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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1958
Page
6
Murphy Company reported 1958 six month earnings of 2,123,195 with sales of 85,030,992 compared to 9,278,440 earnings and 82,782,440 sales for 1957. Earnings per common share were 1.00 versus 1.31 and 1.41 in prior years. The period shows lower sales volume and an expansion program not yet balancing weak steel and coal markets.
Former paratrooper Brannon T. Thompson, 21, recalls how a drill sergeant’s instruction to "drop and roll" kept him alive after falling 90 feet from a bridge. He landed on debris, sustaining two broken ribs and multiple cuts and bruises.
LOS ANGELES AP reports 62 year old Mrs Ruby Humsingbird died after being trapped more than two days in a closet. Firemen freed her with hacksaws yesterday as she apparently suffered a stroke while wedged between a folding bed and the closet wall.
Coast Guard boat rushed to a lake shore area near Avonia after a late night alarm about a single engine plane crash 12 miles west of Erie. A youth reported seeing the plane go into the water near Wear 3 boys camp and that lights flashed from the wreckage. No wreckage had been sighted and a search continued with a crew noting a person seen on a bench with a flashlight.
Ray Coates of Sparta died this morning at Corry Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. Aged 78, he was born January 3, 1880 in Centerville, son of Orton and Stella Myers Coates, longtime Spartansburg resident. He was preceded by wife Bizzle Coates in 1985 and survived by son Charles Coates of Roaring Springs, two grandchildren, and brother Roy Coates of Spartansburg. Funeral home visitation begins after 7 p.m.. funeral arrangements incomplete.
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