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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1962
Page
5
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Mrs Wit and family Coletta and Lune returned Wednesday from a week long tour of Canada Michigan and Indiana. They visited James Watrous Walters Edington families in Ke wan a Tid. Louisville visitors Mrs Kinney and four daughters stay with Mrs Haight. James D Vanik home from Fort Bliss Texas for a visit until August 14 with his mother.
The Women of the Moose met at the local club and planned the annual picnic for Wednesday August 5 at 6 pm hosted by Mrs. Stanley Bailey at 720 Marion Street. Members should bring a tureen and their own table service and reserve with Mrs. Howard Munsee. They discussed donations for the Sidewalk Bazaar Daze August 17 and 18 in front of Woolworth’s, the 1962-63 bowling team, a special meeting Monday at 8 pm, Pilgrim degree ceremony practice for Arthur Litz, and attendance awards for Mrs. Nellie H. Kirch with gifts to Mrs. Donald Carter.
Mrs. Eugene Buesink of Grove street hosted a birthday gathering for her daughter Kathy turning five. Attendants included 11 neighbors and prizes to Cindy Merkle Carl Ann Harvey Kimial and Vickie Firth of Spartansboro. Refreshments featured birthday cake ice cream and chocolate milk with bubble gum balloons candy and party hats as favors.
Miss Hopkins daughter of Mr and Mrs Wayne Hopkins of R D 4 will give her senior piano recital Monday at 8 p m at the First Baptist Church. She studied with Miss Lillian Swanson of Youngsville and is a Warren Conservatory of Music faculty member. She graduated from Corry Area High School and plans to attend Bob Jones University in Greenville this fall. In high school she was in the band for five years and in her senior year joined the choir and was chosen for the district and State Chorus Festival. The Warren Conservatory extends a cordial invitation to the public.
The Women's Relief Corps met at Grange Hall with 19 members. Mrs Rosa Westley, turning 88 on August 1, was honored as a birthday picnic will be held August 1 at Allen Park in Jamestown. A quilt and door prize went to members, lunch was served, and the next meeting plans a turkey dinner on August 16 at Hoon.
The Spring Creek Ladies Aid met in the church parlors with 12 members and one guest, Mrs. Pearl Anderson of Seattle. Mrs. Arthur Brundage led devotions, Mrs. Lilley prayed, and Chandler Mason, president, led business. The group approved buying new long playing records for the chimes donated by the late Irwin Hall of Buffalo. Hostesses served refreshments. next meeting September 6 hosted by Mrs. William Kafferlin and Mrs. Fred Smith.
Mr and Mrs Eugene Buesink of Grove Street entertained nine employees and their wives and children of Buesink's car sales firm in Clymer. Pull course steak dinners were served, and after wards games were enjoyed. Those present were from Clymer Findley Lake and Corry.
Spring Creek volunteers hold regular meeting combined with a Wiener and corn roast at the Don Whaley home. Plans set for a card party on September 29 at West Spring Creek Town Hall. Next session on September 5 will feature a white elephant site. members urged to bring items.
The Friends Peace Committee a Quaker group will stage an outdoor vigil Sunday marking the 17th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in Philadelphia.
A son was born this morning at Corry Memorial Hospital to Mr and Mrs Kenneth Weila cher of RD 2 Cambridge Springs. The family announced the joyful birth.
In Cologne 20,000 well wishers jammed the square in front of Eisenhower’s hotel blocking a planned cathedral visit. Police attempted to create a passage but the crowd strained the barriers. Eisenhower canceled the visit by cable message.
Five Bristol Township school board members and four teachers faced a charged meeting at Benjamin Franklin Junior High as a Bucks County case of alleged job selling for principalships drew about 400 observers. Board members denied wrongdoing while teachers urged scrutiny.
Jimmy Pullen once told a chamber audience he had reformed after being a check forger. He pleaded guilty to passing 57 worthless checks totaling 4843.50 and received a one year prison sentence. In Indiana Pa a fatal crash killed a woman and injured five others including the Kinter family.
A 1958 Mercury will be awarded with groceries at a two day promotion ending August 18. Winners present receive a $25 bonus and no purchase is required. Slips are available in participating stores with the participant list published beforehand.
Stanley A. Michalak, 55, a Great Lakes Towing Co. worker from Ashtabula, died after a tow line parted on the tug Idaho during a tow of the ore vessel B. W. Druckenmiller. Officials say a chain at the line’s end struck him as the line failed, and he was pronounced dead on arrival at Ashtabula General Hospital. He had sailed on the lakes previously and had worked for the company since 1945.
James A. Whitmore Sr., 61, prominent community planning official and former insurance executive, father of actor James Whitmore, died Wednesday after a brief illness in Buffalo New York. He had served in local civic roles and supported arts programs in his community for decades.
Senate investigators say a Man Friday in the Agriculture Department secretly acted for Billie Sol Estes. Joseph A. Moss testified the memo urged permanent validation of Estes cotton allotments, while the department later declared the deals illegal and fined Estes promoter from Pecos, Texas, $554.
The memo tied to 1961 manipulations and a nearly $50,000 fine on a 1962 allotment jugsling sparked a bank ru ptcy declaration and fraud charges. The FBI was asked to identify the typewriter and author of a scribbled note on the only surviving copy. Moss testified he helped Emery A. Jacobs draft the memo last January. Jacobs resigned in April amid a Texas inquiry into Hytes.
About 490 Struthers Wells workers at the Warren plant planned to return to work Wednesday while 150 employees from the Titusville plant formed picket lines after going on strike Tuesday. Across Western Pennsylvania several plants remain halted as about 2,000 United Steelworkers members strike following contract expirations.
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