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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1959
Page
4
The report notes Jimmy Hoffa’s failed bid to organize New York police and how farm groups push injunctions to block union interference with perishable produce transport. Bills to curb union organizing surface as farm interests resist market controls amid rising debt and long term growth forecasts.
Tourists in Florence puzzle over tomb mislabeling as they confuse Pope John XXIII with Pope John XXIIII L (anti pope). Guide explains the tomb commemorates an anti pope misidentified for years. Renaissance works by Donatello and Michelozzo are noted outside Florence Cathedral. A separate economic note mentions a 57 percent rise and a trillion dollar GDP with over 700 billion in disposable income.
The article recounts Baldassarre Cossa’s ascent as antipope John XXIII during the Great Schism, his role at Pisa, and influence in Florence, leading to the Council of Constance that resolved the split. It notes Cossa’s deathbed honor and his Florence tomb funded by Cosimo de Medici. It then reports John Kurilko, 58, killed accidentally at Shanop in Bobtown, Carmichaels.
Washington Postmaster General James A. Farley is reported to be reviewing President Roosevelt's claim that Democratic losses last election were mainly due to local issues. In Corry, city officials were tasked to respond to a health department inquiry about sewage disposal progress. Education board members attended a session on establishing standards for secondary schools at Academy High School in Erie.
Corry faces the potential loss of the Shultz plant expected to move from Gowanda and occupy the former Metal Products Company facility. Railroad officials tightened rules, stopping three intoxicated passengers from boarding a Pennsylvania train. Local youths skated at Lovell's pond, returning home on the evening train after a enjoyable time. Pendence commission was today at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Lite of East Main Street.
State police said John King about 43 of Oil City died after his tractor-trailer jackknifed on Victory Hill two miles east of Franklin at 4 30 am. He hitchhiked for aid then returned with another truck and was found slumped over the wheel. He worked for Hall Transportation Co of Franklin. A separate incident reports Pat Andrew E Geibel Jr 18 of Cabot killed when a work under an alley truck slipped from a bumper jack.
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