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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1960
Page
1
Fragmented OCR text mentions restocking to five large items from the creek area, with references to spring quality, catalog style terms, and mentions of Medina and Park area. It includes stray phrases about swine, oil, and a shooting incident, but specifics are unclear.
President Eisenhower will visit the Soviet Union for ten days starting June 10 as part of a worldwide push for peace and freedom. He will travel to Moscow and other Soviet cities, with discussions on whether Mrs. Eisenhower and the four grandchildren will accompany him. The trip follows Khrushchev’s visit to the United States last September and will use Kremlin guest housing. Continued on Page Six.
Thousands of Britons and Italians demonstrated against anti Jewish flareups as a wave of swastikas waned. West Germany faced inquests into displays amid claims of Soviet instigation, while British Home Secretary called incidents largely hooliganism. In Italy, rallies honored fascism and nazism victims, and German officers faced new warrants for Nazi material supplied to a banned group.
A 10-year-old First Ward girl was dragged into a car by a man in his early twenties while directions were being asked near her home. She escaped after being driven toward East Main Street and the driver departed toward Spring Creek. Police seek details as the child recovers. Chief Harley Drake warns parents to keep children away from strangers’ cars.
Nynzie Cusacchin, 43, of New Castle has pleaded innocent to murder. He was ordered held without bail for grand jury action after the plea on Saturday.
Columbus School Board, at a special meeting, voted unanimously to recommend dismissal of Frank Baressi, a school bus driver, after a protest alleging he endangered children by crossing a loaded box across a railroad crossing on Shady Avenue near the Corry Jamestown plant. The board sent its decision to bus owner George Hartley via Robert Jewell and Merle Van Cise, with Hartley to decide the disposition.
Area residents face a wintry turn as snow flurries move in tonight. Past week saw unusual but favorable mid January weather with highs around 40 and lows near 22. Traffic warns slippery highways and falling temps will make roads hazardous tonight.
James Ai Lute of Vandergrift was charged with robbery and rape and slated to be turned over to the State Poller in Tioga County. Police said he was arrested yesterday after a reported assault on Hazel Sutley, 70, his step-grandmother, on her isolated farm last Saturday, during which she was forced to write four checks totaling 100 dollars.
Corry state police investigate a trio of crashes near the Fish Hatchery curve one mile west of Corry. Richard Parker, 41, of Townville initial crash westbound on Route 6. his car damaged about 200 dollars as it slid onto the hatchery property. Raymond McCray, 45, Union City, and Richard Saxton, 31, Corry, rear ended in sequence causing about 300 dollars each. A fourth driver, unnamed, vanished after driving off the road and narrowly missing the wrecker. Police expect to complete details today.
An airplane carrying the Minneapolis Lakers landed in a Carroll County cornfield during a heavy snowstorm with no injuries. The DC3 piloted by Vernon Ullman descended from about 300 feet after electrical failures forced an improvised approach. Coach Jim Pollard and 23 aboard were unharmed as a 10-car motorcade transported them to a hotel.
Washington AP reports the 1956-57 budget proposal raises total outlays by about 1.4 billion to 79.8 billion dollars, with defense up 5.4 billion to 64 billion and a surplus of about 4.2 billion to reduce the national debt. It details per dollar spending by category and tax sources, followed by per capita impact of the plan. The document breaks down national security, interest, veterans, agriculture, and other areas, and notes the per-person cost of the proposed budget at 437.74 dollars.
A freight train struck a school bus near Fackler Alabama, killing about 10 children and injuring others. Dead and wounded were sent to hospitals in Scottsboro and Stevenson. The bus, carrying around 10 to 12 students, was derailed and demolished as the train hit just behind the midsection.
A blustery snowstorm swept into the Midwest from the West, blanketing eastern Colorado plains to the Mississippi Valley with heavy snow. The Weather Bureau warned of hazardous driving as up to four inches fell in southern towns and northern Mississippi regions, halting travel, closing schools, and blamed for at least nine deaths across Colorado, Texas, and Illinois.
President Eisenhower asked Congress for 28.075 million dollars for Pennsylvania flood control and navigation projects including 4.39 million for the Kinzua dam on the upper Allegheny river. The package also funds Delaware river dredging, other flood control works, and aviation and postal rate adjustments. The budget projects a 4.184 billion dollar surplus for 1960 61 if revenue measures pass, with potential for a tax cut after the election.
President Eisenhower told Congress that the farm aid budget will rise about 10 percent in the next fiscal year, with total federal agricultural spending expected at 5.629 billion dollars. He cited Congress’s past unwillingness to drop rigid price supports as the main cause, warning continued high production and price supports hinder necessary production adjustments and relaxation of controls.
The St. Lawrence Seaway, opened last April, is expected to operate at a loss of about 2.159 million dollars for the year starting July 1. President Eisenhower’s budget says deficits will persist until traffic increases, but tolls are set to repay all costs within 50 years. The U.S. construction cost is about 123.4 million dollars, with total expected expenditures near 2.4 million this coming year and operation costs around 7.1 million.
Eisie Beckwith of Corry Area High School placed second in her division at the Northwestern Pennsylvania District High School Chorus in Oil City and earned a spot in the all-state chorus to be held in Johnstown on February 5 and 11. The Corry delegation of nine CAHS chorus members traveled after school Thursday and stayed through Saturday night for rehearsals and the concert. Accompanying them was H. Lynn Rice, the music supervisor.
Eugenio R. Beyer, 48, of Butler, pleaded guilty to embezzling about 42 thousand dollars from June to duty while employed in the county commissioners office. Judge Clyde 8 Shumaker sentenced her to eight hours daily for six months at Butler County Jail with one Sunday off each month after restitution. Her husband is nearly blind and her mother suffers leukemia.
In Lacuna Beach California an explosion and fire engulfed a home. Walter Sharpias Cather, 4, nephew of novelist Willa Cather, died in the blaze. Helen Cather found her husband’s body after returning from a shopping trip with two daughters and a son.
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