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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1955
Page
4
The brief item notes government support plans aimed at family sized farms. It highlights a ceiling on payments to individual farmers and a soil bank proposal to curb surpluses while aiding low income farm families, signaling an Eisenhower era farm policy emphasis.
Strong suspicions that incendiary activity sparked a January blaze gutted a two story Amoroso grocery on First Avenue, threatening neighboring buildings. Loss estimated near 36 000. Police hold clues to who set the fire and to thefts from the nearby Oi Creek service station on East Main Street earlier today. Florence Loveland of Stat. sustained facial lacerations in a collision near Erie yesterday.
The Corry ministers present The Shepherds of Christmas reading Luke 2 8 14, highlighting the humble shepherds chosen by God over powerful figures. The message contrasts worldly wealth with divine favor, noting Mary and the shepherds as examples of humility and faith, with emphasis on God's regard for the ordinary.
At 65 Dr. Vannevar Bush steps down as president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington founded to study nature. He effectively retired after World War II, having led national defense research and the development of new weapons. The institution remained devoted to basic science while Bush mobilized science for wartime needs.
Harrisburg pardons board heard from Dick Cable of Tionesta seeking clemency for Normal Stewart, a Wilkinsburg dentist convicted in a 1939 double murder of his wife and infant son. Cable, a former fraternity brother, portrayed Stewart as incapacitated by unemployment and ill health, claiming no memory of the killings and noting major changes since the crime. The board considered the request after previously denying another clemency petition and took the case under advisement.
Wille Sawyer 26 of Bonifay Florida gave himself up at Mayville City Court after gluing to a car part. Police report he waited to surrender claiming tired of running and no place to stay. He faced vagrancy charges and was processed. fingerprints and a photo were taken. He claimed a prior life sentence for robbery life in 1988 and parole history, with conflicting details being checked by authorities. He described a bear like body tattoo and raccoon like face.
St Pauls Lutheran Church in Uz evin will host a Christmas Eve service at 7 30 p m with devotions by R Y Grimm the Sunday School superintendent. The beginners and primary departments will be led by Mrs Robert Clark and Mrs Elmer Ortner. The program Adoration of the Sages and the Kings will be staged by junior and senior Sunday School and the Luther League with music directed by Jack Daklinger. An offering will go to Lutheran Children's Homes at Bethesda and Zelienople. Elmer A Ortner the pastor will read the Christmas Mass. Seven Stee presidents have succeeded to the U S presidency.
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