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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1957
Page
4
Corry Journal reports on Senate strategy as Southern bloc leader Russell signals use of parliamentary devices to block civil rights legislation. Debate may stretch into Washington summer with possible two thirds vote to end debate and juries for contempt.
Story recalls 20 and 40 year old events in Corry and world politics with anti Stalinist rhetoric. Mentions Khrushchev duplicity and purges, plus local memories dated 1937 and 1917. Includes garbled OCR lines about Formosa, Pennsylvania National Guard, library bids, and August examinations.
Community notes from Clymer detail visits and travels of residents and relatives, including Rev. Belman taking up a new post at New Brunswick Seminary in August, and multiple families and individuals visiting or staying with kin in Passaic Athens Albany and Grand Rapids. Local church activities, summer school attendance, and a recent hospital stay are mentioned along with society meetings, donations, and social events.
A broad Corry page notes a new airline over the city causing concern as low flights hazard private craft. Grice Jewelers displays a first ever Willeethe watch with a long energy claim. Police eye a prominent resident’s risky tricks with fireworks. A local woman wears a new diamond signaling upcoming nuptials. Ivan Bennink named First Ward Republican committeeman replacing John Dahlstrand. Red Cross bloodmobile tally reaches 3,097 pints since program started, with calls 24 times earmarked. Airborne pine spraying grows to curb Saratoga pines damage. growers slow spray. Bruce Dearing becomes Dean of English at University of Delaware after Swarthmore stint. Juvenile speeding penalties proposed: license suspension or governor device. Curfew debate rises as teens roam streets. Firestone alum Bill Hines retires. Corry plans bylaws revised for Chamber. Lake Candandaula speed trial by Donald Campbell to break record. Gov measures limit Sunday carrot sales. county reassessment hires Milt Spaulding. A plant in fall bloom on 9 Columbus Avenue attracts attention. Hugh Crabbe launches a candy route. Navy veteran resides on East Church Street.
A three year old polio victim from the northeast area of Erie has been admitted to Lakeview Municipal Hospital. City Health Director Felix Shubert reports the boy has not received any vaccine. The case highlights ongoing concerns about preventable disease among youngsters in the area.
Willard F. Rockwell Jr, president of the state Chamber of Commerce, told Bradford Chamber’s sixth anniversary dinner that prospects are much brighter for industrial development in Pennsylvania. He cited recent exemption of manufacturers from the capital stock tax and urged further corporate tax revisions while praising broad-based taxation to increase public awareness of state spending.
De Shubert notes the youngster’s condition is not serious and mentions the boy is only the second polio patient of the year to be admitted to Lakeview.
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