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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1958
Page
4
The Corr y Journal reports on retired Lieut Gen Donald L. Pur t criticizing space policy and defending officer speech. It also covers Dr Willard F Libby describing potential benefits of atomic bombs including industry isotopes, possible low cost power, and creating harbors by controlled detonations.
Rev. William Seitz Jr leads a Lenten meditation theme titled Sins That Mock. The sermon reflects on mockery of God seen in religious hypocrisy and secular actions, urging genuine faith over outward church membership. It contrasts biblical mockery with modern conduct, warning that true belief must shape daily life beyond appearances.
An Erie man was injured yesterday afternoon after tripping on a concrete abutment and falling about 15 feet into Glenwood Park creek bed. He was taken to Doctors Hospital by Erie Ambulance Service in fair condition with a possible fractured shoulder and concussion pending x rays. The man’s name is not fully provided in the readable text. A separate brief notes Japan’s air force receiving two new jet trainers called the TIF2, resembling a cross between the US Sabre and Soviet MIG-15.
Yesterday's memories recall Mussolini warning Italy's 9 million fighters stand ready for rapid war as Franco and Franco aligned forces press Loyalist lines in Catalonia. The text also notes spring weather bringing anglers flooding the streams, trout fishing opening Saturday in nearby New York waters, and a barn fire on the Kimball Hill road northwest of Union City with an explosion.
Four of the sixteen Corry men called to enter the service were exempted due to physical ailments. Exemptees include Charles Weeks Thomas Chepenekas Martin McTinterney and Jacob Mattison. Site Commissioner of Fisheries Nathan B Bullet of Harrisburg visits the local hatchery with Superintendent Butler. Paul Lawson of Company A returns from Camp Hancock with an honorable discharge for disability. Katherine Childs, once a noted Corry girl, remains among the growing cadre of YWCA workers.
A 10 year old Erie boy stole a 1948 car and later removed plates from a 1951 model. He was found by Patrolman Emil Gunther during a gas stop around 8:30 a.m. and turned over to juvenile authorities. FBI and detective investigators Chester Wizikowski and Jack Flasher questioned him and learned he had borrowed another car a month earlier to joy ride.
Virginia Bruno was charged with larceny of two items valued at $1.75 after a $19.76 purchase at a west side store. She pled not guilty before Alderman Michael Kinecki, was released on $500 bail, with hearings set for 2 p.m. April 1 alongside four other defendants. another defendant serves five days for a similar offense.
Union City authorities seek a missing 15 year old girl and Richard Caster 19 in a suspected cross state run toward Kentucky. The girl stands five feet tall 125 pounds with long black hair brown eyes glasses and a dark outfit. Caster is five feet six inches tall 150 pounds with dark brown curly hair blue eyes wearing blue jeans and an Eisenhower jacket.
A single engine Ace plane crashed and exploded on a local farm, killing Navy pilot Ens L. K. Stovall, en route from Selfridge Field, Michigan to Oceana, Virginia Beach. The report notes wartime moves and mentions a separate line about Miss Childs in Vladivostok.
James Marlow explains the housing bill approved by Congress and expected to become law under President Eisenhower. He outlines how it aids veterans and lenders, boosts homebuilding, and details changes to FHA VA and FNMA programs, including loan guarantees, down payment shifts, and extended VA guarantees through 1980.
The plan would let FNMA buy FHA and VA backed mortgages up to specified limits to recoup investors. Congress outlined 51.85 billion dollars in the bill with allocations for direct veteran loans, government housing near bases, and housing for personnel, plus a reserve to purchase designated mortgages to stabilize the economy.
Warsaw police seized a truckload of contraband while arresting 159 in a Saturday raid on a city bazaar. The officers combed stalls for smuggled and stolen goods, taking cigarettes whisky clothes car parts and other items as evidence.
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