Obscure Slogans Spark Local Election Echoes
The fragment hints at a gubernatorial or county race with candidate endorsements and a telegram style vote message. It mentions a ward, halls, and a swing, with unclear names and locations.
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1958
Page
3
The fragment hints at a gubernatorial or county race with candidate endorsements and a telegram style vote message. It mentions a ward, halls, and a swing, with unclear names and locations.
A wide range of items appears from hospital plans and food aid to car orders, fair policing changes, a Meadeville nursery opening, a traffic death indictment, school administration shifts, and a Meadville fair crowd estimate, with turnout near 45 000 and police coverage details.
In Surrey a 43 pound child named David Butler repels a 1200 pound bullock at Slyfield Green. The bullock charged the swings as neighbors watched the four year old strike with sticks and shout Shoo. The animal fled toward a nearby field by a slaughterhouse.
Lena Teresa Piccirillo 1240 West Pleasant Corry died suddenly at 12 02 in Corry Memorial Hospital where she had been admitted yesterday. She was born January 17 1912 in Ridgway and moved to Corry in 1920. She was a St Elizabeth church member. She worked at Aero Supply before World War II and then at General Electric Erie. Survived by father Dominic two sisters Mary Piccirito Ridgway and Mrs John Miscki Corry six brothers Michael Raymond Adam and Carmen Corry Ward Warren and Arthur at McGuire Air Force Base N J and many nieces and nephews. Friends may call Bracken Funeral Home this evening services 9 am Saturday at St Elizabeth Church Rosary Friday 7 pm Interment St Elizabeth Cemetery.
Bedros Zartaryan a 23 year old engineer of Turkish Armenian background serving ten years for spying for the Soviet Union escaped from Langholmen Prison Stockholm yesterday. Police believe he hid inside a hamper of dirty laundry removed from the prison. He was convicted in March 1957 for supplying information on atom proof underground military installations in Sweden.
The July ledger shows the general balance starting at 6,800 on July 31. The wage tax account had 98 in July. The sewage disposal fund opened June 30 with 7,001. In July deposits totaled 4,115 increasing the fund to 11,117 before a 2,026 payout leaving 9,091 in book balance.
A speaker touts an electric water heater as a great bargain and says the listener will order soon, implying low operation cost and no more worries. The ad tone suggests immediate action and strong consumer confidence.
Testimony on the Greenlease ransom money and Harri man emerged as the Senate committee probes Teamsters President Hoffa. Baker, a Detroit aide, repeated denial as police seek the missing 300000 dollars from the 1953 kidnapping of Bobby Greenlease in Kansas City.
Col. David G. Simons, Air Force balloon explorer, told Stanford audiences that the hazard of cosmic rays for high altitude pilots remains largely unknown. He cited photoplate evidence showing primary rays affecting pigment in hair and warned that beyond 150000 feet there would be unimpeded exposure to high energy radiation.
Penn-Texas Corp ready to buy about 300000 shares of Fairbanks Morse stock held by Col. Robert F. Morse Sr. Alfons Landa, Penn-Texas president, says the purchase would give a large majority. A meeting with Morse and his son Robert R. Morse Jr. is planned before the Fairbanks board meeting on August 26 in Chicago.
A massive landslide in Domodossola Italy engulfed the village of San Giovanni di Crevoladossola killing one person and leaving twelve missing after eight hours of heavy rainfall.
Titusville's tax office reports wage tax receipts down from 106 043 to 87 713 in six months signaling reduced funding for the city school district and local townships including Oil Creek Pleasantville Hydetown and Centerville. A final notice by September 1 will lead to information for unlawful failure to file a return and possible arrest warrants plus six percent interest and penalties.
Donald Rarick, leader of dues protest, failed to gain delegate credentials for the United Steelworkers ninth biennial convention. Local 2227 at U. S. Steel Irvin Works voted 60 to 19 to table proposed resolutions sending delegates and to oppose a $2 monthly dues increase. Rarick serves as president of Local 2227.
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