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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1962
Page
3
A garbled OCR excerpt mentions Eisenhower, recruitment, wage issues, and a college program. It references Cronkite and sports terms in a disjointed way, with scattered names and phrases from a historical newspaper page. The readable pieces are insufficient for a coherent event or headline.
A fragmented note mentions Brinkley Cronkite and Sporti Churchill in a sports context. The readable hints point to a summary of a game or event featuring these names, with unclear details but a clear sports framing.
Washington AP reports IRS counsel Mitchell Rogovin estimates the 1962 bringer of aid to Castro Cuba in exchange for 1100 plus Bay of Pigs prisoners could create a $40 million deduction for companies. If realized at 5 percent corporate tax, the government could lose about $20 million in revenue spread over 1962 1963 or 1964.
Meadville Local 71 International Hod Carriers Building and Common Laborers Union of America shows a fund shortage of about $4,000 in the general fund. The U S Department of Labor Pittsburgh will conduct a full investigation into the deficit after money tied to a road project near Cochranton was deposited by a construction company and shared among three Hod Carrier members.
AP reports twenty two Americans including two women are believed held in Cuban prisons. Some face long terms on charges from spying to anti-Castro activity. others await trial with undisclosed charges. Details on backgrounds are scarce. Donovan and the Red Cross seek their release as in the prior Bay of Pigs case. Geraldine Shamma and Martha O Neal are among those named, both arrested in 1960 and sentenced to ten and nine years respectively.
Thursday sale in Crawford Venango and Mercer counties features good and choice hogs ranging 16 to 171, sows 12 to 14, beef cows 14 to 16, canners and cutters 11 to 13, beef heifers 17 to 22, bulls 18 to 22, veal calves 32 to 37, heavy and medium calves 21 to 29, and lambs 17 to 21.
A barn on Walter Payne’s Meadvill area farm eight miles north of Meadville burned in the early hours destroying 28 cattle 25 pigs a tractor and several pieces of farm machinery. Firefighters from Springboro Conneautville saved nearby buildings but the barn loss is near 22000 with investigation into the cause underway.
Warren fire crews mobilized after a split line released propane gas at United Refinery. All borough firefighters including off duty men responded. About 2,500 feet of hose laid as a precaution. wind aided in preventing ignition. Flow diverted after roughly one hour.
Community churches listed with service times across Corry and nearby towns. Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Smith and Center Streets offers Holy Communion at 8:00 am and church social at 10:00 am, with morning prayer and sermons on first and third Sundays and Holy Communion on second and fourth Sundays. Other congregations include Brookmsteaws Farish Congregational, Findley Lake Evangelical United Brethren, and Oleamer Methodist with varying Sunday School and worship schedules and midweek activities.
A sermon-like piece argues that since the twelve year old Jesus began speaking of loving one another, humanity still ignores his words. It questions the practicality of greed and war, urging that following love may be the only sure practical path and warning that time may be running out. It concludes that it would be worth a trial to embrace this message.
A consolidated church directory lists services at EXCELCIOR FULL GOSPEL in Titusville and multiple nearby congregations including FIRST METHODIST, CORRY ASSEMBLY OF GOD, MCCRARY METHODIST, CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE, FIRST BAPTIST, ELGIN METHODIST, CHRISTIAN MEMORIAL HURCH, NORTH CLYMER EUE CHURCH, ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE RC CHURCH, ST PAUL'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN, THE SALVATION ARMY and others. Each entry provides Sunday School times, morning worship, youth activities, midweek services, and special meetings with pastors named or titles listed.
The Columbus community church on Essex Street lists Rev. Walter Thoms services including worship at 11 00 am and Bible study at the parsonage with nursery care. The Church of the Nazarene under Rev. Joseph Ranzlemar offers Sunday School at 9 45 am morning worship at 10 45 am and evangelistic service at 1 45 pm with midweek prayer on Wednesdays.
A reader notices service times for Averdam Mennonite Wemmen and other churches: WheeLOCK Community, Cobes Corners, St Elizabeths, First Church of Christ Scientist East Columbus Avenue, and Spartansburg Methodist. Entries include Sunday worship hours, Sunday School, youth and evangelistic meetings, midweek prayers, and masses with specific times and locations in Corry and nearby towns.
Sunday School times and worship services for Bear Lake EyB Church Wayne Valley EUE Harbor Ridge Wesleyan and First Presbyterian are shown along with midweek events. Nearby businesses include Corry Instrument Company Rogers Structures Pauls Men s Wear McInnes Steel Co Corry Concrete and Graval Raymond Mfg Co Heberlein Motor Sales and other regional establishments.
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