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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1959
Page
3
Police report ongoing checks at the deserted Central Telephone building where a resident was suspected. Fire Chief Frank Riddle said signs indicate someone living there. a door was forced and nailed shut as investigators continue to examine the premises.
Philip Howell 22 of Mexico City files 120000 dollar civil suit against Alexander Bissett 26 of Lynn Massachusetts over a campus hazing incident that led to a shooting. Howell says permanent injury including kidney loss after a group of about 30 seniors attacked Bissett while attempting to shave his beard. Bissett charged with aggravated assault and released on 1500 dollar bond. suspended from school. Two companions William Smith and John Bowie charged with assault. others put on probation.
Samuel Wil ter King, 72, a Hawaii statehood advocate and Republican House member, former delegate to Congress, and governor from 1953 to 1957, died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was a retired Navy captain.
William Edward Beckworth 26 was jailed on kidnapping charges after authorities recovered Lois Marbut 12, who had been taken from her home near Sacramento. Beckworth, shoeless and unarmed, claimed a drive with Lois end with sleep in the car. Lois and twin sister Lois are children of Mrs. Thomas Bryant and J. D. Marbut. Deputies said Beckworth, long an escapee from Stockton State Hospital, had lived on a Sacramento River levee for 10 days awaiting further inquiry.
Women inspectors traced two fish types, fileted Nuke and flounder, to a single wholesale distributor in Philadelphia after a poison scare. The city health department issued a teletype warning to newspapers, radio and TV outlets. Reports spread during dinner hours as Lent meals were being prepared, prompting widespread calls to stations and agencies.
Millcreek's sewer budget anticipates $210,000 income in 1960 to cover operating costs. Sewer Administrator Gerald Salsbury says bills totaling $52,600 will go out January 1 and spring quarter bills exceed $27,000 due to 59 new connections. Collections through February 1 amounted to $26,625.95 with 85 percent paid by the deadline and a 92 percent final return.
The SBA announces a Beverey-Pro gram of grants up to 40 000 to state agencies and public and private educational institutions for research into small business problems. Grants may fund finance and operation studies, develop usable information for public or private use, and improve economic knowledge. One grant per state per year. projects may extend beyond a single year.
John Peelua aged 35, named outstanding young man of 1958 in Hawaii, is to be sentenced April 14 for embezzling 200 dollars from Molokai Community Hospital. The Molokai bookkeeper pled no contest before Circuit Judge Cable A. Wirtz in Wailuku.
Clyde T Keith vice president of manufacturing at Avro Supply Mfy Go shown presenting a safety certificate of merit to Clyde Bren HMMY president of Local 1608 International Association of Machinists. The award from the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association Casualty Insurance Company honors safety performance over the past nine months earned at a dinner at Chunie’s Cafe attended by union and management reps.
New York AP reports Easter season shopping boosts merchants nationwide as cost of living holds steady and personal income tops records. retail sales rose about 14 percent last week, with early 1959 months showing 7 percent above a year earlier. Improved weather and spring demand spur optimism for first quarter gains near 1 percent vs last year.
The report says total purchasing power rose to a record 364 billion dollars at an annual rate. It notes Americans save about 6 percent and spend the rest. Output of goods and services is at a new peak, with the annual rate estimated around 475 billion dollars by midyear and possibly 480 billion by year end.
State investigators and Rockland County officers arrested 60 or more figures tied to an organized gambling ring during a raid on an abandoned building in a Hudson River commuter town north of New York City. Authorities reported expensive cars including a Rolls-Royce seized and noted cooperation with the Rockland DA in pursuing what they call a broader syndicate. The operation follows findings from prior Apalachin-related raids and is part of a wider crackdown on organized crime in the region. Several officials described the scene as a major disruption to the underworld network.
A crew from northern New Jersey and many from New York City and New Jersey were taken to the office of Dist. Atty. John A. Skahen of New City, the county seat, for processing.
Storms lashed the West and central United States bringing tornado force winds to Texas Denison and surrounding areas. One woman injured as high winds up to 70 mph struck Denton Fort Worth Dallas and parts of Kansas and Oklahoma with hail rain and snow in multiple towns.
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