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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1953
Page
7
A fragmentary OCR shows a civil notice referencing a sum of 21000 dollars and a planting obligation by a Company in Bradford and nearby places including Mercer and Warren. It lacks complete names, dates, or the full action but indicates a municipal or corporate agreement with specified districts.
A wrap of New Year's Day bowl prospects notes Georgia Tech favored by two touchdowns over West Virginia in the Sugar Bowl, Maryland vs Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl shapes as the day’s main attraction, Michigan State vs UCLA in the Rose Bowl, Rice vs Alabama in the Cotton Bowl, and other bets including Texas Tech over Auburn, Fort Ord over Great Lakes, and more with Alabama viewed as the strongest bowl performer.
The Cleveland Browns expect major retirements and draft turnover after a playoff defeat. George Young, Derrell Palmer, Otto Graham, Marion Motley and Tommy Thompson may quit, with Gene Donaldson, Billy Reynolds and Tom Catlin also eyeing the draft. Coach Paul Brown will decide on next year’s personnel before rebuilding efforts. Basketball and baseball notes follow with PSU boxing into two home games and the Indians announcing a 30 game night schedule for 1954.
National top ten teams suffered fresh defeats as holiday tournament play crowded arenas. Oregon State dropped another loss in Raleigh as Navy upset NC State. Tulane beat Oregon State 74-70 behind Wade Halbrook 23 points and 15 free throws. Fordham fell to Louisiana State 65-49 in New Orleans while Holy Cross routed De Paul 79-55. Western Kentucky extended its win streak to 11 with an 81-78 victory over Eastern Kentucky, and Wyoming beat Cincinnati 74-54 in the AN-College show in Oklahoma City. Gene Schwager led Rice with 38 points against SMU.
Harrisburg Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association voted to shorten junior high football periods from 10 to 8 minutes and basketball periods from 8 to 6 minutes after constitutional amendments were approved. The board’s next regular meeting is planned for Philadelphia on March 27. A second item notes Don Grant, 165, of Los Angeles defeated Jesse Fuentes, 163, by knockout in Los Angeles last night.
Corry Area High cagers recovered from a sluggish start to edge Union City 54-48 before about 280 fans. Jim Coates Ted Elchynski and Larry Cassett sparked a second half surge, lifting the Beavers to a 2-3 season mark as Drayer and Barnes provided early outside thunder. Union City’s lead scorer was their sparkplug who finished with 18 points.
The Cory High reserves defeated Union City Jayvees 97 to 48 in last night’s junior high prelim. Cory opened 12-5, led 27-14 at halftime, then coasted to victory behind Walt Wolfe with 10 points and Jim Burkhart with 9. Union City’s Lyons led visitors with 9.
Avalon ATH 26% sits within half a game of leaders after a night where Helen Shoppe pushed back to second place. Results show Helen Shoppe 389 604 65 Avalon 25 08 587 Rossbacher's 721 663 576 Domestic Sewmachine 561 603 625 Leeds 600 574 573 Root Appliance 544 534 579. Johnson Business Service keglerettes rise to first in VIFW Ladies B League with 3 sweeps over Davis Radio. Connie's 33 Rogers Steel 16 4B dolmson Business Service 7a 177 788 Davis Radio 68 771 728 Connie's 790 813 T96 Rogers Steel 720 782.
Green Bay Wis The Green Bay Packers named three new directors in an administrative reorganization. Elected directors were Charles Buckets Goldenberg Milwaukee former star guard for 1 years until his 1945 retirement W Mc Donnll Green Bay and Haaris McCormick Menominee Mich McCormick filled the vacancy from Verne Lewellen who was recently appointed the first Packers general manager in history.
In Melbourne, Hoad defeated Traubert 13-11 6-3 2-6 3-8 7-5 to even the Davis Cup Challenge Round as rain soaked the surface and officials postponed the singles. Rosewall and Seixas loom for the decisive matches, with Seixas facing Rosewall after his string of losses.
Westminster and St Francis opened the Evainy Club invitational basketball tournament with a 90 62 win over Youngstown. In the semifinals Westminster held off Youngstown for a 68 point victory to advance to a final rematch. Scholastic scores list Corry 34 Union City 48 Erie Prep 63 Youngstown 60 Burley 46 and other local results.
Farrell and Wampum High schools secured tournament championships. Farrell edged Homestead 64-63 on a final foul shot by John Strin the last minute, while Wampum downed Mercer 60 85 to clinch their title. Tyrone posted a 247 46 upset in the Cambria County event as Kywane beat Erie East 69 52.
Plans for a Carlisle High Alumnus basketball game against the Grads were cancelled after a postponed Union City game was rescheduled. With no suitable date available, organizers called off the alumni match. In a separate note, the Yerkes Stadium late night game on May 28, 1934 saw the Yankees fall to the Senators 2.
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