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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1955
Page
3
City employees unions push arbitration to secure a raise as councilmen reject increases for this year. Past arbitration yielded raises for police and firefighters and a uniform allowance due to tax status. Unions argue two years without raises amid private wage hikes. officials fear borrowing funds if arbitration calls for more pay.
Actress Rita Hayworth was granted a mail order divorce from Dick Haymes, her fourth husband. She remains in Paris with her children while Haymes tours Las Vegas Nevada.
A 20 year old Ol City youth Frank Barlog jumped from the State street bridge into the icy Allegheny River yesterday after expressing unemployment despair. He was rescued minutes later and taken to Ol City Hospital in fair condition with shock, after witnesses alerted police.
Corry Riflemen edged Erie Company G 828 to 795 at the East Washington Street Armory. Pfc James Young of Company F led with 204 points as the Guardsmen prepare for Friday night match against Girard riflemen and adjust drill nights to Thursdays at 7 30.
Residents earning within the borough face a new income tax next year while a real estate transfer tax failed to pass on first reading. The 11 to 3 vote supports the income tax with an expected revenue around 100000. three council members opposed. Next month the council plans another vote on the tax.
Seven guards and medical staff at Western State Penitentiary testified at a sanity hearing for Norman W Moon 26 a former Connellsville construction worker now at Pittsburgh prison since April. They found no signs of lack of self control or wrongdoing and the court set 19 days for written briefs before issuing a ruling.
Delbert Cady 77 died this morning at his home in Mina Towne on the Marks Corners road Born February 16 1878 in Clymer he was the son of Abraham and Johanna Cady Survivors include his wife Cena two daughters Mrs Roy Buesini of Sherman and Mia Merle Deuink of Sherman one son Elgin of Sherman one brother Roy Cady of Minjerva five grandchildren and two great grandchildren He belonged to the Edwards Chapel EUB Church and Sherman Grange Friends may call at the Spitzer Funeral Home in Sherman and services are set for 2 p.m Thursday Burial will be in Mini Cemetery.
Judge Flick, applying a state law from Moon's era, held Moon mentally capable to understand right from wrong and thus subject to execution. The ruling emphasizes the standard of mental competency in capital punishment cases and raises questions about appeals and humane assessment.
Two hunters died in Pennsylvania on the opening day of a two day antlerless deer season in Bradford and Armstrong counties. Stewart Brown 43 of Athens and Cecil Barton 46 of Athens were involved in a hunting party when Brown was shot by Barton. Tomleek 21 of Spring Church Armstrong County was found dead fifteen miles south of Ridgway. Several other hunters were wounded in gunfire across the state. A second report notes the death of Rev Joseph Gurrell 63 a noted seismologist and former Marquette University physics director in Milwaukee.
WOTR Radio Log lists programs from morning devotions and farm news to world and local news segments. Key items include Noon Bible Readings, Public Health Service, and Iroquois Sport Final before sign off.
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