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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1953
Page
4
The article surveys debates on Jewish nationality, citing Ehrenburg and Schwarz and contrasting Lenin, Stalin, and Weizmann. It notes Weizmann’s 1936 remarks and the May 1948 realization of a Jewish state in Palestine, with the Soviet Union granting recognition.
A reader quiz asks 10 questions on history geography politics and sports. Topics include Adlai Stevenson remarks, Victor Emmanuel II’s abdication, electoral rules, horse anatomy, city of Morningside Heights, Herat to Kabul geography, Mead ingredients, Chilean capitals, weather chart isobars, and Walter Camp’s sport authority.
Twenty years ago journals recount an $80 000 retrenchment program by the Board of Education with directors set to revisit details. A chimney fire caused $200 damage at William Shields’s Concord Street home. A brutal blizzard stalled traffic as Corry faced heavy snow. Frank L Fort, a former car inspector for the Pennsylvania Railroad, died at Corry Hospital. Meantime the Corry Red and Black claimed Northwestern League first with a 1168 to 1134 win over the Meadville Lions. A gambling-related incident ended with sheriff intervention and a trip to Mexico City for a couple after a dice hand.
Erie GE Works will add about 700 workers within weeks after the American Locomotive Company strike in Schenectady ends. Bertram Miller says the settlement allows Alco to resume full production, easing disruptions in Erie’s locomotive and car equipment lines tied to Alco diesel engines. A prior stockpile of locomotive equipment will be reduced before new hires begin.
A 12 year old Panama Boy Scout Jerane Vincent Hall made a late night telephone call that helped alert relatives and prevent a larger fire at his grandmother Mrs. D. V. Madden’s home on Madden Road. Volunteers confined the fire to the living room and attic above. Loss estimated over $400. Hall, of Troop 14 Watts Wints, was at a Scouts party when he called to arrange for his aunt Miss Margaret Madden to pick him up after work.
Mrs Madden reported smelling smoke as she placed the phone back in its cradle. Jerry and his 15 year old sister Jan Agil helped awaken her and her granddaughter, averting potential fatalities in a two story Clinton Jamestown home. Fire Chief Elwood Hosier credited the overheated chimney for the blaze that spread to the attic.
Moscow dispatches report a new volume of the Soviet Encyclopedia claims Jews do not constitute a nation and that the term Jewish question in the Soviet Union does not exist. The work argues Jews share culture with their country and that anti Semitism is a misnomer while noting Semitic links with other groups.
James W. Anderson, 24, of Aliquippa, died when his Unis and Sons truck ran out of control down a steep Coraopolis hill and crashed into a house. He was thrown under the wheels as he attempted to jump from the vehicle.
An Erie couple, en route to a Mexico City honeymoon, reported losing 600 to a dice game at Pine Cabins along Highway 50 in Hancock County Mississippi. Nellis M. Hollenbeck and spouse said an operator handed dice and promised a handbag prize if a lucky number appeared, but the scheme failed.
Washington The Senate approved a bill to fix prior legislation that would have demoted 5400 naval lieutenants or froze them in their current grade, sending the measure to the White House for signature.
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