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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1953
Page
3
A garbled OCR fragment mentions U.S. and Johnston and a figure around 6 000 dollars. It references employment and tin, with unclear actions and dates. The readable entities are Johnston and U.S. context, plus a money amount.
Mercer County Bar Association endorses Sharon attorney McKay for the vacant federal judgeship arising from Judge Owen Burns’s death. McKay, Allegheny College graduate and trustee, joins Meadville lawyers George J. Barto and Fred Q. Klebert Sr. in consideration for the post. Meanwhile two local men Wilbert Shepard and Lloyd Rodgers were released on $1000 bail after an assault case involving a young Oil City wife.
Edward P. Moses testified he faced death threats and that a bookie friend was beaten during a $150 numbers-rack extortion. Police raid two numbers establishments and arrested three suspects as a manhunt for six hoodlums continues. President Rhee plans visit to General Clark in Tokyo amid mixed signals about the trip.
Former Rep Thruston Ballard Morton of Glenview Kentucky, who did not seek re election, will serve as an assistant secretary of state in the new Eisenhower administration. Morton served three terms in Congress beginning in 1946 and spent 14 months in the U S Navy. He is 45, married, and has two sons.
Under 75 beneficiaries must file annual reports with the Social Security Administration if they had self employment earnings over 900 dollars. Estates of deceased filers must appoint a representative. Reports due two months and 15 days after year end, typically January 1 to March 16, 1953 for 1952. In Erie area over 12,000 may be subject. failure may cut benefits. An SSA agent will be in Corry on January 6 and 20 to assist at the post office.
A public release urges enlarging the Erie County Tuberculosis Hospital from 65 to 306 beds to serve the Erie region and nine surrounding counties. Officials deny the need for added beds and note the hospital has had the smallest waiting list this year, while Dr Russell Anderson faces potential changes in the project.
Colene Galloway of Osnerson is sworn in as WAC director with full colonel rank in a ceremony at the Office of the Secretary of the Army Page. She succeeds Col Mary Hathorne of Lowell, WAC director since May. Hathorne remains on duty while her next assignment is announced. The nickname Rabel appears in the text referencing a historic term used in the 1820s.
Bradford police reported a burglary at Wallace Jewelry, two thousand dollars stolen from display cases. Investigators note similarities to a prior daylight theft and suggest organized planning by a known gang. Information indicates the Wallace robbery may be linked to other recent jewelery store burglaries.
Attorneys for Serge Rubinstein say they will seek a further stay from the U S Court of Appeals to prevent his deportation pending a hearing. The stay would delay custody he faces after a 1987 draft dodging conviction and possible transfer to Ellis Island.
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