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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1959
Page
2
Erie coverage highlights hotel and shop displays for wedding invitations, plus local notes on heat illness, Grange meetings, Rotarian fund drive plans, dining options, vandalism report, dance events, and a photojournalist's death in Syracuse.
Debbie Owen Hogue, nine, of Franklin, fell 16 feet from a second floor bedroom window while sleepwalking. She was dazed with no memory of the incident. Taken to Franklin Hospital, she suffered a broken right arm but will not miss school activities.
At The Hospital is unable to summon emergency physician. Admitted Robert J Stevenson Watts ure Milton H V in Dresur 1203 West Pleasant Frederick 12 son of Mr and Mrs Brandis Bigus Garland Judy 4 daughter of Mr and Mrs John Dempsey 237 East South Mrs Ronald M Penoyer Spar ansburg Discharged Mrs William A Blakeslee and son William Mark BD 1 Earl Francis Sherman
A hospital notice lists admissions including Vernie Dawson at 85 Elm Street Union City Nancy Smith at 21 Kilburn Street Union City Jeffrey Price at 50 Miles Street and Isabelle Stull at 1514 Center Street Union City Also discharged are Archie Bishop R D 3 Corty and Mrs Gertrude Miller of Youngsville plus Warren unknown.
New York critics compare NBC’s Staccato Thursday to Peter Gunn, noting heavy copying of a successful formula. Johnny Staccato appears as a piano playing private eye, with stylish suits and jazz scoring, but the episode reveals the culprit early and offers little suspense.
In Atlantic City Suzanne Ingeborg Johnson of Chicago and Bonnie Jo Marquis of Ithaca College led preliminaries for the 1960 Miss America pageant. Johnson won preliminary talent with Hello Dolly style songs while Marquis took swimsuit honors. Each earned $1,000 scholarships and await Saturday's finals where the Miss America award totals $10,000 in scholarships and about $79,000 in personal appearances. Johnson, a mezzo soprano, planned to use her prize to study voice in New York. Marquis said she was surprised, believing several contestants ahead of her.
A terse television review notes the production costs and slick professionalism of Stacedto. John Cassavetes is described as a skilled actor in a devil may care role, though not fully happy, with hints that his conscience weighs on him.
A masked robber, identified as Coleroff, 46, an ex convict from Philadelphia, attempted a market holdup in Glendaun. Kenneth Benson, 26, an assistant manager, wounded the gunman, seized his weapon, and killed him with shots to the heart. A pregnant housewife, Sally Benson, 20, was wounded in the abdomen along with a 17-year-old youth, Richard Liffey, during the shootout. The gunman was shot dead after a struggle following an initial volley at the market. Police found the address 2551 North 33rd Street Pittsburgh, Pa, among his papers.
AP report from Donegal Pennsylvania states a car swerved and hit a tractor trailer on the Turnpike eight miles west of the Donegal Interchange. Mrs. Margaret Cavalla, 45, of Bellville New Jersey, was killed. Her husband Joseph Cavalla, 53, the auto driver, was treated and released from Frick Memorial Hospital in Mt. Pleasant.
Swanson reported 758 cows tested in Tri County Dairy Improvement churn for milk and butterfat production. Highest herds included Roger Follett Corry and Gerald Scouton Centerville with butterfat figures near 40 pounds, while Rose's Dan Dee Farms Spar tansburg led with 792 pounds. Dairy owners names and production totals are listed, noting last figures as butterfat output.
Infant Wayne Wenapl waron age 11 months, son of Willard W and Sivaveth Walton of Centerville, died at Titusville Hospital. Born October 22, 1958, he is survived by four sisters, one brother, a maternal grandmother in Oi City and paternal grandmother in Ashtabula. A sister predeceased him in 1948. Calling hours are 7 to 10 p.m. at Tovey and Hays Funeral Home, Spartanburg, with Mass of the Angels at 10 a.m. tomorrow at St Hippolyte’s Church, Frenchown. Burial in St Hippolyte’s Cemetery.
Photos from Mosler Photoguard show a real bank robbery in New York. The robber hands a note to a teller, threatens with a can of Ive solution, and tripped the cameras as he fights the teller. He fled into a crowded street, dropping half of the $1,000 handed over by teller Margaret Ann Kilkenny.
Erie vice squad and Millcreek police raided an alleged gambling house in Millcreek Township. Dave Crawford, 47, a machinist, was arrested on five anti gambling counts after police found money slips and a telephone used for numbers transactions. Crawford pleaded guilty before Alderman George Christoph and was released on $1000 bail around 10 am on September 25th.
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