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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1962
Page
5
Fragmentary OCR notes mix holiday themes with a vehicle crash in Baltimore city. Mention of Magi gifts and Christ child shifts to unrelated ads and a list of items including a 68c color reference and a $2.00 bar. No clear single event stands out.
Readable fragments describe an art easel labeled Pegular 3 with paper and items. The garbled text mentions wiping the board and a mechanism ejecting automatically. No clear event or names emerge beyond the damaged note about an art setup.
Willam R. Brooks Lua son of Mr and Mrs William Brooks of Sixth avenue spends the holidays with his family and will return Monday to LeTourneau College in Longview Texas where he majors in business administration. Cadets Patricia Long Beverly Austin and others from the Salvation Army School for Officers Training in New York City arrive for holiday visits with their relatives in the city. Kenneth McCray and Mrs Fred Lindstrom and Mrs James Shaver visit their parents who observe their 50th wedding anniversary.
Penn State senior Miss Cohen of University Park will compete for the 1968 Sno Ball queen title. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cohen, she graduated Corry Area High School in 1980, cheered in campus activities, studies rehabilitation counseling, and plans graduate work to aid vocationally handicapped individuals. She represents the Retail Merchants Division of the Chamber of Commerce and will be escorted by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Grice at the Sno Ball hosted by Corry Memorial Hospital Ladies Auxiliary.
The Corry Public Library lists 1962 national public library favorites in fiction and non fiction. Fiction titles include The Bull From The Sea Captain Newman Dearly Beloved Devil Water Genius The Ivy Tree The Prize A Shade of Difference The Thin Red Line Youngblood Hawke Uhuru Ship of Fools The Reivers Portrait in Brownstone Hornstein's Boy and Kirkland Revels. Non fiction titles cover The Blue Nile A Bridge For Passing The Guns of August O Ye Jigs and Juleps The Pyramid Climbers Travels With Charley Silent Spring The Last Plantagenets and The Rothschilds.
Ineiyin piyit hosted a holiday party for National Bank of Copry women employees on West Pleasant Street. The social evening included a gift exchange and festive table decors with glittered candles and carnation corsages. Guests included Miss Shirley Yaratch and others.
A son was born at Union City Memorial Hospital on Saturday to Mr and Mrs Robert Blakamp of Cambridge Springs. A son was born yesterday at City Memorial Hospital to Mr and Mrs Frank McClelland of R D 8 Union City. A son was born at Corry Memorial Hospital Saturday to Mr and Mrs Reuben L Swanson of R D 2 Corry. A daughter was born yesterday to Mr and Mrs Cloyd Cummings R D 2 Clymer at Corry Memorial Hospital.
John B Ohm Sr and his wife celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house and reception at the YMCA. Hosts include John Ohm Jr Richard Ohm Denzel Phillips Robert Bailey and Donald Knapp with invited friends neighbors and relatives.
Poet Robert Frost, age 88, remains in hopeful condition after surgery at Peter Brigham Hospital. He entered the hospital December 10 for an undisclosed ailment and the operation was reported completely successful by Dr Loyd Musselis.
Thirty members and families of the Columbus Grange gathered at the Schramling building in Columbus for the annual Christmas party. Decorations were arranged by Howard and Edith Miller and Keith Wade. The program, planned by Mrs. Philip Wade, included contests, group reviews, and readings on Christmas. Mrs. David Curtis led the home economics committee with table appointments featuring red tapers and holiday centerpieces. Refreshments included Christmas cookies, candies, popcorn balls, coffee, tea, and orangeade. The next meeting is scheduled for January 14. Buy in Corry.
Esther Pounds Miss Karen Ferry Mrs Donald Arnink Mrs Robert Borstorff Mrs Arland Burrous Mrs Carl Dahl and Mrs Milton McIntyre appear in a local social page listing attendees and society names from a recent community event. The group reflects prominent residents and family connections across the town.
A Christmas feature shows the festival’s many faces from joy to sorrow. Vignettes include a Waterville shopper, a Providence bus driver, and children trapped in a Cambridge store. Sorrow appears in Carmichaels with fathers missing and in Vineland for a missing 3 year old Billy Jones. In Philadelphia a 16 year old…
Distress and tenderness mingle in holiday scenes as a youth faces confinement, others dispatch Christmas greetings, and a sheriff signals a generous, hopeful mood. The narrative blends sorrow with benevolence as communities rally to aid those in need during Christmas season.
Cuban forces move 900 prisoners from Weunnue fortress to a military airport and airlift affiliates from the Isle of Pines. Officials vow to unload the African Pilot’s 1,400 ton cargo within 24 hours and to work quickly for Christmas.
Harvey R. Robinson a 31 year old Pottstown musician and father of three is charged with murder in the beating death of Marlene E. Perfer a 27 year old York divorcee He was arraigned and jailed without bail after police say he admitted to being in the apartment Saturday and that the two forced a slide lock before finding Miss Pered dead Autopsy shows death caused by multiple brain hemorrhages from blunt force His statement reportedly included admissions while investigators withheld further comment The call to police came from another resident who was later found in the victim s apartment Robinson native of Buffalo NY played drums in a York area sextet and had reportedly been seeing Miss Perez
Pennsylvania State University named Dr. Darrell E. Walker as head of the horticulture department effective January 1. He succeeds Dr. Russell H. Larson, now director of agriculture and home economics extension, and Dr. Walker has been on the faculty since 1954.
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