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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1949
Page
2
Local police report continued prowler sightings in the West End, with the latest at 600 West Second Street but no suspect found. Community notices list appointments, obituaries, business ads, and upcoming events across Meadville, Erie County towns, and surrounding areas.
The column lists admissions including Mrs. Percy Miles of Loyd Meerdink and Mrs. Merrill Lillie, with discharges like John Kolinoaki and Mrs. Glenn Neckers. It notes a wallet recovered by Jim Powers after a year, election of Albert Retlink and Lewis Brown as committeemen in Clymer, a Meadville attorney’s filing in a quarrel with Reed, Tear & Company, and other town reports from Clymer, Meadville, Kane, Titusville, and surrounding areas. It mentions oyster shipments, Dr. David G. Dunn’s presidency of the Sun District Pennsylvania Dental Society, and local notices on driving lessons and coal strike layoffs at Renovo back shops. The piece covers charity campaign updates, business ads, and various local engagements.
A Thomas Zalzneck and Sons closure for the holiday is noted. A two-vehicle crash on Route B near Titusville at 2 p.m. involved a 193? sedan driven by William A. Murray and a 1941 sedan driven by Chester C. Hahn. injuries not stated. Kane health leader W. H. Zearfoss dies suddenly at YMCA reading room. Driving lessons offered by Bill Swan with appointments via Alderman Cobbett. Lloyd Meerdink undergoes major surgery at Corry Hospital. condition reported satisfactory. Obituaries include Warren Johannes Peterson Jergard, Lilian B. Fleming, and Mrs. C. A. Buxton with funeral details at BEA Peterson funeral home and Woodlawn cemetery.
In Blair county on September 23 state police and mine operators prepared for renewed violence after Sheriff J H Summers asked Governor Duff for help. He said he could not control 400 roving pickets near the Kenner mine with his force. Four coal trucks were driven away to avert a dump threat and about 85 tons of coal were dumped on roads. Summers expected broader measures to follow.
Pittsburgh health department reports two new polio cases, a two year old child and a 22 year old male, bringing the total in Allegheny and surrounding counties to 128 since the outbreak began in May.
Henry M. Blackmer, 80, the Colorado oil tycoon who fled to Europe to avoid testifying in the Teapot Dome probe, has returned to the United States and will answer 21 year old charges of tax evasion and perjury in Denver. He settled overseas in part by paying $60,000 for contempt and $3,070,734 in taxes, while abroad.
New York report credits Pennsylvania Telephone Corp with the best 1948 annual report in the communications sector. President Carl H. McKenzie to receive the bronze Oscar of Industry at the October 31, 1949 awards banquet in New York.
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