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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1962
Page
1
Partial OCR reads of a public sale listing show items including lounge furniture stools chairs and lamps. The document references bidders, financial requirements, and authority applying to a late sale in a state jurisdiction.
The Corey school board faces a tense conflict with the Corry Public Library Board over state aid standards and librarian contracts. The library board seeks changes to hours and pay, while the school district funds the library but lacks voting influence, amid complex negotiations and requests for detailed legal research.
In Saskatchewan a handful of doctors have joined the governments compulsory medical care plan amid a doctors strike. Officials keep names and locations secret due to potential reprisals. About 14 of 700 physicians signed up, with roughly 200 patient claims filed as the plan proceeds.
George L Pease, fired by Millcreek School Board last December for refusing a bowling supervision assignment, accepts a one year teaching post in Alaska citing economic necessity. He will leave in late August, says the position offers $7,000 to $9,000 more than last year. Pease stresses he remains in legal dispute with the district, asking the state to reinstate him.
Union leaders say a postponed vote will ratify a new contract for 300 workers on Erie County projects. The agreement provides a 25 cent wage increase per hour over three years and updates benefits as construction resumes on the National Bail building project in Cory.
A medical bulletin from London reports former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill suffers a blood clot in a broken thigh. Doctors say there is no extension of venous thrombosis, the left leg is swollen, and the circulatory condition remains serious but under treatment.
Premier Khrushchev told a World Peace Congress in Moscow that the war threat in Berlin is growing and proposed replacing Allied troops there with Norwegian Danish or Belgian Dutch forces. He accused Western powers of nuclear tests, warned NATO backbone is in Berlin, and cited U S tests while dismissing Western protests as hypocrisy.
Tyrone Pennsylvania reporting Cain Charles McClelland a 16 year old despondent boy missing since Saturday from his Tyrone home was found last night on a highway near Kinisto Ontario. Bloodhounds and an airplane aided a two day search by about 200 volunteers. He is being returned to New Alexandria with his parents and is believed to have hitchhiked into Canada. The motive for his departure remains unclear following a failed driver’s exam.
The board discusses staffing at Corry Area School. no assistant principal will be hired this year. J Donald Watson will return as assistant principal in charge of curvict duties at an annual salary of 8000 dollars focusing on special subjects. Directors A E Tate Charles Kennedy and Rex Webb oversee the process as principal Harold Wolfe nears retirement.
The Corry district hires Paul W. Claypool as principal at Wright and Concord, approves a two year haul contract for Proctors, considers drugstore price quotes for first aid supplies, and funds gym and classroom improvements. Budgets include operating balances of the Corry district and Joint School system, with resignations and staff openings in English and Art.
Corry school directors plan a special session in July to choose a site for a south side elementary on East Church Street between East and William, with purchase of the Dimmick home. Architects propose a second elementary later on the west side, possibly between Melinda and Congress streets, to serve through grade 6 for years.
The Pennsbury Joint School System in Yardley Virginia dismissed Elea Nor T Moore the only Black teacher for persistent negligence and violation of school laws after seven hearings. The board voted unanimously to terminate citing failure to teach daily basics and to supervise cafeteria and playground during years of service in Lower Bucks County.
Clara Bow attended the funeral rites for her husband Hex Bell who died last Wednesday at age 57. A crowd of about 150 gathered at the Church of the Recessional in Forest Lawn Memorial Park as Miss Bow, in ill health, arrived in a black attire and waved to reporters.
A Chicago political science professor told Soviet delegates the Soviet sponsor bears part of the blame for world tensions and warned against one sided denunciations. He cited past statements by Kennedy and Eisenhower while urging restraint and peaceful policy amid Cold War rhetoric.
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