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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1954
Page
6
Franklin officials study a mercantile tax modeled on Titusville to raise about 27000 for a 1955 budget of 328217 while keeping per capita and real estate levies unchanged. Expenditures for 1955 are projected 34586 higher than 1954. The plan aims to offset the shortfall with new revenue rather than cutting services.
U.S. lawmakers debate a blockade against Red China to force releases of 13 Americans jailed as spies. McCarthy pushes hard, Eisenhower rejects the move, Knowland critiques McCarthy while defending anti communism stance. Mitchell notes concern over attacks on the president. Senate Republicans split. Democrats stay cautious. White House cites anti communist actions and Hagerty notes Eisenhower’s press conference remarks.
In Pittsburgh yesterday 20 year old Betty Ritt of Castle Shannon endured a 14 hour battle to keep her heart beating. Surgeons repaired a major artery after grafting a preserved artery, revived her heart multiple times, and finally could not restore a last beat despite repeated chest massage.
Paul Diehl 24 of Greenwood is held without bond after a hearing before Alderman William Witzel as grand jury action proceeds on a murder charge in the fatal stabbing of Earl McGlynn 22 of Juniata in Altoona Pennsylvania.
Las Vegas police say Fred Fowler shot his wife Dorothy Fowler and her friend Emma Lon Cotner to death in a spree that ended after a five hour manhunt. Fowler, 54, was arrested and booked after a house to house search and loud speaker pleas for residents to stay inside. The Fowler children and Cotner’s son were in the house during the shootings.
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