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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1957
Page
2
Ralph Friedl, 47, of Kant, an employee at Warren State Hospital, was admitted to Warren General Hospital after a fall from a scaffold. He suffers a broken back, broken pelvis, fractured hip, and internal injuries and is in shock. condition listed as fair.
Readable items show admissions and discharges at Corry Hospital, including Ms. Duck Raymond Mrs Earl Davis Dale and others, plus an oil-field arrest for drunken driving in Titusville. Community notices include rummage sale at Spring Creek Church Pilgrim Fellowship, a tail end of a weekend sale at Mowrey’s Greenhouses, and an Orphans Court action to require an accounting from the estate of Dorothy Atkinson Gallagher with 90 Philips Petroleum shares involved.
Fifty eight employees at Locomotive and Gar Equipment in the Direct Current Motor and Gear Variator Department of Erie sival Electric shared 1605 under GE provisions this week. Resignations of Roger M Dillman and Miss Clara Bonnurlit accepted by Brokenstraw Valley Joint School Committee. Dillman taught in Youngsville elementary and is leaving for another post. Miss Bonnurlit, secretary in Supervising Lutheran Sherwood office, accepted a position in Youngsville. Polka party at Moose Club with George Salovich orchestra from Pittsburgh at 3115. Milton Cook, 23, mobile Alabama, held for Erie County Court on charge of carrying a concealed weapon after pulling a knife during an argument at the Page Carnival in Ridgway. Corry Lodge 365 to hold Masonic funeral service for Walter H. Merrick on June 14 at Bracken mortuary. Erie County recorder Marguerite Mattis elected third vice president of Pennsylvania Federation of Democratic Women at Harrisburg convention. Grace Slown’ named president. Father’s Day yellow tag sale at Ike’s Sport Shop featuring fishing tackle and parkas. Ridgway Borough Council vote ended 2 to 2 on permit for boat fishing at Ridgway Waterworks Reservoir.
The Richmons Township School Board OKs a 118000 budget up about 40000 from last year with 27 mills on real estate and 5 per capita. A one percent wage tax is expected to yield 5000, while mandates raise salaries and a proposed Townville Consolidated District high school keeps Richmond as a member, per recent action.
President Eisenhower told 42 House Republicans that the foreign aid program is among the best routes to peace. The remarks came at the conclusion of a White House breakfast series with GOP members, as Nixon and Meade Albright sat in. The event emphasized efforts to win enactment of the program amid the ongoing legislative push.
Rain clouds blanket the nation as severe weather expands into the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes. Tornadoes funnel clouds and damaging winds lash Kansas Michigan Ohio West Virginia Tennessee Arkansas Nebraska New York and Pennsylvania with warnings posted in several states. Reports include a twister in Great Bend Kansas and funnel clouds near Pontiac and Ann Arbor as midwestern storms intensify.
The prosecution argues turnpike bids followed normal procedures but affirms Manti Mine sought over eight million dollars to fix voids under the northeastern extension. Summers testifies contracts were won by negotiation. The Commonwealth accuses the scheme of spanning Republican to Democratic control, with Gov. Leader calling it one of the greatest public swindles and urging mandatory competitive bidding laws.
Republicans hold a 27 25 Senate edge as debates rage over special appropriations largely for state universities schools and hospitals. Democrats seek 70 million in restored funds while Republicans push cuts and compromise on mental health beds and industry development funding amid stalled passage and shifting figures reaching tens of millions.
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