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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1958
Page
4
The June retail sales reached 16.6 billion dollars for the second straight month, matching May and surpassing April. Department of Commerce notes inventory increases and small overall liquidation, signaling gradual recovery alongside builders and farmers.
Heavy pressure to revive the farm bill stumbles in the House as Republican strategy fails to win over Democrats. Three attempts to pass farm legislation falter, vetoes and procedural hurdles block action, and Speaker Rayburn resists calling up the Senate version. If gridlock continues, drastic acreage cuts for rice and cotton and no cotton price cut loom next year.
Gloria Safier, a leading New York theatrical agent by day, runs a chic restaurant by night with 62 partners including Arlene Francis, Lena Horne, Faye Emerson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jerry Lewis and Henry Morgan. Launched with $50,000, the venture targets money through a celebrity clientele while offering a common meeting place for show business figures and investors.
A stockholder suggested the name Brown's after discussing choosing a name for the restaurant. The idea was adopted by acclamation as most stockholders work and dine there regularly, and the name is easy to remember.
In a futuristic scene Harris lands in his yard via strap-on helicopter from Dallas Rocket Port after observing Olympic winter games in Antarctica. Worldwide TV signals bounce off a space satellite 22 000 miles out as citizens imagine new worlds and distant shows. A self regulated electronic highway guide hints at automated travel and splintered daily life in a rapidly advancing world.
In Cleveland George Burke aged 46, dying without knowing it, plans marriage to Betty Tushansky 26 who has cared for him at his bedside for three years amid an incurable streptococcus infection. North East sees a call for 30 or 40 harvest workers for beans and tomatoes. Baldwin Bros Construction wins Pine Grove Cemetery renewal work including road resurfacing and a new bituminous east-side road.
Surviving relatives of Leo Allen, first Corry boy killed in action in France, received from the war department an official letter confirming his death and providing burial details. Local drunks and idlers facing arrest are to be diverted to the Erie unemployment bureau. Edward Sparkling, a boy from Dyken Hill, was badly bruised after his bicycle collided with a car driven by Ea Wickwire of Columbus. Prank Lily opens a new shoe store on West Main Street succeeding J. J. Sheely’s painting business.
A reader notes a future where cars nap while you travel, weather becomes predictable weeks ahead, storms are controlled or halted by science, and power from fusion and solar taps fuels industry and farms. The work week shrinks to 10 to 20 hours by choice, reducing tensions and war fears.
NEW YORK AP A 22 year old writer Larry Cohen foresees a long TV career as drama declines. At NBC he started as a page earning 42 dollars weekly while Craft and Talent Associates nurtured his first script Night Cry. Levy of Talent Associates lauds his inventive ideas and potential, while Cohen contemplates a future in television writing as he moves beyond office boy roles. Phoenix city offers a 85 smile recreation park outside city limits for locals and visitors.
Rear Adm. Hyman G. Rickover arrived in Pittsburgh to discuss atomic submarines with Westinghouse Bettis officials. He urged keeping large numbers at sea as deterrents, noting submarines would outlast land bases and distinguishing them from the non nuclear program while citing 21 other submarines built, under construction, or authorized. he compared progress to the Wright Brothers.
An anti Communist group claimed Britain's Communist Party shed a quarter of its members following the Hungarian Revolt, leaving a postwar low of 25 000 members in London and across the country.
Fragmentary OCR text describes wedding style items including chiffon veils streamers roses and pearl rings. It mentions gifts and blue china and white taffeta like fabrics, hinting at a bridal display or decoration list from a ceremonial setting. Names or clear events are not readable.
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