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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1966
Page
4
The advertisement promotes a furniture club forming with chances to win up to $200. It mentions a rummage sale hosted by the Aquatic Club of the Y at the Rod and Gun Club on Friday, March 11, with contact numbers to arrange pickup.
At Corry Memorial Hospital an emergency line is provided and admissions include Thomas Rathbun Sheila VanTassel and many others with discharge notices and a list of patients. Goodwill Industries of Pittsburgh announces a 1 million expansion plan with 150 to 200 new jobs. Local classifieds advertise Line-O-Ad rates and a church service notice at Bracken Funeral Home for Mrs Zennie Fish.
Over the weekend two Corry area crashes prompted possible charges. James Hildum, 17, of R D 4 Corry, went off Route 89 after a curve and hit a guard post. his vintage car was totaled at $75 with no injuries. A second crash five miles north on the Corry Clymer road involved Thomas Luka, 24, of Chautauqua N Y, who failed to negotiate a foggy curve and struck a guard post. his car suffered about $1,000 in damage and he was uninjured.
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP ESSA 2 a mechanical meteorologist with two cameras launched by a Douglas Delta rocket into about 850 miles orbit to join ESSA 1 in forming the world’s first operational space weather reporting network. Ground stations will activate its cameras Wednesday, with each camera taking and transmitting a picture every six minutes to aid forecasters and warn of severe weather.
A station can receive pictures from the satellite when within 2100 miles. On each pass ESSA 2 relays two or three pictures, each covering about four million square miles of weather patterns.
Harrisburg AP reports the 1966 Pennsylvania General Assembly schedules a special session followed by fiscal hearings. Gov. Scranton called the session to consider eight topics including mine subsidence, state police staffing, school district reorganization moratorium, and college facilities. Budget hearings for a $146.4 billion fiscal plan begin, with actions deferred pending data from hearings.
Mrs. Cassius Fish of 1055 East Main Street died in St. Vincent's Hospital Erie after a five week Corry Memorial Hospital stay. She was born May 3, 1886 in Spartansburg and leaves three daughters, two sons, 14 grandchildren, and 18 great grandchildren. Services planned at Bracken Funeral Home with interment in Rose Hill Cemetery, Spartansburg. Burris Jenkins Jr., 69, noted cartoonist for Hearst papers, died in Hollywood Florida Saturday. Mrs. Oscar Willis, 72, of 141 Gould Street, died after extended illness in Corry Memorial Hospital. survivors include husband, four children, six grandchildren, and seven great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements set with Bracken Funeral Home and Pine Grove Cemetery burial in Corry.
Emiliano Chamorro, once Nicaragua's dictator and longtime Conservative party figure, died Saturday at age 93 of a heart attack after periods in exile. He remained a titular head of the Conservative party despite removals from power.
Quakertown Pa AP A 19 year old Army Pfc Jerry Allen Mettler was found hiding in a Georgia supermarket storage room his mother says she has been worried sick about since before Christmas Authorities say he lived there since December 20 and had access to food from the store He faces two counts of absence without official leave MPs from Fort Jackson S C will take custody of him He is a Pennsburg High School graduate who enlisted last October and was stationed at Fort Jackson before his disappearance
Elizabeth Creighton Stone Goodridge, daughter of late Melville E. Stone former AP general manager 1893 1920, died Saturday night in her 80s at Woodstock Vermont.
Mrs J C Manwaring and Alma Philips of Union City with Mr and Mrs Earl Bangle of Collins N Y were Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs Floyd Smith Sr Twenty two youths from the Evangelical United Brethren Church Youth Fellowship with directors Mr and Mrs Bruce Mannating and Rey and Mrs Os pane roller skated at Salisburg Saturday night meeting others from area churches The Bear Lake group furnished refreshments Mrs Maude Cornish and son Ivan Ayling attended a birthday party for Mrs Ethel Wilson at the home of her daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Elvin Ayling at Lottsville Sunday afternoon A number from Goshen road attended the funeral for Mrs Minnie Viestrand at Schoonover s Funeral Home Sunday afternoon Mrs Viestrand died while visiting in Florida Charles Peterson of Jamestown visited Mr and Mrs C Manwaring Sunday A number from here attended World Day of Prayer at the Reformed Church in Clymer last Friday Son or daughter away from home now They d enjoy Shop Your Corry Stores
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