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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1962
Page
6
Corry City Council plans a two day training session for city officials at the Pen Harris Hotel in Harristaie on January 19 and 20. The event aims to improve municipal finance and operations. A letter from the Pennsylvania League of Cities was received. Local reports note the meeting will focus on fiscal practices and governance.
East Berlin state daily boasted the wall is so high and strong that neither God nor the devil can help cross it. West Berlin papers report at least two refugees escaped over the weekend. The attack targeted Bishop Dibelius, head of the German Evangelical Church, who cited Psalm 18 about leaping over walls with divine aid.
In Braintree Massachusetts Stephen Lyon thirteen braved icy Montaiquot River to reach and pull three younger boys from the water. He grabbed eight year old Mark and lifted eleven year old David to safety as two companions struggled. The incident occurred near a golf course and involved a sled accident as the ice gave way.
Rep. John J. Riley, a veteran Democrat representing South Carolina's 2nd District, died of a heart attack early today at his Myrtle Beach beach cottage. He was 66.
In Santo Domingo AP reports Rafael Donnelly president of the new Dominican Council of State vows an end to interference by the armed forces as the seven member council assumes all legislative and executive powers until an elected government is installed in 1983. He stresses peaceful discussion and nonpolitical military posture, backed by Gen Pedro Rodriguez Echavarría who led the coup that ousted Trujillo loyalists last year. Balaguer to resign once sanctions lift. opposition factions give cautious approval amid postcoup unrest.
Anthony Bruno 43 of Havertown Pennsylvania collapsed and died of a heart attack Saturday while performing the twist on the dance floor at the Lakeview Inn in Gloucester.
Ligonier Pennsylvania mourns Benjmin Fairless once mayor of industry and head of largest steel firms. A newsboy and part time janitor who rose to president of United States Steel and chairman of the American Iron and Steel Institute died after a recent hospitalization for pleurisy. He had just secured a divorce from his second wife Hazel Hatfield Sproul. Born in Ohio, Fairless praised America for opportunity and built a career in steel starting as a teen peddler and janitor. He later studied civil engineering at Ohio Northern University and pursued a steel career after Wooster College.
A fragment discusses whether the queen should open Buckingham Palace to housing the homeless. It cites estimates of about 9,000 homeless in London and notes the palace contains more than 600 rooms, many idle.
The article recounts how a streetcar ride to Massillon in 1913 led to a new job with Central Steel Co. after noting a steel plant under construction. The subject advanced to president of Central Alloy Steel, then chief administrative officer of U S Steel in 1998, later becoming board chair and CEO in 1962, retiring in 1955, and leaving a son Blaine of Pittsburgh, a sister, and four grandchildren.
The report describes a West Irian issue where an order declares a Papuan governor for the province to sway Dutch opinion and educated Papuans. It notes Nasution and Goil among officials cited in the fragmentary text.
A New Year message from a security minister and army chief of staff reveals a prepared invasion strategy. It mentions sea power to strike Dutch headquarters at Bak, jet bombers and paratroops for Hollandia, and amphibious landings on other towns with limited resistance expected.
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