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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1958
Page
6
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About 150 students disrupted a high school football rally at Broad and State Line in Texarkana, Arkansas and Texas. The melee involved attacks on cars, curses at Arkansas officers, and a one white woman reported being slapped. Police dispersed the crowd after an hour. two students were arrested for malicious mischief.
Washington AP reports Pennsylvania farmers saw higher cash receipts in the first eight months of 1958, led by livestock and dairy. Total farm receipts rose about 10 percent from 1957, with crop receipts down but overall income improving due to higher prices and larger marketings. July receipts reached 67,219,000, showing increases in both livestock and crops. Also notes higher government payments to farmers and Pennsylvania’s 1957 farm income benchmarks. A separate Albuquerque item reports five year old Jakie Garcia hospitalized after multiple pedestrian accidents and injuries.
Spookman, a retired railroad worker from DuBois, and fellow miner Phillips, 87, went fishing near Warren on the Allegheny. Phillips prepared a meal while Spookman suffered a heart attack and died in shallow water. Dr J F Crane pronounced death after examination.
A crowded service described from an art page scene shows white walls and fluttering prayer slips as congregants listen to a minister blend scripture with Christian ethics. Women wipe eyes while prayers for forgiveness and guidance flow, with messages from churches behind the Iron Curtain read aloud.
A Victoria Young Communist League member recalls a church visit and notes pressures against church activities as atheism spreads in a society that sponsors films for youth and rejects church authority. A Russian Orthodox professor from Moscow argues the Vatican is a capitalist power while praising state lines.
In Lancaster Pennsylvania Gov Leader, a Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, accused federal officials of freezing vital defense funds. He cited nearly one million dollars in added defense spending for submarines, airlift jets, missiles, tankers, and air-to-surface missiles, urging Washington to prioritize national safety. Mayor David L. Lawrence, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, urged job creation in Pennsylvania, pledging to restore full employment and a pro business climate to ensure jobs for all workers.
Donald Lee Myers, 19, of Franklin, a paralytic polio patient in Hemet Hospital Erie since September 13, has shown improvement. He was in an iron lung but can now be removed briefly each day. doctors cannot yet determine extent of paralysis. He had not received Salle vaccine. Ontario pig owners must have at least five acres for the animals.
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