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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1957
Page
2
Police are hunting a gunman who fired a billet through a window at a North East home Wednesday night, Albert Smith of North East Auto Center was sprayed by glass fragments but uninjured. The gunman escaped as residents plan open bowling and local events continue around Corry and Erie area.
A hospital report shows admissions and discharges for residents including James Chiis Denise Townsend Miller and Nancy Clark. It lists multiple addresses and names among admittances and discharges while noting a lack of on call physicians. Separate items reference a state health official’s stance on a proposed paper mill and sprinkler mandates for nursing homes, plus a local hardware sale offer.
Friday events include the Paul Packo Duo at Blue Bonnet Hotel Route 6 with round and square dancing. Jamestown forms an American Field Service Committee to host a foreign senior student for a year at Jamestown High School. The Elk County Hospital Auxiliary benefit will stage The Solid Gold Captive with Footlighters. Elmview Dairy suspends Sunday milk deliveries. Oil City hosts Youth Driver Improvement meeting with Sgt Leeper. Boy Scout paper drive set for April 6. Hamot Hospital Building Fund campaign extends to needed $3 million. Local shops advertise lamps, bags, and gifts. Erie capers report on Supreme Court power expansion and rising obscenity concerns. VFW dance with Paul Packo Orchestra. Moorouse resignations and spring speeding arrest in Erie.
The Navy announced a new rocket propelled missile named Zuni at China Lake California. The $150 weapon can overtake a jet plane and is described as an economy model among high explosives. It is capable of air-to-air and air-to-ground use.
The notice promotes a Minnesota one cent paint sale starting April 1 at Mcintyre's offering a pint of any standard Minnesota product with each quart Minnflo or Quick enamel. Meanwhile state aid levels are expected to stay near current when legislature adopts Leader administration recommendations discussed at the Pennhills Club and joint appropriations committees, per Ruth Greig Harding.
Billy Pearson, the Bay Meadows rider, said the $96,000 won on two TV quiz programs last year is gone. He blamed taxes for about half, paid $10,000 to La Jolla Art Museum and $7,000 to Scripps College, and noted spending by friends and travel, while claiming future income from a book and a TV series.
In a noted stretch during spring and summer, Pearson claimed the top prize of 6400 dollars on a game show and later won 64000 dollars in another contest, drawing comparisons to Vincent Price as they faced off on television.
In Washington the drive to cut government spending targets major health and welfare programs. A Republican-Southern Democrat coalition aims to trim about 200 million dollars from Labor Department and Health Education and Welfare funding. The effort seeks a Senate-bound bill after a protracted budget debate.
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