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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1963
Page
4
The piece argues surpluses are created by flawed farm policy. It charges the Department of Agriculture with mismanaging wheat and potatoes, wasting billions in balance of trade, and storing or destroying crops rather than selling them. It likens policies to a Frankenstinian monster harming taxpayers and business owners.
A dated World War II report from London notes Allied heavy bombers retaliating against Italy and pressuring Badoglio’s regime, with headlines of European ruin from the attack on Naples. Concurrently in New York Harlem sees fresh disorders leaving six dead and 195 injured after overnight clashes as a parked taxi is set alight. In Corry, the Merchants topple Irvine National Forge 5-4 at Love Land Field. Walter Swantele drives in the decisive run in the seventh as Russ Cassell wins.
The Corry Evening Journal lists publisher George R. Samote and staff, with advertising manager and production notes. It details mailing rates, newspaper locations, display advertising deadline at 8:30 pm, and contact addresses for advertising and circulation.
Las Vegas interview with Jim Bishop recounts Ben Blue and Jimmy Durante era club life. Blue boasts wealth and memory of stars like Martha Raye and Ginger Rogers while recalling early days with Gleason, Durante, and Lew is. The piece blends inflation of fame with a weary humor about show business storms.
Francis Wernick of Pittsburgh urged a revival of primitive godliness at the Western Pennsylvania Conference of Seventh-day Adventists in Somerset. He called it the world’s greatest need amid rising social evils and declines in honesty in business and politics as the conference nears August 11.
Fragmented, garbled AP copy hints at remarks about a toupee and a monument to a figure named George Washington. The text is corrupted with misread words and nonsensical phrasing, making it hard to identify a clear event or person beyond general references to hats, monuments, and absentminded behavior.
County commissioners denounce a proposed bill mandating jailers to provide daily meals laundry pressing and personal pay handling for inmates serving yearlong sentences calling the measure impractical costly and a burden on taxpayers. Sheriff John Coates and officials label the idea egocentric crackpot and unnecessary.
Hal Boyle recalls Ronald in a humorous vignette at a Chinese restaurant where he corrects a waiter about a mistaken bird's nest soup. The narrator notes the awkward weather and social etiquette, with family banter about hairpieces, uniforms, and office humor as characters debate style, grooming, and proper conduct.
A tractor trailer in Cresson, Pennsylvania, lost brake pressure on Route 22 and plowed into three cars, bursting into flames. The crash killed Elizabeth Mitchell, 40, of Cresson, and critically injured Constance Ungerdorben, 23, of Duncansville. Driver Robert Stanford, 28, of Lewistown, and others were hospitalized with injuries. Milton McMillan, 51, released after treatment.
Chicago columnist Drew Pearson argues Khrushchev faces strong pushback from his military, citing 1959 arms cuts, Berlin tensions, Cuba crisis fallout, and shifts in Soviet leadership. He notes internal liberal and reaction currents, and warns that continued coercive diplomacy could fracture coexistence.
Terry S Folk of Six Mile Run dies after falling from a truck bed as it rounded a curve in Coaldale, about 16 miles northeast of Bedford.
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