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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1951
Page
4
A Corry area businessman proposed borrowing a large sum to fund urgent street improvements or paving resurfacing to combat wartime unemployment. Fire protection costs in Corry run low, with per capita spending for the department at 62 cents annually and the total fire protection appropriation at 4480 dollars for the past year.
Ridgway reports Donald Sharpless 31 of Westernport Maryland died from injuries after a truck he drove plunged 160 feet from the East Branch Dam near Hazelhurst around midnight Thursday. He was tossed from the cab and the vehicle rolled over him at the bottom, officials said. He died at Retl Memorial Hospital St Marys.
A San Francisco setting recalls the 1945 United Nations charter conference. Only Sen. Connally remains from the U S delegation. several key figures from the 1945 talks are dead or retired. Nations like Czechoslovakia and Canada are noted, with shifts in leadership and postwar roles shaping the present reflection on international cooperation.
Columbus notes travelers and social visits including Rex Ireland sailing with the U S Navy from the Franklin D Roosevelt carrier. Miss Taree Dodd stayed with grandparents Prank Dodd and Mrs George Benisink. Beatrice and Twyla Ross attended the Toronto Fair. Several local families enjoyed gatherings at Vern Smith home and visited relatives in Erie Bradford and Cleveland area.
A Marion area notes page lists visits and guests including Carol Ann from Marion visiting Mr and Mrs Rex Terland and Mr and Mrs Herold Jaguithy. Families from Buffalo, Corry and Warren are noted as visiting relatives. A first carload of stone arrived for a new road east of town as Constance Rae Patterson visited her grandmother. Leonard Brockton and family moved from Sugar Grove into a newly purchased home. Mrs Lottie McGuire returns from a two week New York City trip. Doris Christensen spent days with cousins in Frewsburg. Mrs Katherine Andersen and Miss Diedra Peterson dined with Mrs Carl Gincott Sr. Herbert Loveland drove Mrs Jean Small to Charlevoix Mich and back via Canada. Wilma Spoon stayed overnight with Lynnette Page. The Youth Pilgrim Fellowship held its first meeting at the church.
A novelty quiz asks ten questions spanning geopolitics history and math. True false about West German foreign ministry, senator Murray’s state, Haw River location, identifying Oscar Collaga and Griselio Torresola, antimicrobial Macassar meaning, 22nd Amendment subject, obtuse angles in a triangle, author of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, two greatest masters of the fugue, and the constant 214159265 known as pi.
Oscar L. Cook, 56, of Cornplanter township, formerly Titusville, burned a garage and two outbuildings then killed himself with a 12 gauge shotgun as oil was sprinkled through the home. Coroner Dinberg ruled death by self-inflicted act. Neighbors saw smoke before 8 a.m. Firefighters could not save the garage. Cook left a son, Leroy, in Titusville. The incident occurred on Route 428 near Oi City in Venango county.
George Bridgewater of Erie was arrested Friday night on aggravated assault and battery after slashing Lennie Walls in an incident at 16th and Holland Streets. Walls, 36, suffered 24 stitches eight in the neck and sixteen on the arms at Hamet Hospital.
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