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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1959
Page
3
A community rally at the Spartansburg high school gym Saturday at 815 pm invites the public without charge. A screening of In Times Like These, a motion picture evaluating the current American scene, will be shown with special music.
Walter F Munford, 58, elected president of U S Steel Corp, a veteran engineer noted for hard work and a calm leadership style. He rose from Worcester plants through the Wire Division, later serving as chief administrative officer and will head headquarters in Pittsburgh with Roger Blough as CEO.
A Communist led union of locomotive engineers in Paris launched a strike that nearly stopped rail traffic between Paris and suburbs. Commuters faced jams and turned to buses, cars, motor scooters, and thumb for travel as engineers demand a 40 hour week, bigger bonuses, and a better pension, with four to seven degree temperature rise noted and showers forecast for the south later in the week.
A sub urban Fox Chapel fire destroyed much of the Seibert Lumber Co facility, with damage estimated over 100000. The rear wood structure, 125 by 60 feet, housed lumber storage and machinery and burned for about three hours before responders from Fox Chapel Etna O Hara and Indiana Townships contained it. Six firefighters were overcome by smoke and treated at the scene, and one worker suffered a cut hand.
Erie Port Director Calvin Dingler says the port will invite large St Lawrence Seaway ships skipping Cleveland to use Erie facilities. Marinus Faasse of Fjell Oranje Line criticizes Cleveland harbor as inadequate and says ships may bypass Cleveland, requiring tugs to pull vessels. Erie notes a widened basin at Duquesne Marine Terminal and a US Army Corps dredging plan to deepen the channel to 28 feet, potentially easing access for sizable vessels.
Leon County grand jury begins a special session to consider indicting four white men charged with raping a Black coed. Florida lawmakers move a bill to abolish the death penalty for capital crimes. Florida A and M students donate to a classmate’s fund amid tape case rescheduling. Senate approves a 10 percent raise in railroad retirement benefits, sending the bill to the White House.
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