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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1957
Page
3
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A speeding car crashed into a Greyhound bus on Route 20 near Silver Creek, killing three men from Versailles and Balanyswea who rode in the back seat. The bus driver Clifford Mellin 28 of Erie escaped with minor injuries while a sister of one victim, Eldewna Rose Lee 19, is hospitalized in serious condition with spine and pelvis injuries. The accident occurred as the car emerged from a side road at an estimated 70 to 80 mph.
The missing heavy bronze statue valued at about 20000 dollars was recovered by skindivers in the Rouge River near Henry Ford’s Fair Lane estate. The 34 foot statue, carved by C S Pietro and purchased by Ford in 1921, was toppled from its pedestal by would be thieves who could not remove it. Burroughs, a writer and naturalist and Ford’s friend, is the statue’s subject.
A bus carrying Cathedral school football team band and pupils to Rochester for a game with Aquinas Institute left yesterday morning with three other chartered buses in convoy. A girl victim was taken to hospital. Riders Robert Person 15 and John Mekr 16 complained of knee injuries while Thomas Quinn 15 had his glasses smashed.
ERIE Danger of a bus strike hung over the city as management and union officials met and failed to reach a contract agreement. Union rep Walter Bierwagen said meetings showed no authorization to deviate from prior positions and accused management of apathy. Drivers threaten a strike at midnight as their wage and fringe benefits demands collide with the company’s rate increase stance. The present fare is 20 cents and pay is $1.87 an hour with cost of living provisions. EX-COLLEGE HEAD DIES ORLANDO, Fla. Dr. Lewis Wilson Jarman, 77, emeritus president of Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Va., died Saturday. served as president 1929 to 1946.
The United States urged the Soviet Union to reconsider its opposition to a disarmament step as talks proceeded. A 82 nation General Assembly debate loomed after a subcommittee report, with Britain Canada France and the United States preparing proposals for partial disarmament measures tied to an inspection agreement. The Western plans require a broad disarmament treaty and an international control regime before any suspension of nuclear tests.
The funeral service for Herman S Burlingame was held at 2 p m at Bracken Funeral Home with Rev H Ray Harris officiating. Interment followed at West Lawn Cemetery in Columbus. City police, the State Police, Veterans of Foreign Wars and city officials formed escorts and color guards participated in the graveside service. Attendees included relatives and friends from multiple towns.
Eleven people were injured in a two car crash at a road intersection near Westfield over the weekend. The first car carried Fred Post and Mabel Post with chest and leg injuries, and Gladice Button with leg injuries. The second car carried Shirley Koterass with head injury and amnesia, Tim Woterass with forehead contusion, Sharon Johnson with a fractured collar bone, Lewis Johnson with thigh and chest injuries, Martha Johnson with hand injuries, Gerry Johnson with facial injuries, Lourinda Johnson with contusions, and Lynette Johnson with a lacerated head.
In Warren Ohio, 39 year old Andrew Gerlack was found shot five times in a field near Applegate Road two miles north of Youngstown. Authorities speculate he was shot in his car and again as he fled, with bloodstains found in the vehicle. Relatives say he was unemployed and suspected to be involved in numbers gambling connected to the Jungle Tan casino long closed by the state.
In Ester England the Church of England concerts turned to jazz tempos as Rev A A Gower Jones led a mixed ensemble including a trap drummer and two guitarists while the organist swung a hymn. Psalm 180 and parts of the Gloria adopted boogie like rhythms amid church constraints, with plans to repeat the experiment at Our Lady Of Mercy and St Canterbury on November ar d. Also in Greensburg Pennsylvania coronner Stephen D Yoney ruled the death of Glenn Wesley Forsha 41 an accidental shooting on his farm, the victim found in a barn while attempting to ill rate.
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