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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1957
Page
4
A garbled wire service style slice covers Eisenhower era political pressure, Hennings health scare, unorganized workers, and labor strategy amid civil rights clashes. Mentions Mitchell, Har tman, and Shanghai. notes frost in northwestern Pennsylvania with subzero readings and a corporate plant issue at Raymond Manufacturing.
A clipping recalls Thorold Ontario where residents approved continuing water fluoridation by a margin of 1319 to 154 while Corry council acted without a vote. The piece notes other local items including a Lions Club gift, dry winter savings, Ajax Iron Works Christmas party plans, and Labor moves against Sunday retailing. It also mentions the death of Charley Shapiro in Pittsburgh prompting WWI memories.
President Hwenhower admonishes restraint on federal welfare expansion while stressing defense needs. John A. Perkins of Health Education and Welfare cautions cities and states against seeking more federal aid, provoking municipal resistance to deep cuts in aid programs amid a historic stretch of national challenges.
C B Wilcox of the City Market bought Winner the second prize Western steer from the International Livestock show in Chicago and will bring the animal to town for exhibition. Welfare costs cited rise. aim to reduce dependence and keep aid steady while encouraging self sufficiency where possible.
A collage of notes recalls wholesale liquor outlets under Brooks High License Law, Shapiro and Moran running outlets during WWI, and prohibition ending the wholesale houses. It mentions Miss Helec Jones joining Tradk's in Erie, Citiz ens Bank adding hi fi music, and postscripts on layoffs rumors at Corry-Jamestown, farm tax courses, Christmas liquor sales, Florida crop freezes affecting prices, and efforts to secure an aerial ladder truck for city firemen.
A UT Austin student group, the Southwestern Rocket Society, plans three rocket launches at a ranch near Beeville. The largest rocket, nearly eight feet tall and weighing 120 pounds, is expected to reach 12 000 feet with three pounds of electronic instrumentation for altitude and velocity data.
Mrs Richard Graham said intense heat kept her from calling firemen when an old heater exploded at her Old State road home. She stated a party line on the telephone delayed her as women on the line refused to relinquish the connection. The fire ruined the house and left five members of the Graham family homeless two weeks after a remodel. Also, King Mohammed V of Morocco ended his U.S. visit returning home aboard the Columbine I after expressing thanks to President Eisenhower and Americans. In Pittsburgh, Stanley Zaglows, 72, was killed by a freight train at a railroad crossing near Oak Chandler.
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