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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1959
Page
3
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Meadville Area School Board discussed keeping the night agriculture course after suspending it for the next year. Local Young Farmers leaders urged recruitment amid a small student pool, but the board still faced limited interest and kept the original decision.
The Savannah, first atom powered merchant ship, was floated today at New York Shipbuilding Corp. She will undergo fitting out for the atomic reactor and interior finish. Sea trials are not expected until 1960, with 60 passengers and 10,000 tons of cargo.
Callahan Park near City West End faces off limits at night after Mayor Hugh J. Ryan and Councilman John L. McCutcheon describe numerous complaints of disorder. They cite vandalism, smashed rest rooms, and confrontations with a park watchman as evidence for an executive vote to restrict after hours without permits.
Edward Charles Wade, 31, surrendered to police in Erie after checks totaling 95 were passed at three rooming houses on pretexts of renting rooms. Wade pleaded guilty at arraignment before Alderman Samuel Rossiter and is held on 500 bond awaiting the next court term. Detectives Harkins and Sheehan identified the three transactions, noting Wade’s $18 cash gain and prior similar offense with parole from Huntingdon.
Five year old Nancy M. Kelley of Bon Air suburb died at Memorial Hospital Johnstown from a bulbar polio illness. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Leonard R Kelley. The death was reported as a tentative polio diagnosis.
The article recounts John Dillinger’s prison breaks and escapes from 1933 to 1934 and his pursuit across the Midwest. It covers his capture in Dayton and Lima, a Tucson flight, reimprisonment at Crown Point, a jailbreak with a wooden gun, the St Paul escape, a Little Bohemia raid, and his death outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago after being cornered by FBI agents. Evelyn Frechette is named as his companion.
Police searched for links to a series of car burglaries near Coulter's swimming hole in Rockkind Township. Leonard Ginnery Jr., 18, of Sage Runtod, was arrested after fleeing in his car. officers removed parts to hinder pursuit and charged him with automobile burglary. A mob presence followed prior crime reports, with sensational scenes at a morgue and at Crown Hill Cemetery noted in the chaotic report.
Hal Boyle surveys bygone era markers that defined old timers and memory lane moments from Mary Pickford curls to elk tooth vests. He notes social quirks, fashion, entertainment and public life that painted a nostalgic portrait of past America.
Fragmentary reads of a family with dogs Rover Tighe and Bowser and a vague tribute to a man. Mentions backyard vow and Muay, Elise, Alan and a National Geographic reference. Details are garbled and insufficient for a clear event or report.
Attleboro mourns Paul Gordon 15 after a baseball accident left ear injury from a bat. The Mansfield, Massachusetts native died last night from wounds suffered Monday. Authorities are reviewing the incident as a fatal baseball accident.
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