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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1956
Page
3
Partially legible OCR fragment hints at a list or event from a town context with numbers and names but lacks coherent details. No clear persons, places, teams, or outcomes are deducible. The readable bits mention ages or scores and a tavern setting, but most content is garbled.
State highways department Johnway announced a breakdown showing townships in 44 counties receive allocations from state grants totaling 40 million dollars annually. Funds include entries for Amity Concord Conneaut Elk Creek Palmview Franklin Girard Green Greenfield Harborcreek LeBoeuf Mead Millcreek North East Springfield Summit Union Venango Washington Waterford Wayne with varied amounts listed per township.
Erie County sheriff deputy identified the victims as Dri G. Kelldat Higher Lakewood George A Efw 46 Hocky River and Bernard Mierine North Olmsted. The trio had departed from Cleveland Hopkins Airport at 10 15 am for a cross country flight in a Piper Tri- tracer and were believed to be piloted by Plerings 9 sight psitictr for Richland Aviation from Cleveland Hopkins.
An American Airlines four engine airliner with 42 aboard landed at Harrisburg State Airport after a fire warning in the No 1 engine. The Chicago to New York nonstop flight resumed after passengers boarded another plane. No fire or injuries were reported and mechanics investigated the warning.
James Holmes died at two months in Corry Memorial Hospital. Born April 14, 1950, in Careyort, he was the son of Bernard and Gertrude Williams Himes. Survived by one sister Linda, maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Thomas Williams of Clymer, paternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Homer Holmes of Greenfield Township, and great grandmother Mrs Elizabeth Titus of Phillipsville Rey. Alvin Rhodes, pastor of the Clymer Methodist Church, officiated at the funeral at Smithzer Funeral Home and burial in Waltsburg Cemetery.
Chautauqua County coroner ruled the deaths of Mary Hettinger 87 and John Hettinger 72 as murder followed by suicide. The couple was found by Rev Harry Lycett, minister of Cage Chapel, during a visit to Smith Mills. Police said John Hettinger killed his wife with a shotgun and then took his own life after ill health.
Violent thunderstorms over three days caused floods, toppled trees, and power failures across Western Pennsylvania. Fatalities included Max Boucheck in Pittsburgh from a live wire, Joseph Graves in Zelienople drowning in a flooded creek, and Frank Fonka Jr. in New Castle from a quarry swimming accident. The storm tracked from Ohio into Erie and Pittsburgh regions with winds up to 70 mph and boats capsized on Lake Erie.
President Eisenhower, recovering from emergency intestinal surgery, may leave Walter Reed Hospital this week. Doctors expect one to three weeks more of recovery after departure, with plans uncertain for a July 7-10 visit to India’s Nehru and a proposed Panama City summit with American presidents. He walked 80 feet at the hospital yesterday, the sixteenth day after surgery.
Fragmented OCR reads as doctors plan to let the president be discharged or at least released by Friday or Saturday. Reports mention a cooling corridor and a cautious approach as officials weigh the next steps.
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