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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1974
Page
3
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Erie County reports 118200 resident jobholders, 600 more than September, per James A Roseberry of the Bureau of Employment Security. Over 30 days non agricultural wage gains 700, other nonagricultural up 100, agriculture down 200. Local jobless rate 3.6 percent, below state and national levels. Labor force up 5500 year over year. manufacturing down 200 but nonmanufacturing up 1300 helping the wage and salary edge. Total jobless claims for week of Oct 18, 1974 numbered 2007, vs 1805 and 1638 a month and year ago. Production workweeks around 42 hours. year-end expectations point to rising employment and a softening in some factory lines.
Paul Speice, host of WQLN Channel 54 series Guppies to Groupers, appears at Corry Marine National Bank Friday 6 to 8 p.m. with a 47 gallon hex aquarium display. Speice, a tropical fish hobbyist for thirty years, will discuss success in raising tropical fish and answer questions from hobbyists. The 13 part series airs Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. on Channel 54 and Saturdays at 4:30 p.m. It was chosen by the Eastern Educational Television Network for broadcast across the East.
Yellow Cab Co of Erie wins PUC approval to raise fares by 10 cents on the first mile from 1.20 to 1.30 and 10 cents per extra mile from 0.50 to 0.60, effective December 1. The company expects about 59,000 dollars in annual additional revenue to offset a 36,000 dollar deficit and higher costs, planning 30 new vehicles. Leverage notes layoffs at Empire National Bank in Middletown, with up to 64 jobs cut across 41 New York offices due to a slowing economy.
Mary Jansen, nine, lay with her slain family nearly two days in Greenfield Wisconsin after her mother Mildred Jansen shot her husband two months earlier and killed her own mother and brother before turning the gun on herself. Mary, shot thrice, told ambulance workers not to blame her mother as she was rushed to hospital in serious but stable condition. Police described the scene and noted notes left pleading forgiveness and cautioning that any survivor would forfeit all possessions to others.
A 14 year old Girard boy Matthew G. Victor was killed when struck by an eastbound Norfolk and Western freight while walking a trestle with friend Kevin Sedler 15. Sedler escaped by jumping 20 feet to safety. Victor died from severe injuries and the death was ruled accidental. The incident occurred near Elk Creek road behind Elk Valley Elementary School in Lake City as the boys skipped eighth period. In a separate item Cannon Mills workers in Kannapolis North Carolina rejected the AFL CIO Textile Workers Union of America by a vote of 8473 to 6801 across five plants.
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