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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1963
Page
4
The Washington Reporter says a Friday May 17 column argues liquor law compromise payments undermine enforcement. It urges the Pennsylvania Governor to press the Legislature to curb such settlements, favor suspensions or revocations over fines, and limit compromises to two or three per violator.
A fragment from The Reno American quotes a gossip figure doubting the claims of others. The brief item hints at social skepticism and local chatter without detailing specific events or names.
Hal Boyle reports Kirk Douglas, famed for film roles, plans a dramatic Broadway project next November in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He recalls early struggles in Greenwich Village and vows to chase his lifelong stage ambition despite past flops. He sees it as fulfilling a dream and proving his persistence.
Civil Aeronautics Bureau inspector Charles Collar studied the February 12 Miami crash of Flight 705, tracing wreckage over miles, noting weather and turbulence as factors. The jet, a Boeing 720B, carried eight crew and 35 passengers, departed Miami at 1:34 p.m. amid storms, with pilots attempting to skirt a squall line before catastrophe.
The piece notes sugar costs climbing due to tightened world supply and Cuban export limits, with impact rippling to refined sugar prices in New York and potential increases on foods and beverages. It also cautions that overall living costs will rise as government pressure remains on prices from sugar to steel.
An Italian architecture school in Milan sees a sit in as students demand stricter scholastic standards and tougher courses while faculty resist. Across American campuses, student bodies press for higher course norms and penalties for lax study, amid mixed faculty support and administration hesitation.
A reflective passage argues that true value lies in personal identity not special status. It urges exploring boundaries to grow and cautions that fear of failure blocks progress. The speaker warns against excessive caution and rigidity in life choices.
Police seek two men seen near a trolley stop minutes before a waitress Mary Thompson was found dead in Overbrook Pittsburgh. An autopsy cites fractured skull and blows as the cause. Her husband and son found clues including clothing and a purse with ten dollars in a creek.
The Corry Evening Journal lists offices on West South Street and credits George R. Sample as publisher with William Eaton as general manager. Advertising manager is Allan Hasbrouck, John McLaughlin is pressroom foreman, and G. T. Bergman production manager. Rates include 51300 per year by mail, 1100 per year in advance, 8 cents per copy by carrier, and 50 cents per week. Display ad deadline noted as 9 am on previous publication date.
Seaborne American forces reinforce At tu Island as heavy fighting rages along its northern coast. British and Middle East RAF bomb Berlin and Rome, with ten planes lost. Local incidents include a fatal crossing accident, injuries from a garden drag incident, and a child fracture near West Irving street. Community notes cover choral concert success, store remodels, deaths of Elizabeth Colby and Alyina Moore Springstead, alumni reunion plans, and the death of sports writer Regis M. Welsh.
Forty years ago on May 17, 1923 a campus dispute prompted students to walk out and professors to resign in protest over academic standards. The report notes resignations and post quits amid unrest as part of ongoing struggles within the university.
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