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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1957
Page
4
Geath dies at 76 on the Texas A and M Campus where he headed the Highway Research Center since retirement. A widely known but unpublicized career in road building is noted.
Yesterday's Memories recalls an auto truck crash that killed the Willim Skidmore family of East Liverpool Ohio and left two others in critical condition. Erie County Democrats back Arthur Colegrove for exposing a gravel scandal and pushing clean state government. Corry plans a new two hour traffic limit for a business district and a parking angle change, to be reviewed by City Council Monday night.
Franklin Chamber of Commerce approves streamlined store hours with Monday and Friday evening shopping. Plan takes effect May 3 alongside city banking changes. Stores will open Monday 12 noon to 9 pm, Tuesday 9 am to 6 pm, Wednesday closed, Thursday 9 am to 9 pm, Saturday 9 am to 9 pm. Wednesday closing to resume in November and December. No votes against. two merchants oppose midweek closing.
The article notes the IRS may allow quiz show prize winners to spread income over multiple years, starting with The $64,000 Question. It cites a test case involving the youthful Robert Strom and explains the legal setup by Entertainment Productions to permit such spreads. The piece compares to standard long-term entertainment contracts and suggests other quiz programs may follow.
Erie Mayor Arthur Gardier urged state action to subsidize transportation aiding privately owned lines and publicly owned companies. He cited tax exemptions and calls for ending state and fort taxes on transport services. Witnesses backed the push including Guidner and Myron Prosser, while Paul B. McGill urged tax elimination.
Corry Journal details staff roles including publisher George R Sample and general manager William Chiricurio. It lists Associated Press exclusive use for local news and AP dispatches. Subscriptions run 9 dollars yearly by mail, 97 dollars in advance in restricted areas, seven cents per copy by carrier, and 42 cents weekly. Advertising rates available on request.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles proposes a new foreign aid framework under congressional pressure. Military hardware would move into the Defense Department budget for mutual defense use by allies, while economic aid shifts to a revolving fund basis, with three quarters of a billion dollars replenished as roads are repaid, aiming for a businesslike, shared-responsibility approach.
In 1919 Thomas H. MacDonald accepted the chief post of the Bureau of Public Roads as roads and vehicle use grew. At retirement in 1953, the United States had expanded to over 3.3 million miles of road with more than half surfaced, marking a sweeping modernization of the nation’s highway system under MacDonald’s thirty four year tenure as Mr Public Roads.
A clipped survey notes domestic servants are nearly vanished from the service sector as women enter factories and offices. Rising automation and higher household costs shift labor toward female workers in industry, while households forego live-in help and rely on machines and outside labor.
A brief Lenten meditation at St Enke's Chapel reflects on Jesus thirst on the cross and the Beatitudes. The sermon cites John 14 28 29 and Matthew 5 6, linking physical thirst to spiritual longing for righteousness and divine humanity.
April 17 1917 report notes Curry board of commerce forms a ward take and canvass to ascertain vacant lots for cultivation with members A D Colegrove G Sweet W B Mish J P Crown C L Wilson F L Heath A Le Wiles and GD Heath. Fire damages minimal at Plaine room of NaBone Corset Co. Erie RR fatality identified as Francis Farrell son of Mr and Mrs Michael Farrell. Hutch School conducts unexpected fire drill evacuating pupils in 1 minute 40 seconds. Poem expresses thirst for water and religious reflection.
Walter Smokey Joe Szewczyk, one of Erie's most notorious criminals, files a handwritten petition in Common Pleas Court seeking the transcription of testimony in his case. The parole violator, serving 11 years plus a new five to ten year term for local burglary, was shot by police last July and captured at 328 Parade.
Beverly Chief Anderson disrupted a Nevada gambling class at Las Vegas hotel premises. The course taught craps cards and ouijelle and aimed to expose visitors to Nevada gaming law. No money changed hands. costs collected were for instruction.
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