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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1956
Page
2
Corry Journal reports on local developments from the city and surrounding area. Highlights include well drilling progress at Shaw Farm No 1 near Titusville with planned gamma and micro logs, plus local crime cases in Ol City and Meadeville. Notices also cover restaurant hours, alumni banquet reservations, car sales and acquisitions, and local weather-related incidents.
At the hospital report compiled at 7 am today, several admissions and discharges are listed. Admitted: Mrs. Thomas Smith of Centerville and multiple individuals from Spartansburg Beverley and surrounding areas including Mrs. Harold Bemis and Mrs. Janes Cooney. Discharged: Mrs. W.W. Hammond and son, Mrs. Leonard Yoat and daughter Cheryl Lynne, and others from Wattsburg, Spartansburg, and nearby towns. A separate incident notes a Falconer youth injured near Bemus Point when a car left Route 17 and hit a field. Diane A. Larson, 18, treated at Jamestown General Hospital for a forehead cut and knee abrasions.
Erie reports a State Liquor Store will open at Liberty Shopping Center corner 338th and Liberty. Plans to close the Peach Street store were dropped as Peach Street remains open serving a wide area, with Peach Street sales ranking third in the city. Kane notes a Civil Defense air raid test Saturday on a county networked system, with red alert at 10:08 and white all clear at 10:15 a.m. Eric Sigmond Torok, missing from court, is scheduled for disposition today after being unattainable by his attorney. CHS Alumni dance set for June 7 with banquet and dance. fee $2.50 for members, $1.25 guest. The Hammer Paper Co. received a building permit to install a small gas burner sulfur plant on Bust Take road at $13,528. Falconer officials appoint Alfred Thompson to police force, increasing full-time officers to four and starting a 40-hour week July 1. Olds the Florist to open Thursday through Saturday evenings. Spring Creek Firemen's Auxiliary meets Wednesday at 3 p.m. in Town Hall. good attendance urged. Meadville Spring Township School Board adopts a $105,434.12 budget for 1956-57. property tax increases noted.
H Dutch Andrews will entertain Cory Management Club members tomorrow evening at the Country Club in Jamestown. The session closes the current season with officers to be elected. An Independence Paris-based performer noted for misdirection is highlighted as a guest act. The item also mentions local police and a court appearance involving a Jamestown man on a grand larceny charge.
Maintenance and production workers at the Heick Foundry voted today to strike. About 180 workers in the strike unit protested after the contract expired Saturday night. Ralph Courtley led the United ??? Workers in directing the action. Contact Keppel Tiffany at 3-5374 for details.
George Washington Grimm Grima 34 of Fowler, sentenced Saturday by Judge Lloyd F. Weaver to 1.5 to 3 years in Clarion County jail for a hit and run that killed a sailor en route home in April. He must pay prosecution costs. sentence on failure to stop and identify himself was suspended. Martha Sloan 21 of Clarion was fined 50 dollars and costs and placed on one year probation for morals offense. Donald M. Stroymer 20 of Clarion received one to two years in jail. Justice of the Peace John Lyons Millcreek reported York charges. the suspect remains free on 300 dollar bond pending today’s Lyons hearing.
In Clarion County jail on burglary and larceny charge Sentence suspended on another larceny charge Edward Bartley West Monterey was sent back to Oakmont Industrial Home For Boys for violation of parole from that institution
Dr Homer W Bradstunst of Pittsburgh received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at Mount Union College commencement yesterday. The longtime medical missionary, who spent five years in captivity under Chinese Reds, is a graduate of the college.
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