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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1960
Page
2
A jumble of local items outlines parking and development plans downtown plus church suppers, court actions, sports injuries, shop ads, and community notices. Subjects include Elgin Methodist Church chicken supper, a gambling house charge against Raymond Baniawski, basketball injuries in Titusville, a Chili luncheon, and a Friday parade.
Funeral notices announce Panerat services and burial at Pirie Grove Cemetery for a local resident with viewing times set at Paneral Home. Separate reports describe vandalism on rear view mirrors, a three car crash injuring three people, a church expansion milestone, a mental health association meeting, and a Canandaigua fire fatality involving three children and a mother.
Admission notices for Harold Anderson and Matthew Weldin at Corry Memorial Hospital. Discharges include David Doutte Elgin and John Oink along with several patients from Wattsburg Bear Lake and Harvey, detailing addresses and guardians.
Readable fragment lists residents and addresses in Union City including Helen Bur at 8 Fourth Avenue Iran City and Harriet Gebhard on Exiibora RD with other names such as Thelma Curvee RD and Geraldine Quinn on Warden Street Union City.
In Missouri a dramatic street confrontation ends when Mrs Bruins flings a milk bottle toward a masked bandit who threatens to shoot. The bottle misses, and the assailant escapes as bystanders watch in disbelief.
Pennsylvania Republican chairman Geover f. fluent asserts Democratic leaders seek political gain from religion debates. Luther Hodes, Democratic governor candidate for Kennedy, addresses a Delaware Business and Professional Men meeting. Kennedy campaign says clergy should not influence votes. Nixon-Khrushchev debate critique cited. discussion notes separation of church and state.
James Rudolph Tridico longtime Warren Fire Department member and chief since 1955 died at Warren General Hospital after a long career with the department beginning as a volunteer in 1914. Born in Italy in 1897 he immigrated at 14 and rose from bunker man to captain and acting chief before his 1995 tenure as chief. Officials credit him with county wide fire fighting program development and mutual aid cooperation.
County health commissioner Or din McLaren confirms polio has reached epidemic stage in Cattaraugus County with about 300 cases and more than one illness per 4000 residents. The Southwestern New York county has under 80 000 people and polio cases rise amid the outbreak.
Keystone Briefs reports Keny Ludlum Steel Corp along with two Belgian partners plan a major new special steel company in western Europe. A Belgium steel plant is to be built with over 10 million dollars in capital. The venture will produce and sell stainless and special steels globally with equal ownership by the three firms. Harrisburg notes a separate $24,681 Public Health Service grant to the State Health Department for three years to study organic water pollution, including fish tissues. Altoona reports Small Tube Products Co seeks court order to ban mass picketing at its Blair County plant after about 40 UAW Local 896 members blocked access during a strike for new contract talks.
Sidney Kennedy aged 70 died after a fall from a roof at his home in Millcreek. He reportedly fell while working on an addition in strong winds and was pronounced dead at Hamot Hospital Erie. Kennedy was a noted brick and stone mason in Corry, survived by his wife Ina, four children, two sisters, a brother, four grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Services set at Bracken Funeral Home with interment at Beaverdam Cemetery.
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