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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1959
Page
4
Corry Journal lists office details and staff, including manager William Chirica lo and advertising John McLaughlin. It notes U S Postal filing, annual and half year subscription rates, delivery by mail and currier, and a display advertising deadline of 9 a.m. on the previous publication date.
The piece mocks Rhode Island style blue laws as it notes the paradox of approving pari mutuel betting on harness races while restricting Sunday sales of toys and fuses. It questions revenue gains versus enforcement harms and the burden on small merchants amid the state senate’s move to pass the betting bill after House approval.
Hal Boyle revisits a holiday office scene with ten personality types seen in Christmas mood, from the yearend orphan to the big spender and wistful dreamer. A maidbookkeeper hangs mistletoe, prompting coworkers to kiss, as the boss declares a casual Christmas sendoff.
Victor D. Porter, 28, escaped serious injury after his auto was struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train at a crossing in Linesville Ohio. The car was pushed about 48 feet, dragged nearly 100 feet along the tracks, struck a GLF warehouse, rebounded, and was dragged a further 80 feet before separation. Porter was treated at Geneva Hospital for a back injury and minor cuts and released.
Richard Kenneth Hickey, 21, pleaded guilty to robbing Scott's Motel on November 11, taking $354 from clerk Delores Filipkowski. Judge Samuel Y. Rossiter ordered 11 to 23 months in county prison plus a $100 fine and costs. Robert R. Brummer, 33, was fined $150 in a separate matter.
MILLCREEK police turn over Pfc. Harold W. Cooper to military police after he lived under an alias in a Millcreek trailer. Cooper, 27, of Mansfield Mass, had been AWOL from Ft. Enos Ky since November 11 and was linked to a stolen goods case tied to Ft. Knox. A second AWOL man from Ft. Knox was also questioned as part of the same inquiry. Local shop workers had employed the pair while Cooper used the alias. Patrolman Kenneth Wolf located Cooper’s car and made the arrest.
Mrs Lottie M Flaherty of 141 Hatch Street died yesterday morning at Oppewal Convalescent Home after illness of 18 months. Born September 9 1875 in Warren County she lived in Attica and Buffalo New York before returning to Columbus and later moving to Corry. Surviving are a daughter Mrs George Schramling and son Val Flaherty plus two brothers and a grandson and two great grandchildren. Funeral services are set at Bracken Funeral Home tomorrow at 2 p m with burial at Westlawn Cemetery Columbus.
New York AP reports florists anticipate higher Christmas orders than for Mother's Day as businessmen grow more political aware and spend over a million dollars annually on flowers for customers suppliers and staff. Companies send telegraphed gifts for openings and anniversaries with the Florists Telegraph Delivery Assn a 60 million dollar annual network of 11 000 florists. Flowers reach global destinations via wire or phone orders to distant florists.
The text recalls J P Morgan style gestures of giving white orchid corsages and notes Ballantine Brewery staff wives memories tied to cabies. A New York apparel maker sent a rose daily to two out-of-town buyers until one capitulated after 82 days and the other after 40 roses. Telegraphed mower orders average $10 to $25, while a Michigan department store spent $500 on orchids for its New York buying office girls. Also reported is the death of William C Stainaker, 66, director of the Indiana Employment Security Division, killed in a car crash near Brazil, Indiana. he was born in Sutton, West Virginia.
Clippings recall the damaged German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee preparing to sail through British cordons. Veterans face a looming bonus payout as 40 to 50 million dollars of unclaimed funds may await them. A 1 year old boy in Cony bagged a large doe at Dead Man’s Run. News from 1919 notes the Kane-Erie coal conservation reversal restoring normal Pennsy schedules. Local National Guard reorganization is set to meet. Mrs. John Howard died at 76 on East Main Street after a brief illness. A UAW economist, Samuel Jacobs, 49, died in a head on crash with a truck. his wife, 48, was also injured. Jacobs had served as labor religious advisor for the former OPA. He was born in Detroit.
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