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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1939
Page
8
Fragmentary list mentions Del Monte pears pineapple and grapefruit products with percentages and prices like 19c and 35c. Also references sown peaches and sliced pineapple and various brands. Readable items include Del Monte Pears and Sliced Pineapple with small price figures.
Harrisburg reports unemployment compensation payments in Pennsylvania have surpassed 16 million dollars. Secretary Lewis G. Hines notes more than 8.5 million benefit checks issued since February 1938 and a remaining Unemployment Trust Fund balance of about 86 million dollars for future claims. The speech includes an aside on democratic values and personal integrity.
Dr Dafoe discusses acrodynia a disease in children usually in the first two years. He notes loss of appetite irritability weight loss red eyes runny nose and a measle like rash followed by cold hands and feet. He links infections and diet and urges preventing colds and treating infections promptly to reduce risk. He mentions vaccines vitamins and new bacterial drugs as treatments.
Perry township and Pulaski township report many students eligible for high school in fall after passing the county entrance exam. Lists show numerous names including Pfeifer Cather Remaley Reasnign King Hazen Hasper Newton Miller Wreicht Amundsen Devitt Desport Desport Welsz Malutick Stratton Gangaware Liegd Newton Howell Streckheisen Kirker Moldayan Stickle Tindall Duncan St. Clair Stickle Bailik Bridwell Kaufman Hillberry Morris Snyder McCreary Onestak Nottingham Miller Byler Hirreyk Zedeker Partch Spensier lech Fisher Winters McCreary Keller Bilger Gurtner Spiler Morris Shehy Ozuba Wetzel and others. Some text appears to warn about worrying over loved ones.
Annual class night program for Union Township seniors is set for 8 p.m. in the school auditorium. Prominent participants include Earle Reynolds as class president, Anna Diamon d as class history contributor, and Earl Reynolds presenting the class present. The program features orchestral selections, a class poem, prophecies, and a class song with words by Ralph Flaugher.
Medical researchers warn the Anopheles mosquito spread malaria costing the South over 100 million dollars annually. Mosquitoes persist across the United States and threaten Pennsylvania near the Mason Dixon line with outbreaks reported in Indiana Michigan.
Harry L. McBride Post Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold an important meeting Wednesday evening, announced Commander Frank Concilla. Several topics on future activities will be discussed at this gathering.
The War Department named Private First Class Thaddeus M. Colchiski of the Coast Artillery School Fort Monroe Virginia as the outstanding Coast Artillery man for 1938. He receives the Knox Medal, hails from New Castle and is among the youngest to earn the honor.
Descendants of Morravia and West Pittsburg pioneers will gather at the Moravia Presbyterian church on Wampum highway Thursday June 15 for the annual reunion. A basket luncheon begins at noon followed by games and contests. The organizing committee lists officers including Myrtle Miller and George McConnell, with several subcommittees in charge of reception, tables, coffee, and sports. All descendants of old settlers are invited.
Mrs. George Bolinger announces that the Home Hygiene class conducted by Ruth Thorn Adams and Murray Bell has finished its fourteen lesson course. Names of graduates include Mary D. Andrews Catherine M. Bauman Ethel Bates Emma R. Prompton Catherine Feass and others. A social hour and graduation will follow at the Chapter House. New classes in Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick are forming for summer. interested women 18 and over may contact the Chapter office or Mrs. George Bolinger.
Cascade Park wages set for city park staff including Superintendent at 145 dollars monthly, gardener 110, watchman 85, special officer 85, motor vehicle driver 55 cents hourly, laborers 50 cents hourly. Bathing pool lifeguards 15 dollars weekly, ticket sellers 15 dollars weekly, office girl 10 dollars weekly, amusement device attendants 10 dollars weekly, parkers 35 tents per hour. Harrisburg notes 34,947 state employment placements by May 12 with roughly 28,352 in private industry.
May proved unusually warm and dry with daily temperature averages running 26 degrees above normal. Mean max 77.9, mean min 48.3, mean 63.1. Highest 93 on May 2, lowest 23 on May 3 and 4. Daily range reached 43 on the 19th. Precipitation 1.79 inches versus normal 3.57, a shortfall of 1.74 inches.
The record notes greatest precipitation in 24 hours on the 9th with 94 inches of rain. Nine days had at least .01 inch of precipitation while 15 were clear and one was partly cloudy. May 1938 saw a temperature a degree above normal and rainfall 18 inches above normal. The highest May 1938 temperature was 56 degrees and the lowest 24 degrees.
Mrs. W. Sweet of RF. D. No. 5 Highland avenue extension seeks information on the sister of John Dominic Mack who left New Castle years ago for California. Mack, about 45, died roughly a year ago.
The city council met Monday and awarded contracts for the South First Street sanitary sewer project. Bids include J C Gillian Co terra cotta pipe about 3186.08 and four sets of manholes at 18.50 each, GiftMan Co five tons mestone three tons concrete sane and 20 tons mortar at 155 per ton, Carbon Limestone Co 65 bavels m ment, Penn Coal & Supply Co 2.60 per barrel, and Davis Coal & Supply Co 2250 a thousand bricks.
James P. Addison of Mercer and Mary R. McGrath of New Castle have applied for a marriage license in Meadville per The News By Mail. The notice states a one year license fee of 35.00.
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