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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1957
Page
2
A mixed page details a sales fraud arrest of Charles E Smith in Erie. It lists local events including VFW bowling open house, Stanford Hose picnic, and school athletic plans. Notes on scholarships, shoe ads, and public notices follow with brief crime and community updates.
At the hospital report today several admitted patients are listed by name and address including Mrs ese Maniwarie of Bear Lake and Mrs Kirrison Peat Centervile. Discharges include Miss Joanin Bentiuken and Wayne Skinner among others. A separate note reports Oil City Budd Rice 28 burned in an industrial explosion with injuries to neck and hands. Also noted is the death of Lord Mountbatten, a British naval hero, at his mountain cottage in Norway at age 76.
The 41 mile Erie section of the New York State Thruway opens today, forming the longest toll expressway and extending the system toward Pennsylvania. Westbound traffic will join Route 5 and 20 at the state line, with completion of remaining sections planned for next year and future links promising an unbroken Boston to Chicago express route. The Erie section cost 29 million dollars, the lowest per mile of any Thruway segment to date.
House conference committee approves a supplemental appropriation bill carrying about 1.7 billion dollars, mostly for military construction. The package includes roughly a billion for overseas military projects and various items for federal agencies. The conference report adds 400 thousand dollars to the Public Health Service to combat Asiatic flu.
A body recovered near Monterey Bay is identified as Walter Servin Jr. of Redwood City. Two other missing men, Rawin Hinehel formerly of Meadville Pa and Wilits West of Redwood City, remain unaccounted for after a boat overturned Sunday.
Congress approved a 88 million atomic power construction package sent to the White House. The measure authorizes a government program with funds for reactors at Hanford Washington and Idaho and an experimental plutonium recycle unit, plus small reactors for three power cooperatives. The bill directs the AEC to provide steam at cost-based pricing.
Government aims to trim the federal payroll and cut spending by up to a half billion dollars this year. The effort seeks to hold overall spending near or below current levels while pushing a possible tax cut next year. Byrd supports a trend toward reduced federal outlays and a smaller budget deficit ahead.
The memo warns that essential programs face higher costs next year while other programs may be cut to absorb growth. It notes risk from rising costs and tax revenue slack, but assumes continued prosperity and steadier federal spending though tax increases seem likely to occur.
Mrs bet Sulli varied stated to police she hung the family clothing to dry in the cellar and left briefly. Upon return she found the wash gone and valued the loss at about $134, seeking replacement.
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