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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1959
Page
2
City notices urge Meadville area brides to visit The Journal for wedding invitations with over 200 styles. The page also reports a Meadville area car accident injuring Evelyn Phillips and a flood of local notices, sales, and events from community meetings to yardage sale and restaurant specials.
At Corry Memorial Hospital admissions include Ida McElroy of 936 East Pleasant Street Burwell and Carlyle LeFevre of Unionity. Discharges include Robert, son of Bert Davis, and Martin Bemis. A meeting at Buryluck on Route 89 seeks Red Oak Cemetery support. Regular sprinkling regulations in effect with odd even day limits. State Superior Court action on high power lines near Washington Avenue mentioned with unclear details. Weather and hospital updates noted.
New York AP reports the summer season brings familiar faces and new debuts to the networks. Perry Como heads NBC with Perry Presents starring Bennett Brewer and the Four Fads. CBS debuts Brenner with a NY detective as Edward Bisnt and James Broderick in lead roles. ABC, NBC and CBS feature interviews with Kennedy Fulbright and others, plus guests like Ginger Rogers, Al Martino and Maria Neglia. The lineup includes Shirley Temple Storybook Dick Whittington, Pantomime Quiz, Goodyear Theater Christabel, The Monkey Ride Armstrong Circle, Playhouse 90 Project Immortality and Lux Playhouse Miss and Missiles with Gisele MacKenzie and John Forsythe.
Erle Sam Sterling said a six watt battery was stolen from his parked car early yesterday. Conshiner Booth reported a window broken by an unknown object in her parked car. A one year old Erle youth pleaded guilty to attempted criminal assault of a restaurant waitress when arraigned before Alderman Michael Kinecki. Thomas Pakela, 18, was arrested by Detectives Malinowski and Buelner. He blamed his acts on a trip to New York State during arraignment before Knecht. Three persons including a one year old woman were held for court on a numbers charge before Alderman James Hogan. Mrs. Mary Bauman, 74, her son John, 48, and Albert Damore, 34, faced the larceny and gambling place charges. they are free on bail. All were arrested on May 26 by Erie Hire.
Keating challenges the Kinzua dam project arguing it would destroy the Seneca Nation and urges Congress to consider alternatives. The ACLU stance mirrors pan Indian concerns that the funding law may not override the old 1734 treaty. The Senate committee plans a new Kinzua study and a possible reservoir in New York’s Conneango Valley.
President Eisenhower’s nomination of Ogden R. Reid as ambassador to Israel and George M. Johnson of the Civil Rights Commission were confirmed by the Senate in voice votes. Thomas B. Gates Jr. was also approved as deputy secretary of defense. Reid, 33, former editor of the New York Herald Tribune, faced limited opposition. Johnson, 58, a Negro lawyer and educator, succeeded the late J. Ernest Wilkins at Howard University Law School and faced only minimal Southern dissent.
A sanity examination is ordered for Clark Brillhart who confessed to killing his parents with a crowbar. Brillhart, 22, was on convalescent leave from a state mental hospital when the murder occurred. Elmer Brillhart, 52, and the wife were found fatally beaten.
Nebraska Supreme Court met to set a new execution date for Charles Starkweather after federal appeals courts denied his habeas corpus bid. His partner Caril Ann Fugate remains jailed for life. Kid Caesar signs a CBS contract amid other reports from New York.
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