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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1960
Page
2
Local ads note Line O Ad service and address 17 East Washington. Listings include church circle meetings, firemen auxiliary, burglaries solved by Erie detectives, and multiple public notices. Also mentions Belt Telephone expansion plan, a Pleasantville death, and teen age incidents in Titusville with detentions.
James R. Morrison, 92, city editor of the Louisiana Press-Journal and among the nation's oldest active reporters, died from injuries after a fall on an icy street two months earlier. A newspaper man in Missouri since 1900, he left a long career in journalism.
AP reports the 16 day steel strike cost over six billion dollars in wages and production losses. It ran July 15 to November 7 last year and was halted by a Taft Hartley injunction. Half a million steel workers lost about 1.16 billion in wages and production losses neared five billion dollars. The strike idled roughly 87 percent of basic steel making capacity and affected steel related industries with layoffs in the hundreds of thousands.
Philadelphia police conclude 14 year old Margarin Mitchell was held captive a full day before her murder. Investigators say she was beaten late Tuesday night or early Wednesday and died within an hour. Her body was found in a White Marsh Township gully after a night of captivity involving rape. Police search for a 1960s two tone Bel-Air Chevrolet while examining torn underwear and a garter belt near railroad tracks. About 3,000 people attended a viewing and a Requiem Mass was held at St Josephat's Church.
The state charges wealthy surgeon Dr. R Bernard Pinch 41 and Carole Tregoff 23 with murder and conspiring to murder his wife Barbara 33 who was killed last July 18 The couple plead not guilty A jury of six men and six women was impanelled last week The prosecution says it may take a month to present its case SHOE EXECUTIVE DIES COLUMBUS Ohio Galvin Clarke 66 Portsmouth Ohio businessman and former chair
Corry Memorial Hospital reports admissions including Robert Nelson 9 son of Elwood and Mrs. Nelson of 229 Spring Street and Leah Richardson 3 daughter of Archie Richardson R D 3. Discharges include Floyd B. Allen of 210 Mott Street and Samuel Knight 1 son of Kenneth Knight of Centerville. Several residents from Spartansburg Ashville Bear Lake and Centerville are listed with addresses and family names in the period records.
Susan Munsee age 9 daughter of Mr and Mrs Howard Munsee 476 East Columbus Ave Corry. David Stull 15 son of Mr and Mrs Oakley Stull 15 Center Street Union City. Dana Thompson of Selby Shoe Co board died yesterday after a heart condition. Other names include Mrs Harry Metzenberger Mrs Grace Stafford Leo A Dilley Lavada Peterson Mrs Mabel Hawley Mrs Stanley Twarski Mrs Archie Ethridge Myrtle Weldon Bonnie Mays plus residents in Wattsburg Spar tansburg and Erie.
Titusville councilman Robert Conway and his father Henry spotted a six inch rail break on a Jersey Bridge over Oll Creek as a southbound freight was due. PRR agents alerted the train crew and a crew led by Myrl Garlepy replaced the rail by 10 p.m. preventing potential derailment and a costly mess in Oll Creek below.
William Allen, 28, one of two cab drivers brutalized and robbed within a two hour span on New Year’s Day in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, died Saturday night at Mercy Hospital.
Floyd B. Hargrove faced arraignment in Municipal Court on a first degree murder charge for the sniper slaying of Charles R. Clark a 35 year old Sunday School superintendent and Boy Scout leader Clark was shot in the temple while Lois Clark the victim’s wife with whom Hargrove had a months long affair testified the confession was initially denied then admitted and recanted multiple times while authorities traced the rifle purchase and planned motive in a Rochester New York home scene and Toledo rearrests followed.
AP reports detectives waited near 6-year-old Alan Carter’s hospital bedside for a chance to learn who bludgeoned his mother Ruby Carter 33 to death in her Cowbridge cottage. The child, gravely injured, may never speak again, while the fatal attack marks Britain’s third such murder in just over a week.
A daughter arrived Saturday evening to Mr. and Mrs. Archie Lewis of R D 3 at Corry Memorial Hospital. Early yesterday morning a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ross of 32 Snyder Circle. Also yesterday morning a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G Mokwa of 134 East Frederick Street. The information was relayed to Mentor’s police chief Frank D. Hathy.
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