Budget adoption and school board actions loom
Twenty years ago May 18 1930 a Corry Journal report notes a special board of education meeting to adopt the budget set tax rates and appoint three school officials including the tax collector. The piece also covers a mill accident injuring Arthur Lew of Tidioute and local deer sightings near Beaverdam. It mentions horseshoe pitching on newly built Journal courts and changes in the Corry School District treasurer race with five applicants for the $300 position, plus teaching staff additions at Corry schools including Florence Walton Theresa Knapp and others.
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Board of Education
Roaming Round: Local scams and fishing mishap noted
A garbled town roundup reports a book scam where residents paid for undelivered medical books, three cases turned to postal inspectors, and a fishing mishap where Ray Splesman lost rod and eel after leaving bait unattended. Look magazine misreads Pennsylvania politics hinting Teddy Roosevelt could influence GOP. Lloyd Wood listed as lieutenant governor candidate. Chamber of Commerce plan to select area leaders for influence.
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Raset
Castle
Ray Splesman
Splesman
Rod
Ceel
Look Magazine
Pennsylvania
Eddy Roosevelt
GOP
Nmme
Teddy Preser
Cowmocree
Gay
Duff
Leutenant
Gunning
Lloyd Wood
Roosevelt
Chamber of Commerce
Tallves
Wmibuesadors
Strie Chamber of Commerce
Citywide Pennsylvania Week items mix health alert and local notices
Fragmented survey of city events and notices including a FDA warning about drugs linked to Drexel Laboratories, sparse local reactions, and varied items from campaign activity to liquor license suspensions and real estate listings. Also notes on a bicycle message incident, car factory delivery plans, and a seed shipment to Quito amid other municipal tidbits.
Car dealers face new allotment policy after war years
Victory notes the tight new car market with dealers told they will return to allotment, a policy in place for years after the war. In another item, Dr. R C Mason, a leading physicist at the East Pittsburgh research lab of Westinghouse, died yesterday at his Crescent Hills home.
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West Coast
American Airlines
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Detroit
West Canal
Lye
Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board
Phoenix Hotel
Mary Street
Ajax
Nation
Odessa
Texas
Willie
David H. Livingston
Iseal G
Murphy Company Veteran's Club
Pittsburgh
Iscal
Willi Murphys
R. C. Mason
East Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Crescent
Hills
FBI Opposes Opening Its Confidential Files
The article reports J Edgar Hoover arguing against releasing FBI confidential files. He cites risk to informants, future investigative value, and potential miscarriages of justice, warning that disclosure could endanger national security and smear innocent citizens.
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FBI
Bureau
J. Edgar Hoover
New York
FEE
Hoover
Ufth
How's Your 1 9 TE You can answer all 10 ques
A noisy fragmented trivia page asks to rate memory and solve a set of questions. It includes spelling contest, a Republican senator’s state, a secretary named Ant Whil, Champs Elysees location, a corrected line, a year question, Italian author of The Prince, and a combustion process reference, all presented in a puzzle-like teaser.
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Capettart
Ant Whil
Europe
Jury to Hear Case S Against Dominic in Erie
Erie May 13 a jury was selecting in Erie county court for two burglary charges against Mike Dominic and Frederick Schultz. Prosecutors planned to seek convictions that could run 20 to 40 years. Both men, with prior records, face charges over vending machine thefts in area cases. Trials expected to begin Monday and continue into the May term of the court.
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Erie
Mike Dominic
Frederick Schultz
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Arthur Lew
Tidioute
Corry
Miller-Keppel
Columbus
Lewis
Beaverdam
Morabian Ross
James Crowell
Will Akam
Naps
Journal Courts
West South Street
Treasuer
D. E. Leach
Petty
Sylvania
Leagh
Eq~ Seusion
Florence Walton
Siegel
Theresa Knapp
Titusville
Wilson
Kasapp
Drexel Laboratories
Drexel Hill
Upper Darby
Food and Dice Administration
Judge Fine
Jay Conte
John Kunkel
Gooke
Kiinkél
Ralph A. Thompson
Thompson Farms
Clymer
Quito
Ecuador
South America
Ed Smeltser
Erie County Court House
Hew Court House
Smeltzer
Pharmaa
Dominic
Gery
National Geographic Society
Fogle Lumber CO
Franklin St
Corry, Va
Carnations
Floradora Flower Shop
Les
Pete
Powell's Used Cars
East Main St
Whitman
Fairhill
Gene Auffy
Lon Sant
Sorial
Dodge
Korgital
Lui
Martin Motor Sales
West South St
Dodge- Plymouth
Lts
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