18 Jun 1959
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1959
Page
1
A garbled OCR fragment references sections about streets and orphans payments, with stray numbers and partial phrases. Reads like a mid century municipal note or unrelated ledger item. No clear event or names emerge from the legible text.
Fragmentary OCR text references Berlin Soviet actions and postwar diplomacy with scattered names and places but lacks coherent event, date, or outcome to form a reliable summary. No clear persons, organizations, or actions emerge to constrain a useful card.
The Coyle brothers, John 24 and William 22, faced gun battles with police in Massachusetts as a massive manhunt ended with William mortally wounded and John surrendering in shackles. Police pursued after robbing a store and killing Patrolman James Kane. William Sedgwick, abducted in Philadelphia, survived the ordeal. Walter Schmidt spotted a man crawling in brush and alerted authorities.
New York state central school districts approved 1959-60 budgets with high levels of support. Clymer Central District set a 384 487 budget with 66 to 1 approval and 74 817 taxed. Mayville approved 442 387 by 57 to 25 with about 142 665 to be raised by tax. Westfield Central’s 836 986 budget passed unanimously with 49 total votes and 294 486 to be taxed, boosting the tax rate by half a mill.
A weather forecast notes summer officially begins at 10 50 p m this Sunday with mild conditions and improving forecasts after a rough start to the week The region saw a low reading near 38 degrees and warmer days previously with highs near the upper 80s The forecast for the next row mid July hints at similar activity and sunlit skies with rising temperatures
Officers found Herold May Jr., a 23 year old disabled veteran, chained to a bed in an abandoned shack after seven days of starvation. He accused his wife Joyce May and three others Irvin Hastings Jack Gould and Lula Mae Waddle of forcing him to endorse three government checks.
Governor Earl Long, after a 19 day stay in a Galveston clinic, returns to Louisiana to resume duties. He is confined to a 22.50 dollar a day room overlooking the Mississippi River bridge built by his brother Log. Doctors begin evaluating his condition as Long contemplates a potential fourth term.
The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld a disputed act closing Little Rock public high schools last fall over integration while federal judges ruled the Proclamation and a companion funding shift unconstitutional. The U.S. judges voided the proclamation and held the funding device invalid. The ruling was announced after a May 4 hearing. an appeal to the Supreme Court is expected.
Richard P. Culver of Pittsfield received 23 months parole and a $200 fine plus costs in Erie County court on charges of drunken driving and driving while suspended. Arrested near midnight May 2 on North Center Street after his car forced a police patrol car off the road, officers said they pursued Culver to the Center Street intersection with Columbus Avenue.
The Big Four foreign ministers postpone 24 hours at Andrei Gromyko's request to consult Moscow. Western leaders hoped for a Berlin stopgap but aimed to keep pledges against halting Western traffic and troops in West Berlin. The session, largely led by Gromyko, ran briefly with translation delays.
In Alnson-200 ti di, Dr Elmer St John and Dr Vincent Drucker faced hospital board scrutiny after the death of Elizabeth Cowan from radiation burns. They were suspended May 11 amid charges of mistreatment. the lawyers asked for leniency, citing errors in judgment as a key defense.
The Corry Chamber of Commerce backs a Gannon College industrial survey that drew strong reactions from local merchants and professionals. It shows complex views on chamber goals, public relations, and the balance between industrial development and retail needs, with calls for more personal contact and actionable programs.
A jury finds Jane Dakin insane at the time of the double murder of her parents in Maulton Wisconsin. The 17 year old admitted shooting her mother Elizabeth 42 and father Thomas 46 with a .22 caliber rifle in their home. Sentencing now pending as officials decide on further psychiatric evaluation and custody.
In Harrisburg AP Francis R. Smith, state Insurance Commissioner, plans to decide within days how much of a rate increase to grant four major Blue Cross plans. Hearings ended yesterday and Smith signaled approval of a large portion or all of the requested revenue. The plans cover the majority of the state's prepaid hospital insurance subscribers.
A violent tornado struck the Miami area Wednesday night driving a 12 mile path through a four block residential and business district. About 100 people were injured, some seriously, as homes and vehicles were torn apart and roofs blown off. No deaths were reported. Rescue teams battled wreckage at the causeway and surrounding streets, with at least one million dollars in damage estimated.
Six people died on the Massachusetts Turnpike when a car crossed the median and was hit by another vehicle. Three others, including two children, were critically injured. Victims include Jerome Makara and Cora Makara of Springfield and Monsanto Co employees Wilbur Handfeld Richard Donaldson Deveno Martin Wilson and John Pasterczyk of nearby towns.
Doctors at Proples Benevolent Hospital announced Mrs Helidore Cyr, 48, and her ninth child are doing well. The newborn seven pound two ounce boy was born last Sunday, two days after Helidore and husband Marie Cyr celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary.
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