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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1957
Page
2
Corry City content reports census figures for Millcreek Township suburb, projected tax rebates, and budget estimates. Notes include turkey parties at the Elks Club and St Edward’s, fundraising bids for liquid chlorine in Tioga, sales promotions, and a county surplus food distribution aiding 112 families.
A scanned community page lists hospital discharges and residents with addresses, plus multiple local notices. Items include names of patients, discharge lines, and family connections, followed by court actions, auctions, club meetings, charity events, and a bus fare increase proposal by Lake Lines, Inc. of Erie affecting Erie to Pennsylvania-New York line travel. Names include Mrs. Williuny Keppel, Mrs. Ethel Cooper, Patricia O'Brien, and Walter Kornikoski among others. Organizational mentions span Elgin Hemera Volunteer Fire Department, Columbus Women's Extension, Presbyterian bazaar, and the Elks smorgasbord event, with dates in November and December and venue details.
Wholesale egg prices were steady today in New York with receipts totaling 16,300. Whites top quality 57-60 percent, mediums 43-44, smalls 38-40, dewees 26-27. Browns top quality 57-32-6pre, mediums 44-45, smalls 40-41, pee wees 26-27.
The State Department seized all known gifts from King Saud to personnel but allowed a $3,000 automobile given to the Purse family to remain. Victory R. Purse, ex deputy chief of protocol, kept his job after a hearing found he acted within the law but showed bad judgment. A department circular now tightens gift rules for diplomats at home and abroad.
The American Federation Local 469 asks Gov Leader for a $2 daily pay raise for about 900 Warren State Hospital employees. President Reymond B Anderson cites rising living costs and notes the last state employee increase was 10 percent in 1953. A prior postcard request to the governor went unanswered.
A Bureau of Mines report cites an electric arc from trolley equipment igniting methane as the cause of the September 28 blast at Bethlehem Mines Corp Marianna No. 58 in Marianna Pennsylvania. Eleven men were underground then with 72 normally employed. The explosion followed a failed ventilating fan and halted airflow, with officials among the 11. Powdered limestone rock dust helped limit spread. The study offers eight recommendations to improve safety, including immediate disconnection of electrical power after major ventilation changes and re energization only after ventilation is confirmed safe.
A Fredericksburg woman, Mrs Mary Beier, was found unconscious yesterday by Meadville Telephone Co personnel after a neighbor reported trouble on the line. Repairman Philip Kelley could not enter until neighbor Philip Baussman unlocked the door. Beier, ill for weeks, remains a patient at Spencer Hospital in a semiconscious state.
Bear Lake residents and families visit relatives and friends across towns. Norman Faust and son David and daughter Coleen of Lakewood called on Mr and Mrs Leon Cable on Thursday afternoon. James Eddy and Miss Kay Miller of Jamestown visited with their grandparents Mr and Mrs John Eddy. Edith Hawkins and Mrs Ethel Bond of Jamestown spent the weekend at their home here. Ivan Ayling and Mrs Maude Cor Mish visited the home of their son Elvin Ayling in Lottsville on Saturday. Mrs Eliza James has been away and is referenced in the local note.
Jury in Harrisburg opened a trial of eight men connected with Mann-Mine Research and Development Co of Reading and Rogers Bros Construction Co of Scranton for defrauding the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission. Accused, with fictitious weight slips and bribes of 80 to 100 dollars weekly, allegedly caused costs of 484,489 dollars. Sixteen jurors. foreman Mrs Jean S Soderholm. Four of nineteen defendants pleaded guilty. five still to be tried or delayed. Harold Cornish and George Berkey attended a Harrisburg horse show last Saturday.
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