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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1940
Page
1
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A disjointed noisy reminiscence mentions a course and a ph and a pig and a boy named Eph. The speaker recalls restraint and endurance while weaving through seemingly unrelated phrases and names. References to Kinley Rick and Stout appear amid fragmented dialogue and imagery.
City Council approved preliminary contracts to begin two sewer projects on Elk street and Wright street extension and authorized borrowing for an eight inch sewer line. Centerville contractor Danovin to install Wright street sewer with bond, efforts to finish within twenty days and before bad weather. bid around 5400,000. Works Progress Administration to fund Elk street line with material bids from Davison Bogle Lumber. Plans for East Wayne and Ens Ving streets to Congress to Columbus are submitted for WPA approval.
Willkie accuses Roosevelt of tolerating corrupt influence in federal campaigns. On the Willkie train en route to Chicago he questions if Roosevelt truly upholds free elections while meeting with party bosses and accepting labor and donor pressures. He cites alleged interference by committee chairmen and government emissaries in campaign financing and employment matters.
A fragment notes a cost reduction for a city lighting project by Pennsylvania Electric Company, enabling an expansion of street lighting to improve general city improvements. It mentions utilization of funds for additional lights and addressing hazardous intersections, with Clifton M. Howard cited as district man.
The council discussed street light costs and expansion methods to improve the city’s lighting. Figures show 2056 miles of pole line and 153 feet of underground cable, with total costs ranging from 6890 to 4316 dollars for various components and a yearly net saving estimate of 8750 dollars.
City council approves parking meter bill on first and second readings while local notices cover requests for early alien registration and planned public works. Reports note sewer program plans, a fatal industrial accident, and a routine petition to delay a court term.
London reports German warplanes resumed attacks on the capital after a quiet night. British long range bombers hit NE2L positions across the Dover Straits and a lone raider bombed a southeast coast town. The air ministry described heavy losses to a convoy off Dunkirk and multiple raids on Hamburg shipyards and other targets in occupied Europe.
Two half brothers Clement Putti 22 and Nick Colsanta 16 died in a fire that swept their Big Soldier mining village dwelling near DuBois early today. Titk Colsanta Sr the sole other occupant escaped. Their mother and two daughters were away when the blaze, of unknown origin, broke out.
City Council last evening approved bills to revise the parking ordinance for certain streets Craier Center and Washington. They extend the two hour limit and require meters on Craier street and specify parallel and thirty degree parking, with 8 am to 9 pm limits on some blocks. Adoption on third reading is set for Friday evening in a special session at 7 40 oclock.
Postmaster James P. Sullivan urged all aliens in the Corry area to register and fingerprint promptly as the December 26 deadline looms during a busy Christmas mail period. About 121 aliens have registered. roughly 40 more have yet to enroll, with clerks visiting homes of invalids to complete forms.
The Corry district draft board led by Mayor Phank E Hepler in Huskty assigned serial numbers to draftees for the World War draft. The numbering system and local board lines determine which registrants are deferred or called, with orders and classifications to be posted and ballots to be cast in the November election.
Joseph W. Lena, 70, of Saegertown, was critically injured when a loose scaffold board toppled him from a five foot height at the Carnation Milk Company warehouse on Bagley street shortly after 9 this morning. He suffered a fractured skull and contusions, and was taken to Corry Hospital in critical condition with his son Park Lenhart planning plaster repairs in the rear.
Oct 22 a wide inquiry into alleged price gouging on defense building materials was announced. Senate Interstate Commerce subcommittee, with the National Defense Commission and Justice Department, will probe price levels and bottlenecks to protect the program and curb extortionate charges. Senator from Montana noted the probe will be broad and not sensational, aiming to avoid wartime profiteering while assuring cooperative partners.
Frank L. Bromley Jr of R D escaped with bruises after his car left the highway east of Warner's Corners and struck a tree while Bromley reportedly dozed at the wheel. He was treated at Corry hospital and discharged. State patrol also investigated a second crash involving John Stoffan of Columbus at the West Smith and West Wayne intersection, with minor injuries reported to Dorottyn Rickert of West Frederick and others as vehicles sustained damage.
SHEPPTON Pa Oct 32 A moodhound was put on the trail of Fundy Kunehick Jr four year old son of Mr and Mrs Rudolph Schinchick as volunteers organized a new search because the boy had been missing since yesterday. Residents and volunteers combed dense underbrush in sub freezing weather long into the night and resumed searching early today.
Harrisburg Oct 22 The prospect of a fresh appeal to the state supreme court was studied today by lawyers for Roy J. Brownmiller once secretary of highways in the Bar ie administration. He was convicted of payroll padding in Luzerne county totaling 600 000 for political purposes during the 1938 tenre elections and ordered to surrender by next Monday. Judge Howard W. Hughes of Washington county, assigned to handle the campaign charges against prominent Democrats of the Little New Deal, rejected the stay request while the supreme court considers another question and may decide after reviewing the indictments. The move to quash rested on assistant district attorney Carl B. Shelley secretive grand jury matters.
Berlin reports the German railways will run nine special trains between now and the end of October to evacuate children from Berlin to other regions, especially eastern provinces, as authorities organize civilian safety measures.
Corry records nine new contagion cases amid outbreaks of whooping cough and measles. Acting Health Officer Leon Brown estimates about twenty cases under quarantine. Children named include Donald Pier 13 Shirley Ann 7 Eugene 5 of 215 Marion Street. Jack Mack 3 David McDonald 7 Lucile 5 Carl 3 of 244 Franklin Street. John Seamens small son of Wesley Seamens 125 Fourth Avenue.
Complex dispatches from Switzerland and Vichy report Axis powers seeking to induce France to join Britain war against them with promises of favorable terms. Talks involve Laval and German officials in Paris. Soviet-like threats and political maneuvering add to tense, uncertain prospects for Petain’s regime.
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