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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1961
Page
4
The Corry Evening Journal announces daily publication with Sunday exceptions and lists staff roles and national advertising representatives. It notes mail subscription prices and carrier rates, with display advertising deadline at 9 a.m. the day before publication.
Corry residents attend a Saturday evening barbershop songfest at Corry Area High School auditorium to raise funds for a new historical museum in Mead Park. The event promises nostalgic renditions from 90s style harmonies and community pride as profits support the project.
Lee Birnkrant, once an orthodontist from North Hollywood, went to Tahiti for four weeks and stayed, living off odds and odd jobs for months. He refuses to return, drawn by the island’s pace and its people, despite impossible work rules and rising costs.
The article outlines renewed efforts to raise the minimum wage to $1, with initial coverage at the current rate and similar proposals to the former bill. It cites affected groups including 2.64 million retail and service workers, 157,000 laundries, 107,000 transit workers, 100,000 seamen, 41,000 telephone operators, 32,000 in fish processing, and 3 million in establishments already covered.
Hal Boyle catalogs winter household types who worsen cold seasons from the clinging producer to the stubborn retiree. The piece lampoons the courageous, the weary, and the bargain hunter despite the piling snow and driving wind. Edith Widing Yaffe, 66, portraitist who painted generals and aristocrats, died in Freeport Maine.
Yesterday's Memories of Corry reports fire sweeping a room filled with cotton bales at the New Haven Quilt and Pad Company, causing damage and claiming the loss of eleven workers. Locally Leo Hutz buys Follett Market site on First Avenue to open a meat market and dairy store. Joe Baressi's Steel Age basketball team faces three away games. Rigard Morton and partner play mixed doubles at Recreation Alleys with a 1240 total.
Four decades ago Cory High five Morrison Wright Hoenes and Mertz beat Union City 34 to 27 at the Armory. A committee including C D Wilcox FT Babbitt and L W Olds was named to select furnishings for the new auditorium in the Municipal Building at Instevening Chamber of Commerce session. Miss Hazel Morrell visits Erie guest of Miss Mina Terry over Sunday. Billy Munn of Garland headlined the entertainment at the
Washington AP The new secretary of state Dean Rusk appears a studious cautious technocrat who will let President Kennedy announce major foreign policy steps. Rusk, 52, says he will speak up when needed but will avoid rushing headlines, unlike his predecessor Dulles who sought dramatic statements. He aims to rely on a trained diplomatic corps and keep the president as the public voice for major actions. SYLVANIA AIDE SUCCUMBS.
A reader laments Corry residents losing job opportunities to out of town workers and cites local school projects: Clymer Findley Lake studies show most labor from Pennsylvania with few New York jobs. The letter questions unemployment aid fairness and local taxation for schools.
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