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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1959
Page
5
A garbled report from a local school event cites a night meeting at a village school. Officials discuss tentative ballot plans and community input for upcoming elections. Community members expected to attend and share views on proposed changes.
A society column lists visits and travels of residents including Mr and Mrs John R Kinney and daughters Barbara Kathleen Christine and Perry from Louisville to relatives in East Smith Street area. Irene Mountain visits Norman in Adnan Michigan. Frank Grice Jr and family return from Florida with CH Holden joining for Fort Lauderdale. Meerdink Furniture Store reps attend Chicago Furniture Market. Rainbow Girls hold meeting with Miss Plo Ann Ross as worthy adviser. Valentine Dance planned February 14 at the YMCA.
About 15 members of the Westminster Fellowships from First Presbyterian Church traveled to Meadville yesterday for the first Presbytery Rally of the two churches. Junior High met at Stone Methodist Church, Senior High at First Presbyterian. Advisors for Corry groups were David Yard and Miss Donna Sharer.
Bertram W Francis associate professor and director of bands at Mansfield State Teachers College conducted the Northwestern Pennsylvania District High School Band Festival held at Conneaut Valley High School. Seven Area High School Band members joined district and state guests for the event.
A. gon born to Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Conklin of 237 West Washington Street at Corry Memorial Hospital early yesterday morning.
Rhoda Cohen aged 16 was honored at a West Columbus Avenue home party hosted by Mrs Arthur Cabert. Guests joined in a dinner then danced at the YMCA Teen Frolic and returned for a late slumber party. Present were classmates and friends including Mary Capwell Sharon Zaleneck Cymule Waterhouse Pensiermacher Carol Chirt ume Patricia Messinger Diane Copkhis and Linda Tarbell.
State Department notes filed Sunday report that Moscow rejects a plan to turn West Berlin into an unarmed free city until Germany is reunified. Soviet officials sent no new concessions to Eisenhower or Dulles. Mikoyan may bring surprises, but Khrushchev’s approach suggests different aims. Nixon indicated a visit to the Soviet Union would be hard to arrange.
Harry Tisch, a veteran Associated Press editor in New York for over 40 years, died Saturday at age 64 from a heart attack. He served as the second highest in seniority within the AP bureau.
Congressman William J. Green Jr. faces federal charges including taking a $10,000 bribe and conspiring to defraud the U.S. Government over Tobyhanna Army Signal Corps Depot dealings. He sits on the House Armed Services Committee amid seven defendants tied to a multi-year probe.
The report details at least 18 deaths in Pennsylvania over the weekend. Twelve occurred on highways, including a Trout Run man who died after dozing at the wheel. Three died in a Wilkes Barre apartment fire caused by coal gas and a separate Philadelphia home blaze claimed an elderly man. An elderly Washington County woman died from clothing ignited by a gas heater.
Washington AP American Airlines plans to resume half its flights today under a new contract that could earn jet pilots up to 278 440 a year. The settlement ends the final walkout from a series of strikes that disrupted Eastern Air Lines Trans World Airlines Capital Airlines and American since October. The pay package includes a 25 percent raise for about 1500 pilots and retroactive pay totaling about five million dollars. The agreement dates to August 1957 and adds a third pilot for jets while keeping two pilots and a flight engineer on piston planes. The strike cost the company and its suppliers about 33 million dollars.
Mikoyan arrives in San Francisco for a tour of film industry facilities a reception with Governor Edmund G Brown who suggests hosting the next Soviet American conference beneath California’s redwoods. Brown apologizes for egg throwing demonstrators at the airport.
Evangelist Billy Graham cancels Dallas appearance due to eye ailment and plans to proceed with a reduced schedule. Doctors warn of a rare eye condition from overwork as Graham vows to speak at a Dallas luncheon and church event while noting global tensions and upcoming travel to Australia and other destinations.
A collage of midcentury thoughts on health humor and daily life mixes food tips and novelty quotes. It cites hypochondria, coffee breaks, tea varieties, shopping tips, and humorous lines from public figures, all wrapped in a breezy American tone.
A northbound Pennsylvanian Railroad freight train struck a car on Route 59 in Kinzua near Warren. Five occupants were taken to Warren General Hospital with one admitted for undetermined injuries. Driver John Slocum 47 of Rew and his wife Helena 45 plus three children were in the 1967 Ford. engineer D W Boyes of Old City was supervising the crossing.
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