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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1959
Page
3
The Kane Area United Fund faces a tough drive to raise 49 900 dollars with a target of 15 000 from a small pool of donors. Efforts focus on many 1 and 5 dollar gifts and recontacting major contributors to fund 13 agencies and set a sustainable annual drive.
In Baltimore, police and recreation officials questioned coaches and players after a sandlot football game between teens ended in a brawl between White and Negro players. Six white players plus the white coach and the referee were hospitalized briefly for exams. the incident began after a late scoring play and escalated as spectators joined in the melee.
Parcel post rates will increase beginning February 1, with an average rise of 17.1 percent. The change, totaling about 88 million dollars annually, was approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission and announced by Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield after Christmas mailing.
New York leader Nelson Rockefeller weighs a high minded approach in a crowded GOP race against Vice President Richard Nixon. Nixon, backed by party pros, defends Eisenhower era policies while Rockefeller seeks independent appeal without splitting the party, aiming to attract independents and bolster his poll standing.
Thomas Clay, a Detroit radio DJ fired amid a payola probe, testified he received about 6000 dollars for plugging records on WJBK radio. He cited family security as reason, while Dale Young resigns from WJBK-TV. Storer BroadcastingCo. oversees 17 stations and investigates payola. Clay says his 18 month earnings totaled six thousand against an eight thousand annual salary.
The Cuban Confederation of Labor elected an all Castro party executive committee, rejecting a Communist bid. Juerc David Salvador, a Castro ally, heads the 13 member group. Delegates denounced U S imperialism and joined to form a revolutionary confederation for Latin American workers while withdrawing from the IARCW.
SIDNEY ADLER aged 31 from Trenton New Jersey burned to death when his truck descended a 20 foot embankment at the Fairless Works of U S Steel. He was transporting hot slag waste from an open hearth furnace to a slag pit when the vehicle veered off road igniting the slag and causing a gasoline explosion.
Carl Nyquist, 72, a former Rock Island Railroad vice president, died yesterday in Banning after a long illness. Nyquist retired from the railroad in 1946.
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