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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1958
Page
4
Hollywood reporting highlights Yvonne de Carlo's stance against pampered children. She emphasizes Canadian-style discipline, hands-on parenting, and avoiding private schools that prioritize perks over education.
B R Sen proposes a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation led world hunger initiative using a geophysical year approach. He warns population growth outpaces nutrition, notes surplus production in rich countries and subsistence in poor nations, and argues better distribution and awareness can reduce hunger and poverty and curb communism.
The text notes a paradox of rising markets amid recession with stocks climbing after April. It mentions a speculative fever driving a 15 week gain, and Fed action raising margin requirements from 50 to 70 percent to curb speculation, while consumer credit grew to $3.576 billion.
Funeral service for Thomas Williams, who died Thursday, was held at Spencer Funeral Home yesterday afternoon with Rev. Elmer Armes of Clymer Methodist Church officiating. Interment in Wattsburg Cemetery. Bearers: Glen Evans, Walford More, Al Smoke, George Boozel. Attendees included Frank Chaffee, Mrs. Dorothy Davis of Wattsburg, Mrs. Dana Sammons, Mrs. Olga Sammons of Union City, Mrs. Rita Lyons, Robert Lyons, and Ralph Tanner of Corry.
Republican Arthur T. McGonigle predicted a larger November turnout in Allegheny County than Democrats expect and vowed a tough race. He criticized Pittsburgh city governance saying it wastes taxpayers money and questioned the cost of the current administration.
Yesterday's Memories reports events from August 11 1938 including a Berlin to New York air record by the Brandenburg monoplane arrival at Floyd Bennett Field. It notes Corry area concerns over teacher contract terminations and a bill to add marriage to grounds for dismissal. Local business remodeling and a Columbus reunion at Mather Park are mentioned along with a motorist incident and a storm-caused crop damage in the district.
Six people narrowly escaped drowning as three swimmers and three boaters were saved from rough Lake Erie water off Waldameer Beach. Coast Guard rescued Clayton Pitzer 34 Gayle Pitzer 26 and Paul Praver 34 after their motorboat capsized half a mile offshore amid heavy swells while they fished.
Mrs. Headora Conklin a 23 year old Akron Ohio waitress pleaded guilty to murdering her three year old son Gary. She entered the plea Saturday before a justice of the peace in Cresson near the motel where the boy's body was found. She was committed to jail without bond.
Hal Bayle surveys mailbag facts that range from Eskimos replacing igloos with plastic housing to odd habits and trivia. The column collects quirky notes on animals, people, and science, including a medical warning from Sir William Osler.
The coroner ruled drowning as the cause in the death of James Bentley Forker III 38 of Cleveland after he struck his head on a submerged rock and disappeared while waters near Panther Run upriver from Rockmere, Allegheny River. Alfred Morrison and Merle Mitcham help recover the body 50 feet from shore.
A damaged OCR snippet mentions a groom and bride with garbled names and event details. The readable bits reference a wedding or ceremony with tulle, a handkerchief, and attendees, but most specifics are unreadable.
A highly damaged OCR excerpt contains scattered fragments about a party, flowers, outfits, and a bride or attendant. Key names, dates, and locations are unreadable, leaving only disjoint bits of description and misread terms.
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