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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1961
Page
3
A garbled OCR fragment mentions a person named Dorothy and references a wedding, a contract, and a hotel event. The legible items include names and vague phrases about loss, laughter, and a sister, with scattered references to France and burning. No clear event, date, or place can be confirmed.
Engineers from the Department of Forests and Waters reviewed plans for a Canadohia Lake water level control project. A dam with three automatic gates will regulate level within one foot and straighten about 3600 feet of Oil Creek channel at an estimated cost near 89000 dollars. Work awaits September or later. seven nonlocals declined easements while most landowners signed. Dam to replace a ruined foot bridge now used by lakeside cottages. Supervisor Joseph Miller leads the effort with Vern and Dewey Greer.
A single engine homemade plane lost a cylinder at 1600 feet over Dunkirk yesterday afternoon forcing the 28 year old pilot to land in a field off Route 5. The craft flipped after a ditch strike but the pilot James E. Bell of Rochester N Y escaped injury. He was en route to Rockford Illinois for an air show. Nose and tail damage were sustained. plane was nearly stopped before the ditch impact.
Miss Y Noel Wade 18 adopted daughter of the late Warren County Judge Allison Wade, remains in critical condition at Jamestown General Hospital after a two car collision in Cold Springs, N C. She and Patricia Hawley 18 Mayville were passengers in Craig Rowland's car when it collided with John O Shea 37 of McDonald Pa. Wade was later moved to Salamanca General Hospital. Her father was Judge Hart Wade who was killed in court by Norman Moon. Mrs Wade had died before the judge. Guardian Mrs W H Locke of Pompano Beach Fla is staying at Hotel Athenaeum Chatauqua NY.
Police said a youth driver, Harrison Baga, collided with a freight train after a chaotic race where a second car swerved ahead. The driver, Boyd, faces charges of reckless driving, operating too fast for conditions, and driving on the wrong side.
The report notes the White House avoided comment on the disarm talk progress after Kennedy’s Berlin pledge. It describes the Khrushchev McCloy meeting as rank yet cordial and says Moscow’s modifications were only partly fruitful. Still U S officials see enough potential to pursue the issue further.
In Lewisburg, Harold Pray of WITT testifies at a FCC renewal hearing that the station, with a $38,000 debt, lost its wire service and now relies on newspapers and other stations for news after suspending United Press International. The station operated four years with little profit and used funds to cover expenses. An engineer for the station recalled being paid for FCC-related work during the suspension. Stockholders, a treasurer and director Pray detailed the financial strain and nonpayment of bills.
Mass for T J Boland was celebrated at St Thomas Church at 9 a m today with Rev Cyril Cooper as celebrant. Six bearers named Michael Balog Carlton Morrell W Stuart Houghton David Boland Francis Blair and Lewis Barton attended. A family prayer service preceded the Mass at Bracken Funeral Home. Attendees included Mrs Helen Lawyer Mr and Mrs Alvin Lawyer Suse Linnwyer of Lomisville Mrs Mayme Pot wit Mrs Alice Peterson John Potwit and others from Youngsville Erie.
AP correspondent Carl Hartman outlines Berlin's postwar division and the 1948 airlift, detailing how the city remained cut by four power zones, with West Berlin facing Soviet corridors and a mounting energy crisis as Western and Soviet authorities managed the divided capital. Western allies maintained a separate economy and transit network amid ongoing tension and displacement within the beleaguered metropolis.
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