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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1959
Page
4
Corry Journal enters second class mail at Corry Pa. Publication staff includes George Sample as usher and William Chiricu xio as Advertising Manager. Advertising rates available. display deadline 9 am prior publication date. Subscription by mail or carrier offered with varying annual and semiannual rates.
The Latrobe Bulletin argues Americans are unrealistic about drugs and cites a failing system. It laments costly treatment, profiteering by racketeers, and contrasts U S policy with England where addicts receive free relief upon registration. The piece urges reform to curb pushers and theft.
A 14 year old boy scientist, Robert Graham, wrote to Nikita Khrushchev and the Soviet Academy of Sciences seeking soil samples to simulate a Mars like lab. The academy shipped Ukraine soil, central Siberian uplands soil, and tundra soil for cold weather testing. The U.S. Department of Agriculture sent pamphlets on stubble mulching in the Great Plains. An Alaska official commented.
Raymond Morris, a rugged former logger, quietly opened a Corry handle plant using scraps from his Spars ta hockey stick mill. Seven workers now ply broom and mop handle making, with orders spreading across the United States, Canada, and Europe rallied by Morris selling directly. A car crash in Bentville killed Michael Michalek, 59, of Ellsworth.
YMCA events list daily activities for Monday through Saturday including splash parties, swim team practice, bridge classes, chess and painting sessions, teen programs, and a parent teen broadcast. Notable items include 1 pm splash party for girls, 2 pm boys splash, 8 pm beginners and 7:30 pm Alphiy B bridge, and a 9:20 11 am WOTR broadcast Saturday morning.
Rodney E. Muffley, 24, of Girard Ohio, was killed in a one car crash near New Castle Pennsylvania shortly after marrying his bride, 23, who was critically injured and hospitalized. The timing suggests a newlywed tragedy with police continuing investigations.
Butler man Charles R Thompson, 37, held on forging charges in Butler Jail, faces checks forged on six local firms and is Wanted in Butler Harrisville and other places. Police report he fled Butler after planning to move with a forged ticket, car ownership unclear, with forged purchases and recovered roofing paper from McMillan Lumber. Authorities discuss transferring to Butler County for stiffer charges.
Jamestown police raided a gambling poker game early Saturday arresting nine men. Nicholas Mice, 35, was fined 25 dollars. eight others forfeited 10 dollars bail. Suspects, many with prior gambling charges, were taken into custody at 2 20 am after officers entered a front door and found players around a poker table with cards and bets visible.
Relations warm as Missouri Synod and National Lutheran Council meet in Chicago to probe cooperation areas. Mired in past divisions, Lutherans discuss joint actions while planning mergers that could reshape the National Lutheran Council and form larger churches by 1961.
Reader mail sparks a curious collage from Hal Boyle. It cites a UN estimate that 44 percent of the world over 14 cannot read or write, notes U.S. home ownership rising to 29 million families in a decade, and shares assorted curiosities from Blue Skin to a Scandinavian Christmas shoe line up.
Summary of 1938 events includes Soviet invasion of Finland with high casualties at Helsingfors Viborg and other centers. Also notes Christmas Seal campaign setup and local employment efforts. Parking meter ordinance discussion in City Council. Montgomery Ward store interior transformation. School board to swear in two members Mrs Maude Barnes and Edwin Lewis for six year terms. Includes quotes from Esquire Show Polish Co and a brief Marines Korea note with Cervantes quotation.
A fragmentary notice lists personal names and a birth reference amid garbled text. The readable items mention individuals connected to a birth event, with no clear date or location available in the surviving lines.
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