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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1958
Page
2
Two weekend stabbings were reported with victims treated and released from Hamot Hospital. Police said both incidents were ruled accidents with no charges filed. In one case a wife stabbed her husband during a dispute, in another a mother stabbed a daughter.
The fourth tropical storm of the year churned in the Atlantic about 275 miles off the Florida coast. Winds reached 55 mph as it moved northerly. Weather Bureau officials said land areas should not be endangered and that a gradual increase in strength is expected.
A collision between a ERTE-A panel truck and a tractor trailer on Route 6 about 23 miles west of Erie killed Glen Butts a 75 year old resident of Jamestown New York and injuring Louise Patchett 79 also of Jamestown. The truck driver Oliver J Foy 58 of Akron Ohio escaped uninjured. Louise Patchett was treated for forehead and eye lacerations and released from Brown Memorial Hospital in Conneaut Ohio.
Emergency call to Corry Hospital noted with multiple admissions and discharges including Mrs Edward Walsh and children from Coletta Ann Watrous and Mrs Joseph Wawrejko, plus several others from Clymer Pittsfield Spartansburg Columbus and Centerville. Died yesterday at Meadville City Hospital Carroll Greer of Centerville, born 1881, wife of John Greer, with two sons Harold and Lawrence Greer predeceased. Bargain Berkshire stockings sale at Carroll's Gift Shop ends Saturday.
Washington commentary notes the 5th Congress born in crisis and ending uneasy. Democrats cooperated with Eisenhower amid mid east tensions, inflation worries, and a recession. Sputnik and Soviet gains tempered confidence. by 1958 the 85th Congress held tempered views on defense and policy.
An authoritative source details efforts by Faubus aides to push measures to close Central High if integration is attempted by court order or federal force. The piece notes past violence, Eisenhower paratroopers, NAACP petitions, and Faubus urging preemptive legislative action to preserve peace while awaiting Supreme Court moves.
A week end in Pennsylvania saw ten deaths from accidents, seven on highways. Among the fatalities were Irvin Briggs and Frederick T. Jones, both 18, who fell 40 feet into the Susquehanna River from a bridge near Nanticoke. Francisco Diaz, 28, of Aspers, and Rafael Madonado, 32, of Gettysburg, died when their car overturned and burned near Gettysburg. James Hecox, 16, drowned when his canoe overturned in Laurel Lake, Susquehanna County. Norman Punk, 21, of Barnesboro, died in Altoona Hospital after a misstep during a search for an escapee left a gun discharged. Open House at San Quentin prison drew crowds as inmates’ art was shown to the public for the first time this year. Highway patrols fined motorists for illegal parking.
Fragmented text indicates ongoing inflation concerns in New York with weak factory activity and falling carloadings. Mentions the president, a comic adviser, and minimum details about steel production and business declines. Names and precise dates are unclear due to garbled OCR.
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