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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1946
Page
4
OPA signals a 16 percent rent ceiling increase plan but Washington skeptics push back. Congress weighs broader rent control retention and possible reauthorization after price controls lapse. Knowland and Hawkes amendments navigate through a divided Senate amid postwar housing cost pressures.
A historical note discusses heart disease as a leading killer in the United States while acknowledging improvements due to medical care. It explains aging, vascular degeneration, and high blood pressure as factors, highlights reduced deaths at younger ages from better infection control, and asserts many elderly patients can live well with treatment.
The reader is prompted to turn to classified page for correct answers. Questions cover a referendum question in France, Henry Ford lineage, carafe as a unit, Greek king’s exile, Versailles era climate, rivers into the Mississippi, grammar correction, U S land areas, stock market terms, and Supreme Court justices.
The article notes major improvements and higher taxes under federal rent control with about 900,000 upward rent adjustments permitted, ranging from $6 to 60 percent of petitions. It describes 315 area offices, appeal paths to regional and national offices, and the Emergency Court of Appeals. It mentions evictions, service reductions, and the reliance on leases with required notice before increases. It ends with a quip about bituminous coal reserves in the United States.
Twenty years ago reports from journal files note El Morrow was named a director of the Corry Hotel Company at the annual meeting, succeeding F M Raymond who resigned months earlier. Remodeling plans for the old St James Hotel on South Center Street to add modern apartments are set to begin soon under owner J B Patterson.
Johnstown officials report the merger of the Evangelical Church and the United Brethren in Christ Church to form the Evangelical United Brethren Church. The new body will span 714,000 members with missionary representation on every continent. Plans trace back to 1819 with final actions in 1942 and 1945. leaders from both denominations will head the merged church.
A reader criticizes Mayor Kinley’s order to bar minors from pool halls, preferring billiards for safe recreation. The letter argues billiards is a legitimate pastime, disputes the term pool as a gambling misnomer, and urges policy change supported by concerned parents.
The State Police warn that removing barriers detour signs or traveling on closed highways is illegal. Detour signs direct motorists to follow a narrow unimproved road with cliffs and hills. Travel should be at moderate speed and keep to the right at all times.
An old advertisement touts Thompson's Borsoma Tablets for kidney cleansing and relief from aches and back pain. It claims quick improvement and urges demand at drug stores, with a note on Golden Lax Tablets for constipation.
Dr Frank L LaBounty longtime head of the history department at Edinboro State Teachers College has retired from the staff announced by President T H Van Houten. He served the college 31 years and held roles on the board of trustees and city council. He taught from 1915 to 1922 then rejoined in 1931, with prior work at the University of Pittsburgh and Red Cross service in World War I.
Franklin firms faced break ins on October 24. The Pepsi Cola bottling plant and M M Hill store were entered. glass panes shattered. Hill Grocery lost 75 cartons of cigarettes and meat products plus about $25 from a cash drawer. At Pepsi-Cola only money was taken. Authorities estimate missing fish. State Police and Butler County Sheriff investigate with fingerprint detail.
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