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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1963
Page
1
A damaged OCR fragment outlines city rental and collection duties with references to the City of Ted, schools, and sewer parts. It mentions authorized actions and deadlines, but the text is incomplete and difficult to interpret.
Harrisburg AP Governor Scranton will address a joint session of the General Assembly to detail his industrial development program for Pennsylvania. This third in a series of four joint addresses follows his talks on general program and education, with a budget message anticipated later in the month.
Norman F Williams of the Arkansas Geologic Commission says Sunday tremors across six states indicate crust stresses are easing, reducing risk of a major quake. Parts of Missouri Kansas Arkansas Tennessee Kentucky and other areas felt shakes. no injuries reported. The event centered near the New Madrid fault with historic echoes of the 1811 12 earthquakes and the Reelfoot Lake region. Dr James Peoples of the University of Kansas notes Sunday's quake was the strongest in years.
SCRANTON Pa The Civil Air Patrol resumed its search for a light plane missing since Wednesday from the Wilkes Barre Scranton airport likely toward York. Wing of the CAP said some 25 planes joined in the search today beginning at Scranton. CAP was checking 60 miles on each side of the line. About 100 planes of the CAP searched parts of eastern Pennsylvania Saturday and yesterday. One plane reported sighting what appeared to be part of a fuselage on a wooded ridge yesterday but the report proved unfounded.
A bus carrying about 24 women, many nurses from New York City Department of Hospitals, slid into the East River near Welfare Island. Three bodies recovered and one survivor pulled from the frigid water as police and coast guard search for others. Fire divers aided by skin divers were deployed to locate additional victims.
A two car collision near Corry at the Fish Hatchery curve injured three people yesterday at 4 p m. Miss Joan Gorney 23 of 683 Wayne street was admitted in satisfactory condition with cuts bruises and a fractured left arm. Mrs Ralph E Miles 46 of 46 Liberty street and Charles J Thomas 18 of Union City were treated and released. Authorities said Thomes crossed the center line and crashed head on with Miles car. Damage estimated at 1000 3800 per vehicle. An earlier Spartansburg area crash injured one passenger but required no further treatment. Charges are pending. Third child born to Mrs Clifton Daniel in New York.
At a Saturday caucus in the Columbus Town Hall the GOP announced candidates for minor May elections. School director candidates Joseph Pitcavege and Philip Wade. Township supervisor Howard VanTassel. Auditor Donald Engle. Constables Donald Swart and David Curtis. Assessor Mrs. Virginia Swart.
Richard H. Schuck, 36, is jailed in Westmoreland County after police say he killed his nine year old son. He telephoned relatives to report the shooting in a wooded Hempfield Township area after buying a .22 caliber rifle. The incident followed taking the boy from New Stanton and his hospitalization at Torrance State Hospital.
Harrisburg AP reports cost blocks liberalizing Kerr-Mills like proposals for the aged. Administration and GOP leaders study feasibility with expense estimates ranging from 1.1 million to 8.5 million plus the 1.6 million already tied to Scranton plans. Officials say a decision will follow review.
A Columbus man, Neil Thomson, 49, was killed when his pickup was struck broadside by an Erie-Lackawanna freight train at a crossing half a mile west of Lottsville on the Columbus Lottsville road. His son Richard Thomson, 20, was seriously injured and taken to hospital. The crash occurred about 4 30 pm as the westbound train, 56 mph, struck the truck. The engineer tried to stop but the collision happened at the crossing without signals. Estimated damage totaled about 1300 to the train and 1000 to the truck. Thomson, a Columbus township highway foreman, was born May 4 1920 in Corry and lived in Columbus all his life.
In Topeka Kansas AP report a 6 year old boy George Haefeker and his brother Billy aged 4 played in a five room house while their mother Alice Haefeker 37 lay dead for six to seven days. Father Henry Haefeker a Forbes Air Force Base sergeant was ill with pneumonia and unaware of the death. Autopsy found no trauma and authorities believe natural causes. The father was later treated at Forbes Hospital after calling the sheriff.
An avalanche swept down East Riverside Gulch on Red Mountain Pass in Ouray County New Mexico delaying traffic and killing a local Congregational minister Rev Marvin Hudson 99 and his daughters Amelia 17 and Pauline 12 The car they rode was buried under 18 feet of snow and 30 feet of canyon debris Rescue crews faced danger from more slides as they searched the mass for survivors.
Henry E. Bosman, 88, a prominent corporation lawyer, died yesterday in Detroit. He guided restructuring of Detroit banks in the 1930s and served as counsel for numerous financial and industrial enterprises before retiring three years ago.
Corry Memorial Hospital imposed a partial visiting ban due to rising flu cases to limit infection risk. Administrator Edgar Alexander said only immediate family members should visit patients today.
An AP summary notes Republicans see strength rising in the South and West while big-city support remains Democratic. William B. Miller’s Starswiss report cites 1964 optimism yet warns of continued urban Democratic strength, weak New England appeal, and stagnant 1962 gains. Governors Romney and Scranton to lead delegations with Chicago Mayor Daley among leaders. subcommittee hearings set for Tuesday with tentative sites.
Spartansburg man Vincent Montoro, 34, sustained mouth lacerations after his car failed to stop for a stop sign three miles north of Sherman. He was treated by a personal physician. Loretto Smith, 48, received a heat injury at Westfield Memorial Hospital and was released. Police cited obscured sign visibility due to snow.
Governor Scranton tightens state finances with a measured austerity plan to offset a 32 million dollar deficit. He trims jobs, freezes salaries, and approves replacements only at the bottom grade as Republicans warn the pinch hits them harder than Democrats.
An American missionary Elwood Jacobsen of Foreston Minnesota and a Philippine colleague were executed by a Communist firing squad north of Saigon after their car was ambushed. Two Filipino youths were wounded. a Vietnamese driver in a second car was killed. The pair worked with the Summer Linguistic Institute studying tribal languages. Jacobsen had been in Vietnam about six months. Surviving wives and children were unharmed and taken to Saigon.
A Pennsylvania murder case ends with a life sentence after a conviction for killing a state portage guard. Bangor resident Nicholas Cascario, a student from Bangor, faced the court as the trial concluded last December.
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