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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1959
Page
2
A bustling community pageant unfolds with Sidewalk Bazaar Daze set for Friday and Saturday August 14th and 15th. Balloons clowns stalls games and street theater surround the Journal office promotion and display of vendors and display books for customers to preview and order arrangements.
Fragmented OCR text mentions an artillery clash affecting Matsu PATI Wannint a butters, with garbled names and stray phrases. The readable parts center on a naval international scene and disrupted operations, though many terms are illegible. The piece appears as a damaged report with scattered proper nouns and incomplete context.
Michael Winne dies at age 46 in a period of illness. The report notes health struggles and his passing following medical treatment. Details about family and location are limited in the readable text.
Two people are trapped on ice after a flare signals distress. Rescue teams respond to the scene at the icy location as authorities coordinate a recovery effort amid challenging conditions. No further details are clear due to fragmented text.
A highly garbled hospital ledger fragment lists admissions and discharges across multiple names and streets. Entries mention Corry Memorial Hospital and various individuals with scattered street addresses, showing mixed statuses such as admitted and discharged on unspecified dates. The legible pieces include names like Mrs Waitt Dassets and Gerald RD ag, alongside scattered place names and misread street references.
A garbled OCR fragment lists numerous city hospitals and names including Silay Teoner Tinton and Merrein YOUN KSLOW with scattered places such as Union City and City. The text remains incoherent, offering no clear events or outcomes.
Hollywood Highlights reports Las Vegas Strip shows feature bare-breasted numbers across resort venues. Observers debate morality while audiences react to novelty and spectacle. The Crosby brothers headline at the Sahara with backstage tensions quelling as Gary vows to stand united.
Herbert Klein, VP Richard M. Nixon’s press officer, calms tensions with Soviet officials and U.S. media during a tense Warsaw visit. He met Soviet leaders to ease censorship, discuss TV broadcasts of the Khrushchev Nixon debate, and secure access for journalists amid protests and travel limits.
Beaver Valley Times editor and staff charged with publishing false statements. Willan G. Neft, former court official, and Charles fitz tis elegy Mexander shircobs among those named. Raymon Solera faced delays in responding. no immediate misinformation officially confirmed. Smith and Jacobs charged with furnishing libelous statements in the report.
Dale Martin, 80, of Dalseytown, Wistington County, died in a motorcycle crash on Route 40 near West Brownsville about 12 miles from Uniontown. Authorities say he swerved and hit a stone wall. his mother died on the same highway in 1940.
Dozen people including the son of a Scranton radio and TV station owner died in Pennsylvania accidents over the weekend. Seven traffic fatalities, two drownings, and three other deaths were reported across multiple towns. Frank L. Megargee, 24, son of WDAU TV and WGBI Radio owner, died when his car struck a tree near Lake Ariel. Other victims include Michael Hanzek, 15, Johnstown. Joseph Teklits, 67, Northampton. Ralph A Spong, 68, Williamsport. George Huyett, 18, Mohnton. James E. Geeseman, 11, Waynesboro. Walter T Stuedeman, 57, Hast Orange, NJ. Raymond Post, 9, Easton. and Frances Ann Purtsch, 6, Philadelphia.
Northampton County coroner George De Walt, 42, died while welding galvanized material inside a combine at a Forks Township farm. Initial cause listed as galvanize poisons, autopsy set for Monday. De Walt left behind six children. Emergency squad transported him to Easton Hospital where he died on arrival.
A gas well fire in Houma killed one worker and left others missing or burned. Fire crews struggled to control the blaze after the well exploded, damaging a drill rig valued at millions of dollars. Five workers were severely burned and unaccounted for as search efforts continued.
SAN JUAN Puerto Rico Gov. Nelson A Rockefeller of New York will decide by November 1, based on public opinion polls, whether to seek the 1960 Republican presidential nomination He wants conclusive evidence Nixon cannot win against the Democratic nominee Rockefeller dismisses polls that favor a Democrat but would run if Nixon’s lead weakens Several governors debate Kennedy Dewey and Smathers prospects while Meyner says he has no current plans to run and would reevaluate if polling data changed
An 11 year old Mercer County man died in Grove City Hospital from injuries suffered last Wednesday in a two car collision. The victim was Eugene W. Buchann of Jackson Center R. D. 2. This fatality marks the fifth in Mercer County in the past 16.
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