17 Dec 1960
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1960
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR notes mention July events, a top finisher from Oth and an individual named John Corry Street. The text references incentives and timing but lacks clear context or full names, places, or outcomes. Further readable details are needed to produce a precise summary.
Federal and civil defense teams investigated the New York plane collision that killed at least 186 people. Rescue crews identified victims in Brooklyn and on Staten Island while officials sought the crash cause. Passengers en route home for Christmas, with debris containing wrapped gifts, filled local schools and churches aiding the homeless.
Fidel Castro denounces Manuel Arteaga as Judas in a speech linking church rejection of Communist inroads to broader Soviet ties. He notes a forthcoming commercial pact with the Soviet Union while Cuba nationalizes banks and addresses sugar market pressures. Eisenhower cites Castro’s supposed deliberate haste in restricting U S sales for early 1861.
A Convair carrying 20 persons, including three crew, plunged into a busy Munich street four minutes after takeoff from Munich Airport. Police counted about 40 dead as debris struck a jammed streetcar amid fog and Christmas shoppers. The Sun Air Force aircraft was bound for Nordholt, England, with no confirmed survivor reports.
City firemen and Givi Defense personnel joined a brief search last night southwest of the city for Michael Piccirilly who did not return from a hunting trip. He had been in the woods all day and was located with his father Michel Piccirillo and neighbors present as rescuers arrived.
John Miczek, a 17 year old Corry Area High School sophomore, received a three year probation from a federal judge in St Louis for operating a phony coin shop in Washington Missouri under the name Larry Buell and Son. He collected about $45 000 in checks in five days through a fake gold coin sale ad in Coin World before being captured by postal officials.
A barn six miles north of Wattsburg was destroyed late yesterday afternoon, with about 2,000 bales of hay and two machines inside. The owner is Dan Rotthoff, longtime Wattsburg resident now in Spring Creek. Fire Chief Gene Combs said the hay valued at 50 cents a bale, plus machinery, totaled around 12,000, while the fire cut power to the area temporarily and damaged a high tension line. The electric crew could not confirm if power was off before the blaze.
A week of Christmas carol sessions begins Monday at 8 pm in City Park. Five church choirs perform nightly from Monday through Friday with religious hymns and community singing. Monday Methodist, Tuesday Evangelical United Brethren, Wednesday Seventh Day Adventist, Thursday Columbus Community Church, Friday St Pauls Lutheran.
President elect Kennedy plans a news conference to announce the selection for postmaster general as part of forming his Cabinet. Reports name Justice or attorney general options and potential deputies, with speculation about Elizabeth Smith and Byron White in key roles.
An icy intersection at West Washington and Allen streets caused a minor crash between Ralph Ross 39 of 218 Dunne street and George Hagger 48 of 121 Mott street as a legally parked car blocked view. A passenger Ani B year old was slightly injured and Charles Hagger 8 sustained a cut on the lower lip. Damage totaled about 375 dollars to both vehicles.
An 11 year old boy, Stephen Bully, survived a mid air emergency after a four engine United jet bound for New York exploded. He traveled from Chicago with his father to visit relatives when the plane encountered a sudden loss of control. Stephen, treated at a Brooklyn hospital, described the sight of the city below before the event.
A fragmented account describes a stewardess named in a tragic incident linked to a Christmas gift gathering at Mantallan Beach. The narrative mentions a flight engineer and a family awaiting a child’s birthday, with the father’s absence casting a sorrowful note over the Dayton Columbus home.
New York Negro clergyman and Democratic congressman Adam Grayton Powell, 52, marries a White secretary and a companion in a civil ceremony conducted by Judge Edwin Cortes. It is his second marriage.
Hershey officials backed by the Traffic Safety Council urged statewide adoption of stricter drunk driving tests and penalties. The plan favors chemical tests with consent, new blood test standards from the American Medical Association, and would suspend licenses for test refusals. Curfews for young drivers and mandatory jail terms for suspended licenses were rejected.
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