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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1954
Page
2
About 2,400 people viewed the new Corineaut Valley Joint School District junior-senior high building during a two day open house with roughly 1,400 touring Saturday and 1,000 Friday night. Students guided visitors through the $lgnillion structure as families explored the classrooms and facilities.
Titusville report notes a gun accident when Patricia Warner, 18, was moving guns at home. A 22 rifle discharged, wounding her calf. she was treated and discharged from Titusville Hospital. The piece also mentions a gift subscription offer for Corry Evening Journal and a Monday October 25 event at VFW Club with awards and refreshments.
Clearfield Furs announces a fall and holiday fur display at The Stew Hat Shop on Thursday October 28 in Jamestown. George Parsons, 18, was treated at WA Hospital for leg and calf bruises after being pinned between two cars on North Main Street while fixing a flat tire near West Second Street. Police identified the driver as Robert Harry Winterburn, 17, who operated the second car. A joint meeting of the American Legion and Auxiliary is planned for tomorrow at 8 o'clock in Legion rooms.
Community notices from Titusville and Meadville include a rummage sale at 137 North Center Street, a special Saturday city council session approving a reassessment plan lifting Titusville’s total value from 7.2 million to about 18.4 million, a public hearing on a proposed zoning ordinance in Meadville, Bible study materials at Ye Olde Book Shoppe, and a Monday gathering at St. Edward’s Hall at 8 15 p.m. Also reported is the death of Dorothy B. Aldinger, 48, at a hunting lodge near Tidioute, and a local apples and cider sale by Milo Walton on Scott’s Crossing Road.
Red and Gun Club holds its regular monthly meeting Tuesday at 8 p m with election of officers plus a program of movies and refreshments. Erie County Assessor Martinez Gregor seeks city county cost sharing for real estate statistics and copying city property cards to meet a January 1957 state mandated assessment overhaul. Funeral services for James D Nixon are set for 3 30 p m at Marcy Funeral Home. James G Gray named vice president coal operations for U S Steel Corp in Pittsburgh.
Erie police report two violent incidents left four local women injured, none seriously. Willie Dixon, 30, was cut on the scalp with a bottle and bottle opener at 5:16 p.m. by a friend, Agnes Diaise, at 137 North Center Street. Dixon was treated at Hamot Hospital and charged with disorderly conduct. Georgia Williams, 32, and Ruth Dorsey, 81, suffered multiple knife wounds in a dispute over a husband at about 4 p.m. on the same day. National Surplus Store lists jackets and prices.
A Celoron youth, Jrarold A Bauer Jr. age 19, was killed instantly Saturday night when his car left East Terrace Avenue near Crystal Bend. He struck two guard rails, skidded 100 feet, clipped a utility pole, and landed in a field. Police could not determine the cause immediately.
Herman McDoley of Freedom in Beaver County, a worker on the Pennsylvania Turnpike maintenance crew at Gibsonia, died from a heart attack during the weekend crash scene. Ten people were injured in a mass collision near the Butter Valley Interchange, none critically.
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