Dolls and More Sold at Local Holiday Sale
A brief notice notes a local sale featuring dolls and assorted items. Community shoppers browsed tables and vendors offered numerous affordable goods, drawing steady foot traffic despite light posted hours.
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1958
Page
1
A brief notice notes a local sale featuring dolls and assorted items. Community shoppers browsed tables and vendors offered numerous affordable goods, drawing steady foot traffic despite light posted hours.
A fragmentary OCR line mentions stock movements and names in unclear order, with numbers and phrases like 600, 85, and personal tokens. The readable portion hints at a ledger entry but lacks coherent context or identifiable entities. No clear event or outcome can be established from the fragment.
Military officers warn that lack of unified control within NORAD threatens continental air defense. NORAD combines US Air Force Navy and Army elements and serves as eyes for SAC. internal friction and limits on Partridge’s authority hinder timely decisions, risking weapon and unit changes without NORAD input.
Nation enjoys sunny skies amid mild May weekend as storm clouds drift northward. Ohio River flooding impacts Cincinnati and Louisville areas while fords open for 800 families. Cooler temps spread across northern regions with showers in Pacific Northwest and Rockies brief. Deadly blast at Miami university medical school injuries reported. bodies used for classroom study noted with minimal media drama.
Paralyzed from the waist down, Willan Bellehey, 22, wed Miss Bonnie Pflug, 19, born without arms, in Mount Sterling Kentucky. The couple, from Meade and Connelsville areas, aim to find work locally. Pflug, daughter of Wendell and Mrs. Pflug, learned to dictate and type with her feet, trained at rehabilitation centers, and performs cooking, sewing, driving with her feet.
Desi Arnaz gives $30,000 to help reach a $100,000 SHARE charity goal aiding mentally challenged children. Hollywood stars crowded a Coconut Grove party with auctions and performances, raising funds for the cause.
Reliable sources said Tony Pflimlin could become France's next chief as part of the 26th postwar government led by President Rene Coty. Pflimlin is expected to seek parliamentary approval and push an Algerian policy, with a vote anticipated Tuesday.
Lincoln Neb December reports Charles Starkweather, 19, will take the stand next week in his murder trial. Defense counsel T Clement Gaughan says the defendant may speak but they do not know what he will say. Starkweather has admitted involvement in 11 slayings across Nebraska and Wyoming. He faces the electric chair or life imprisonment for the shooting of Robert Jensen. The defense argues the act occurred while Starkweather suffered delusions and pleads insanity. Testimony by Starkweather is expected after the county attorney introduces signed confessions.
Carlisle bureau reports Richard Plesic, an 18 year old Harrisburg steelworker, held in Cumberland County prison after the death of Ray E. Coffey, 47, outside a New Cumberland tavern. State Police say a barroom brawl preceded Coffey’s death. Plesic faces voluntary manslaughter and aggravated assault and battery charges.
The first negotiating session of the Corry Jamestown strike will be held next Thursday with Federal Mediator Grover Stainbrook. Both sides agreed to meet though no new proposals are expected. Picketing continues at three plants with workers receiving 10 dollars weekly in strike benefits. Office staff laid off have filed for unemployment compensation.
Ohio youths Edward Reyse and Dennis Neely, both 16 and 17, were arrested at the State Fish Hatchery on Route 6 after police found three large brown trout and 40 smaller rainbow trout. They admitted planned theft, broke into a building, and were fined $100 each by Fish Warden Harold Solomon. The hatchery stock was dead. suspects released after parental wire payment.
In Catlettsburg Kentucky Mayor Charles Gibbs said residents face a 4000 strong community digging out from mud and silt left by overflow from the Big Sandy and Ohio rivers. Flood crests were near six feet over stage as waters receded after nightfall. Crests along the Ohio and Big Sandy expected at Cincinnati tomorrow and Louisville Monday. A freighter Pioneer Ming ran aground near Tokyo Bay in fog. US Lines confirmed the 9,214 ton ship homeported in New York.
Washington officials warn of rising tension between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia and the possibility of Moscow using economic sanctions to tighten control over Eastern Europe. Khrushchev faces internal strain as Poland asserts independence, while doubts grow about a summit with the Western powers.
In Hot Springs Virginia executives from about 100 major firms told Secretary Weeks that April may mark a turning point from recession across several key industries. The BAC proposed delaying wage boosts and price rises for a year, while debating a potential 10 percent tax cut or a flat rate adjustment if consumption declines. Weeks ordered continued work and a report by June 30, noting impending tax changes.
Government reports show improvements in employment with farm jobs near last year, insured unemployment down, housing activity up, and retail sales rising two percent in April. Initial jobless claims fell to 403,200, the lowest weekly total this year, while housing construction reached about 95 thousand starts.
A large barn and farm equipment on Donald Smith’s French Creek farm were completely destroyed by fire. Two Clymer fire trucks fought the blaze, but flames were out of control upon arrival. Fire officials Arthur Howles and John Neckers were unavailable, and the cause and extent of damage remain unknown.
A fragmentary note from a city journal describes a special section devoted to home improvement and promotion by merchants. It highlights Chamber of Commerce efforts and urges readers to visit shops featured in the section to support local merchants.
Vice President Nixon paused in his South American tour to attend a soccer match in Ecuador amid staged security at the stadium. He greeted friendly crowds after earlier protests in Peru and held a brief meeting with Belladorean business leaders.
The Justice Department prepared to rule that the Commonwealth may bypass local sources and pay back salaries to teachers directly. An administration source said the move could end a three month strike by educators in Olyphant Lackawanna County. Superintendent Dr Charles H Boehm asked for a ruling on enforcing school law and whether the state could pay teachers from state funds. The PA State Education Association notes about 70,000 teachers in the state owe back pay amounting to a million in four distressed counties: Lackawanna Luzerne Northumberland and Schuylkill.
County commissioners approve a change for the Third Ward polling place shifting voters to the former Meendink furniture store after Ford garage site and First district options were unavailable May 20 voting day in Kyimartes.
Corryite Donald Kauer of R D Corry received official word of his appointment to the West Point Military Academy. A Corry Area High School graduate, he will enter the academy this summer after passing the required examinations and qualifying by scholarship and congressional channels. He played right halfback for Lea Hanna Beavers and plans to join the West Point squad this fall.
Cory Chamber of Commerce board of directors will meet Tuesday evening at 8 in the Municipal Building per president Charles W. Butters. Main topic is arrangements for the Matteson Historical Congress to be held in Corry July 11 and 12, with about 400 attendees expected. all directors urged to attend or notify the Chamber office if unavailable.
Ex governor Fenimore Chatterton of Louisiana died yesterday at 97 in Shreveport. He led state politics as governor from 1905 to 1907 and served as a state senator. A graduate of the University of Michigan, his career spanned public life and Wyoming Legis work.
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