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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1957
Page
6
Fatified city police reported last evening that Harry Perry fourteen and his companion Larry Shick sixteen are missing since early Sunday. Sperry said he has no idea where the youths, last seen near Lemon Street, might be. Police noted nearby incidents and unrelated local notices while weather and school enrollment figures were also reported.
Milford Conn. TM-A reports James O Connor of Milford owned a cabin cruiser located by a master boat crew in Long Island Sound yesterday. It was towed to the town dock after engine trouble during a fishing trip. The boat’s owner and two guests were uninjured. The rescue followed a search for the bow after the crew effected the rescue. Police called off the search.
A tiny gray kitten named Tokkie saved five year old Peter Delport in Benoni South Africa by attacking a three foot poisonous snake in a garden. Peter had fetched the kitten when his parents were visiting neighbors. The father, R G Delport, found the boy against a wall as Tokkie hissed at the snake and killed it.
Dominican Republic exile leader Martinez Garcia was shot at his downtown Mexico City office and seriously wounded. He was transported to a hospital with a head wound as police sought a Cuban suspect who arrived from the Dominican Republic three weeks earlier.
United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in New York. Informants said the talks focused mainly on the Middle East and disarmament, though officials offered no details. Meanwhile in Boston a Belgian prince is recovering well after major surgery and expected to leave hospital this week. The Prince Alexandre of Belgium, son of King Leopold III and Princess Liliane, is 15. In other matter, historians note the unusually cold year 1816 was dubbed the year without a summer.
A May 1957 style analysis reflecting on the Little Rock school integration crisis. The piece describes vivid wartime imagery from news photos, notes police and mob violence, and cites President Eisenhower’s pledge to use federal power to enforce the law. It discusses seeking heroes who can navigate the crisis and stresses national concern over nine Negro students at Central High.
Services were held in Detroit for Harry E Woodring who died Sunday at St Josephs Mercy Hospital. He was 69, born May 16 1889 in Meadville. A prayer and committal will be at Bracken Funeral Home at 11 am tomorrow. He was a registered pharmacist in Detroit and served in the U S Army Medical Corps in World War I. Survived by two sisters in Corry, one brother in Erie, a step mother in Columbus, and four half sisters in Columbus Erie's area and Corry.
George Ludlum Hartford chairman of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. died at his home in Montclair last night at age 93. He led the firm since 1951 after the death of his brother John Allford who had held the post. His father, the founder George Huntington Hartford, established the nation’s largest grocery chain in 1859.
In the week ending August, the Pennsylvania Bureau of Highway Safety withdrew operating privileges of 1 834 drivers. Of these, 134 were revoked and 1 700 suspended. 1 390 more than the preceding week. Locally, one Corry driver was revoked for DUI and six others had suspensions for other charges. Restorations included John Broughton, Donald Bacon, Donald Mosher, Paul C. Smith of Union City, Paul Wester and Daniel B. Zimmer of Waterford.
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