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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1957
Page
4
The editorial notes that Americans have grown rugged in ballroom dancing, ignoring standards. About 200 master teachers will meet in New York this week to restore style and decorum, likening ballroom to figure skating in grace and precision.
A 20 year reminiscence notes a 1937 Alaska rescue effort piloted by Joe Crosson. The report mentions a search for a lain dey sam plane and its altered route toward the United States, with officials and local figures tied to Corry and Fairbanks.
Funeral services for Alan Dimmick Jr held at Bt Palls Lutheran Church with Dr Elmer Ortner officiating. Interment followed in Man Grove Cemetery, with former schoolmates and local residents attending a gathering after the service.
Forty years ago August IM among those exempt from city duty for World War service were Harley Lee Smith WC Walker J Swann Edward Malley-W Fields J C Chase Augusta Demari Henry Fue Stem Phillip Enos Francis Balaud and Kenneth Gregory Members of Company A received their first pay since answering the call for service yesterday This morning toward pitwetie Adly no thange in the attention regarding the Ynuitie strvte In the ely with producers of the entire distried continuing to curt the smile supply Mrs Stell Blackwell sister of Mrs D S Rowe of East Wayne street and well known homemake in a corps of 18 women qualified to drive any type of car and QI to TBE Wouiths Motor Car Corps by 38 to discourage such sellers from aolding back ends until people with pay the higher prices Martin is confident that Veht Tower will force the oldlouts to puther goods on the market and hire prices It is a way of pre venting an artificial escape from the inevitable friend adjustment which the law of supply and demand must bring about Tk is a siovel sheary Martin has devoted site- Ime v manseme public mene should know What Heas sbout
A custody dispute in which Hal Truman Work, an eight year old boy, is at the center as his mother Slinény takes him from home to her own residence. The father Robert Bruce Work, divorced since 1850, seeks police aid to gain custody though he acknowledges legal entanglements may block him. The couple had a written agreement at divorce declaring he would have full custody, while the boy’s mother currently resides with her fourth husband in Fort Myers. Hal Work has a crippled leg from polio years ago.
A Senate debate on John Foster Dulles and Egypt outlines Fulbright’s critique of administration motives and secrecy. It traces Egypt’s Aswan dam plan, U.S. offers of aid, and Nasser’s Suez Canal seizure leading to the 1956 Britain France Israel invasion and regional tensions.
The text notes Egypt faced opposition from Nile neighbors and some Congress members to the dam plan. Fulbright says none of these were the main reason and the administration began reconsidering its offer weeks after it was made in 1956. It raises whether the motive was to pressure a showdown with Russia that had offered to assist Egypt.
Henry Schreckengest, 44, of Erie, an employee of Rube Plumbing and Health, suffered compound leg injuries after a plumbing vehicle struck a pile of debris at a worksite run by Walter Schulls near Saint Vincent’s. The incident occurred yesterday afternoon in Frenk, with responders limiting further harm.
Officials from seven counties including Lawrence Erie and Allegheny plus Crawford Mercer Beaver and others met in Greenville to push construction of a new access highway between Pittsburgh and Erie. Representatives pledged to meet again to advance plans.
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