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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1959
Page
4
A thief robs two Pleasantville area service stations, taking $40 from cash registers while attendants attended other customers. He escaped with two $20 takes, using varied alibis at each stop. Police Chief William Thomas reports an accurate description of the robber and his car.
Legislation expands occupational disease and death benefit ceilings while broadening funeral expense allowances. House backs exemptions for sports under Sunday Blue Law, adds basketball and bowling. Senate approves auto loan flexibility and shifts hurricane relief funds. Milk Control Commission salary hike passed. liquor board members’ raise rejected, with plan to retry.
The Corry Area Council of Churches opened a Dial A Prayer service and linked it to the Chamber of Commerce effort to Put Christ Back In Christmas. The system, reachable by dialing 22422, provides brief religious messages and was activated with General Telephone finalizing the hookup. Arden Baldwin and Embert Farle helped launch the program, while a Corry Memorial Hospital patient demonstrates its use for the bed ridden.
Washington AP reports that banning cigarettes faces no current federal power and would sharply impact a seven billion dollar tobacco industry. Tax revenues from tobacco would fall, affecting federal, state, and local budgets, while farm families and tobacco workers would feel strain. Subsidies to growers, though small, would add to economic disruption amid ongoing cancer debates and policy controls.
Fifteen-year-old Clifford Fortner confessed to stabbing and killing 12-year-old Lorna Lux near her Kentfield Grove hideaway after a late football game. He told police he did not know why he did it, and re-enacted the crime at the scene before being booked for murder. The body was found by his brother Norman Jr. near the Lux family home.
A Requiem Mass for Clifton Weber was celebrated at St Elizabeth's Church this morning with Rev. Cyril Krone as celebrant. Interment followed in St Elizabeth's Cemetery. Bearers were Carlie Weber, Melvin Gossman, W Sweet, Claude Weber, Richard Muckinhaupt, and Allan Hasbrouck. Attendees from away included Edith Fox and several relatives, with many locals from the Corry area.
Police say a Westmoreland County man shot and killed his estranged wife Alma Hoover 63 and himself, aged 60 Otto Hoover, at the home of Alma’s son William Carney in Uniontown Pennsylvania. The killings occurred yesterday at the residence.
Officials estimate growers will receive about 1.1 billion dollars for tobacco this year while more than 40,000 wage earners could be drawn from the industry with wages exceeding 16 million annually. Thousands of retail tobacco stores and cigarette vending machines would also suffer heavy losses.
President Eisenhower begins a 69 year old adventure to spread goodwill while facing unpredictability from government talks to his health. He aims to manage fatigue and ceremonial dinners as he travels Southern Europe and Western Asia then Paris for summit talks with Western Allied leaders. Communists may stage demonstrations but hope for a Khrushchev summit persists.
Ike and party depart from Andrews Air Force Base aboard a Military Air Transport jet en route to Rome with President Eisenhower, Mrs. Eisenhower, Maj. John Eisenhower, Maj. Gen. Snyder, Malcolm Moos, Kevin McCann, and Robert Murphy. The tour includes Italy, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Iran, Greece, Tunisia, France, Spain, and Morocco, returning home December 22.
Corry state police activities showed a lighter month overall with 26 accidents and no traffic deaths. Property damage reached 22600, injuries totaled 23, 16 criminal investigations yielded 18 arrests, 61 calls for assistance, and 500 dollars recovered. 9 troopers logged 13105 miles and 164 patrols across the substation.
In Mt Sterling Kentucky a hardware store found it had paid a water bill for 14 years due to a meter error. This week the supply firm also learned it had been paying the hardware store’s electric bill for 15 years for the same mixup, and the matter has been resolved.
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