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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1953
Page
4
The June 1953 farm output likely near the 1952 peak, with 1950 and 1952 figures as nearby lows and highs. Overall production should exceed the 1948–52 average by 2 percent, and livestock products rise to new highs while exports improve modestly. The farmer’s share of the food dollar remains about 4 to 5 percent, with year by year changes tied to crop volume and consumer prices.
Twenty years ago report details Ellery W. Green and his wife from West Wayne street injured when struck by an Erie car at North Center and Congress streets. Mrs Green suffered a puncture wound and other injuries as neighbors hear the alarm and police are summoned.
The Erie County School Board approved ten area jointures to form union districts including Fairview and Girard. Voters must approve the union plan, while the board named delegates to a joint board. Six new school projects were also approved, with site plans and enrollments listed for Greenfield, Wattsburg, Summit, Harborcreek, North East, Millcreek, and other townships.
Pennsylvania guardsmen returned to the ranges for Governor’s Day at Indiantown Gap. Governor John S. Fie, commander in chief, presided over a parade watched by an estimated 85,000 at Muir Field. The 28th Division was recently reactivated with 4,000 ground units and 1,300 from the 112th Fighter Bomber Wing at Spaatz Field Reading.
The article reports a 5 percent drop in farmers cash receipts for the first half of 1953 versus 1952, with marketings up but prices down about 10 percent, especially for cattle and calves. Since 1951 prices have fallen, while farm costs rose through 1952 and only recently leveled, shrinking farmers net income and prompting concerns that farmers get a smaller share of national prosperity.
Police hold 46 year old Charles L Goll ins of Youngstown Ohio on an open charge in the stabbing of Theodore Bishop 39 of Ellsworth Washington County aboard a Blue Ridge bus en route to Fairmont West Virginia from Pittsburgh after Bishop allegedly attacked Collins following a dispute over language Collins objected to.
A 25 year old man Er nest Ewing from Carnegie admitted beating Frances Toparcheck 19 and her niece Toparcheck 19 with a soldering iron after forcing entry into their Scott Township home. He was jailed on suspicion of felony and faces formal charges after questioning by Allegheny County detectives. The women suffered severe scalp lacerations and needed multiple stitches.
Dr Werner Naumann a controversial right wing Reich party candidate was classified as a Nazi offender and expelled from the September parliamentary campaign by the State Interior Minister. He compared Hitler to Napoleon and praised fascism as a defense against communism. The Nigeria Yoruba tribe women decorate their bodies with elaborate attire.
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