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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1958
Page
4
The Corry Journal lists staff and offices in Corry Pa with Associated Press rights. Advertising rates and deadlines are provided, including mail subscription options of 9.00 per year and 4.75 for six months, plus carrier pricing and display deadlines.
A wide survey of 34 magazines finds manufacturers expecting 20 percent average sales gains and 25 to 43 percent in some sectors over four years. It cautions that 1960s growth will slow while population and tech shifts drive a new boom. Firms modernize, seek efficiency as labor may tighten.
A Soviet farm delegation learned a lesson in America that is now applied to collective farms in Russia. The policy shifts toward supply and demand to stimulate cheaper and more abundant output. Rents and below market sales to the government end. farmers gain higher controlled prices and direct selling rights while remaining under state work and collectivisation.
Firefighters battled an explosion as a Strato tanker attempting a transatlantic record crashed in a Massachusetts cornfield near Westover Air Force Base. Fifteen people died including six newsmen two National Aeronautics Association representatives and seven crewmen. The crash halted the sequence after the third flight. earlier tanks had set and failed at record times with Brize Norton as a target.
Corry items recount safety cautions over Independence Day, memory expert H P Matteson’s visit, Roberta Sherwood family links, and local figures like Roberta Sherwood and Roberta Sherwood’s father. City assessments, YMCA audits, and prize winners at a wage law dispute surface alongside notes on military training, cattle purchases, and a new shopping telephone service trend.
An eight month old West Springfield infant, Roxar Lee Shaffer, reportedly fell from a crib into a clothes hamper while learning to crawl. Coroner Warren W Wood ruled the death accidental after pathologist Richard Hisenberg found no fractures. The mother, Lilly Shaffer, discovered the child in the hamper at 11:30 am. Thursday.
A late June 1938 wire notes House Republican leader Bertrand H Snell resigns from Congress as party factions debate liberal versus conservative strength. City Council discusses storm sewer intake traps on Seneca Street with a plan seen as affordable. Private Blythe will be the sole officer housed in Corry during the July Fourth holiday as other patrolmen assist at Gettysburg battles anniversary events.
Forty years ago on June 28 1976 J Ennis received appointment as general local agent of the consolidated express car parties for Corry. L M Christle caught a four pound fifteen ounce trout in Broken Slaw Creek near the mouth of Spying Creek. Drs CL and Amy W Treichler and infant son traveled to Buffalo and Niagara Falls for the Treichler family reunion in Sanborn N Y. Rowe left for Pittsburgh to attend the National Educational Association meeting.
An unidentified Baltimore and Ohio Railroad employee was blamed for a derailment near Uniontown last Tuesday after a switch was left open. The freight train entered a siding and struck several parked cars, the railroad spokesman said.
A Pittsburgh coroner jury recommended holding John Kohle Jr 18 of Bethel Park on a murder charge after he testified he killed his father following abuse and burnings. He said he took a gun from its usual place and hid it under his pillow.
A Warren County court filing seeks 75000 in damages for Edward Vaughn a 13 year old from Warren injured in a Beaty Place fireworks incident two years earlier. The case names Atlantic Fireworks Co of New Castle and Warren Jaycee Chip as co defendants alleging lack of precautions with explosive displays.
A man described as about 35, known as the “fall, pin man,” eluded arrest after cashing an $85 check at Empire Auto Pads and obtaining $62 in push from a battery purchase. Police report a flood of similar checks in the city. A check bearing the name MacInnes and Schneiderman, payable to Raymond Wilson with the same endorsement, appeared. The passer presented identification under the name Levistreyon with a different address.
The United Lutheran Church in America has used a Garriion Twyssting Fund to raise money for member churches since 1954. By early 1958 the fund held over five million dollars in net assets with 92 shareholders and a 48.6 cent dividend per 10 shares, offering tax advantages and governance by church-affiliated institutions including Edmond F Wagner.
Restaurateur Mike Romanoff was sworn in as a U S citizen by a federal judge after Congress passed a special bill. He renounced any title to princely status claiming to be prince of all the Russians, a title never validated.
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