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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1958
Page
2
Local notes cover Corry area police activity in Falconer and Dunkirk courts, injuries in Warren and Kane, flood relief funding for Franklin townships, Edinboro death from heart attack, Meadville hospital staffing study, and a Titusville traffic light upgrade. Also retail ads and community notices.
At the hospital report current as of today Walter G Kowalski and others were admitted or discharged. A 23 year old woman and a 14 year old girl were charged with shop lifting after being nabbed in a downtown five and ten cent store. Police report no new developments in the Layden's Restaurant break in. Also noted are local notices and events in Fredonia Mayville and Erie communities.
In a speech to a USW district conference yesterday McDonald denied reports he might vacate the top union post stating he will not resign AP Wirephoto
Two Japanese oceanographic ships Satsuma and Takuyo returned to port after being showered with radioactive rain. Japanese crew examinations found no harmful effects, with U S Australian doctors reporting minimal contamination due to prompt handling. A Japanese scientific team reviewed the U S Australian findings, noting the contamination was negligible.
Two examining doctors downplay the crewmen’s danger while Japan raises alarm at any radio activity. The timing echoes the Lucky Dragon incident and marks anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as survey ships return a day after the 13th anniversary of Hiroshima and six days before Nagasaki.
Actor James Mason signs to play Harry Lime in 39 half hour TV films for American and British markets. British Broadcasting Corp partners in the $1,400,000 project.
Kierdorf, 28, refused to answer police for hours after stumbling into a hospital. His uncle Herman Kierdorf, 68, helped obtain a story from him. Kierdorf said two men lured him from his home on union business, abducted him at gunpoint, doused him with fluid, and set him afire. Police found no water in fabric remnants. burns were previously treated. Frank and Herman Kierdorf testified before a Senate Rackets Committee on labor mob ties.
The extortionist Sam Marroso invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked about sharing shakedown profits with Detroit Teamsters leaders and possible talks with James Hoffa about prison release in 1955. The Senate Rackets Committee pressed Hoffa’s finances as his lawyerly silence continued and testimony revealed destruction of Hoffa net worth data ordered by attorney Fitzgerald.
Five year old Thomas Fagan of Glassport drowned yesterday in Slippery Rock Creek near Slippery Rock Pa. The boy sank suddenly while swimming as bystanders watched from the shore. Andrew Rusnak of Glassport reported the incident.
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