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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1944
Page
3
J Fred Kinley, official weather observer, reports October's weather with 20 clear days and 12 frosty mornings. Rainfall was 1 inch, below normal. first sable of cool air on October 20 and a cold spell ending October 28 with a low of 19. Four days were partly cloudy, seven overcast, and overall a fine fall month.
Julius King, longtime director of publicity at Chautauqua Institution since 1933, resigns effective January 1. He seeks board action at December 8 meeting in Chautauqua. King plans to expand public relations work in Jamestown and develop Furniture Trade, where he is VP and editor, and he serves as treasurer and director of Station WJTN. He joined in May 1933 and aided the institution’s reorganizing campaign.
The Federal Reserve Bank's monthly district review covering Western Pennsylvania Ohio Kentucky and West Virginia cites manpower shortages and contract cancellations driving a slight postwar production drop. Output of elevan goods shows small improvement in variety but steel and coal trends point to continued declines, with September steel ingot at 7,193,496 tons and nine month total 67,199,467 tons. The report notes corn crop around 53 million bushels and a larger harvest than last year but below 1943.
Gloucester musters a sweeping AP summary about the food industry’s size and postwar changes. It notes perishable sales, rising investments and employment, and calls for rapid freezing and pasteurization expansion. The piece forecasts dramatic growth in quick freezing for poultry, meat, fruits, vegetables, and prepared dishes.
The article foresees rapid growth of freezer plants and farm mechanical refrigeration after the war. Canning on farms declines as quick freezing spreads, and home refrigerators enable daily marketing independence. Dehydration rises as a distribution method, with attractive packaging and improved protection for perishables.
ERSE November 3 reports say Mrs Bertha Marie Wolfe 22 and her four sons ages five and under died October 17 in their 07 French Street rooms. Pathologist Dr E L Armstrong Hamot Hospital says neither sewer nor natural gas caused the deaths. District Attorney Burton R Laub confirms Armstrong eliminated both possibilities after autopsy.
Production resumed at Republic Steel Corporation Buffalo plant after a 10 day strike left 1,000 idle workers. The stoppage ended today as operations restarted at the facility in Buffalo, New York.
Elmhurst, N C soldier Sgt Thomas J Gibbons of the Fighting First Infantry inadvertently disrupted German lines after taking a wrong turn and seizing a German vehicle. Facing 250 ton tank and German troops, he escaped with a small band of prisoners, guiding them toward Allied positions as American artillery and air power reshaped the pursuit.
The article notes plans developed since Pearl Harbor to make a postwar diet more varied, attractive and nutritious. It cites improved processes, food products and equipment that will annually save tens of billions of housewife hours.
An Allied soldier recounts passing through German groups that tagged along to surrender. American outposts mistook him as part of a gauntlet, then transferred a growing force from 22 to over 500 prisoners. After, Gibbons slept, reflecting on dangers outside Corry Hospital. Obituaries list Mrs Sheridan Goon and others on West Washington and nearby streets.
A British freighter sank in the St Lawrence near Matane. Seventeen survivors were rescued after six hours in freezing water. The vessel, bound for Petite Muntane, broke apart amid explosions. The missing include five merchant seamen. no precise loss figures released. In other news, Eugene Lewis, 20, of 840 East Main Street, was killed in southern France on October 3, per War Department telegram to his family.
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