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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1939
Page
3
A 16 year old Lemar Clor is missing from Batavia N Y with fear he went to his father living in Wesleyville. Police were asked to be on the lookout and Ward reports note production shifts in the motor car industry.
Dr Norbert D Gannon elected chairman of the Erie county Public Assistance Board at a Thursday meeting in relief headquarters East 6th Street He succeeds P Grant who declined the chair and Grant was named vice president Mrs Herbert Spencer secretary Three senior typist clerks were appointed Miss Charlotte Moore Mildred Greiner and Miss Dorothy Wrana all to earn 1020 annually The board accepted Charlotte Gray resignation and noted Marjorie Robinson Weber as her replacement The board will meet the third Tuesday monthly and will handle appeals from staff relief decisions by White the executive director
May 20 discussion at Hotel Ashtabula as Ashtabula and Erie officials join Roosevelt Highway Association members from Albion to urge Ohio to connect Route 4 at the state line. W and Best note Pennsylvania has finished its concrete segment to the border with plans for Ohio and later Route GN designation. The original plan envisions a straight concrete link through Erie County to Ashtabula.
Pittsburgs May 20. County Controller Robert G Woodside said he would ask county commissioners to approve a plan to sell small bonds for the payment of taxes at a discount. Taxpayers could buy bonds from 5 to 25 dollars to be used exclusively for tax payments, a scheme already successful in New York City.
A three-legged foxhound strides with the pack at Southport North Carolina and stays close as the fox is cornered, showing grit and speed in the hunt.
Erie County commissioners vote to borrow 20000 dollars to pay current highway damage claims stemming from two years of improvement work. Funds expected from state fuel tax shares in August will repay the loan, with bids set for May 26 and claims concentrated in Union City and West Lake Road areas.
Babson argues that heavy public spending relies on money made by private companies, with taxes funding government bonds. He claims inflation or repudiation could reduce the federal debt, criticizes bankers for not refusing to buy bonds, and urges spending cuts and tax policy changes to avert a financial crisis. He warns that high bond prices mislead small investors and calls for courageous bankers and trustees.
Pittsburgh dispatch reports a head-on automobile crash in Mt. Lebanon suburb that killed two youths, Jack W. Watkins 20 and Albert Harris 20, and injured seven others including Charles Dagieish 15 and Kenneth Blackburn 20. Other injured: Robert Marmion 18, George Mullaney 21, Edward Delach 20, Don Jones 20, William Zama 19.
The fourteenth biennial convention of the Catholic Daughters of America in Pennsylvania begins in New Castle May 25 and runs through May 28 at the Castleton Hotel. About 200 junior members will participate in an opening day pageant, 13 courts are represented by delegates, and 500 visiting members are expected. Miss Frances Mater of Kane will preside. questions on Catholic action welfare and international paternal legislation will be discussed. Representing Court Conception of New Castle are Misses Anna Shields Ruth Powers Elaine Foster Antoinette Baressi Mary McAvoy.
To prevent peeled pears apples and bananas from darkening while awaiting use in fruit cups cover with grapefruit juice and chill promptly.
Ambrone Mulligan, superintendent of the State Peninsula Park, was informed by Secretary Stewart he will be relieved May 31. Efforts to locate him failed, with no successor named. Names discussed include Asa Millard L. Davis, ex-treasurer and sheriff of Erie County, and ex-Mayor Joseph C Williams, with Davis said to be favored but awaiting Park and Harbor Commission approval.
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