Jamestown man injured in elevator shaft fall
Harry Edward Graham, 27, of Bemus Point, employed as a stock clerk at Automatic Voting Machine Corp. warehouse, fell down an elevator shaft Monday and remained hospitalized yesterday with injuries.
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1954
Page
2
Harry Edward Graham, 27, of Bemus Point, employed as a stock clerk at Automatic Voting Machine Corp. warehouse, fell down an elevator shaft Monday and remained hospitalized yesterday with injuries.
A mixed page of notices reports discharges and personal updates including Mrs. Paul Betnikn and Mrs. George Stewart, plus community items from Jamestown and Erie Manor. Highlights include Crawford County Women’s Christian Temperance Union president re election, dredging work at Chautauqua Lake seen as essential, and reports of local accidents and hospital updates.
An assortment of 1950s era notices shows New fall corduroy skirts at The Mabel Shoppe for 5.95 and a Meadvill/Millcreek police notice reporting a 22 year old Bremon’s arrest over an assault on a 17 year old girl with a BB gun pellet incident. plus a bankruptcy petition by Palmer Weller Tool Corp in Pittsburgh and a Meadville offer on a two year battery guarantee for 10.88 with Western Auto’s sale ending Saturday.
Four teenagers face homicide charges after a spate of brutal assaults in Brooklyn. Victims include a 62 year old man burned and beaten in Greenpoint and a 60 year old Hungarian immigrant basket weaver whose beating spurred arrests. Police say the youths preyed on walkers and vagrants, torturing a Negro itinerant before tossing him into the East River. Two other suspects, Mittman and Trachtenberg, are charged with the murder of Rhinhold Ulrickson, a 43 year old homeless man.
Harrisburg. The State Agriculture Department estimates summer drought cost Pennsylvania farmers 3 million dollars in vegetable crop losses. A federal state survey shows about 20 million dollars lost from destruction of all farm crops. Rainfall in main truck crop areas was about one third normal. irrigated fields fared better than non irrigated.
James Lb Mel don of Erie Pennsylvania, former IRS official, must file new returns for 1945 and 1946 and pay about 413000 dollars in taxes and a 50 percent fraud penalty after a U S Tax Court ruling. The case details his career with the IRS and rising savings figures.
Red Skelton suffered a brain concussion and severe neck sprain at a CBS rehearsal for his television show. A breakaway door did not break as planned, though he was to walk through it carrying a painted foam block. Johnny Carson temporarily replaced him on the program.
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