02 Apr 1960
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1960
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR text references a 66 percent stake and property history in a City of issue with mentions of Westerly and Clay districts. It notes a quiet title action filed in 1980, heirs, deeds by O'Neil and Mindall, and an ensuing decree. The readable portion is insufficient for a full, coherent summary.
Student leaders at a Louisiana Negro college urged about 4000 students not to carry out a threatened mass walkout in support of equal rights. The plea followed expulsions or suspensions of 10 peers at Southern University Baton Rouge amid sit-ins at white lunch counters.
In 1951 night, Serene Greene summoned police to report her husband had swallowed 100 aspirin tablets. Doctor Tate advised hospitalization, but the husband denied the amount and refused care. The case, tied to family trouble, led to legal advice to seek a lawyer.
Flooding eased as rivers peaked across western and central Pennsylvania. Meadville suffered the most damage with Frepeh Creek cresting at 60.6 feet, prompting 200 evacuations and shutdowns of schools and two plants. Damages estimated near a million dollars.
A CAIDC committee will meet next week with three professional fund raising firms. National Fund-Raising Services Inc. of New York City will visit Monday, Ward Dresham and Reinhardt of New York City on Tuesday, and Ketchum Inc. of Pittsburgh on the final appearance. The committee weighs professional counsel to aid any future appeal and notes firms already guiding local campaigns as communities seek new industry.
The body of American Private Carl A. P. Johnson, killed on March 15, 1945, was found in a German ditch by canal workers in Saarbrucken. His mother, Mrs. Agnes Johnson, had long hoped for his remains.
Ten Corry Civil Defense volunteers join Erie group to pump water from a flooded Cochranton school. By mid morning seven pumps operated by about 25 members were clearing water in the boiler area while students bagged sand and aided mop up efforts. Holcomb noted progress depends on nighttime recede and continued pump action.
Dag Hammarskjold called in South Africa’s U.N. delegate Bernard Fourie in a bid to ease white minority rule’s clash with millions of Negroes. The Security Council approved a resolution urging peaceful coexistence and U.N. action on racial discrimination, amid tense port city violence and pass-book protests. The United States and Soviet Union backed peaceful resolution efforts.
On April Fool's Day city police wrote citations for running red lights. Richard Waite of Wattsburg was cited at Smith and North Center streets after driving through the light. An hour later Robert J. Haner of Chestnut Street was cited at North Center and Washington streets for the same offense. Information on both offenses was filed with Alderman M. Cobbett.
A tractor crashed into a creek along Marianna and Lone Pine Road yesterday near Washington D. C. killing driver Clarence Hildenbrand Jr M4 of Amity and injuring 14 year old Thomas Bogochenko of Scenery Hill who escaped by leaping from the tractor. The two were delivering newspapers at the time of the accident.
A mammoth spring storm blankets the flood battered Midwest with snow and freezing rain, driving up homelessness to about 15,000 as rivers rise and levees fail. Snow depth reaches a foot in parts of South Dakota and Nebraska, with winds near 50 mph disrupting power and travel from the Dakotas to Minnesota. Continuous rainfall expands flood crests across the Mississippi Valley. Red Cross estimates 14,000 homeless.
The first U.S. weather satellite TIROS I reached a near perfect global orbit and sent clear cloud images from about 450 miles up. President Eisenhower praised the achievement as scientists noted potential for worldwide storm forecasting and data from a wide area centered on the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
AP reports the Senate signals little chance for major revisions to the House passed civil rights bill. Aides say the current text represents the most achievable, with opposition to adding a one person anti discrimination commission. Kefauver’s hearings proposal sparked debate over voting registration procedures and hearings, while an uncontested hearings substitute won 69 to 22.
Kenneth Leiberger, 13, was struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train near his home in Latifer, Westmoreland County, after leaping a four foot fence to retrieve a bed. The tragedy occurred yesterday as authorities investigated the accident and identified the victim.
St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Church outlines a $125000 plan to expand and improve facilities. A 4500 square foot addition on the east side would become an educational center for Sunday school youth and fellowship activities. Construction hinges on zoning approval and a May fundraising drive led by Dr Moonman Parker.
A one car crash near Waterford on Route 97 killed Centerville youth Edward Rodgers, 19, and sent three companions to St. Vincent Hospital. Laverne Burt, 18, and Victor Van Tassel Jr., 17, were treated for minor injuries and to be released. Robert Burt, 17, was admitted with multiple cuts. Trooper Steve Antshnatolya investigates. ambulance from Waterford transported the victims.
OCAL man and agent Terence McShane begins his second inquiry into James Hoff, head of the Teamsters Union. McShane, Harold Anderegg’s son-in-law, voiced disappointment with the first probe’s results and remained abroad from Corry. The Teamsters remain led by Hoffa as the large labor organization continues.
A stray dog named Lightning Jed guided searchers to the body of his master Paul McKosh six after a walk. State police and local crews searched St Joseph's Cemetery after reports the boy had gone missing following an incident at home. The dog lingered near an overturned tombstone and helped locate the body crushed beneath it.
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