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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1939
Page
3
The readable text hints at a district governance matter involving a safety director and an academic/nutrition context. It mentions children, a quarantine or sheltering action, and a plan for winter arrangements, with several garbled names and places. Further readable details are not present.
Ridgway October 18. The roadside memorial on Route No. 320 between Irwin and Cameron will be dedicated Thursday at 11 am. Erected by CO Camp 5-152 in memory of eight CCC enrollees who died in a forest fire near Sinnemahoning October 19, 1938. A plaque bears the victims’ names. Charles E. Baer, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters, will give the address and accept the memorial for the state.
Hollywood reports a 21 year old Henry Sanford Lewis of Kingpin Pa claiming to be attacked by hoodlums who carved the message Movie stars are nuts into the skin on actor Lionel Barrymore's porch. He later confessed to carving the inscription himself hoping Barrymore would hire him.
Reports from Pittsburgh recount an inter state conference on a Ohio River water sanitation pact. Pennsylvania lawmakers balked at ratifying the compact, delaying progress toward cleaning the river and its tributaries of sewage and industrial wastes.
Republican and Democratic leaders unveil registration tallies ahead of the November 7 election. City voters total 27,514 Republicans and 26,856 Democrats, while county figures show 19,927 Republicans and 10,801 Democrats. A net shift towards the Republicans appears in city and county changes, with both parties preparing a strong get-out-the-vote drive.
The Townsend convention in Indianapolis in June 1939 adopted the Townsend Creed. It endorses a nationwide retirement program funded by a universal tax, period starting retirement at sixty, expansion of social security, release of tax monies to boost American goods and jobs, and a pay-as-you-go public finances approach. It condemns idle reserves, argues for debt reduction, and upholds American standards and commerce within the United States.
Deputy Coroner George P. Lull arrived to investigate the death of Beverly Ann Doleson a 18 month old girl at Mr and Mrs Gus A Goleson in Kansas Citys Catholic area The infant died after being brought to Dr Robert Donaldson in his office Dr H J McGhee said the child was in a aging condition and she died minutes after injection of adrenalin A coroner inquest may be held when results are determined The mother said the baby had been ill three days
Harrisburg reports the 1939 anti macing statute will be enforced by a Justice Department undercover operative under Attorney General Claude T. Reno. The deputy was not identified, described as largely a detective role. No macing cases had reached the courts yet. Public notice promotes local Want Ads.
A proposal by SP Bossart, secretary engineer at the Guy Planning Commission, outlines beautification of Lower State Street. The plan includes a traffic circle near the approach to the Hook with Jay a fond landscaping and a central monument reminiscent of the Perry Memorial on the Peninsula, subject to city council action.
In Philadelphia on October 18 the American College of Surgeons launched an intensive campaign to identify the most effective cancer treatments. Dr. Frank E. Adair of Memorial Hospital in New York City announced at the college's annual clinical congress that the program had won unanimous approval from the board of regents.
Services continue tonight at United Brethren In Christ church with a special program by the Tebo Gospel Party from Homer. The program features guitars bells and accordions with selections like This is the Church in the Wildwood and Open the Gates of the Temple. Audience devotion and singing mark the weekly series ending this week.
Fenderton Roper, newly hired in his father’s office, brags of a big future while May Middleton frets over his impetuous plans. A planned bid for a Utah opening through Uncle Ogden collides with a hostile office incident and May’s quitting quarrel, leaving Penderton to face consequences and reconsider his path.
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