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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1952
Page
4
A reader memory test offers ten questions on wartime terms, stamps, presidents, baby size, a Negro Army general, Creole, a truffled neckpiece, and Operation Crossroads. Answers are promised on an “Ol Anified Page,” with scoring bands from Genius to Poor.
Fires on Spring and Marion streets cause $1650 damage with chimneys blamed. A minor accident at Bond and North Center leaves no injuries. Hunters report a strong season with heavy small game harvest. Taylor twins celebrate 10th birthday with 12 guests. Coach Myers prepares 1992-83 Beavers roster, highlighting Sonny Daye.
The International Union of Electrical Workers is negotiating with Erie Resistor Corp for a contract add on 11.6 cents across the board plus 2.5 cents for an inequity pool. They push improved insurance, three paid days off for a death, 10 sick days yearly, $1000 severance per year of service, and a no lockout clause. Union aide Earl Zipp notes company offers 4.47 percent wage rise on base rate, while union says 3 cents an hour, company says 65 cents.
Production and maintenance workers at Swanson Machine Corp in Jamestown voted 42 to 5 to affiliate with the International Association of Machinists AFL in a National Labor Relations Board election. About 54 were eligible. They had been in an independent union since May 1951, previously with Local 317, UE. NLRB will withhold certification for five days. If certified, they become the 71st TAM AFL lodge in southwestern New York and northwestern Pennsylvania. Permanent officers to be set next month. Leo Flanagan will stay as president of the independent union until then.
Joseph Mullen, 67, a Warren janitor, is named sole heir to the $200,000 estate of Mrs. Ella Leonart who died Tuesday. He must outlive her by 30 days to inherit. otherwise the income goes to his daughter, Mrs. Margellal M. Ecklund. The estate mainly consists of business property in Warren, with bank cash and other assets. Niagara Falls island height differences noted at 185 feet and 165 feet.
Public workers brace for a new Congress as a large portion fear job losses. About 93 percent of federal workers are civil service protected, with 7 percent in merit systems or exposed to layoffs. Turnover runs around 24 percent monthly while 2.6 million civilians are employed nationwide. Most jobs cluster in Defense, Postal, and Veterans Affairs. cuts in these areas would barely shrink overall federal employment.
Merle Smith a 29 year old from Emlenton RD 2 was killed when his light pickup was rear ended by a large evactor trailer on Route 8 seven miles south of Franklin State police reported Smith had been trying to pull off the road to enter a service station The collision involved a state police investigation and the scene was described with details of the crash and parties involved.
Pennsylvania American Legion commander Herbert M. Walker denounced Gov. Fins plan to close the 19 year old Scotland School for Veterans Orphans as inhuman economy. Walker warned the Legion will use its full power to oppose the move, noting the home supports about 400 children with roughly $50,000 yearly. Meanwhile Robert R. Irwin, 95, president of John Flecker and Co., was found shot to death in the firm’s downtown Pittsburgh office, a 422 caliber pistol on the desk. Police reported discovery by Robert C. Sellers, assistant secretary, who arrived to drive Irwin home.
Beulah Louise Overell Cannon, 23, who with George Gollum was acquitted of slaying her parents in a yacht blast in 1947, divorced Robert Cannon, 91, former Los Angeles policeman and bar owner, in Las Vegas. The couple wed in 1940. she won custody of their 2 year old son Stephan. Gollum, then her fiancé, had a one year sentence for car theft in 1950.
The body of Ken Bashore, 47, longtime Altoona High School faculty member and head football coach for 11 years, was returned for burial after dying yesterday in a Philadelphia hospital. Bashore coached Altoona High football from 1939 to 1950, guiding teams to 72 wins and 30 losses.
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