27 Nov 1961
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1961
Page
1
In a tense session, Elliot pressures shipowners and union leaders over wages and safety. Talks at the port facility center on earnings, benefits, and equitable work rules, with no immediate resolution.
A damaged OCR notice references claims against an estate, tax penalties, and sealed actions. Names and places are obscured, but mentions Erie Pennsylvania and auto estate items. The fragment hints at bids, service, and parcel or street references with dates like 28-01 and 30th for deadlines.
Two local teenagers foiled would be safe snatchers by discovering a five thousand dollar, 200 pound safe left on Liberty Street. The thieves entered Elwin Henton's home, moved the safe through the garage, and fled with it but the youths opened the safe with a band ax and called police. The safe was returned to the Henton residence, while other valuables were left untouched. Police continued investigation.
Zorry officials unveil a second winter season of gym, dance, skating, and team sports across city spaces. The program targets youths to seniors with wrestling, gym clubs, basketball, volleyball, and two weekly YMCA dances. Full high school gym use awaits Beaver teams’ drills. Mead Park and Teen Town and Teen Frolics dances run Fridays and Saturdays, weather permitting ice skating returns pending conditions.
Caroline Kennedy, age four, celebrated with a party at Hyannis Port Mass after not having parties last week. Her brother John Sr. marked his first birthday last Saturday. Their grandfather Joseph P Kennedy hosted a second party in town this Saturday.
President Kennedy plans a major foreign policy shakeup, removing Chester Bowles from undersecretary of state and reassigning him to a roving ambassador and special foreign adviser role. The reshuffle affects about ten White House and State Department posts with no resignations. Bowles, a former Connecticut governor and India ambassador, has been a controversial figure since early in Kennedy’s term. Rusk and the White House cited fit concerns while Bowles has not commented.
Michael Rockefeller remains unaccounted for after eight days as search teams in southwest Dutch New Guinea pursue wild jungle terrain. Australian air fire crews reported smoke from burning brush, though Dutch officials call the sight a false lead. Gov Nelson A Rockefeller and daughter Mary Strawbridge plan to return to the United States as ground parties continue efforts to locate the missing heir, with natives possibly aiding recovery if illness or injury has left him stranded.
The Gorry Journal announces six special gift pages prepared with local merchants. Tonight is Preview Night with retailers inviting shoppers to visit stores and join the mix n match contest, details on page 9.
A car driven by John R. Dickse Saxton of Saxton, Route 97 south of Waterford, struck three migrant farm workers as they walked along the highway. Robert Hopkins, Waterford RD 3, suffered a compound fracture of the right leg and was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital in Erie. Saxton admitted to the hospital as his vehicle sustained about $200 in damage.
Eleven year old Terry Jo Diperrault, sole survivor of the Bluebelle tragedy, left Mercy Hospital Miami at 3 20 pm Sunday by plane for Green Bay Wisconsin. She will live with her aunt Ralph Schiver. The case recalls the November sea disaster in which James C Boozer reports Julian Harvey told him of a panic at the sight of blood before Harvey killed himself after the rescue.
The Titusville area parochial school votes to implement an academic letter awards program inspired by a Denison Senior High School peer program. A committee selects qualifications, sweater design, and award areas English math science languages social studies, with 12 letters yearly and four per year for seniors who have two prior letters.
The Associated Press reports a thinning Thanksgiving holiday toll with 449 traffic fatalities across 102 hours, near historic lows. Fire deaths reached 40, while miscellaneous accidents added 102, totaling 591. overall figures show 564 deaths for the year against past highs. The AP survey cites 462 traffic deaths, 37 fires, and 106 other accidents for the 10 hours from Wednesday afternoon to Sunday midnight, totaling 605.
Nine year old Jean Green was burned when a tub of boiling water spilled after a scaffold leg gave way during pig butchering. She fell into the hot liquid and was taken to Corry Memorial Hospital for treatment of first degree burns to face arms and legs.
Police say 22 year old Thomas Bisene admitted killing his father in the Briscoe home after claiming abuse of his mother. The shooting occurred Sunday night as the son, armed with a shotgun, confronted his father who was watching TV. the blast struck the father in the face at close range.
Senator Styles Bridges, senior Republican and chairman of the Appropriations Committee, died Sunday after a long illness. His death leaves the party to select a successor, with Gov Yesley Powell eyed for appointment to serve until the November 1966 election. Bridges had been hospitalized since August for severe pulmonary congestion and a heart attack.
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