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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1952
Page
3
A damaged OCR snippet mentions a fair in Pennsylvania and a plant duplicate in the city. It references five payments and a large MclIn, with unclear entities or outcomes. The legible bits suggest a municipal notice or account item but lack full context.
Carroll D. Kearns of Farrell Republican won re election to his fourth term in the 24th District by a large majority. He carried all three counties Erie Mercer and Crawford and led in 276 of 282 precincts. Bebell carried Erie city but Kearns led outside the city by more than two to one.
Punxsutawney's famed groundhog signals support for Eisenhower as Weather Seer Sam Light sends telegram to the President elect, welcoming him as a member of the Groundhog Club and praising a winner in its cult of admirers.
Basil Swiger received a life sentence for shooting Mrs Laura McCormick in her Pittsburgh home. William Hillbury was sentenced to life for slashing his wife Katherine after a series of domestic quarrels. Judges W. Walter Braham and John G. Lamoree handed down the verdicts in New Castle, Pennsylvania.
In 1948 Eisenhower won Pennsylvania by a decisive margin over Stevenson with Lackawanna and several central counties flipping to the GOP. The state’s 67 counties showed a broad Republican tilt, erasing early Democratic leads in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Key races included House contests in Luzerne and York counties and a failed constitutional bond proposal with 293,007 for and 351,709 against in 6224 BAT districts.
Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio retired to bed after Gov. Adlai Stevenson conceded defeat this morning. Taft voiced optimism that Eisenhower would win nationally and that Republicans could control the Senate, noting Morse’s defection to Stevenson’s side during the campaign.
Voters in Harrison Township and nearby boroughs reject the proposal to form a third class city by combining Tarentum Brackenridge and Harrison Township. Harrison votes 3362 2621 against and 501 2585 for Tarentum 501 against 2585 for Brackenridge 630 against 2042 for. Penn Township also rejects changing from first class township to third class city.
Puerto Rico Gov Anis Munoz Marin and his Popular Party returned to power after the island’s first elections under the new commonwealth constitution. The result solidifies control of the island’s government as voters endorsed the governing party in a pivotal political moment.
In Portland Oregon, Sen. Morse of Oregon, who left the Republican party to back Adlai Stevenson, told the Portland Oregonian that Eisenhower and Nixon fooled the people and won the election. He urged backing Republicans for country welfare and opposing proposals that threaten domestic welfare and peace. Truman precinct in Independence, Missouri, backed Eisenhower 197 to 124 for Stevenson, reversing 1948 results where Truman led 197 to 185 for Dewey.
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