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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1953
Page
6
Paragraf Girand resident Raymona Tripp wondered whose house burned while unloading lumber in Erie. A police hint led him to rush home to find his house unharmed and undamaged. The rest of the text covers church policy, milk pricing, local crime, tax talks, and other regional notes.
Corry firemen answered a 12 54 p m alarm to a large vacant field opposite St Elizabeths Cemetery where knee high grass was on fire. They used booster lines and a backfire to extinguish it before serious damage occurred. The city posted a 92 degree low and 70 degree high yesterday.
A 50 year old barber died early today from Burns suffered as a fire swept the three story Central Hotel in McKees Rocks. Fire damage was set at 50000 dollars by firemen. Nicholas Lastrompa, 73, was injured in the blaze and is in good condition at Ohio Valley Hospital. Fire Chief Thomas Cairins said the fire started after a cigarette was dropped into a laundry chute. The blaze gutted the third floor and water heavily damaged other cars.
General J Lawton Collins urged the nations to support NATO at a Mellon National Bank meeting, stressing that a free Europe needs U S help and combined strength to deter communism and safeguard both economic and military security. The talk warned that without NATO unity the Western Hemisphere could face war or economic strangulation. In another item, Joseph C Feagley of Armstrong Cork Co was elected president of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce.
Harvey Silver Smith, a 21 year old Indian from Caledona Ontario visiting Cold Springs Corners on the Indian Reservation, is shot in the lower jaw and killed near Cold Springs Corners by Laverne Redeye, 19, who says he mistook him for a black bear. Coroner official rules accidental death. Redeye fired after movement in brush. victim died minutes later.
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