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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1955
Page
2
High school seniors Mary Ras ey valedictorian Patricia Putnam salutatorian and Eileen Edwards will graduate with high honors at the class of 1 commencement on Tuesday. The Corry Jour ce Printing Dept notes quality printing for business and personal use.
George Price Spring Creek and Carl Flick Spartansburg admitted. several others discharged. Mentions 28 dollars for Donald Vanderhoof and Frances Brink of Spartanburg. Mendville Hayfield Township School Board approves 1955 56 budget at 151 000 with tax measures unchanged. Coroner reports James W McEvoy of Lakeview dies of heart attack at age 65.
Edward Perry 70 of 136 Fifth Street died of a heart attack shortly after 9 this morning in East Main tavern. An unidentified man alerted fire units. resuscitation failed. Dr Robert Gleason pronounced death. Davison Funeral Home funeral arrangements pending. Born September 10, 1864 in Corry, he was single with a cousin surviving in Ashtabula, Ohio.
The Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Church will study a proposal to merge with the Erie Conference. Final action is expected next year. The two conferences have about 163 000 and 178 000 members respectively. A seventh episcopal area was recommended from West Virginia to Maine. Pastoral appointments for the new year will be made Sunday.
Washington observers say the five day long FCC hearing into broadcaster Edward Lamb’s alleged Communist ties is nearing its close with only a few questions remaining for Lamb. The Toledoan is expected to be recalled as the last witness, as Examiner Sharfman’s 55 day session winds down. In Pittsburgh, Herman Rivers 23 died from injuries suffered in a May 5 auto crash on Bigelow Boulevard. Four others injured.
A six alarm blaze last night gutted a trolley barn of the Pittsburgh Railways Co in Homewood. Damage is estimated at 400000 with no injuries reported. The fire swept through one of two adjacent barns in the section.
Farmington W V workers recovered the 13th body from the Jamison Coal and Coke Co mine where 15 men were entombed after a roof fall. The victim was Harry E. Floyd 63 a pumper found under a roof fall near the heading close to the bottom of the man hoist shaft.
The article notes the first body recovered since March 25 after a November 13 explosion. The mine reopened March 40 and crews found 12 bodies in ten days. Since then two rescue teams and 50 laborers have worked on three shifts, fighting fires and clearing massive falls blocking the mine.
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