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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1958
Page
6
A chaotic city page reports patrolmen addressed a York Street complaint about a section of m Septionk with advice to contact the County Mewith Department. The item blends local incidents including playground programs, school cafeterias resuming on September 3, injuries from beach and bicycle accidents, a boys band preview, a fire unit visit, and weekend police calls.
President Eisenhower resumes work part time after a Labor Day weekend of golf and fishing. Gerald Morgan arrives from Washington with Congress passed bills. 135 measures await action. He plans to decide on several by nightfall, including tax relief proposals and raising the debt ceiling to 288 billion dollars. He plans to stay in the Northeast region for an indefinite duration, weather permitting.
State police investigate a highway death of 12 year old Andrew J. Brinks McGees Mills R D as Willam Stadler Somerset driver reports he struck Brink and dragged him 100 feet before the fleeing car disappeared. Autopsy to determine natural or auto-related death.
Police investigated three crashes near Oil City and Spafford while a fourth wreck involved a Branch County motorist. In the worst crash 1961 Chevrolet coupe driven by Kline skidded on a curve, went off the road, and rolled. the driver and passenger escaped serious injury. A second crash south of Wattsburg involved Sylvia Kikut and another motorist. both vehicles sustained damage estimated at 4100. A third incident near Route 8 involved Barlet Rush and others. no injuries were reported.
Cleveland industrialist Cyrus Eaton relayed a 95 minute Kremlin meeting with Premier Khrushchev in which the Soviet leader urged ending the costly arms race. Eaton said Khrushchev worries about weapon development costs and seeks less hostile U.S. government posture, while noting American industrialists oppose war and taxes for weapons.
Ford L. Wilkinson, 68, college president at Rose Polytechnic Institute since 1949, died yesterday in Terre Haute Indiana after a long illness. A former academician at the US Naval Academy postgraduate school, he was born in Elkton Kentucky.
The union area school project outlines a new 15 room elementary school for roughly 430 students in grades four through six with a cost estimate of 607 600. An annex to the high school adds two double classrooms a craft arts room a dentistry room and space for home economics and industrial arts. The wing carries a 842 400 estimate and the site choice shifts to a location west of the high school south of the football field. Plans remain preliminary with boards to study further. Also reported is a Nashville incident where a man described driving to a moonshine site and filling a 500 gallon container from a spigot leading to police involvement.
Sunday morning at Pronk iit airport the Fly In Breakfast drew pilots from five states. Thirty nine planes carried 260 passengers landing in the morning. Participants included Charity Wallace from Corry oldest pilot honor, with Chrence Wallace Merida McIntyre and Mrs Thomas Rothrock. Corry Instrument Company crew in a Cessna 170 and Piper Cub entries noted.
Police report a fatal accident on Route 19 involving Norman Roan towing a racing car. Roan backed the car into a driveway but the front wheels remained on the highway, and Hale’s northbound vehicle struck the left front wheel, killing Roan and injuring others. The incident occurred on an uphill grade near Cambridge Springs as Roan and a farmer coordinated the rollback.
A Roan racing car broke away and tumbled 80 feet down a hill with all occupants inside except Norman Rodgers. Rodgers steered during the crash as Hale’s car traveled 135 feet, cleared an embankment and nosed into the ground. Police found no sign Hale tried to swerve or stop.
Sharon Hovey 17 of Ashville near Jamestown Chautauqua County injured in Belgium summers amusement park accident while an American Field Service exchange student. She flew back to the United States arriving at TWA Airport New York City after hospital care in Brussels. She will enter NYU Bellevue Medical Center Institute for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and is a senior at Chautauqua Central School where she has been named president of the student council.
Harold Hoose of Troy, Pa., a 32 year old stock car racer, was killed when his car overturned on a curve during a race at the 104th Juniata County fair. He died on arrival at F W Black Hospital Lewistown from a fractured skull and crushed chest per Juniata County coroner Dr. Robert Stoner.
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