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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1962
Page
2
A hospital notice lists admissions and discharges for Corry Memorial Hospital with patient names and addresses alongside brief status. It includes a call for physicians in emergencies and notes area residents admitted or discharged, followed by local business and service advertisements and a short Elk lodge closure notice.
Verne Hansen 57, long missing Syracuse University chemistry professor Dr Carl Vernon Holmberg, identified by fingerprint as the man who vanished in 1955, living in Rockford as a laborer. He told reporters he does not know what comes next, while his wife Dorothy and three sons previously believed him dead and remarried.
Funeral services for Mrs Lillie VanTassel are set for Saturday at 2 p.m. at Bracken Funeral Home with viewing Friday 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 p.m. Burial in West Lawn Cemetery Columbus. Mary Gilger Smith’s funeral will be Saturday at 1 p.m. at Burger Funeral Home Franklin, interment in Rockland Cemetery Pennsylvania. Viewing Thursday 7 to 9 p.m. and Friday 2 to 9 p.m.
LaSalle College will honor Gov. David J. Lawrence next Wednesday for his years of distinguished public service and devotion to higher education. Gov. Richard J. Hughes of New Jersey will present the First Century Award to Lawrence, who holds an honorary degree and serves as general chairman of the college centenary fund drive.
Washington AP reports a wall collapse in Kan., Missouri damaged a commercial communications complex, breaking 10,000 circuits for over eight hours, including long distance links to missile sites and air bases. Defense officials say systems function under wartime conditions due to duplicate backups and extensive testing. American Telephone and Telegraph monitors circuits and switches to alternate paths automatically if a primary line fails.
HOD Frank Sabol plans a Saturday stop at the Rossbacher lot on West South Street to offer tree ripened grapefruit oranges tangerines and pecans direct from Florida. Unbelievable bar gains and clearance on all winter merchandise at Spitman's Dry Goods Wattsburg with a sale running February 8 through 24.
Ginger Pohlman 22 a dental nurse saw a billboard bill cost him about 100 dollars for a week. The article notes details about the dispute and the person involved with the billboard incident.
Harrisburg hearing on George L. Pease will begin at 10 a.m. on Wednesday February 28 in Millcreek. Attorney Robert B. McCullough Pease’s counsel reported the change after William W. Knox and Conrad Pearson Millcreek School Districts counsel requested a later time. The state will hear Pease appeal of his dismissal from Millcreek teaching post tied to charges over his refusal to run an after school bowling club.
The Steel Age Management Club met at state club rooms on Route 6 with Pred Magruder of the National Management Association as guest. William Hall was elected president, William McKee vice president, Joseph Hand secretary, and John Reno treasurer. Magruder praised outgoing president Elmer Alexander with a past president’s pin and certificate. A program on Corporate Image by William Chesley followed by a discussion. Robert Galbreath headed the organizing committee with John Molk and Richard Fuller assisting.
In Macon Georgia unusually large numbers of white riders filled city buses to oppose a Negro boycott that threatened transit service. Minor violence erupted with rock throwing incidents and two Negro youths detained. Negro leaders pressed demands amid claims of police harassment as the boycott seeks desegregation in seating and driver and mechanic employment. The Rev B B Paschal said protests would also call for dropping charges against four ministers and 12 students arrested in desegregation actions.
Mrs. VanTassel of 125 North Main Greensburg died there yesterday at 83. Born November 11 1873 in Pennsylvania she lived most of her life in Corry and Greensburg. Survived by three daughters Mrs Walter Mace Corry Mrs Joseph Atkinson Greensburg and Mrs John Morton Wesleyville one son Arlo Corry twelve grandchildren twenty eight great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren. Prayer service tonight at Seamen Funeral Home Greensburg funeral Saturday 2 pm at Bracken Funeral Home burial in West Lawn Cemetery Columbus. Capt Richard Bush Corry Salvation Army and Major Bernard Flynn Greensburg Salvation Army to officiate.
New York AP reports CBS and NBC aired a White House tour guided by Mrs. John F. Kennedy praised for informative, entertaining commentary. The piece uses engravings to show changes, notes Lincoln portraits, Roosevelt restoration, and Eisenhower’s era. Howard K. Smith debuts on ABC with mixed results.
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