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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1963
Page
6
The Mead Park Association directors plan their regular monthly meeting tomorrow evening at 7 20 in the Municipal Building. The notice lists agenda items and pending issues for the community group in Meadville.
Police hold a wrist watch found Saturday at the station awaiting owner. Starry C. Jones, 2h, Sherman, blood alcohol 0.23 percent after arrest for drunk driving. Jones to face Alderman Porter Auer this week. Also report: rear car window broken, bottle found on rear seat, and a missing purse containing several bills.
Elise Tiley, longtime newspaper man and author, died Saturday in El Dorado after years-long illness. Born in Kansas, he worked for two decades on various Kansas and Missouri papers.
A transient found on the New York Central tracks near an Erie line was beaten and dumped from a freight train by two brakemen. Willis Matthews, 58, admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital in fair condition with a fractured skull and facial injuries. Police were led to the scene by two Erie men.
Senators Edward J. Spena and Assemblyman Julius Volker pushed a bill to make Daylight Saving Time year round in New York. They later suggested a nine month period but still favored the all-year option. The state now observes eight months of DST from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October. Spena heads the Joint Legislative Committee on Motor Vehicles and Traffic Safety, with a public hearing set for Wednesday on the measure and related traffic issues.
Printers in New York have voted to continue the newspaper strike, dimming hopes eight major dailies will return this week. By a wide margin they rejected a contract settlement proposed by Mayor Wagner and approved by publishers, keeping a Dec 8 strike against four papers active.
Heavyweight champion Sonny Liston plans a week of rest in Chicago amid reports of an injured left knee and a postponed Miami Beach bout date with Floyd Patterson. Liston, who beat Patterson in Chicago last year, says location or timing matters little and hints at possible surgery if needed. Patterson questions Liston’s injury, recalling Liston’s past claims of fighting with one leg.
London report by Dr A A Sharp for the British Association of Clinical Pathologists states chloramphenicol, used for mild infections, has caused at least 27 deaths in ten years and can act as a bone marrow poison. The American Medical Association recorded nearly 1000 complications from chloramphenicol by January 1962.
New York AP columnist Hal Boyle surveys quirky trivia from history and daily life. Facts range from silly to surprising, noting talks per minute by women, marriage rates in Ireland, tax exemptions for Soviet midgets, a rock bound hymn penned on a playing card, and various curious counts from railroads to organ grinders.
The U S Steel Corps boat crew found Harry W. Wilson aged 46 of Morgantown West Virginia along the Monongahela River near Payette City Pennsylvania. He had been missing since December 29. Deputy Coroner Howard McCrory ruled drowning and exposure as the cause and an investigation is underway.
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