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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1962
Page
2
Sale runs February 8 to 24 at Spitman's Dry Goods Wattsburg with a clearance on all winter merchandise. No open bowling at VEW on Saturday and Sunday until 10:30 p.m due to women's tournament. Turben's ice is advertised by the dealer with the slogan Say Jeca wu.
Local hospital notices list admitted and discharged individuals with addresses in Spartansburg Spartansboro Corry Union City and surrounding areas. Entries include Karen 14 Walter Pittman Dennis Howard and others with detailed home locations and family names. Also notes Line-O-Ads rates 23c a line and noon deadline plus a brief Elks dining room closure notice.
Corry Country Club Women’s Golf Association directors met at Mrs. Robert A. Ott Jr.’s home. Officers for the coming season were elected: Mrs. John Rudolph president, Mrs. Ott vice president, Mrs. C R Ruffner treasurer, Mrs. Edward Kaiser secretary.
Funeral services are scheduled for Mrs. Lillie VanTassel at Bracken Funeral Home Saturday at 2 p.m. Friends may visit Friday 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Burial in West Lawn Cemetery Columbus. Mrs. Mary Gilger Smith will have final rites Saturday at 1 p.m. at Burger Funeral Home Franklin with interment in Rockland Pa. Cemetery. Friends may call Thursday 7 to 9 p.m. and Friday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sports columnist Carl Ridgley, 72, longtime Huntingdon Herald-Dispatch writer, dies Wednesday.
Carrall's Gift Shop offers a Berkshire bonus: buy four pairs of stockings at 1.35 dollars each for the price of three. Seamless or with seams, porch shoppers urged.
Austrian skiers swept the giant slalom as four of six races were completed. Egon Zimmerman and Karl Shranz led teammates on a 1 38.97 and 1 39.12 run, while Buddy Werner led the Americans in fifth. Kim Heliga, Billy Kidd, and Bill Marol trailed. The event was renamed the World Championships by FIS president Marc Hodler pending council approval.
Hal Boyle discusses double talk as a civilizing feature and offers examples from everyday life with literal translations. He notes older civilizations rely on polite phrases to save face and avoid wounded feelings, citing examples about sports pay, PTA elections, piano lessons, and household promises.
New York AP CBS won exclusive TV rights for NFL regular season and college football for two years. CBS bid 19.5 million total for regular season games, with NFL and NCAA packages breaking new price records. NBC and ABC were contenders. Rice, NBC rival, bid high for World Series and All Star baseball. The NCAA schedule includes 14 dates per year, starting September 15 and ending December 8 after the Army Navy game.
A water well on the Alfred Carlberg farm north of Frewsburg in Chautauqua County spouted gas after drilling reached 193 feet. Gas, water and mud shot 95 feet into the air. tools were dislodged by pressure. Officials deem gas quantity unlikely for commercial use. deputies closed nearby road and a Niagara Mohawk crew cleared lines iced by windblown spray.
The death of Cardinal Muench at 72 in Rome's Salvador Mundi Hospital heightens expectations of a consistory by Pope John XXIII to replenish the College of Cardinals. Muench joins Cicognani and de Gouveia as recent losses, reducing American cardinals to five as talks of increasing membership surface ahead of the Ecumenical Council opening October 1.
Auto slammed into a parked truck near Altoona Pennsylvania killing driver Joseph Szal 41 of Hollidaysburg and his niece Beverly Zachesky 19 of Cresson. Deputy coroner William B Crawford identified the victims and misstated details pending further report.
Dr Carl Vernoti Holmberg a fifty year old professor at Syracuse University who vanished seven years ago is identified in Rockford Illinois as Verne Hansen a one dollar an hour factory worker. He was arrested for a traffic violation and fingerprint check linked him to Holmberg, sparking past family records including a California move and a 1990 disappearance.
U S Attorney General Robert F Kennedy and his wife were forced to land at Semarang in Central Java after heavy clouds grounded their Soviet built Ilyushin transport. Indonesian pilots diverted from Bali to Semarang about 225 miles east of Bandung as pressurized Convair 240s carried other Kennedy party members. The Kennedys traveled to Indonesia on government reserved aircraft amid a whirlwind tour marked by Balinese ceremonies and dances.
A Philadelphia physician reports elimination of an eye cancer in a 11 year old patient using an antid cancer drug infusion. Dr Stanley N Levick of Einstein Medical Center announced the success at the Willk Eye Hospital conference. The patient had malignant melanoma of the orbit with intracranial extension and most of the tumor was removed by surgery before the five day Methotrexate infusion. There was no evidence of spread beyond the head and neck.
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