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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1962
Page
2
Local ad copy notes hospital numbers for emergency calls and ambulance service. It mentions Corry Memorial Hospital, Line Ads policy, and rates are accepted until noon on publication day. The garbled text references Morton's and a partial address or street name.
Hazleton teen J. J. Gibson Jr., 15, died from a left chest wound when a 22 caliber rifle discharged during a rat shooting at the West Hazleton dump. Police say the bullet may have been stray or ricocheted from visiting relative Michael Wisniewski, 15, of Reading.
Funeral notices list Vere W Baker at Bracken Funeral Home with visiting hours Tuesday and Wednesday and a Thursday service. burial in Bear Lake Cemetery. Mrs Bessie Blakeslee at Bracken Home with visiting hours and service at 11 pm Friday. burial in McCray Cemetery. Cecil E Simmons funeral Friday at Bracken with interment at West Lawn Cemetery Columbus. visiting Wednesday evening and Thursday. William T McAvoy Requiem Mass at St Thomas Church Friday. visiting Bracken Funeral Home Wednesday evening and Thursday with multiple time slots.
A hospital summary lists admissions and discharges across Union City and nearby towns. Names include Miss Sandra Bemis and Dixie Holfast, with addresses on East Washington Street First Avenue and West Washington Street. Discharged patients include Debra Rap and Lisa Dianne, with relatives noted. Local addresses feature Glyn Terry and Ronald Shorted among others.
A 6 year old lifeguard Garrett Giberson of Wanamassa N J nearly died when sucked into an open drainpipe at a pool site. Companions William Knight Ocean Grove and Ray Scharf Wanamassa repeatedly dove into powerful currents to pull him free. Officials said the suction was like thousands of gallons of water rushing from the pool. The boy rests in hospital recovering from the ordeal.
The notice records the death of Cecil E. Simmons age 66 from Corry RD 4 after a long illness. It lists survivors and funeral details at Bracken Funeral Home. Also cited is the death of William T. McAvoy at a hospital after long illness, with a Kane resident history, work at Corry High School and a large survivor list including four daughters and three sons, plus a detailed funeral plan. The report then describes a drowning incident involving Giberson and Knight, where rescue efforts and resuscitation followed submersion in a pool drain, with a bystander noting the victim’s bite reflex before being freed.
Mrs Loretta Roach 29 Vernon Township Crawford County died by electrocution behind a shed near her home while attempting to fix a water pump. State Police and coroner cited an electrical shock from wires at a shed, with electricity believed pirated from that location. Two daughters, Doreen and Dotty, and husband Harold survive. search for the pump continues.
Washington API official testified Billie Sol Estes spoke of Henry Marshall’s death while threatening to halt a federal probe into Estes cotton deals. Deputy Agriculture official Wilson Tucker recalled Estes and lawyer John Dennison visiting Oct 18 and Estes allegedly implied the death had occurred due to the investigation.
Pepperdine University founder George Pepperdine, a college businessman and philanthropist, died after years of illness in Los Angeles. He built Western Auto Supply into a multi million dollar enterprise but later faced a large personal fortune loss, estimated around ten million dollars.
Senator Humphrey cites a tragic gap in international drug communication after a sleeping tablet and tranquilizer became Germany’s popular remedy by 1960. He notes US imports for testing and warns of pedimental drugs while Senator Clark urges stricter safeguards and calls for amending regulation.
Four youths age eight to thirteen confessed to a car theft spree in Jamestown with three brothers among them. They stole cars from garages, rolled them down streets, and used one car’s engine. They also threatened Lind's Fruit Market. losses totaled about five dollars in goods. Parents were unaware due to the boys saying they stayed at a neighbor's home. Names withheld. locations include Kentucky and Virginia towns. Five Reynalds plants are in Louisville and two in Richmond. Eddie R. Stahl, head of the Aluminum Workers Union, cited job security and automation-driven displacement as central issues, noting 5,000 members lost in three years.
Local 636 of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers struck Struthers Wells Corporation in Titusville after failing to reach a contract agreement at an eleventh hour meeting. A two year contract expired at midnight and officials said the company demanded a 10 percent wage reduction to continue on a day to day extension. More than 150 members voted to reject the company proposal, attributing the strike to the insistence on the wage cut for at least one year.
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