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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1944
Page
13
The Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales dated about 1400 lies in the Huntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino California. The note adds a comparison that the U S treasury gold would form a bar roughly fifty feet by thirty feet by twenty one feet.
New Castle posted 28,358,000 in retail sales for 1943, about 0.045 of U S business and 0.037 of its population, reflecting strong trading position. The effective buying income reached 52,766,000, but actual spending lagged due to war shortages and savings for war bonds. Per person, effective buying income was 1,109.
Seventy girls attended the Rose Avenue playground event with about 45 boys on the sidelines. Eight first prizes and eight honorable mentions were awarded to contenders including oldest doll winner Caron Reed. Prize winners included Eileen Haimmond Marecelyn Evens for prettiest, Darlene Lesnick Joann Dade for largest, and Ruth Ann Strobel Gertrude Schuller for most unusual. programs directed by Miss Gladys Brown.
Three graduates from Lawrence county were honored as Pennsylvania State College awarded 341 wartime degrees. Women outnumbered men for the first time with 200 bachelor degrees to 109 men and 30,927 total degrees since founding. Notables include Robert G. Moser R D 3 William H Yanko Ellwood City and Doris F Campbell Bessemer with chemistry and medical technology degrees.
Castle Council No 365 of the Junior Order United American Mechanics will entertain state officers Saturday June 24 at 8 oclock in McGoun hall. The order, formed over 90 years ago by 12 Germantown men, has grown nationwide with many senators congressmen and governors among its members influencing immigration laws.
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