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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1947
Page
3
A fragmentary report notes a sale dish es connected to the pusin entity and a subsequent passing or turning event shortly after. Details are unclear in the OCR but imply a transactional or legal notice tied to a recent passage.
Unidentified persons prowled the basement of Mayville court house but preliminary checks by County Clerk Clark E Goodrich and the sheriff’s department found no theft of license plates. Roy L Stoelzing director of the motor vehicle bureau reported a carton of 25 plate sets was opened but none missing. A full check of 9 050 passenger plates and 4 550 commercial rates earmarked for six branches including Jamestown showed no loss. Investigators traced the entry to basement windows left open.
Erie news reports Safety Director Joseph Martin submitting a 1948 operating budget of 853 420 44 to Finance Director Sherman Hickey Jr. He plans a bond issue to fund four new firehouses at city extremes, with a 227 712 34 increase over 1947 and provisions for 18 new employees plus pay raises for current staff. The department seeks additional personnel to meet rising demands.
Nancy Linda Katuman, a 35 year old British war bride, was acquitted of false pretense after a 65 minute jury deliberation. The verdict freed her as clerk and judge praised the jurors for their decision. The case centered on a $7,270 claim by Harry Katz that she impersonated an heiress to an English fortune.
Erie Nov 1 Royce Youny police investigate attack on Earl Wagner owner of Wagner's Lunch who suffered a possible fractured skull after a restaurant patron unknown to him began an argument then struck him near the temple Wagner unable to identify the assailant but his son James is believed to know him Wagner was taken to Hamel Hospital by patrolmen A P McDaniel and Charles Buerger
Joseph Jung 60, longtime Corry resident and former Continental Rabiver worker, died Friday at home after a two week illness. Survived by wife Mayne Hayden Young, daughter Mink Giles Cook of Erie, two sisters Mint Henry Fischer and Mrs Pred Berk, Buffalo, and three brothers Albert Jung Tonawanda Henry and John Jung Buffalo. Calling hours at Francis V. Kloecke Funeral Home Erie Sunturry and Sunday until 10 p m. Services Monday morning at 11 o'clock, Rev Raymond A Geiger officiating.
Burdette Lictus aged 64 died suddenly at his Clymer home Friday morning after a heart ailment years. He operated a large dairy farm and is survived by wife Jennie Howles Lictus a son Claude of Clymer a daughter Mrs Alfred Meisel of Erle two sisters Mrs John Volk and Mrs Arthur Beebee and five grandchildren. The body lies at the Lictus home with calling hours. Funeral service Monday at 2 o'clock officiated by Rev J J Knapp and interment in Clymer Cemetery.
The Columbus Plates Aid Society met at Mrs. Vern. Smiths home on Thursday to honor Mrs. Charles Fox on her 80th birthday. The gathering was social and included a salad course and birthday cake. A purse of money was presented to Mrs. Fox for the occasion.
Garret Newhouse was celebrated on his 80th birthday by 60 relatives at Rebekah Hall in a surprise arranged by his daughter and family. Other events include Ava King’s kitchen shower, a fifth birthday party for Jerry Matthews, and Ruth Hawley’s Buffalo visit. Armistice Day dinner hosted by American Legion group, and community gatherings at the Clymer Central School with music and greetings.
New York dairy farmers will receive 5.04 per hundredweight for October deliveries to 436 pool approved plants in the New York milkshed. Dr. G. C. J. Blanford, market administrator, cited a six cent butterfat differential and moved to curb a predicted shortage by ordering at least 92 percent of milk sent to country plants be used as fluid milk for November.
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