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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1953
Page
1
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A fragmentary notice appears about a stock or sale event dated on a Saturday with unclear details. The readable items list a location and some names, but the full action remains uncertain.
Fragmentary OCR notes show a reported rise at Pa with a value of 8.15, linked to a 9,029 lyneray reading. Details and context are unclear due to damaged text.
Secretary Humphrey declared that the budget cannot be balanced in 1954, signaling possible debt-limit increases and dampening prospects for tax cuts. GOP leaders voiced dismay as lawmakers weighed whether Congress will meet the fiscal target and how the national debt might shift amid budgetary pressures.
Generally mild weather dominated the nation with sun in large areas and a springlike warm spell extending from the Canadian border southward. The East and Northwest faced scattered wet spots while temperatures climbed into the mid seventies to eighty fives in many places. Northern Minnesota reported milder readings as warm air persisted.
A British publisher recalled roughly 3,000 copies of The Strange Case of Alger Hiss by Earl Jowlit as publication in Britain was postponed. The work studies a federal perjury trial and discusses Britain’s trial procedures while implying Hiss’s possible innocence or acquittal, without asserting a definitive verdict.
Voters face a crowded field in the May 18 Republican primary with Mayor J Fred Kinsey seeking renomination against Ean T. Chovey who leads GOP campaigns. Incumbent Judge Roberts faces Jess Juillants for orphan's court judgeship while sheriff race draws interest in Evie County centering on Coates detective Spently. Several open city council seats and board of education posts mark a broad contest across parties with unopposed Republican candidates noted.
Senate aide Rupw id CH Calify backs Von Fleet in Asia training mission to curb communism. Knowland criticizes veiled policy shifts, while Bradley warns against hasty action. Eisenhower floats 100 million dollars for foreign aid to fund training and support amid Red threats in China.
The International Longshoremen's Association may be ousted from the AFL as New York dock workers vote 7,000 to 3,920 to retain the shape-up hiring practice despite calls for reform. 978 ballots were voided amid accusations of a frame-up election. Jesuit Father Job Corridan warned intimidation was used. The shape-up, where laborers are picked from a crowd for a day’s work, has drawn federal and state probes as a racketeering concern.
TOKYO The United Nations Command grows alarmed at President Rhee s threats to refuse observance of the armistice as Gen. Mark W Clark UN C Supreme commander holds talks in Tokyo with U S Ambassador Ells Briggs and political adviser Robert Murphy on Korea crisis.
William Hines, born in Corry and educated at senior college, received multiple honors including the Freedoma Foundation top prize at Valley Forge for Firestone Tire and Rubber Company publications. He directs public relations for the firm and oversees nine employee newspapers in cities nationwide. The awards, presented by Vice President Wixon, honor understanding of the American Way of Life and were chosen by a 30-member board of state jurists and executives.
The crash killed 18 aboard a late monsoon flight to Bombay, including two Americans, Mink Puvline Lehman, 26, of Mountain Lake, Minnesota, and Westonall, 40, of Irvine, Wisconsin. The victims also included three Germans, a Briton, a Dane, Thalander, part of India's partly ment, and other Indians. The flight plunges after takeoff from Bangkok, as officials said an engine failure caused an emergency landing attempt.
Tess Tongay, father of Kathy Tongay, arrived in Tarpon Springs to bury his five year old daughter. He was released on a $1000 bond after being charged in Miami with second degree murder. Tongay denies beating Kathy and says she was injured during high-dive practice before her death.
In Amagansett and across Long Island markets, over 700000 bushels of potatoes were buried rather than sold, a winter stockpile valued around 150000 dollars. Growers withheld stocks expecting a spring shortage, but current prices made disposal costly and farmers dumped the crop into the ground.
A local report notes a sharp labor shortage as high unemployment figures show fewer applicants for available work. News cites college students off for spring vacation filling gaps, with total unemployment claims down and openings uneven across professional and service sectors.
Final results fromEngland and Wales elections show Labor gaining 7 seats while Conservatives rise by 85, Liberals gain 8 and Independents add 28. Labour losses exceed 190, while the Conservatives and Liberals claim seats from various rivals as a nationwide contest shapes the political landscape.
State Police at the Corry barracks investigated a case in which a woman who recently moved from Tennessee allegedly abandoned her three children. The children, aged a year, were placed with a relative on West Main Street extension while welfare aides prepared to take custody Monday if the mother did not return from Cincinnati Hill, where she planned to seek an orphanage for the youngsters. The father, 37, had deserted her in Tennessee. Authorities said the children are temporarily with their uncle pending welfare action.
A jumble of fragmented OCR text reports four people hospitalized after two separate auto crashes in the area. Names, ages, and locations are garbled, but the note mentions injuries including lacerations, bruises, and possible head injuries. No clear sequence or definitive victims can be verified from the readable segments.
A local contractor plans to raze the Raymond block for expansion including new plant facilities. Work is said to continue through today and into tomorrow, with completion anticipated later in the summer. The move ties to Spring Corporation's west coast project and a Raymore site modification for factory storage and a future addition.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in State College Pennsylvania to spend the weekend with his youngest brother Dr Milton Eisenhower. Mrs. Eisenhower and her mother accompany them. The train departed Washington last night at 10 50 p m and the trip was uneventful.
US Sabre fighter-bombers struck two late supply targets in Western Korea amid large-scale air operations. Reports claim seventy Sabres flew missions with 70 tons of explosives in one air supply center and a convoy near Pohnunirisong, with destruction of 48 buildings and multiple enemy assets.
A cautious study of a federal sales tax drew attention from industry leaders in Hot Springs Virginia and Travers Island New York. Officials noted potential to boost federal revenues while warning policy shifts could raise unemployment costs and slow growth. Some treasury aides favor taxing income and corporate profits as an alternative to broadened sales taxes. One member noted consumption taxes effectively act as concealed sales taxes since consumers bear the burden. In separate news, Elmer A. Ross of Uniontown Pa won a preliminary round at the 4th annual invitation trap shooting championships on Travers Island, topping a field of over 100 shooters.
Babson Park Massachusetts states that about 22 million grammar school pupils exist, with only about 2 million expected to attend college and fewer graduate. He argues nine percent of grammar students reach college and urges readers to master reading arithmetic spelling and typewriting. He emphasizes owning a typewriter and catching up via high school education.
Truce talks at Panmunjom adjourned after a long session as U N Command asked the Communists to spell out detailed compromises. Gen Harris asked how decisions would be reached and how the repatriation issue would be enforced and supervised. The Reds requested a recess and the meeting was adjourned until 1 a.m. Sunday.
John V Foster a Corry native and World War II veteran opens a tax office in Johntown area offering preparatory returns and consultation to help set up counting systems. He holds a BS in accounting and business law from Temple University and has prior experience at local offices. Also noted, Dr Mery Hornick longtime Johntown physician chief of surgery died at Mery Hospital after nearly four decades of practice.
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