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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1957
Page
2
City and Vicinity notes report a wage dispute where about 150 Local 23 Bricklayers seek a raise above 60 cents per hour, with unions pressing Erie construction counsel amid other Meadville area items including new fire chief appointment, a Clearfield fur sale, and taxi fare application.
Morgantown West Virginia Hubert Harp 33 of Fairchance West Virginia escaped from a fourth floor county jail cell by sliding down a rope made from mattress strips. He was awaiting grand jury action on a charge of passing worth less checks. He was arrested near Osage January 23. An official said an investigation was underway to learn where Harp obtained the rope.
A Japanese expedition ship lies locked in Antarctic pack about seven miles from open sea. Captain Manji Matsumoto says dynamite may be used to breach a path while Tokyo notes no alarm is warranted as the vessel can endure the winter with sixty eight days of supplies onboard for a full year.
Residents launched a campaign to ease the teacher shortage in local schools. The Community PTA Council and area schools plan a scholarship fund targeting graduating seniors, aided by a public dinner at Grange Hall on Thursday February 21 served 11:30 to 1 p.m. Also noted: county tuberculosis hospital advisory board issued a restriction order on Superintendent Anderson MD amid questions about its use. A fishers group in Allegheny County plans a bread drive to Elk County to help feed game, following a four-ton corn drop with Air Force reservists.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports a poll showing virtually no sentiment among Pennsylvania Republicans for Harold E Stassen as a 1958 gubernatorial candidate. Questionnaires sent to 317 party officials and leaders drew 740 responses with 197 saying no support for Stassen.
President Eisenhower today named Dewey Short of Missouri as assistant secretary of the Army for civil-military relations and Murray Snyder as assistant secretary of defense for public affairs. Both nominations await Senate confirmation.
High Court Justice Sir Charles Harman ruled George Bernard Shaw's will to fund a grand alphabet reform impractical and unlawful. He stated the plan would alter the law and misapply estate income, leaving the author’s aims unclear. The estate totals about 246,000 pounds and funds were to support arts bodies if the scheme failed.
The Rev. Clarence E. MacCartney, 77, longtime minister and former moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., died yesterday in Beaver Falls after a 26 year tenure at First Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh ending with his 1954 retirement.
A Bedford County citizens committee pressed the Bedford County Medical Society to create mass anti polio inoculation clinics for school children. The society previously favored shots only at private physicians offices with optional fee assistance for financially hard pressed families. The Greensburg based Westmoreland County Medical Society then reversed its stance and agreed to five free polio shots for all school children under 20.
A historic society resolution favors aiding children from families unable to care for them while maintaining opposition to changes affecting industry regulations. The two positions reflect priorities in social welfare and regulatory policy with broad implications for sponsorship programs and community support.
French police aided by Wi-French authorities dismantled a nationalist group blamed for two stadium bombings that killed twelve. A laundry mark on a coat fragment linked to the blast led to arrests including Rahal Boulet and Telhutl Boualerm who confessed and implicated accomplices. Police found munitions hidden under a stairway and laundry facilities connected to the investigation.
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