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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1952
Page
5
A fragmented OCR item mentions a person or event with unclear names and unclear date. Readable details are insufficient to identify the subject, place, or outcome for a coherent newspaper card.
A retrospective report notes Herbert Hoover defeating Franklin D Roosevelt in a Kiwanis Club vote. It covers Paul Murphy’s resignation as Titusville High principal, student demonstrations in support, golden wedding anniversaries for local couples, delinquent school tax collections, Bonhell bed spring works expansion, Butler campaign spending, 1950s Senate primary costs, and campaign finance rules in Britain.
The text asks ten trivia questions about U.S. history and geography, including the origin of the Minute Men name, Louisian named, Dean Acheson’s department, army vanguard, number of girls per election, a Gilbert and Sullivan figure, a former president who joined the Confederacy, a ragged robin, and Tennessee’s former statehood. It directs readers to the Classified Page for answers and notes score implications.
Jamestown reports that NYS Department of Public Works earmarks 10 additional miles of Route 60 between Fredonia and Sinclairville for early action in highway reconstruction. Surveys have been completed for 4.5 miles from Garrison to Fredonia and 6.2 miles from Garrison to Sinclairville. A survey party for a new Route 17 bridge near Falconer will be finished this week, after which work moves to the Sinclairville area.
Voter participation on November 4 could cost parties about 1.54 per head with total headlines touching 40 million to 985 million in campaign spending. The Times cites 80 million, Victoria Shuck notes 985 million, and estimates vary by year and office. National committees face 3 million caps, with independent and state groups routing excess funds. Labor and business groups back candidates, while figures from 1948 and 1950 show wide spending across parties and contests.
The ballot lists proposed amendments and local questions across Erie County and surrounding townships including a state debt authorization to fund the General State Authority and Highway and Bridge Authority, Erie city debt increase for street improvements and plant expansion, Albion Conneaut Cranesville Elk Creek Platea union school district formation, and Union Township fire apparatus tax authorization.
Mrs Flora Eastman of Union City H D 4 Lincolnville died Saturday after a long illness at 65. She and husband Edgar, who died in 1948, lived in East Branch before moving to Lincolnville last July. She belonged to Advent Christian Church of East Branch. Surviving: two daughters Mrs Rex Kenniston of Union City RD 4 and Mrs Oscar Gustafson of Bradford, two brothers David Orolse of Smethport and C L Cady of Elmira, four grandchildren. Service at Torrey and Hays Funeral Home Spartansburg tomorrow at 2 pm conducted by Rev Quy Carter. Interment East Branch Cemetery. The text notes a 1921 Dempsey Carpentier broadcast from Hoyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City.
Feyrancis Graves of St Thomas Church presided at the funeral mass for Mrs Helen Hannan Switzer. The service began at 10 o clock and the body was placed in the church crypt for burial later at St Thomas Cemetery.
Erie County Health and Tuberculosis Association will mail 1952 Christmas Seals to overseas servicemen and women. General chair Gifford says seals will be sent to all Erie County personnel with complete addresses on file so they can affix seals to packages and letters, recapturing a homefront tradition.
Customs agents boarded the British vessel Silverdale in Philadelphia and seized four million pounds of opium valued over one million dollars. Two Chinese crewmen Ah Tay and Choy Peng were arrested and charged, with two more Chinese crew members held for questioning. Port officials reported four pounds of opium found on the ship during unloading.
Fragmentary OCR list shows numerous Erie city districts, streets, schools, and public notices with scattered place names such as Liberty, Mounta Rast, Lafayette, Sixth, Seventh, Fourth, North East Ward, and 1890s to 1935 era street references. The legible pieces mention districts, schools, and legal or municipal references, creating a chaotic card of local civic text without coherent narrative.
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