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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1963
Page
5
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A posivewrk shower honored Mrs. Joseph Hoff and her infant son Mark Bre of 127 Worth Street. Hostess Mrs. Nora Jean Emerson, assisted by her mother Mrs. N I Gleason, led ten guests in games and visits with prizes awarded to several guests and a decorative yellow and white table setting offering fruit salad cake coffee and baby favors.
Mr Mixer of East Mainstreet hosts a display of precious and semi precious stones with gem cutting and engraving demos at the Annus Hobby Show sponsored by the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen on the sixth floor of the Boston store in Erie. Mrs Mixer exhibits old pattern quilts as part of a wide crafts showing with over thirty works including ceramics china painting copper enameling tooling laminated glass silk screening tile work and tin sculpture. Demonstrations include bisa caning quilting and antique caning by Mrs Earlein and Mrs Mixer. The event features mosaic work and bedspreads by local weavers and invites the public to visit during showroom hours.
Mrs Kirk Sawyer entertained her card club at Brook Street with two tables of 500. Prizes went to Mrs Emory Benson Mrs Harry Paulson Jr and Mrs Charles Weston. Guests enjoyed salad and dessert. Next meeting set for March 13 at Mrs Paulson’s West Pleasant Street home.
Local Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodges announce a pancake supper at TOOF Hall starting 4 p m tomorrow hosted by Jonathan Godge No 685 Encampment 241 and Lady Franklin Rebekah Lodge 140 with tickets at the door. The event opens a schedule of April and May IOOF activities including degree rallies, officer installations, a Northwestern Pennsylvania IOOF Association meeting at Corry Area High School, and a May 18 regional gathering in Corry with representatives from 13 counties.
A six table Howell session last night in the Garden Room of the VFW Post hosted the Corry Bridge Association. Winners included Hazel Shaw and Charles Johnson 82, Pat Lee and Morgan Beverly 79, T. A. Hubley duo 764, James King and Joseph Pequignot 7434, T. H. Treat pair 71, and J. Fred Kinley duo 69%. The Beverlys and Binleys head to a two session Team of Four Club Championship next week and the following week. A 20 foot crane fall at General American Transportation Corp in Sharon killed Michael Durisko 58 today. He fell from a crane platform in Mercer County.
Kay Atoniette Ken ingen of Cambridge Springs and Rev Bruce Kenneth Price of Oil City announce their engagement. Kay is a senior at Cambridge Springs High School and employed at Ye Zem Zem Hospital in Erie. Price is a 1954 Panama Central High School and 1960 Houghton College graduate, pastored churches in Kaneville and Cherry Tree. The wedding is set for April 20 at 2 PM in Corry Evangelical United Brethren Church.
The Women's Association of First Presbyterian Church met yesterday at Mrs. William Gumbleton's West Irving Street home for the February session. President Mrs. Arthur Cochran led business and reminded members of the family night dinner March 1 at 6, followed by a Lenten service with Rev. Tunis Miersma as guest speaker. Circle chairs were asked to submit upcoming event plans by the 12th of each month. Reports were given by circle leaders. Sewing day is set for April 18, and a drive for men’s clothing for Cuban refugees is under way. The next meeting is March 27 with location to be announced.
Hazel eyed Carmella La Spada of Cheater Pennsylvania is chosen by the Pennsylvania Society of Washington to represent the state at the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington. She will attend receptions a fashion show and ball during March to April. She is a Penn State graduate working at the White House on seminars for student summer jobs and fundraising. She has not yet been formally presented to President Kennedy.
Hollywood AP reports Desi Arnaz, recently divorced from Lucy Ball, will wed Edith Hirsch this Saturday at the Sands Hotel Las Vegas. Hirsch, also red haired, secured a divorce Tuesday in Juarez from Clement Hirsch.
In Manhattan an IRS office on Lexington Avenue evacuated four floors and blocked streets when a 63 year old man left a yellow box behind after a dispute over a refund. Police used a fluoroscope to inspect the box. its contents turned out harmless.
A Philadelphia Transport Workers Union local vows to disrupt Pennsylvania Railroad passenger and freight service if furlough talks fail. The railroad plans to furlough 108 workers nationwide, including 59 in Philadelphia area, Camden, Paoli and nearby cities. Harold Manning, the personnel chief, will join talks with labor representatives today.
David Devore, 26, was found innocent of involuntary manslaughter by non jury trial in Allegheny County Criminal Court. He was acquitted yesterday by Visiting Judge Edwin M. Clark of Indiana County in connection with the death of Robert Orr, 28, of Springdale, who died April 14, 1961, two days after being injured in an accident in Devore's truck in New Kensington.
CHICAGO AP Alderman Benjamin Lewis of the 2th Ward, a Black Democrat reelected by a large margin, was found handcuffed and shot in his second floor office. A janitor found the burning light, Lewis on the floor beside a desk, with several empty shells nearby. Police described Lewis cuffed in front, a burned cigarette between fingers, and his wife Hila arriving after the discovery. Lewis defeated Jeff Alford in Tuesday’s election by 12 to 1, with 14189 votes to 1189. Belton, a police official and Lewis’s former classmate, identified the body. Alford, also Black.
A United States official announced tapering of economic aid to Nationalist China. Howard L. Parsons, head of the Formosa AID office, said Formosa’s economy could be self sustaining in a few years but declined to provide a timeline or figures. He stressed no erosion of U S interests.
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