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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1960
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Bracken May calling a circuit judge or jury in a Sunday service context at Hers Pub. Creek ed Th a. The readable items reference legal or civic proceedings with unclear dates and roles.
The fragment notes years at W and references a Wittiamy related event at Abeson with color and next service planned. Details are unclear due to incomplete OCR but indicate a scheduled service or transmission involving Wittiamy and Abeson.
The readable text is fragmented and unclear. It mentions names and places in a garbled form, offering no coherent event, date, or identifiable organizations to summarize into a proper news item.
AP reports census takers warn refusal to answer can bring a $100 fine or 30 days in jail. The article notes Article T of the Constitution obliges citizens to respond, with false entries penalized. Edgar L. Bryan predicts Pennsylvania population up about 7 percent to 11,327,000, based on 1950's 10,498,012. Final totals due around April 1, with early reports expected late this month or in May.
The murder trial of John L. Hart, a 26 year old former Pittsburgh cab driver, was set to go to the jury today. Hart is charged with the slaying of William Queri of Rockingham North Carolina at the Greater Pittsburgh Airport Hotel last September. Prosecutors urged first degree murder while the defense suggested another person may have committed the crime.
The column records social events around Ravlin Hill including a Tennessee Gas Transmission Company gathering at Raylin Hill plant with demonstrator Marian Humphrey. It notes birthday parties, hospital updates, anniversaries, family visits, birthdays Brenda Sweet and Janie Whaley, and various local residents' activities through Sunday. Hospital stays for Edmund Rhodes and Minor Green are mentioned along with several dinners and calls on friends and relatives.
Guests of Mr and Mrs Amos White attended a social gathering as a large flock of geese passed overhead. Mrs Harold Bromley and Mrs Jay Bowen visited Jamestown on Saturday. James Gibbons suffered a heart attack during a business trip to North East and was treated at Corry Memorial Hospital. Mrs Peat Hubbard was also admitted to Corry Memorial Hospital on Sunday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Gerald Sweet and family visited Sunday with the Sweet family and Merle Sweet.
Funeral services set for Saturday in Sarasota for John R. Rezzolia Sr., 77, hotel operator from DuBois and Butler, Pennsylvania. He died yesterday after becoming ill last January while wintering in Florida.
Pennsylvania's business and industrial indexes rose to record February levels, with the composite business index at 205, the industrial index at 125, unemployment at 7.9 percent and about 462,000 jobless, consumer prices steady at 124.8, food prices down to 117.1, steel ingot production at 2,876,040 net tons and industrial power sales at a February peak.
Hopes for a quick end to the Screen Actors Guild strike faded after a negotiating session was canceled yesterday, the second cancellation in two days. No date was set for the next meeting as major studio presidents in New York blocked settlement efforts.
The piece surveys early 1950s economic projections, noting slower unemployment recovery, lower than expected industrial output, and auto production declines. Wages rise slowly as overtime and weekly hours shrink, with plant curtailments and a renewed rail strike threat shaping the outlook for the second quarter.
The analysis notes lower interest rates and easier money as the second quarter begins, with expectations of possible discount-rate cuts. Treasury borrowing remains light, housing shows hopeful demand, inventories rebound faster than expected, and consumer spending stays resilient despite market and weather headwinds.
Wallace Burn, 27, of Dunkirk, collapsed and died yesterday while trying out for the Fredonia State Teachers College baseball team. The incident occurred on campus in Fredonia, New York. Burn was a local athlete known in Dunkirk circles and had recently sought to join the college team.
About 2,000 students at Southern University Baton Rouge boycott campus activities after 18 white students are jailed for a sit in. Negroes launch retaliatory campaigns targeting segregated lunch counters in Tallahassee, Little Rock, and Marshall, with NAACP and college officials urging withdrawals only with parental permission. A truce holds at Marshall after police use of fire hoses to disperse a lunchtime protest.
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