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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1955
Page
1
Readable names and actions suggest a report about a local event involving Arthur, a list of items, and references to a person’s attempted act and a police response. Details are fragmented and unclear, with possible mentions of a home, phone contact, and town defense themes.
Gov. George M. Leader signals new revenue needs from 400 to 600 million dollars to balance Pennsylvania's budget. He vows to lay out a tax program after further analysis and to inform the public with details later this month.
Graduate and undergraduate engineering students are urged to submit entries for the Aero-Corry Research Award competition by April 30, 1958. The event, led by George Hugger of Aero Supply Manufacturing Co, offers 2000 in prizes with first place at 1000 and others at 500 300 and 100.
Britain and Iraq formalized an agreement to end a 25 year treaty and join the Turkish Iraqi British defense alliance. Iraqi Premier Nuri Said and Burhanuddin Bashyam signed alongside British Ambassador Sir Michael Wright and Robert H Turton, pledging close defense cooperation in peace and war. The United States is anticipated to join the pact later.
State Police investigated two traffic crashes on Saturday with total damage in the hundreds of dollars and no injuries. The first collision on Lindsey Hollow Road near the mill involved George N. Nevagt and Wilnabeth Logan, causing $90 and $150 in damage respectively. A second crash on Rootville Road near Lincolnville occurred when Rodney McCrea swerved to avoid a backing car operated by William Metcalf, totaling about $500 in damage as the vehicle rolled over after hitting a berm.
In Liege suburb Belgians mourn a Rio Theatre fire that killed 39 people including 23 children. Relatives identified 38 bodies as King Baudouin visited the scene. Victims were trapped in the matinee crowd and many died in the stampede for exits.
Hoover Commission proposes saving 160 million annually by consolidating government transport. Recommends moving Defense Department transport to a military director and civilian to a civilian director, reestablishing the Military Air Transport System, and favoring private industry. Critiques wasteful Air Force use and cites Bloated costs and overlong routes plus hitchhiking servicemen.
Plans for an outdoor public swimming area near Columbus Dam include dock facilities bath houses and sanitary amenities to be built at an already selected site A meeting for civic social and fraternal representatives led by Mrs Norman G Tarbell will discuss construction details and safety measures with Red Cross support and a planning committee appointed May 23.
A fierce blizzard sweeps eastward across the Great Plains driving temperatures down and bringing heavy snow from Wyoming to New England. The storm disrupts roads and power lines, closes highways, and halts traffic across multiple states. Weather spawned tornado risk in northern Texas and southeast Oklahoma, with at least 12 deaths linked to dust storms and crashes.
Demolition of Washington and Fairview Schools by Sept 1 proceeds under Andrew Sabo Union City with contracts for both buildings. Roofs removed and windows taken as work continues amid prior district interest and public hearings on reuse. Matusow freed on 610000 bond pending appeal of contempt sentence.
Defense Secretary Wilson testified to a Senate subcommittee that Army manpower should drop to about 1,027,000 by June 30, 1956, from current strength near 1.25 million, with further changes after tests at Fort Benning and Fort Hood. He warned of rising Communist power and the need to maintain deterrence.
Four alarms within four hours kept Stanford Hose Company men active Saturday with four fires. Three were at fires, one a false alarm, total city losses $800 and outside city $3,000. Eight men average responded, 2 1/2 inch hose laid at Manuel fire, crews worked 13 tests, and 16 men averaged per call.
A Colima Mexico crash killed nine at the scene and 4 more died of injuries, with many missing after a derailment into the Canyon of Death near Alsabs. In Albany New York a separate collision left 38 hospitalized and prompted ongoing investigations.
A Tokyo Peiping radio bulletin claims the Chinese Communist Party purged Kao Wang, once a leading figure of the five year plan, and states he died by his own hand amid a personal crisis.
Nature ended the Niagara River ice jam that had blocked a 12 mile stretch from Lake Erie. A 200 foot wide, mile long mass of slush broke off near Youngstown and drifted into Lake Ontario. Dynamite attempts to break the jam failed previously.
U S Secretary of State John Foster Dulles declined an abrupt Japanese request for immediate top level policy talks in Washington. Tokyo officials defended the move as not an affront while critics in Japan accused Hatoyama's government of a political crisis.
General Douglas MacArthur urged full disclosure of documents on responsibility for the Yalta decisions. He warned against a partial release and said publication should include all records bearing on those responsibilities, criticizing any selective release as creating public confusion.
The WOTR station began broadcasting Saturday at 12 30 p m with the ceremony held in the Garden Room of the Vetarina of Foreign Worn Post home. About 10 attendees heard Rev John Desanttl open with invocation followed by a Corry Avon High School vocal selection. Mayor Burl Cherry presented the key to Olivia Ruen Kiekamp owner of the new outlets. remarks by Rennykamp and Leo A president of the Corry Chamber of Commerce preceded benediction by Rev Paul Baus. Brown toasted the session as the station, studio in the Corry Bavinga and Son building, opened to air.
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