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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1958
Page
3
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Mrs Ethel Lou Roth announces the engagement of grand daughter Sylvie Lou Watson to Gary Allen Troyer at a Krahe s Steak House dinner hosted by foster parents Mr and Mrs Leonard Clark of Mill Village. Sylvie Watson will graduate Union City High later. Troyer, class of 1956, helps run Troyer Brothers Potato Farm. Several area families plan Florida trips. Activities include Army and hospital moves, and a Sno Ball Dance selection for Corry Instrument Company employee Linda Wilkinson.
The Junior Y group led by Miss Jean Nichols hosted a busy week of events at the YMCA. About 30 members caroled Monday evening then enjoyed refreshments. Tuesday they rang Salvation Army bells from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and hosted a Sadie Hawkins Dance with chaperones Mr. and Mrs. Leo Neck ers. Peggy Pain and Ronald Johnson won stuffed animals and two records were given away.
A surprise birthday party hosted by her husband honored Mrs Al Yanssen last evening. About 16 attended. Games were played and prizes went to Mrs Charles Jackman Mrs Raymond Anderson Mrs Anna Kempf and Mr and Mrs Charles Hiles. The home was decorated for the holidays. The group gave gifts to Mrs Yanssen. Cake ice cream and coffee were served.
In Belgium, five workers were buried after an underground mushroom farm tunnel collapse. Rescue crews, digging with limited hope, reported 18 people trapped by the Tuesday cave-in as an emergency shaft was sunk toward a storage chamber where survivors might be found.
The Junior Department of the First Presbyterian Church was feted with a Christmas swimming party at the YMCA. Swim time lasted until 7 p.m. with Miss Jane Howard and Mrs. William Gumbleton on guard duties. Assistants included Mrs. John Kennedy Mrs. Guy Sutton Rev and Mrs. Paul Bauer Ray Carey and Miss Donna Sharer. Christmas candy was presented to the participants.
The Junior Ti-Hi w and the Alpha Hi-Y hosted semi and formal dances at the YMCA with about 50 couples in attendance. Music by A. Al Chehore and Wislo provided lively tunes, and refreshments of punch and cookies were served buffet style. Chaperones included Bennelt Harvey and Muung Mas, with decor by Miss Mary Capwell and Richard Butts, publicity by Bat s da Wenzel and Jatin Carlson, refreshments by Roberta Pain and Norman Wade, and finances handled by Barhara Weicht and James Bayle.
Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold arrives in Sudan for a brief two day official visit after flying in from Gaza. He plans to travel to Addis Ababa for the first session of regional talks and will continue diplomatic engagements across the region.
William Kappell, father of actress Doris Day, was slashed yesterday while intervening in a dispute between a barmaid Martha Stalling and a customer Marvin Mayberry at the Movil Cafe in West End. Mayberry allegedly grabbed the barmaid, advanced on her, and Kappell tried to intervene before police were called. Kappell received treatment from a physician.
Pittsburgh official Wroblewski says 50 000 aliens will report addresses in January under the Alien Address Report program. In January 1954, 2,500,000 aliens filed reports. non citizens except certain statuses and foreign representatives must file. Temporary agricultural workers admitted for employment must report. failure may incur consequences. Those outside the US in January must report within 10 days of return.
Beaver County officials charged District Attorney Richard P. Steward and two county detectives with conspiring to arrest falsely in a morals case tied to 25 year old Frank Senk. The charges followed Senk’s conviction on morals charges involving a 14 year old girl from Coraopolis and his earlier suspicion in a disappearance case. Steward denied the accusations as unfounded while noting the case’s sensitivity.
U S District Judge Edward Hignant in Maine sentenced Karol Van Collins to five years for an $80,000 jewel theft at York Harbor. The judge said he had received a Christmas card from Van Collins reading No hard feelings honest.
County health departments will oversee school environmental health programs across Mee counties including Evie. Health Secretary Charlies L. Wilbartis said districts in their counties will be supervised even where townships boroughs or cities have own departments. Programs cover sanitation ventilation food service waste disposal and safe water supplies with state personnel providing direct service in the rest of the state. Counties with own departments include Bucks Allegheny Butler and Erie.
Dr M Earle Collings 65 president of Missouri Valley College is missing after failing to return from a Marshall Missouri Christmas Eve service. He was due to depart for Orlando for the Tangerine Bowl where Valley plays East Texas State today. A college staffer said Collings rode a day coach as far as Jacksonville Florida.
Eva Gunthier, noted soprano, died yesterday at University Hospital after a prolonged illness. The death was announced by her representative, with tributes from fellow musicians and the city’s arts community. The soprano was 46. Funeral arrangements are pending.
Neighbors knew the red arried man as Art Nelson a gardener and handyman until El Cajon police picked up Nelson on a petty theft warrant and uncovered his true identity as Daniel William O Connor 29 an FBI most wanted fugitive with RCMP notices. He gained 58 pounds dyed his hair red grew a mustache and displayed a tattoo to evade capture but fingerprints exposed him. O Connor lived in the San Diego area for three years working odd jobs to avoid a Social Security card and used aliases to victimize merchants across Montana North Dakota and Oregon. The FBI called him a chronic bogus check passer and he was sought for stolen property across state lines. Canadian authorities also pursued him for beating a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer with a pistol tying him up and throwing him off the road in May 1953. He was arrested on a warrant clearing him.
Titusville police last night charged Granville South Morris of Spar tansburg with drunken driving after his note struck two parked cars on Union street around 8:30 PM. A 1953 Ford sedan owned by James P. Spence was pushed into a 1956 Ford sedan owned by Titusville Herald Inc. Damages totaled about 360 dollars. Morris could not give his name and was taken to Titusville Hospital for treatment of an upper lip injury.
John Hines Jr 45 of Detroit pleaded innocent in Erie County Common Pleas Court to seven counts of second degree manslaughter over a head on crash on the Ohio Turnpike November 7 that killed a Jamestown family of six and his passenger. He did not post bond. he was returned to Erie County jail from a Norwalk hospital. He is to be arraigned Monday before a U.S. commissioner.
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