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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1956
Page
6
Westfield troopers said Roland H. Hayner, 20, faced grand jury action on two $900 checks totaling 1800 dollars. He was arraigned before Peace Justice Robert Owens and jailed in Mayville. The two checks, issued December and January, paid for farm equipment financing a tractor.
An Allegheny County Medical Society Bulletin editorial condemns University of Pittsburgh plans to operate the city owned Municipal Hospital arguing it would compete with private physicians. The piece urges the hospital be kept for charity and polio, contagious diseases, and mental illness cases only, challenging private practice access.
County Medical Society says the Pennsylvania Medical Society and the United Mine Workers Welfare fund have agreed on a solution to alleged abuses of the union program. The controversy began after UMW officials accused doctors of overcharging UMW patients, keeping them hospitalized too long and performing unnecessary operations.
In Newfoundland near Argentia a United States Air Force Grumman Albatross crashed into the sea and exploded. Two bodies were recovered of six men believed aboard. The aircraft had recently arrived from the United States and was en route to the Azores. Weather delaying salvage operations as winds gust up to five miles per hour hinder efforts.
A Pittsburgh physician said 33 year old Mrs Maxine Neely was found dead in bed with a bruised eye and blue marks. The husband, a mail carrier, said an unknown man visited yesterday, ordered both to leave, and the wife returned alone severely beaten.
In Morgantown West Virginia Sheriff Johnson said William Warnick 59 a former Morgantown resident has no connection to the knife slaying of Mrs Susan Holden an English professor at West Virginia University last October Warnick was cleared after questioning by authorities confirming he had nothing to do with the killing.
John Brocious 43 and wife Anna 42 were seriously burned Sunday when a welding incident caused an explosion in their garage at their Millcreek home. John suffered burns over 60 percent of his body. Anna received severe burns to her right hand while trying to extinguish the flames. Both were treated at Hamot Hospital. they were rushed there by West Ridge Hose Co. neighbors aided in making the emergency call.
Delegates from Pennsylvania begin arriving in Pittsburgh for a four day CIO Council convention. Leaders plan merger talks with the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor as Gov. George Leader and labor officials are slated to speak. John R. Torquato faces murder charges connected to a February slaying at a Beaver County railroad camp.
About 450 International Union of Operating Engineers members halted night shifts on the St Lawrence Seaway and hydroelectric projects, idling about 2000 workers. The union seeks a 30 cent hourly boost over two years with retroactive 10 cents to January 1 and 20 cents from January 1957. contractors offer five cents this year and 95 cents next January.
Eleven cars derailed on the Monongahela Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad between Clairton and Dravosburg. An auto on Route 94 struck the wreckage injuring four. Buses were arranged to transport morning commuters from the division.
Dr Putnam F Jones will become dean of the Graduate Faculty at the University of Pittsburgh on July 1. The post is newly created and he currently serves as associate dean of the undergraduate college and acting dean of the graduate school. The top wage is $9.10 an hour.
Readable fragments describe a college basketball night with Pittsburg Sheffield Vertes and Providence. mentions Hornets, Buffs, and Bisons in overtime or close games. Key names like Simmons and Indian Cal Stent appear amid scattered action.
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