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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1958
Page
3
The readable parts reference movement, pilots, a winter operation, and an infant found by a trap car. Details are unclear due to OCR damage, yielding an incomplete narrative about people and events likely from a transit or crime note without coherent sequence or full names.
Harrisburg AP Education 1 will present Pennsylvania legislators in 1959 with one of their biggest headaches in years. The session opens Jan 6 amid a near one billion dollar budget and a push to view education in terms of the space era since 1957. Estimates show a need for another 15 million to cover budget overruns and 100 million to support the basic subsidy to about 2,500 school districts. The PSHEA will push for higher teacher pay with starting wages of 4500 and top scales up to 7200, depending on postgrad work, while the current range runs 3600 to 5400. Penn State seeks over 40 percent more than 1957, and teachers colleges expect about 20 percent more for 1959-61. Major private universities plan to request nearly 24 million, with scholarships raised to full tuition value. The Department of Public Instruction will seek authorization to 1) fund dormitories via a private corporation, 2) support a program for academically superior students, 3) allow vocational focus for students after 15 or 16, and 4) have distressed districts taken over by a state-operated entity if two-year fiscal troubles persist.
Rescue workers search a cave network in Belgium where 15 mushroom farmers are feared trapped after funnels collapsed. Seven bodies have been recovered since the incident began December 28. Authorities continue efforts to locate and recover all victims amid hazardous, unstable conditions.
New York AP reports public relations consultants say their field has grown rapidly as management seeks better ties with the public, customers, employees, and regulators. In a competitive era, favorable public perception can grant a sales edge amid heightened Washington scrutiny.
Coroner Bay Lowrey issued death certificates for two Warren County residents found dead in their homes yesterday. Harold Spencer aged 41 of Oakview slept on a davenport when he died of an acute coronary occlusion. His body was sent to a funeral home in Attica for services and burial. he leaves a son in Attica. Charles McIntyre aged 86 died yesterday at his son Donald’s home near Pittsfield after 64 years in the area. He was a former farmer and lumberman and a Wesleyan Methodist member with survivors including a brother and 31 great grandchildren. Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Pittsfield Wesleyan Methodist Church, with burial in Riverside Cemetery. Friends may call at Schoonover Funeral Home in Sugar Grove after 2 p.m. today.
Bates lives alone in a single room and cooks his meals. At a Christmas dinner with his great granddaughter Charlie he said he might move to an old folks home after New Year. He added there is no hurry. The celebration marked Charlie's birthday.
A study by PR field workers Sutherland and Rumsberger finds corporate PR splits into counseling and staff services. They note counseling is vital yet underused, with costs ranging from 15000 to over 1,000,000 dollars. Prevention is urged, while firms avoid “fixer” clients and emphasize proactive reputation management.
A three story Windsor Palms mansion in Richmond caught fire early today killing Horace A. Gray Jr. his wife Catherine and four of their children. The sole survivor is the son home on Christmas leave from the Coast Guard. Fire officials say the blaze began on the first floor library and spread rapidly. Gray, 49, a director of the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co., and head of several business groups, perished with his wife and three children while another son, 22, survived.
A 29 year old North Clymer man escaped with a laceration over his left eye after his Alto was struck by a southbound car driven by Clarence J. Vruwink 63 of Niobe on Route 76 in Clymer. Deputies say Homer E. Ireland backed his auto across the road and collided with Vruwink s vehicle as he tried to turn around. Ireland was taken to Corry Memorial Hospital for a head injury but was not admitted.
Justice Curtis Buk of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was in Bryn Mawr Hospital today after a slight heart attack, officials said. The incident prompted routine medical evaluation and no further details were released.
Harrisburg AP Gov elect David Lawrence announces Park H Martin to be secretary of highways, Ruth Grigg Harting to head public welfare, and Charles M Dougherty to be secretary of revenue. Martin, 69, a Pittsburgh engineer, praised for city redevelopment work. Harting, Lancaster, formerly public assistance commissioner, and Dougherty, Philadelphia, currently directs the Motor Vehicles Bureau. Appointments take effect Jan 20.
Erie concern plans a 400 passenger ferry for summer 1959 service in the Mackinac Strait area between Michigan and Lake Huron. Pusch Marine Service will build the vessel, to be named Ottawa, for Arnold Transit Co. The boat will run up to 20 daylight round trips daily between St Ignace Mackinaw City and Mackinac Island. The Ottawa will replace a smaller boat and be used by the firm in flagging enhanced Great Lakes service. Musk Great Lakes sailors face the holidays with families at home. Ninth Coast Guard District reports many officers and men on leave.
Hungarian state news agency reports a wine harvest boom with 26 billion gallons more wine expected in 1950. It also notes new outpatient wards for alcoholics in Budapest suburb Se Sheteslott Badlepest to raise the number of women in the cabinet to three, including Genevieve Blatt and Judge Anne X Alpern as the first woman attorney general in Commonwealth history. Lawrence plans to finish cabinet picks early next week with posts for labor secretary, state police commissioner, and budget secretary still to be named.
Hare rah 63 of Warren was found dead Christmas Eve in the Wale lars Cemetery at Newmansville where he had gone in put and wreath on the grave of a friend. He succumbed to a heart condition. Alvin Wagner and Sheldon Sage of Tionesta discovered the body near his car whose burning headlights attracted them to the cemetery. The cemetery lies one mile from Newmansville in Clarion County's Washington Township. Police said Harrah had a known heart condition and he was born February 23, 1895 near New Castle, the son of William and Sarah Harrah. An auditor by trade, he also owned Harrah's Grocery in Warren.
In a January term case Hanson sues Alvin Trucilla and the venues Sophia's Tavern Boulevard Tavern and the Penn Club alleging an October 1956 attack in Sophia's Tavern restroom left him with a broken back and leg. he claims Trucilla was intoxicated after being served at the Penn Club. College head dies in Urbana. W L Burison, 76, led Illinois agronomy 1920 to 1951 retirement.
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