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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1954
Page
4
An editorial from Pittsburgh Press comment argues candidates for governor and their supporters rely on smear tactics. It notes candidates avoid outlining policy or funding plans, urging voters to exercise their franchise while warning that ongoing scanda l mongering may deter independent voters.
A scrambled quiz roams through Social Security limits, car pricing, taxes, and state finances. It questions 1955 versus 1964 costs, congressional reports, and how to fund public schools if sales tax rises or falls, naming Lloyd J. Wood and Mr Lender in political finance debate.
A 1934 district vote approved a vocational school project with an estimated outlay between 22000 and 323000. A special board meeting set a tentative program for submission to relief works. The issue echoes further plans for plant use, asset sales, and potential outside operation, alongside local civic updates.
In Baltimore Rabbi Benjamin Schultz announced a nationwide march on Washington set for November 1 to urge senators not to censure Sen. McCarthy. He called the event a people’s movement for McCarthy who is accused of being smeared as the Senate weighs a possible censure after a special committee recommendation.
The Pennsylvania Railroad recalls 500 furloughed workers at Altoona to the railroad shops. The recall begins immediately due to added freight car department work. About 6,000 PRR shop workers have been furloughed since last December, out of a normal 11,000.
Two AFL General Teamsters Local 249 members, Raymond J. Winters and John Kolupajlo, aged 24, faced trial on aggravated assault and battery charges arising from violence during Pittsburgh's 10 month department store strike. They allegedly beat Walter L. McNaughton, 28, as he left a store last December amid parcel post and truck helper dispute.
Dorothy Hawkins, a familiar figure in court, drew six months to one year in the Allegheny county work house after defending herself in a September criminal term trial. She struck another woman during an July 16 argument and claimed drunkenness. Judge Burton R. Laub noted her frequent weekend arrests and warned of the jail visits. She lives at 1722 McClelland Avenue and refused an attorney.
In 1948 Harold Moore Erle was convicted of assault and battery pros titution assault with intent to maim and aggravated assault and battery for attacking a local woman. A one and a half to five year sentence was imposed with Judge Laub suspending the sentence on carrying a deadly weapon.
A man identified as Moore was arrested July 3 on Erie’s West Side after a Nickel Plate Railroad employee witnessed him struggling with a woman. He faced sentencing at the Western Criminal Diagnostic Center for assignment to an institution.
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