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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1954
Page
4
An analysis notes shifts in party advantage as voter turnout varies. It cites 1944 1948 1952 presidential totals and party outcomes, highlighting that leisure habits wage-earner voting and regional results influenced which party gained control of Congress and the presidency.
Post election surveys show Eisenhower fared reasonably with working class families while Stevenson drew support from many well to do voters. The piece suggests that a long held belief in small vote effects on Democrats may rely on rigid economic strata now more fluid.
The town endures its coldest fall frost of the season with below freezing conditions. Car thefts rise as drivers report tires and wheels stolen from several autos. police step up checks. A new Esso gasoline station rises on West Main, while grass and woods fires prompt department response in the northwest district.
A fragmented text quiz and local crime note ask about national and world facts. The portion cites a Soviet or West German army readiness claim, midterm party control trends, race and religion in anti segregation leaders, license suspensions, railroad social security, discount house overheads, and trumpeter swan counts, plus a theft report about stolen cats at a North Center Street venue.
In West Springfield a 17 year old facing his first offense pleaded guilty to burglary after stealing 40 dollars in cash and goods. Judge Samuel Rossiter, noting the youth's claimed age and lack of prior trouble, appointed lawyer Richard Brabender to decide on rehabilitation versus placement with other offenders. America's first billionaire was John D. Rockefeller.
Richard Flagg twenty, of Little Valley, was critically wounded by a 12 gauge shotgun rigged to a barn door on Snyder Hill Road Town of Leon. Sheriff Morgan Sigel said the trigger mechanism fired when the door opened as Flagg and Ike Gerwitz went to the barn for gasoline.
The assailant forced the victim into a truck and drove to the home of Elliott Eilis in Leon. Eilis and his daughter Shirley took the wounded man to Tri County Hospital at Gowanda where doctors noted a chest wound about four inches below the left armpit, narrowly missing the heart.
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