1952 Ring Year Ends in Mixed Results
In a brief sports note, a 1952 ring event saw 13 entrants with mixed outcomes. Details are unclear due to OCR errors. No clear names or teams can be identified.
15 Apr 1954
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1954
Page
1
In a brief sports note, a 1952 ring event saw 13 entrants with mixed outcomes. Details are unclear due to OCR errors. No clear names or teams can be identified.
Secret questioning of witnesses ordered in the McCarthy Army row. Army argues McCarthy pressured for favorable treatment for private first class Schine. Mundt leads subcommittee as hearings near start. McCarthy’s role to be debated if he returns from trip.
Robert firm of Meadville started work on a Route 6 resurfacing and widening project spanning nearly two miles westward from the western city limits. Highway crews have covered road marker signs in the city and Union City for a detour during closure while drainage ditches are dug along the right of way. The Corry area program includes a second project on the Corry Sparten pire road near the southwest city limits, slated for later in the year.
Vietminh forces reportedly dug in along trenches within 2400 feet of the Dien Bien Phu fortress airstrip in Indochina. French high command said rebels were not heavily armed, with partial trench gains while still holding a long section of the airstrip and threatening supply lines between fortress sectors.
Washington Senate Banking Committee schedules public hearings on a multi million dollar housing scandal probe. President Eisenhower considers opening government tax files to aid the inquiry. Senator Capehart warns the investigation could slow or derail the housing program while implicating windfall beneficiaries and possible indictments loom.
Secretary Humphrey urged speedy congressional action on Eisenhower's big tax overhaul bill. He said much business expansion waits for it to become law and noted the economy is withstanding the downturn in military production well. He spoke at the American Society of Newspaper Editors meeting to about 400 editors.
Erie firm head J Robert Baldwin outlined a plan for a major suburban development at a Corry session. The Corry Chamber of Commerce schedules a noon meeting next Monday with local suppliers contractors and realtors to consider a five acre plus site and FHA or VA financing for a project of at least 10 homes.
Bulk buyers begin arriving as the maple syrup season ends in the Corry area. Prices stay high with fancy grade at 80 cents per pound, No 1 at 28 cents, No 2 at 24, and No 9 at 27. Local agents report strong production and quality, with shipments loading at Union City and slated travels by truck. Buyers from multiple firms Will arrive in Corry, Clymer, and Wattsburg to take the season’s output over the next two weeks.
Bradford Fire Chief Edward Brophy labels the incident the worst in 20 years. The blaze injured four firefighters and four residents, destroyed three homes and damaged others. Most affected were Mr and Mrs Harold Francisco, who recently lost their two year old son. Mrs Clarita Murphy sustained severe burns and was treated at Bradford Hospital. Several homes belonging to the Murphy and Francisco families were destroyed or damaged.
Seven men alleged to have irregularities in the 1959 Greensburg election will face trial May 19. District Attorney B. Alexander Scullo of Westmoreland County announced the venue and date. The defendants include Leon V. Johnson Emil J. Bayer Armand Bute Perry Pasrott Philip Forty Alberto Vivio and Francis Crum city clerk Moneatsen.
In a cabin fire nine miles east of Coudersport Pennsylvania two Muhlenberg College students and two others burned. Jobs Neely age 21 of York and Dick Kelsey 25 of Coudersport died. James Berger Jr 21 and Charles Fickinger 26 were injured. Fickinger and Berger escaped the blaze, aided by a ride to hospital. The Enterprise Publishing Co cabin suffered about $8000 damage.
Anglers crowded area streams on opening day amid good weather and high early catches. Weather stayed mild with temperatures in the low 50s. Stocking boosted results, especially on West Spring Creek and Little Brokenstraw as fishers reported brook trout and larger streams ran high with water from smaller creeks. statewide license holders reached about 730,000 with many youngsters fishing without licenses.
Secretary of State Dulles returned to the United States and said he was well satisfied with his talks in London and Paris. He favored a potential 10 nation alliance to check Communist expansion in Indochina and Southeast Asia, and noted Thailand’s participation and possible Philippine president Aquino acceptance. He planned a Geneva conference and said formal negotiations could begin soon with working parties mapping steps toward a united front.
Britain's Labour Party faces a deep split sparked by foreign policy disagreements and defections from left wing figures led by Aneurin Bevan. Bevan and other leftists walked out of a private caucus, threatening moderate leadership under Attlee and party chief Morrison as divisions widen over pacifist and rearmament stances.
FBI agent and police arrested Charles Spencer, a Connecticut carpenter, on a federal warrant for murder in the hammer attack on his estranged wife. Spencer was captured in Niagara Falls after a public-notary sighting and identified from a photo. Extradition to New Haven planned.
Two head on crashes near Mill Village yesterday killed one woman and left six others injured. Mrs Bennet Warner, 60, of Waterford died instantly in a collision with Wayne Waldron 18 of Mill Village. Warner’s husband W. Ke Warner survived. Waldron sustained facial and leg injuries. Bruce McWilliams 18, Nancy Eatley 15, and Laurel Bull 10 received non fatal injuries. Investigating officers attributed the first crash to Warner pulling from an intersection onto a highway as Waldron’s car northbound collided near the road’s center. Autopsy and death certificate issued at Union City hospital. Continued on Page Five.
Prices for ham and turkey fall across many stores with Easter demand near. Hams drop four to nine cents per pound while turkeys cost from six to ten cents less, other meats vary with lamb legs and sirloin higher. Frying chickens trend mixed with modest gains, veg buys include new crop potatoes corn and lettuce viewed as moderate bargains.
Red Cross bloodmobile collected 102 pints in City yesterday raising local total to 1 804 pints across 15 visits. Eight donors were rejected and three cancellations occurred. twenty walk ins helped reach the final total while twelve of 105 scheduled missed appointments. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post sponsored the drive with a return planned in three months.
Officials in Bloomfield and Sparta Township push a consolidation plan as local directors seek state approval. Roy Cleaver of the State Department of Public Instruction expressed limited optimism, urging county board action and possible Harrisburg appeal. An April 28 Mendville meeting drew about 200 residents with few opposing the merger. Also reported is a fatal taxi collision in Pittsburgh involving Charles Wella and injuries to three others near the East Street Bridge.
Secret hearings proceed in Washington over J. Robert Oppenheimer with testimony expected from former AEC chairs David Lilienthal and Gordon Dean on his behalf. Vannevar Bush may testify. Defense Secretary indicated Oppenheimer was removed from advisory roles last year while leaders of scientific groups voice confidence he will be cleared. Senator McCarthy labeled him a long standing security risk.
Gov John Fine requests President John Lewis of United Mine Workers to send a delegation to a governors conference in Washington on April 26. Fifteen coal producing states were invited to review economic conditions from declining production costs. Robert J ODonnell said the invitation followed requests from anthracite and bituminous operators for a 20 member delegation to attend.
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