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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1951
Page
4
Twenty years ago a deal completed this week shows R. and Weigel of Warren will assume the local Chevrolet agency from Gerry Motor Sales. The Weigel firm will occupy the Clinton street garage property and continue operations there as the new local dealer.
Erie plans condemnation of the entire block housing city hall to clear way for a new community building at an estimated cost of about 32 million dollars, roughly 500 thousand more than the city’s bond referendum. Officials cite prior plans to face West Perry Square and include razing adjacent structures.
Vienna dispatch notes night Tass report: a Bucharest military court convicted 19 Romanians including 82 year old Timisoara bishop Agostino Pacha of spying for Anglo American imperialism and the Vatican. Five others got life terms. four received heavy sentences.
Jamestown November 21 1951 Martin Brague 87 a retired farmer died at Jamestown General Hospital after being struck by a car near Second and Fourth streets August 21. Coroner says death from cargnary emboli due to the accident. Driver John Berglund of Jamestown cited by police.
U S Navy civilian representatives visit Erie until October 12 to interview local applicants for civilian posts in Washington. Positions require typing 40 wpm and dictation at 80 wpm, open to graduates of commercial courses or those with office experience. Salaries start at 3650 a year with 40 days vacation, 15 sick days, and automatic annual increases. Interviews are Mon-Fri 9:30 am to 4:30 pm and Saturdays until noon at Room 19, 0.5 Court House Building.
The Senate plans to discuss a tax bill extending the corporation tax to cooperative associations on undistributed profits, a weaker path than the House favored. It notes opposition within administration and the 1948 platform pledges to aid coops, with critics calling earlier proposals punitive and potentially harmful to agriculture programs.
A reader aimed IQ style questions list with trivia and memory tips, promising scoring categories from Genius to Poor. It includes questions on Robinson Crusoe, mile feet, Paul Revere’s companion, residential salutes, glass fracture, pole direction, Fletcher Christian, ebony wood color, state nicknames, and a grammar correction. The note references Mindingo Trench as a deep Pacific canyon four times Grand Canyon area.
James L. McDeVitt aged 52, former Philadelphia plasterer and president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, was chosen to head the AFL campaign in 1952 as director of Labor's League for Political Education by the national AFL convention in San Francisco.
Carl Sayers of Natrona Heights died from third degree burns after an acetylene torch oil line broke at the Brackenridge plant of Allegheny Sudium Steel Corp. He was 58 and died yesterday. The incident occurred while workers were exposed to oil spray from the broken line.
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