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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1950
Page
6
Police said Fourth of July fireworks will be banned as required by state law and city officials note youths obtaining fireworks from outside Pennsylvania pose an enforcement challenge. Officers warned illegal use will lead to prosecution and urged public safety.
Solemn closing of forty hours devotions drew a full house at St Elizabeth’s Church last evening. The parish procession featured children and altar boys. many visiting priests joined locally from Erie Titusville Meadville and Kane among others in the service.
A Washington Pa man, Joe Stanak, was sentenced to six months in jail for defrauding mail order houses over several years. He carried out schemes by enclosing cancelled stamps with orders and claiming partial returns, leading to his guilty plea for using the mails to defraud. Postal investigators traced the pattern after a Chicago mail order house flagged cancelled stamps.
The Dameolt Jones Post American Legion in Clymer will host Memorial Day activities on May 30 at Abbe Reformed Church. A 9 30 am parade gathers at Glymer Central School, then proceeds to the church for remarks by Rev Arthur Cooke. The Battle Hymn of the Republic will be sung, with organist Mrs Walter Schruers and pianist Mrs Leslie Cartisch. Afterward the parade returns to Clymer Cemetery for exercises led by Commander Wilton Deuinit. The Clymer Central School band, directed by Albert Manuel, provides music.
Pittsburgh reports a steel worker, Robert R. Fergek, age 38, killed at Edgar Thomson Works. Coroner and steel plant officials investigated as the incident prompted study orders.
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