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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1962
Page
5
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Miss Barbara Gibas was feted at a surprise birthday party held at the Snyder Circle home of Mrs. Donald Gibas. Co hostess Miss Eivelyn Baccus helped with games contests and prizes were awarded to Mrs. Walter Gibbs Mrs. John Maroney and Miss Marjorie Ayers. Christmas decorations framed the refreshment table with pizza cake and soft drinks served by the hostesses.
A combined meeting of the Women’s Society of World Service and the EUB Men drew 48 people to the Evangelical United Brethren Church social rooms last evening. Devotions, a brief business session, a Christmas readings program, and a panel on “Phases and Meanings of Christmas” were followed by musical numbers and a closing prayer. A sewing project for Hillcrest Church missionaries’ children in Nigeria West Africa was approved.
The Wheelock Community Aid held its annual Christmas party at the home of Mrs. Jan Howard in R. D. 4 with twelve members attending. President Mrs. Leland Crosscut led a short business meeting and devotion themed Peace was given by Mrs. Elsa Mc Clintock.
Mrs Charles Weston of West Pleasant street hosted her card club after the annual Christmas dinner in Ginnies Sombrero Room. Turkish dinner and a dessert course followed with gifts exchanged and prizes awarded to Mrs Harry Pawson Jr, Mrs Herbert Stewart, and Mrs Joseph Bares. The next meeting will be at Mrs Ernest McMichael’s Essex street home on January 16 in Corry.
Corry Area PTA Council members and guests were briefed on Civil Defense in the county by Clifford Holcomb executive director of the Corry CD unit and David Parmenter Erie Sute County CD director. A detailed account of available facilities and emergency aid administration followed a tureen dinner hosted by Columbus and Spring Creek PTAs.
Forty members of the Chancel Choir of the First Methodist Church gathered at the North Center street home of Bir and Mrs. Hubert Vaughn for their annual Christmas party. The evening featured games and contests hosted by Charles and Woodrow Gilliland, carol singing led by H. Lynn Rice, and refreshments of sandwiches cookies coffee and tea.
Members and guests of the Cor ty Bridge Association held an annual charity game in the Garden Room of the VFW Post home to benefit the Multiple Sclerosis Fund. Winners included Mr and Mrs Kinley, Mr and Mrs Morgan Beverly James King and Joseph Pequignot, and Miss Elizabeth Rogers and Harold Gilbert.
John Mitchell of 27 West Bed street marks his 95th birthday with a neighborhood celebration at his home this evening. He and his wife Clara Moir have three children Jean Mitchell of San Jose California Robert Mitchell of Erie. Mitchell, a Corry resident for six years, worked as a carpenter and came from Canada where five brothers still reside.
A son was born last evening at Corry Memorial Hospital to Mr and Mrs Richard Mason of Caneadohta Lake. Classifieds may have more notices of this birth and other listings.
Federal mediators halted negotiations in the New York newspaper strike amid deadlock. Eight million readers would lose nine major dailies for at least five more days as 20,000 workers remain idle.
Donora Pennsylvania a downtown furniture store was wrecked by fire threatening adjacent buildings. Seven families were evacuated safely from threatened buildings. Three firefighters were treated for smoke inhalation as electrical service was cut off and several businesses closed their doors.
The White House announced that John Kennedy will be on a taped hour long NBC ABC and CBS program Monday night reviewing his first two years in the White House. The show will air at 6 30 p m EST on ABC CBS and at 8 30 p m on NBC and is titled After Two Years a Conversation with the President. Kennedy will be interviewed by Sanders Vancour NBC William H Lawrence ABC and George Herman CBS.
Michael J. Soldren, age 52, a Democratic party official and executive of the United Steel Workers Union, died yesterday in Pueblo. He led regional labor efforts and was active in local politics and labor organizing.
Erie County plans a $100000 transfer from the institution district fund to the general fund to cover a $10243 deficit in the county's general fund. A year end surplus in the hospital district fund is blamed on construction delays in a $3 million expansion. An October heart attack is noted for a patient.
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