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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1962
Page
2
Local Line-O-Ad promotes Ritz candy gifts and Hammermill personalized stationery. Sections feature chocolate assortments, candy canes, and ribbon candy with a call to order by noon for Christmas. Also promotes Turben's Auto Service as Chevrolet dealer and gift ideas for hard to buy persons.
Miss Celina Elizabeth O'Brien of 162 York Street died at Corry Memorial Hospital at 8 55 p m age 66 after sudden illness from December 9. Born March 29 1896 in Corry she lived here except for years in Youngstown Ohio with Truscon Steel Co. She worked at Davison Grocery and Aero Supply during World War III. She was a 1916 Corry High School graduate and a St Thomas Church member. Surviving are sisters Jen and Mary O'Brien at home and Mrs Percy LaPaze of Struthers brothers James and John of Corry and several nieces and nephews. Friends may call Bracken Funeral Home 7 9 p m tonight 2 4 and 7 9 p m tomorrow Rosary 7 30 p m tomorrow prayer service 9 a m Wednesday Requiem Mass 9 30 a m Wednesday at St Thomas Church Burial in St Thomas Cemetery.
Saturday admission notes list 13 year old Randall Bhampoe son of Gordon and Mrs Bhampoe in Clymer and Debra Schifke age 2 of 311 Delaware Street. Discharges include M O Baldwin Corry and Mrs Maynard with son Mark Dwayne Spartansburg among others. many Union City and surrounding area residents named with addresses and relations.
Dana J. Hammond of Columbus died yesterday at Union City Memorial Hospital after a long illness. He was 62, formerly of Wattsburg, who moved to Columbus three years ago and ran a grocery store. He attended Columbus Community Church and belonged to Perry Lodge 392 Free and Accepted Masons of Erie. Survived by his wife Lela, two daughters Betty Bisbee Union City and Geraldine McGahen St Petersburg Fla, one sister Bertha King Clymer, and one brother Floyd Hammond Erie.
Three people remained hospitalized after a gas explosion and fire at a suburban Richland Township home. Lorraine Ulrich 42 and her husband Louis 43 both burned were listed in serious and satisfactory condition, while daughter Cynthia 14 also suffered burns.William 10 was treated at the scene. Police blamed a leak in a three inch gas main for the blast.
Poisonous fumes seeping into apartments and two parked cars caused 12 deaths over a frigid weekend in New York. The toll included seven traffic deaths, two fires, and half the poisonings occurring in burned cars as heaters ran full blast amid zero readings and two inches of new snow.
Funeral services for Dana J Hammond are set for Wednesday at 2 30 p m at H L Musser Funeral Home Union City with interment in Lowville Cemetery. Visitation Monday and Tuesday 2 5 and 7 9 p m.
Liberty Bell Harness announces Edwin Moon as assistant to the president in charge of operations and James M. Lynch as racing secretary. Track president Michael J. O Neill made the appointments on Saturday, with Parimatter night harness racing slated to begin in Pennsylvania on June 7.
The report notes Mariner 2 passed within 21 100 miles of Venus and 74 inches casing of a fourth stage around a Scout rocket. Attempts to repair the Relay's equipment on the Explorer XVI mission failed and NASA postponed further efforts indefinitely. Meteoroids from the mission may be fragments of exploded planets orbiting the sun.
Rep. Ford O'Dell of Erie pledges three reforms to repeal the school reorganiz ation act repealing the radar enforcement act and ending the one day license suspension for a first driving offense. He criticized the reorganiz ation act as a bad act from the Lawrence administration.
O'Dell says the 30 day driver suspension plan and radar enforcement created a major hardship for many Pennsylvania residents and were a key factor in increasing concerns about road safety and compliance.
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