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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1934
Page
8
Local notes report Kendall Refining Co erected a neon Kendall sign with moving arrow at its Washington Center station. Also other items include motor license plates reaching 140000 issued to date, rising license renewals, and November license issuance expected to set a high mark.
Fine progress is being made with Troop 53 as Troop 93 reorganizes under the Rotary Club. At a Corry dinner meeting Scout Exec Jack Taylor outlined duties and fundraising aims to boost local scouting and engage Corry youths.
Six members answered roll call at yesterday's meeting for an open forum on The Saar. Mrs A G Sandburg presided as program host. Reading articles on the topic were Mrs F J Whittlesey Mrs O J Robbins Mrs A C Saarburg and Mrs C F Cronin. A brief social period followed. Mrs Whit- telsey to host next Monday afternoon.
Mr Pepper a leading English song composer and actor is on staff at the Broadcasting Company. He is heard on Empire Broadcasts from shortwave stations GSA GSB GSG GSD and GSE at Daventry London. His piano arrangements enliven many radio recitals.
Harrisburg reports the Pennsylvania State Association of County Commissioners plans legislation to centralize control of township roads and bridges under county commissioners. A Pottsville convention resolved to draft bills, with counties to be reimbursed from the state motor license fund and seek increased road allocations. The proposal suggests shifting about one cent of the fuel tax to counties from half a cent.
Corry Y Activities report Hi and Tri Hi members will attend a cabinet meeting at Kuinboro on Thursday Nov 22 at 6 pm. Reservations due by Tuesday. Speakers include Dr. W P Tolley and Warren Hoopes. Go-to-Sunday School campaign runs Dec 2 to Feb 24 1936. Junior Hi basketball league starts Nov 24 at 9 am. Twenty five Junior Hi students beat North East 18-7. A fourfold program covers Hi Y and Tri Hi clubs Gradale Phalanx and Gray Way of Success. Church groups total about forty, with schedules posted in each school.
Tony D Mario, 22, of Brockway, a worker at Brockway Machine Bottle, was found dead along the railroad tracks on Saturday morning. He had been assigned to the waste department and may have been crossing tracks with waste material. Believed struck by a Falls Creek Ridgway local train, he left a widow and one child. He was a well liked longtime Brockway resident.
Philadelphia reports that motion picture theaters showing salacious films are seen as a new field for missionary work by Edward D. Kohlstadt of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He warns of the menace of such cinema and frames the issue as a battle to win minds and hearts from sin. The board cites a 1939 missionary fund total of 1,087,686.48 dollars versus 1,186,825 for 1938, with U S church property valued at 429,262,487 and debt at 86,444,878.
In CallCornin, researchers locate ash from gathered seaweed burned in kilns to extract iodine, potash, soda, and magnesium. Burning 20 to 22 tons of seaweed yields fodine content that varies. The final product's composition, including other elements, is obtained by chemical processing for industrial use.
Panama November 20 Ms Cinta Erickson widow of Erle Ericksia who perished in a dynamite blast on Lewis School House Road died last night in James town W C A hospital from injuries after falling on cellar stairs earlier this month. Her daughter screamed as another stair gave way but was unharmed. Mrs Erickson, native of Sweden, had lived in the town for about eighteen years.
Pittsburgh, Nov. 40 John Duvall, a Monessen banker, was indicted over two years ago on emittez element charges and will be summoned to trial in U S district court the first week of December. The U S district attorney won permission from Judge Nelson McVicor to subpoena papers and records from banks and brokers in New York, Pittsburgh, Monessen and Charleroi deemed necessary for the December trial.
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