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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1968
Page
5
A fragmentary AP item mentions a cited airfield zoo, an event with Rotarian hosts and a suppression of details. It references Corry and a venue, with vague lines about a meeting, travel, and potential safety concerns amid unclear charges or outcomes.
Beara McMICHAEL reports a National Library Week event lineup at Corry Public Library. Tonight at 8, a corsage making demonstration sponsored by Ail's Greenhouse features Mrs. Irwin Abl of Union City. Elof Dahl, a floral designer, is pictured. Public invited.
Mrs Christ Christensen hosted a Covenant Circle dessert luncheon at her Wright street home with cohostess Mrs Walter Auer. Bible study by Mrs Howard Sheen and Mrs H Kenyon Leishman. May 1 mother and daughter banquet planned at Columbus Community Congregational Church. Next circle meeting May 15 at Mrs Leishman's. Corry Coin Club displays coins at National Bank of Corry with Mrs Donald Carter Sr and Mrs Ruth Lyons arranging exhibit. IOOF dinner meeting at IOOF Hall Wednesday 6:30 pm. reservations via two numbers. dinner ticket is paid dues receipt. Wright School PTA hosts parents program tomorrow with film Child Molesters and talk by Edward Pass. open to public, no children. starts 7:90 pm, program at 8. Spencer Ladies Aid meets at Mrs Merrill Lillie’s. rummage sale proceeds support Gabon mission. next meeting May 16 at Mrs Walter Rininger’s. Good Samaritan Class banquet postponed from April 27 to be announced later.
Cheryl Beckerink was chosen Miss Corry 1968 at Corry Area High School on Saturday. She will represent Corry in the Miss Erie County Pageant on June 1 in Erie. The Corry Jaycees sponsored the event with Dennis Prushone directing. Robert Grice co directing.
A capacity crowd attended the fourth annual All-Western Style Show sponsored by the No-Bar Riding Club and others at the Moose Lodge. Gary Yeagle and Edward Slogter won grand saddles. many local residents from Corry, Warren, Titusville, Erie, and surrounding towns won prizes. Organ music by John Merkle, modeled outfits by Corry and Union City residents, and a post show dance by The Villagers followed the event. In Denver, thieves failed to break into John F Kennedy High School vault but stole about 150 pounds of food from the lunchroom after abandoning an electric drill, acetylene torch, hammer, and punch.
Final rites will be held at the H. Hichard Hays Funeral Home in Spartansburg Wednesday at 2 p.m. for Miss Josephine Carle. Burial will be made in Rose Hill Cemetery there. Friends may call at the funeral home Monday 7 to 9 p.m. and Tuesday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
In Pittsburgh six youths face juvenile action and two men, Grinage Wilson 20 and Leon Franklin 18, await hearings on inciting to riot charges. About 50 people pelted officers with stones and bottles as police moved to arrest youths breaking into a liquor store. The melee began Saturday when officers chased three youths who smashed a liquor store window in Stanton Heights.
The body of a 57 year old Luzerne County woman, Mary Grasavage of Sweyersville, was found floating in the Susquehanna River near Camper's Island after she had been missing since January 28. Police say there is no foul play.
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