Undefined text fragment reports event prize scene
Fragmentary OCR text mentions prizes and a social event with names unclear. Limited readable items include a reference to an event and possible participants, but essential details are illegible.
18 Jul 1959
Page 1
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 16 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1959
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR text mentions prizes and a social event with names unclear. Limited readable items include a reference to an event and possible participants, but essential details are illegible.
A four day old steel strike crippling the nation's economy disrupts Atlas missile site work near Cheyenne with completion delays and large production losses. Officials warn wage demands threaten labor costs, while mediaton talks resume in New York as projections show 300 million dollars weekly in losses.
Findley Lake Building Facilities Committee will help architect Julian Naetzker and Clymer Central School Board pick a site for a proposed Findley Lake school. The package includes a new Pinch ey Lake school and additions to Clymer facilities, with state approval. The site must lie within Mina District and meet a ten acre minimum.
Glenn Sion, longtime Bay City Times editor and doctor of Bay City Piles, died yesterday at age. A Michigan graduate, he joined the Times in 1940 and became editor in 1954.
Theresa Defrancesco 28 of Rochester confessed to shooting Richi Smith 27 on a St Lawrence University campus road after a date. Smith, a golf coach at the university and pro at a nearby club, was killed as the car slowed. Defrancesco, a waitress with a shoplifting record, was arrested in a cab about 25 miles from Watertown and charged with first degree murder.
House leaders edge toward final action on a 3.909 billion dollar foreign aid authorization with 153 million short of President Eisenhower's request. Rep. Passman calls the measure too high and unrealistic and warns of possible huge cuts in the accompanying appropriations.
The Lowell Brubakers of Bradenton watch as their month-old Korean adopted daughter dies moments after arriving by plane in Tampa from Seoul. A stewardess hands the infant to the Brubakers, then she passes away. doctors cite pneumonia as the likely cause.
The Senate labor bill, seen as a milestone in union reform, was largely rewritten by the Howe Labor Committee after five weeks of work with more than 100 amendments. The House version weakens labor protections and rewrites key provisions including union election safeguards and Taft Hartley revisions. Democrats offered lukewarm support, with many lawmakers privately admitting the revised measure is not well liked.
Western foreign ministers meet in Geneva to present a united front against Soviet pressure over Berlin. They seek a concrete pledge from Andrei Gromyko on West Berlin security amid stalled talks and a pause in the Berlin crisis.
Fidel Castro ousted Manuel Urrutia and announced his resignation as premier amid a televised confrontation. Osvaldo Dorticos was named as his successor, while Castro pledged to steer the revolution whether in or out of government. The scene left the nation unresolved about Castro’s future leadership.
The Dallas post office rescued a romance after a stamped but unsigned letter contained a $300 check and the name Ken. Kenneth Edmiston, 27, identified himself and explained the blank envelope, sending the check to Elfriede Prussing of Hamburg. They planned to meet in New York as she aimed to visit the United States in August.
Troopers investigate a 9:45 a.m. crash on old Route 19, one mile south of Waterford. The occupants fled the scene into nearby woods after the car rolled, hit a utility pole, and struck a house porch. Details are sketchy and ownership is being traced through DMV records.
Erie Resistor Corp and Local 618 IUE AFL CIO reached a contract agreement and set signing for July 22. The pact ends disputes from a two and a half month strike by Local 613 at four plants and attempts to rehire 120 permanently replaced workers if NLRB permits.
Eugene Meyer died at 83 in Washington Hospital. He bought the Washington Post for 925000 in 1953 after leading a banking career and serving under Woodrow Wilson era government posts. Under his direction the Post revived circulation and acquired the Times Herald.
The Hagen Brothers circus played to about 6,000 yesterday afternoon in Corry, with Civil Defense benefiting from gate proceeds of 765 dollars to buy a new emergency truck. The show featured trained horses, three elephants, and acts drawing large crowds.
Gov. Lawrence Priday signed nearly eight million dollars in appropriation bills to cover social security payments for state employees. Other actions define seventh grade as minimum for high school pupils in approved programs and set monthly state revenue reports by city and county officers for the first Tuesday after the first Monday each month. The governor also allows county commissioners to create a capital reserve fund, empowers township supervisors to invest funds briefly, relaxes public physicals for borough police exams, and tightens insurance company rules and mutual company exemptions. Retired Rear Admiral Samuel Paul Ginder, a Navy aviation pioneer, died in New York at age, after service with the Florida Development NE and command of the Enterprise in World War I.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.