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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1960
Page
4
The Corr y Journal prints an editorial urging both men and women to adopt daily exercise. It notes many are inactive due to work and chores, explaining short term soreness but long term health gains. It highlights home activity by women and calls on men to follow the guidance.
The report notes bombings by warplanes across the Midlands Southeast and Southwest with several deaths. Corry considers buying a fire pumper to replace a second ward apparatus, with substantial support from the Fire Men's Relief Association and City Council due next week. Washington hints at National Guard mobilization for a year of training, with War Department recommendations awaiting President Roosevelt's approval. Corry relief rolls fall to a low during eight years of relief aid.
In a lighthearted AP TV column, Evie Crosby riffs on retirement, golf and show business while reflecting on durability. The piece weaves in Bob Hope, NBC ABC specials, and Crosby's own work schedule from Fox makeups to future October telecasts and family time. The Cathedral of the Assumption in Baltimore is cited as the nation’s oldest Roman Catholic cathedral.
Harold F Beal of Jamestown says a final steam-powered rail excursion will occur Sunday with Buffalo Chapter members of the Normal Railway Historical Society joining Canadian tour route from Fort Erie to Zephyr. A 484-Northern steam locomotive will be retired for the trip along Welland Canal through Merriton St Catharines Hamilton and Toronto. Doctor Ralph T B Todd dies in Tucson at 68, longtime physician to the Rockefeller family.
Police report a beer theft spree in the city early Saturday involving seven youths five girls and two boys aged 15 to 20. Three teenage girls stole 12 bottles from a car and were caught under a bridge where officers found bottles on railroad pilings. One girl on probation faces possible probation violation. others may be referred to juvenile authorities or county officials.
A 10 year old Erie girl received burns to her right hand and left eyebrow when a firecracker exploded in her hand. The injury occurred while her mother, Mrs. Joseph Logue, and the child were near a used car lot behind a service station. Police found additional fireworks in the car owned by Albert William Robson, who denied knowledge of them, suggesting neighborhood kids may have hidden them. The article notes a separate death of feller Jr. at Tucson Medical Center.
In New York AP dispatch SAM DAWSON explains how the Cuban sugar premium works. He notes the store price of granulated white cane sugar around 14 cents a pound and the raw world price about 3 cents. the 2 to 3 cent spread fuels roughly three million tons bought by American refiners from Cubans and six million pounds from other sources, forming the sugar subsidy. The differential, altered by tariffs and shipping, applies to all sugar sources.
Last week's trimming of the U S sugar import quota is discussed as a political and economic matter. The U S quota system, begun in 1994, aims to tailor supply to demand, with price influenced by the quota rather than direct controls. The Agriculture Department adjusts import allowances to raise or lower supply and prices. reductions in quotas curb availability and raise prices.
Franklin School Board in Minny perc ed a delay purchase of property for 00 days. A citizens group of over 100 protested building the new three million dollar Franklin Junior Senior High School two miles out of town. The board 12 to 5 voted to erect the school out of town and convert the present high school into an elementary center, eliminating two neighborhood grade schools. The discussion noted rising costs and supply pinch. The note about the Antarctic ice is unrelated.
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