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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1961
Page
4
Publication and staff notes for the Corry Evening Journal in Corry Pennsylvania include address lines, publisher and staff roles, advertising representatives, and building names. It lists postage rates by mail and carrier, Associated Press rights, and display advertising deadline.
A column attacks California school rulings banning religious Christmas carols as cowardly and idiotic. It argues songs like Silent Night do not threaten students or morals and warns against appeasing strict secularism while urging schools to allow musical masterpieces regardless of religious context. It contends listening enriches rather than harms, and urges toughness over capitulation to ideological pressure.
Jamudtown reports the death of Mrs Hattie M Schwartza walder, mother of Floyd Ben Schwarza walder Syracuse University head football coach, who died Thursday at the Gerry Home for the Aged north of Jamestown.
Corry's past is recalled in a 20 year old glimpse from December 9 1941 highlighting wartime anxiousness in Washington. Reports speak of Japanese air threats and alerts across the United States including San Francisco and New York City while President Roosevelt pledges progress and accountability for the Pearl Harbor attack aftermath. Representative Vincent of New York questions leadership during the Pearl Harbor decision.
Four decades ago, Emmanuel church members and Rev M B Ashton with the vestry hosted a fine years on dinner. Letters were given to Corry High school athletes including Lawrence Hammond Donald Group Francis Blair Glen Dickson Paul Splesman Arthur Brundage Michael Malone Albert McLean Warren Titus Lyle Belding Ralph Jewell. Charles A Bory of Kane killed a 250 pound six pronged buck near Ludlow, the largest deer in years.
A jumble of local notes reports a store Santa tale, a Corry naval trainee named coxswain on a company whaleboat bound for San Diego, and a range of small town items. Other items mention a fatal West Smith street crash, police cautions, teen club liquor chances, essay contest winners, and local civic notes including a major’s promotion and a nuclear carrier crew.
oe donated to veterans hospitals and Raymond Sloan of East Main street received a deck of braille cards. Warren High School students raised funds for a foreign exchange student program by selling bricks from the old high school at 60 cents each. All proceeds pay the exchange student’s passage to Warren, Pa. Corry highways were poorly plowed this winter and no snow equipment was visible. Pro Mile Control Commission in Pittsburgh proposed container delivery at $1 per gallon with a suggested cut to 94 cents for store sales, a 1 cent reduction.
Trooper Robert Stamka found Harald Barnes, 62, slumped against his car door in snow along Route 20 between Arborcresk and North East. Barnes suffered a heart attack and was pulled to the roadside, admitted to Hamot Hospital in critical condition.
A reader asks if a policyholder can demand refund when health and accident coverage differ from what an agent sold. Advice notes misunderstandings occur at sale and urges reading the contract before paying. If terms differ, request refund or policy amendment to match agreed coverage. Then a separate local incident details Barnes missing husband near North East and a rescue.
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