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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1959
Page
1
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An Erie inspector invoked the Fifth Amendment before U S district judge Rabe Marsh as prosecutors pressed him on links to the numbers racket and alleged ties to Mayor Arthur Gardner. The judge allowed Miller to refuse answers about numbers activities and being the mayor's bag man, reserving ruling on other questions.
Two Corry area youths Charles E. Ayers and William L. Anderson were fined a total of 50 and costs for possessing untaxed New York state beer without a proper tax seal. They were arrested May 14 on Route 6 for reckless driving and arraigned before Alderman Cobbett.
Beverly Mae Robison, 18, of Coal Center, won Miss Milkmaid of Pennsylvania 1959 at a convention of milk dealers. She attends Penn State University and was chosen from 12 contestants. Cynthia Merri Zell, 17, of Hummelstown, placed second. Janet Williams, 19, of Catawissa, was a finalist. Helen Shull, 18, of Wrightstown, Newtown, earned Green Pasture award for being the most cooperative and personable.
A violent storm swept Pittsburgh leaving one man dead and a woman injured as several streets flooded. John Yardols, 67, of Rosetown, was electrocuted by a power line snapped by a falling tree. A passerby, Mary Bieao, was taken to Merry Hospital for examination. Dense fog affected western Pennsylvania, with the mood of the storm described as extended and wet.
Corry Jamestown Credit Union won a 403 judgment against local realtor M S Cobbett in a dispute over a note defaulted by former Corry resident Siminie Sutton. Cobbett co signed the note with Sutton after selling him a home, leading to the arbitration ruling by W J Cavanaugh, William Kelly and Frederick Sieber.
Three local offices Dr Joseph Furst Dr Mohr and R Elwin Puller move this weekend to new quarters in the Law and Finance Building on South Center Street. The remodeling converted a former Barney's Firestone site into offices for dentistry optometry and accounting with a shared entrance and a pink brick façade matching Citizens National Bank.
Warren Borough School Board must use 1958 assessments for millage as 1959 values are not adjusted. Millage set at 20.5 mills under Section 677 of the Pennsylvania School Code requires taxing by adjusted property valuation. Board faced May deadline and no other option, resulting in a 4 mill error over 1958.
Erie report notes a truck went over a bank and overturned on Route 5, four miles west of Lake City. Damage was listed at $11,000. John A. Detrow of Ashland Ohio was treated at Brown Memorial Hospital, Conneaut, for arm and facial injuries and released.
John Foster Dulles left the bulk of his estate to his widow Janet Avery Dulles in a July 25 1956 will filed in Surrogate's Court. The will assigns income from the trust to a daughter and bequeaths cash to his other son and to Princeton University while naming Av ery Dulles as sole executor of the estate with specific bequests totaling over 250000 dollars.
David Bradley, 22, of Wayne, New Jersey, forced landed a single engine plane near the Essex County Penitentiary during a flight from Hackettstown to Totowa. He was arrested and jailed and the plane will be dismantled due to state law prohibiting takeoffs from fields not designated for aircraft.
A top Teamsters official John J. O Rourke and 12 others were indicted by a Nassau County grand jury on charges of conspiracy coercion extortion and attempted extortion linked to a jukebox and coin operated device racket on Long Island. O Rourke a longtime Hoffa ally was released on bail after a brief jail stay. The bulk of defendants were arrested after the indictments were handed up and many faced charges related to organizing Local 266 for coercive labor fees against jukebox owners and operators.
A vacant eight room frame farmhouse at Breezeland Acres, south of Union City on Route, was destroyed by fire yesterday. Fire chief Francis Wontenay said firefighters arrived quickly but could not save the house, with walls collapsing at 1 40 pm. The Balindery owners were away, and the loss was estimated at $10,000.
In Honolulu's Punchbowl Crater the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific builds a garden memorial to 17 000 Americans from World War II and the Korean War. The project by the American Battle Monuments Commission began in 1968 and aims for summer 1962 completion, with names and ranks carved in marble panels.
HOLLYWOOD AP reports a former junior high teacher Patricia Ann Carruthers, stage named Patti White, now works as a stripper in Los Angeles after quitting teaching due to dress-code criticism. In Washington AP notes Able and Baker monkeys, icons of early space research, traveled 1500 miles to Cape Canaveral and back, providing data on life in space as part of preparations for human Mercury astronauts.
The 28th Infantry Division of the Pennsylvania National Guard reorganizes to align with the Pentomic Battle Concept. Company F, 112th Infantry becomes two platoons in Corry and Warren, forming Gor pany A, 1st Battle Group, 112th Infantry under Capt Philip Maines. Corry will host a rifle platoon and a weapons platoon. Warren will house company headquarters, headquarters platoon, and one rifle platoon. Minor personnel shifts occur. new weapons and training to follow during summer encampment at Indiantown.
Firemen relief and pension funds in Erie County received 2037 this week from a 66,780 allocation approved by State Auditor General Charles C. Smith. The two per cent tax on premiums of out of state insurance companies doing business in Pennsylvania funded reimbursements distributed to Elgin Union City Wattsburg Amity Township Greenfield Township Venango Township and 15 boroughs and 19 townships based on premiums paid.
A 60 year old balding convict remains in Allegheny County Jail awaiting a coroner’s inquest into the shooting death of Sheriff James R. Lauer. Police seek the 38 caliber pistol used, tied to John Butler once of Girardville, who surrendered after leading investigators to a swampy area near McCatchess Township. Butler says he dumped the weapon as a climactic chase spanned the region.
A six alarm blaze gutted the third floor of a three story brick apartment house in Pittsburg causing about $100,000 in damage. Deputy Fire Chief Joseph F Custin attributed the loss to defective wiring as firefighters fought the flames for about two hours. Police evacuated residents, about twenty families, from the building.
Mrs Mary A Kibler 34 of Corry was aboard a Greyhound bus bound for New York when it rear ended a truck, went off a embankment and overturned in heavy fog near South Bend Indiana. She suffered multiple injuries but was among the least hurt of 12 aboard. the driver remained in critical condition in a hospital.
Graham, 83, of Shafton North Huntingdon Township, facing grand jury detention on murder charges after a hearing. Also charged with indecent assault and contributing to the delinquency of three girls. Disappearance tied to a basketball feeder.
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