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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1961
Page
6
Journal notes publisher Jane Walker Hopf and Ann Walker Davis Fox as editor in chief at Jamestown Sun. It cites awards for typography and printing, plus new building permits for Baldwin Brothers. Erie payroll data shows 1100 workers, with other municipal updates and a curfew for under 17s. Weather and health, road, and utility notices follow.
A Potter County jury of four women and eight men convicted John Berkery and Ralph Stubio Jr. of a 1968 burglary at the home of a local figure identified as Rowler in president John Rich. Verdict came around 1:15 a.m. after roughly four to ten hours of deliberation, with lawyers arguing over the case’s connections to the August 1908 crime that spanned about a month.
Storms drenched the mid-continent four days, with floods spilling onto major highways and thousands of acres. Nine deaths were reported across Ohio Kentucky Illinois Missouri Arkansas Oklahoma Indiana and Kansas. Tornadoes in Memphis caused injuries and property damage while sandbagging aided by National Guardsmen occurred along levees. Weather extended from the Great Lakes to the Gulf and Atlantic coasts with heavy rain and damaging winds in the southeast middle Mississippi Valley.
A Pennsylvanian Railroad freight train derailed early Sunday near Emporium after a track jump caused by unknown cause. Wrecking crews from Renovwy and lew cleared debris as maintenance crews worked through the day. traffic resumed at restricted speed and trains to Buffalo faced minor delays.
Mrs. Kennedy arrived in Wilmington with a 200 person crowd cheering at the airport mostly women and children. She waved and smiled as she toured the Winterthur Museum with Henry Francis du Pont and his wife before dining with the Du Pont family.
The fragment mentions eastern states from Pennsylvania northward toward New England. It lists regions on the East Coast with focus on Pennsylvania and the New England area.
A court verdict favors Ridgway Borough Officer Kerner following a 1956 auto crash. Merle Lowe drove the car. Kerner was hospitalized at Allegheny General Hospital and Gen tal Hospital Pittsburgh. He did not return to work until April 1957.
A four level underground parking area under construction at the California Bank building site collapsed Monday night, creating a 90 foot deep chasm filled with debris. No injuries were reported though Wilshire Boulevard lanes were reduced as water from a ruptured main flooded the hole. Police blamed a water main fault for the cave-in during the planned next year completion. The structure was part of a multimillion dollar project beneath the blocked roadway in Beverly Hills.
Butler County Pa truck driver Trying E Wetzel of Marwood died instantly when his loaded 40 000 pound flatbed left the road in heavy fog and toppled into a ditch. Coroner ruled accidental with no fractured skull. Vehicle owned by John Moser of Cabot was en route to Tyne Wands NY when found by an unidentified motorist near midway between two villages. Investigating officers were Sheriff Deputies Peters and Waite.
A judge accepted six parakeets as bail for Michael Hyland a 37 year old factory foreman charged with attempting to break into a store Hyland offered the birds after saying he could not provide cash bail of 28 dollars. The case highlights inventive bail requests in distressed times.
A faulty intersection on Routes SN and 98 south of Fairview endangered drivers and animals. A purebred horse valued at $5,000 belted at the site when a trailer hitch failed during a car pull, injuring no one. George J. Kuhns, 26, was later in a rear collision at the same spot causing $300 damage to his car.
Corry team led by Paul Clark dominated the Pennsylvania keg tournament in Bradford over the weekend. Clark rolled a 610 series with a 668 total after handicap as VFW crew posted 3606 scratch and 240 handicap across three games. Individual scores included 844 922 and 605 for locals, with Gerald Staples, Bill Haumord, Ed Barr and Phil Simple contributing. Clark tallied 207 303 209 in his events, with 1687 scratch and 1831 with handicap across events. Barr added 534 in runner-up, Hammond 609 scratch in singles and a 648 with 15 per game handicap. Bradford’s date shows Collingdate leading Class A doubles with 1388 total. Kwantkowski of Brad fook posted 2060 across events. Competition runs weekly in Bradford, under way March 25 and ending June 18.
Vice President Johnson travels to Southeast Asia and South Asia to reassure SEATO allies amid Laos creeping communism. He will skip lower Laos, neutral Cambodia and Burma, while coordinating with a 14 nation Laos peace conference in Geneva. In New Delhi he will meet Prime Minister Nehru.
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