests. Physicians may issue approved certificates to court clerks except when active syphilis is found. Rejected applicants receive a notice and may appeal to the state health department and then to the orphan’s court whose decision is final.
May 1 Erie. In a Committee of the Whole session the Erie school board approved insuring 2 200 000 with mutual insurers for three years. The action will be confirmed at the regular monthly meeting Thursday night when the millage for 1940 1 will be set. Debate over stock versus mutual insurers marked the process with long contention from company representatives. The three year premium totals 46 02 less the dividends the district would lose when policies lapse.
Erie May 1 Carl A Matis 730 West 10th street secretary to Safety Director Joseph C Martin is expected to be elected treasurer of the Erie county Democratic committee at the biennial reorganization meeting set for Tuesday May 14 at the courthouse Many leaders and committee members favor his candidacy and he may be unopposed Kenneth W Thompson resigned as treasurer after seeking the state committee man post with Miss Rose Kaltenbach elected to the state committee for two years Thompson and Kaltenbach were chosen for the state panel Matisis supporters say his name will be submitted at the meeting
A man who had lived at the same home for the past seventeen years died yesterday after a month long illness. The community recalls his steady presence and service in local affairs. His passing leaves a gap in neighborhood activities and local organizations he supported.
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