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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1954
Page
3
Railroad companies announced that reduced fares for military personnel traveling in uniform at their own expense will continue until January 31 next year, extending beyond the previous expiry of June 30. Savings amount to about one cent per mile.
Richard Cochran age 15 of Sheffield sustained a shotgun-like injury when a bullet struck his right eye after being accidentally dropped on an electric hot plate. He improved after treatment at Warren General Hospital then Hamet Hospital Erie and may return home soon.
Johnson Business Service will relocate from its long time second floor office above Superior Dry Cleaners on East Washington Street to the Horn Block above the G C Murphy Co store on Monday. The move follows remodeling by the dry cleaning firm and the office will occupy quarters formerly used by Auer Insurance Agency after Monday morning.
Funeral services for Dr James H Wright were held at Bracken Funeral Home with Rev Albert Broadhurst officiating at 2 pm. Bearers included Roy Reed Lloyd Stowe Tracy White head B W Feldt Charles Ott and Carlton Smith. Interment in Pine Grove Cemetery followed the Masonic committal service conducted by Robert Desmond and other lodge officers. Attending from afar were numerous relatives and Masons from Erie Consistory and local lodge members.
Ava Gardner’s studio says she intends to move to Lake Tahoe in Nevada within weeks to secure a divorce from Frank Sinatra. Nevada requires six weeks of residence for a decree. Sinatra declined comment and Gardner avoided questions on future romance after returning from Europe. They wed in 1951.
The stalemated Geneva talks resume with a plenary session as 19 parties debate Pyun Yung Tai’s plan for free nationwide elections under UN supervision. Communist delegates are expected to reject the proposal and reiterate demands for a Communist style vote. Hag fish secrete slime rapidly and gelatinize water when confined in small spaces.
Former New Jersey Governor Harold G Hoffman died after a period of heart trouble. A Republican and sharp critic of the Lindbergh kidnapping investigation, he had been suspended March 18 as New Jersey director of employment security amid an inquiry into irregularities in department purchases.
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