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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1951
Page
6
A party at the home of Mr and Mrs Alton Miller drew 30 guests. Announcements named Elsie Tanner to Ellis D Miller and Joyce June Miller to Richard R Mast. Miss Tanner works at American Sterilizer in Erie. Miller farms and helps in interior decorating. Both couples are Goshen College students. Mast is to receive a BA this spring and plans to teach. Weddings are planned for summer.
New Year’s weekend in the community featured open houses and small family gatherings alongside dances at local clubs. The VFW hosted a Saturday party and an members-only open house on Monday while the Elks and Moose lodges held Sunday events. Hosts included Mr. and Mrs. Hicks, Mrs. Feldt, Mrs. Powell, the Nast and Butters families, Laurie Baker, Marty Higgins, and Harold Orage.
A New Year’s party at the Clark home entertained the canasta club members last evening. Cards were played and the high score award went to Mrs Maude Keefe. The hostess served a salad course cake and coffee. The next meeting is planned with Mrs D D Daugherty of North Center Street. Domestic chickens are believed to derive from the red jungle fowl of India.
Miss Dixie Lou Phillips married Richard Eugene Grice in a December ceremony at First Methodist Church officiated by Rev. James I. McIntosh. The event featured white flowers, an organ program, and a reception at the Phillips home. The couple will reside at 152 Mott Street after a short honeymoon. she will graduate in June from the local high school and he is employed at Raymond Mfg. Co. Additional notes cover weekend visits and various local engagements of family and friends.
The Friendly Circle of Gut Ting Sunday School met at Mrs. Fred Wallace home with nine members. Theme Children Are Blessing featured Bible study by Mrs. Arthur Wallace who read an original poem The Old Go-Cart. Mrs. LaVerne Proctor offered closing prayer. New officers installed President Mrs. Arthur Wallace Vice President Mrs. Marion Way Secretary Mrs. Gordon Shampes Treasurer Mrs. Laurence Reding. A surprise stork shower for Mrs. Lyle Bemis followed. Guests included Misses Eleanor Wallace Charlene Damon Susan Bemis. Meal served with salad gingerbread apple whip sandwiches popcorn balls nut fudge coffee. Next meeting January 25 at Mrs. Redding’s home.
A New Year afternoon ceremony united Roberta Louise Henderson of R. D. 4 and Melvin M. Vanderhoff in marriage. Magistrate Melvin S. Cobbett officiated with Miss Lila Jean Way and Theodore Mower as attendants.
A son was born Saturday December 80 at Corry Hospital to Mr and Mrs John Catalin 425 Spring Street. A daughter was born Sunday morning to Mr and Mrs George Bush of French Creek at Corry Hospital. A daughter was born Monday morning at Corry Hospital to Mr and Mrs Raymond Straite B D 3. A son Larry Wayne was born December 23 in El Paso Texas to Mr and Mrs Donald W Nichols. Mrs Nichols is former Linnie McNeil and Staff Sergeant Nichols serves with the 25th Division in Korea. Grandchild to Mrs Maude W Nichols of Cutting.
Open house was held at the Bauer home, Presbyterian manse at 19 West Park Place, New Year’s Day with 250 guests. Session ladies poured and church school class members assisted, as candlelight decorations and gift towers set a festive scene with an artistic bake in honor of the occasion.
The Triple K Club marked its 33rd anniversary with a luncheon at Phoenix Hotel at 1 PM. Members then gathered at Mrs. A. R. Lalie’s North Center Street home for cards and socializing, exchanging gifts, and reading letters from distant members Clara Pierce in Tucson and Dorothy Dennis in Oakland.
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Watrous of Ohio street hosted a New Year gathering yesterday with 18 people present. A bountiful dinner and social hours followed in the afternoon. Attending from Salt of Town were Mr and Mrs Ray Boland and Mr and Mrs Gerald Boland and family of Sherman, Mr and Mrs Edward Boland of North Clymer, and Mr and Mrs Claude Beckerinke of Clymer.
Two youths escaped the Allegheny County workhouse and fled in a stolen car with two stolen guns. Walter Walchat, 21, of Library, serving 18 to 26 months for forgery, and Howard I. Daubert, 20, of South Huntingdon, serving 11 to 22 months for burglary, were identified as the fugitives. The pair, both trustees, left the workhouse to visit the prison farm and were pursued after a holdup attempt at the Artzberger residence in Fox Chapel.
Congress moves to a one hour debate with only one sticking point a 1.85 million southeastern power administration item the Senate likely to concede to avoid stalling the civil defense bill The House passed a 3.9 billion profits tax bill sending it to Truman for signature aiming to raise government revenue to about 45 billion while missing the 5 billion annual target.
The measure approved by the House, 202 to 52, directs union shop and dues in railroad contracts. It would require employees to join unions as a condition of employment, changing current legality. The bill moves to the White House for action. In unrelated note, Greek burials show clay mounding around bodies baked for preservation.
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