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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1955
Page
2
Erie Mayor Arthur Gardner proposes a public repairs plan dividing vehicle work among several garages. Meadville reports include a near-fatal truck crash near town, a drive for a second Crawford County common court judge, and various local notices from VFW events to business promotions.
A two hour and eighteen minute meeting between rebel leaders and desperadoes yielded cautious optimism. Aimed at freeing five guards and six other inmates held in solitary confinement, the talks followed pressure from the priest and Dr and noted progress.
Erie man Russell Adams, 35, was sentenced by Judge Burton R. Laub to four terms of one and a half to three years each in the Allegheny County Workhouse for viciously beating his three year old daughter Linda Lou last Tuesday. A $50 fine was imposed. Linda Lou suffered severe facial and body injuries and may have lasting harm. Adams admitted using a three inch stick to punish crying and Mrs Adams testified to other mistreatments of Linda Lou and their six other children. That night Adams sent the two older boys to clean a chicken coop at 10 p.m.
Patrolman Russell Verga named Man of the Year at the Junior Chamber of Commerce eighth annual Distinguished Service Award banquet. Norman Wilson of Hammermill Paper Co. chosen Boss of the Year at Larson's Restaurant with 120 Jaycees in attendance.
Parents of 12 year old Hart Glenn Kelly reach 81380 compromise with city after a traffic collision involving a city fire truck at 36th and Burton streets. Judge Burton R. Laub approved the settlement for head injuries and possible permanent scars from the crash when the fire truck lost control after hitting a road hump.
New supply of signs advertised for sale at The Journal. Titusville fire fighters tackled a blaze that started under a hot water tank and spread to a wall in a second floor apartment. Fire crews forced through floor and wall to reach flames and extinguished the fire by 10 20 a m. A gas station at 235 East Main Street is now a cut rate station managed by Frank Brichner offering good products at low prices.
Open bowling at the VFW Post alleys after 9 p m Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday and Friday evening Saturday and Sunday periods. Two 15 year old York Pa youths were taken into federal custody Wednesday for violation of the Dyer Act in transporting a stolen motor vehicle across a state line. FBI resident agent said they would be arraigned before U S Commissioner E Robert Bootey Lakewood and treated as juveniles. The pair was stopped Monday night by Ripley town officer Charles Cochran after he pursued them on foot and they admitted taking a car in Dover Pa Sunday and driving through Pennsylvania ending in Ripley. Window shades made to order at McIntyre's. it21
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