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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1953
Page
6
The Old First Night collection for Ghautguqua Institution netted 75900, surpassing last year by 20600 with further contributions expected by month end. Warren council approved delivery of a 750 gallon heavy duty pumper valued at 1600, partly funded by Civil Defense.
Pierre St Martin France wires lifted the last two of three cave explorers Robert Levi and Norbert Casteret from St Martin Cave while Dr Andre Mairey was saved last night. The party aimed to test underground hydroelectric plant feasibility and faced a fatal accident risk after a prior cable snap.
New Jersey gubernatorial campaign figure Adonis faces trial delays until after the November election. Deputy AG Albert M. Ash said the state will not try the bribery charge until mid November while federal tax proceedings and another case against Walter G. Wine proceed.
Fifty investigators including two FBI agents and Nassau County detectives pursue a gunman who robbed the Franklin National Bank branch in Floral Park, stealing about 191,280 dollars and forcing bank official Eric Gronwall to drive him to the bank. The car was later found abandoned with fingerprints wiped clean.
A returned prisoner from Pennsylvania describes Soviet delays in mail to POWs who resisted Communist propaganda. Cpl. Clarence Sperbeck of Gillette, Pennsylvania, says two months of mail were withheld after he spoke out, with earlier mail deliveries described as scarce and dangerous.
Sperbeck recalls three months in a hospital after capture in April 1951 and witnessing dying soldiers at a high rate. A separate report notes Frithin possessing 11 telephones, five ears, and 22 radios per 100 people versus Soviet ratios of eight radios, one telephone, and 1-10 cars per 100 people.
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