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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1959
Page
4
The Corry Evening Journal reports on the unemployment compensation fund in Pennsylvania facing fraud and waste. A new Senate bill 492 aims to close loopholes allowing improper benefits, noting retirees from company policy or personal choice should not drain funds. Journal calls readers to contact Senator C Arthur Blass to express views.
Hollywood notes Gina Lollobrigida’s Hollywood arrival for Never So Few with Sinatra and Ford. She discusses Bardot, taxes, and Howard Hughes influence on her career, recalling how an option from Hughes blocked early work in Hollywood and Europe. Sophia Loren denies a feud with journalists.
A 70 foot retaining wall built during Route 6 relocation lies in E. H. Capps yard in Kane. Ownership has been disputed for years after the borough added a sidewalk and billed the Capp family. Court action is pending, with responsibility for damage and rebuilding undetermined.
Berlin report states Anolf Hiller rejected President Roussel's peace message demanding Danae's return and denouncing Britain and Portugal. Automobile owners of Carry, along with local officials, plan a rate adjustment. Lloyd B Sturgeon announced the move amid local tensions. A district Mason died suddenly during a public meeting of Mt Oliver Commandery Knights Templar.
Forty years ago Charles Bracken began in the retail grocer business on First Avenue. His brother D L Bracken helped form Bracken Tumbers, a leading wholesale provision house. The death follows a long career as a prominent city businessman.
A spaghett dinner hosted by the Rebekahs accompanied by social visits and work chatter. Rev and Mrs Daniel Vance Wort visited Rev and Mrs Burkett Smith, while Mr and Mrs Benjamin Ball moved into a new home. James Town Hospital notes and local residents such as Miss Mary Carter and families in Warren, Boston, Fluyanna, and Jamestown are mentioned with various calls and visits.
Tom Savko, a Corry High School senior, built a detailed 1/6 scale replica of a Civil War fieldpiece once displayed in the city park. The project, begun before Thanksgiving and finished last month, earned first prize in the Erie County Industrial Arts Exhibition.
Two Millcreek men, Phillip Daugherty aged 21 and Chester Appleton 27, admitted staging 23 burglaries in Erie County in recent months. They are jailed in Cuyahoga County awaiting federal trial for driving a stolen car across state lines. Police will file detainers. Norman Leech 17 and his wife Lucy 15, both Erie residents, also implicated in the burglaries and returned from Cleveland after the older men were apprehended.
A despondent film actress Molly Dunne aged 36 in Los Angeles drank sleeping pills in an attempted suicide over facial scars from a traffic accident. She received emergency treatment. hospital officials said her condition was not serious.
Geneva report notes Swiss bankers profit from anonymous deposits while clashing with U.S. authorities over secrecy. Bankers defend practices, saying deposits are kept anonymous even when listed numerically. U.S. officials argue known depositors could be implicated in tax avoidance and stock proxy actions.
Byrd Alexander Geiger, 41, a former Methodist minister, received a five year prison term after admitting to burglaries at 18 businesses and schools in a bid to raise money for a fresh start. He said he pawned stolen items to settle debts and relocate to a new city.
The Swiss reply notes a legal ban on naming depositors, enacted November 8 1934, to protect clients when banks collapse. Officials say banks are bound by a directive to vote proxies openly in the depositor’s name, with only a few shady banks possibly flouting it amid a U S securities scandal.
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