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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1940
Page
8
In regular session the board considers adding a night class in typing for young women as part of adult education. Mrs Mae McCormick agrees to teach the course, expected to enroll 20 to 30 students, meeting two evenings a week for four weeks. A special Friday meeting postponed action until details are ready.
Pennsylvania general assistance rolls declined for the ninth time in as many weeks. The week ended with 1,318 fewer cases and 5,925 fewer people on relief, while state-financed totals stood at 147,294 cases and 425,841 people. Expenditures for aid fell to $981,750 with $921,563 cash and $60,190 in milk orders. Private industry hires removed 5,3 net cases and 185 people from rolls, WPA layoffs reduced state rolls by 500 cases and 911 people, WPA assignments moved 1,982 cases and 412 people back to relief due to insufficient earnings.
Democratic Senator Joseph F. Guffey campaigns for re election on the Erie swing tour announced by local headquarters He is slated to speak in St Marys on October 27 and in Pittsburgh on October 25 with Erle events near daily prior to the close of the campaign
Work on the Franklin Wyatville road set to begin early this week after the city council approved the state highway department grades and lines. Baldwin Brothers Paving of Sleve land will execute the $398000 project, routing a new street from Brown Avenue area to Wyattville and altering Sugar Creek’s path.
Police seek a about twenty year old man who dragged Mrs. Gonzales of 245 East 6th street from a car on East Lake road near Lakeside cemetery and tried to assault her. She was struck in the mouth and bruised her eye but escaped and is under a doctor’s care. She met the man at Power House cafe on 6th and Prenen streets and they left in his car around a.m. Saturday. He stopped on East Lake road and tried to drag her toward bushes after she refused to exit. She fought off the assault and received blows to her face.
Senator James J. Davis will speak in Erie and Corry on Wednesday October 19 in support of Wendell Willkie and the Republican state slate. He arrives early, then appears at WLRU from 10 10 to 10 15 am, Republican HQ on State Street at 12 18 pm, a Corry rally at 5 00 pm, and the main address at the courthouse at 7 pm inviting all voters. He will discuss Willkie labor views and national defense.
An old advertisement touts Thompson's Borsoma Tablets as a stimulant diuretic to speed waste and acid from the blood, claim relief from aches and night awakenings, and notes the product’s price and availability at drug stores.
Police in Witherities hunted a purse snatcher after an attempted theft at Murphy store Saturday. Mrs. Harvey Cros cut reported a stranger tried to grab her purse inside the shop. The man bore resemblance to an itinerant who had visited the store earlier that evening. Police found no trace of the culprit.
Fifty law enforcement officers from eight northwestern Pennsylvania counties enroll in the Public Service Institute police school in Kane. P. E. Nelson, Kane police chief, leads classes at Kane High School over 20 weeks with instruction on basic police procedures. Last year forty completed the program.
Registration under the selective service will take place at Columbus Delaware Linean School. Miss Mildred Swanson will be in charge. The election board and teachers of the school will supervise the registration from 7 am to 4 pm.
On a crowded ferry amid Puget Sound a diverse group gathers, including Mr. Bartley Haddon of Tiderack Lumber, a Finn laborer family, smugglers, and Rainbow Gardens proprietor Slip Gallary. Tension builds around a planned setup involving Haddam, a payoff, and a double life tied to Cora Harney, the star-in-the-making. Marty McCune and Cora face grim talk of a future with hunger and struggle despite sunset beauty.
Cora, a factory girl, and Marty McCune, a dismal log raiser, fall into a romance in a lumber town. When Marty is fired after a waterfront brawl, Cora defies the boss and helps him in a dangerous plan. On a ferry, a staged stickup unfolds as Marty confronts Luger Licavoli and Tereso Mike. a second chance at work follows after Cora reports the events to Mr. Haddon.
Readable fragments mention Mrs and Dr names with afternoon sessions and addresses in East Washington and Main streets. The text lists Mrs Bears Mrs Brown and Paul Noh among attendees with unspecified events or contexts.
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