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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1958
Page
4
Local notice recalls 20 years since the Argonne offensive and mentions Corry veterans. Also notes a 1938 Chamberlain update and a Republican registration lead in Corry with 108 voters added for upcoming election day.
The city inaugurates a purely municipal health research program with an ambitious budget and aims to reach 8 million dollars, funded by a dollar per resident. Mayor Wagner touts annual health savings of about 19.76 million in patient care from new drugs, 1.3 million from diphtheria immunization, and 2.5 million from venereal clinics, arguing the program pays for itself.
President Eisenhower’s confidence that war is unlikely in the Far East rests as Congress freezes 1.17 billion dollars in defense spending. The mid year budget review reveals manpower cuts for the Army and Marines, while several new nuclear and missile programs are halted unless Congress acts, though Army Reserve and National Guard protection remains funded.
Local notes report Evalene Hassett’s Marion College enrollment and an active hotel sale rumor in Northwestern Pennsylvania. New instructors join Jamestown Community College as a physics native from Union City. UFO conference planned in Olean with talk of government investigations. Liquor control sweep alleged near 21 eligibility. Navy discharge for James Small noted. Christmas lights project to be funded and erected by local merchants.
Word from the war department says the 28th Division is in the Cham pagne drive and Company A from this city may be active. Carl Edwards of Corry is wounded in the hand and in a base hospital recovering. A freight train and milk train collision at Horn's Siding near Garland caused near misses for three Pennsylv ania Railroad workers. C P Northrop and M F Coyle gather relief items from schoolhouses for Belgian relief.
Samuel E. Truesdell, 47, was sentenced to three to 18 months for involuntary manslaughter in a 1955 three car collision that killed Walter S. Brown Jr. and James Truss. The judge ordered five days in jail and probation thereafter.
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