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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1952
Page
4
Corry Hospital will seek state aid totaling 18000 dollars for the bi ennium beginning in 1983. The request was approved at a regular board meeting held in the Library building last evening.
A quirky puzzle asks 10 questions on capitals, biographies, baseball eras, butter making, thermometers, spelling, a war correspondent, a German statesman quote, snakebite antidote, and fashion of the farthingale. Answers are on the classified page.
Police joined in a wide manhunt for John Nichols alias Nature Boy an escaped prisoner linked to a robbery at a Fairview surgeon and to a car theft near Girard Township. A couple with a woman accomplice was last seen in Salazar’s 1947 Studebaker pickup heading toward Erie.
Harrisburg - James B. Lyons of Washington Pennsylvania was elected president of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association, succeeding William K. Ulerich of Clearfield. Lyons, general manager of the Washington Observer and Reporter, will direct activities of 249 member newspapers for 1953 as the association closed its 28th annual convention.
Fifteen cars of an eastbound Pennsylvania Railroad freight train derailed thirteen miles west of Johnstown, Pennsylvania last night. A crack passenger train stopped nearby, slowed by the wreck as authorities investigated and cleared the scene.
A freight car wreck blocked six cars on the New York to Pittsburgh Duquesne line with four damaged. No injuries reported. Tower watchman Henry Wedver halted the passenger train by a late tower to locomotive telephone warning.
Discussion notes the possibility of a fifth Unitarian president if Stevenson were elected and lists Unitarian ties of past leaders. It traces Unitarian origins, Harvard links, and notes later growth and decline with references to beliefs such as rejection of the virgin birth and emphasis on works over faith.
Oil City man Lily Pokay, 91, died after his vehicle crashed into a tree on Grandview Road near Hasson Heights Saturday. He suffered a fractured skull and died at Oil City Hospital after being ejected from the vehicle.
In the report fragment, attempts to undermine Titus theadentist with charges of insincerity in faith failed, as the election results affirmed his adherence to the Christine faith.
Lyle Akam laid to rest Saturday at Pine Grove with service by Rev H Ray Harris. Bearers included Weredona Cale and others. burial in the family lot at Fine Grave Cemetery. Attendees traveled from Weslyville Youngsville Clymer and Geneva among others.
All passenger trains used the two remaining tracks overnight with schedules 10 to 20 minutes late. An observatory note reports the smallest star visible through large telescopes is in the constellation Monoveras.
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