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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1957
Page
5
A social afternoon brought together Mrs and Mr. Scott Corby and Mrs Kal United at Perkins. The group included Mrs. Jack Scott Corby and Ian Ayling, with other attendees such as Cornish Ayling and Mr. Mead. The visit was a friendly, informal occasion in the village.
The Ravelin Hill 4-H Club met at the Cady home with fourteen members and ten parents present. A premeeting ball game and indoor picnic preceded the discussions led by Gordon McCray who was named Fair Booth Committee chair. other members named included Tommy Smith and the DaCross siblings. guests included several King, Brumagin, and Pierse family members plus friends.
Corry Grange No. 58 convened at the Grange Hall with Don Whaley presiding. The lecturer Eugene Powers led readings on truth in a contest, Mrs. Charles Mulligan won, followed by story-telling and group singing. Refreshments were served to members and four guests, with visitors from Meadville and French Creek Valley. The next regular meeting is scheduled for August 5.
A Presbyterian Men's Club meeting described plans for upcoming skating events at Mead Park and Corry Rollerway. They announced a family skating party and two more on the fourth Tuesdays of August and September, with advance sale of family tickets via club members.
Officers and chairmen of the Women of the Moose met in lodge rooms with Mrs. Henry Davis Jr senior regent in charge. Mrs Donald Neylon ritual chairman conducted the practice and requested the group be present for the regular session Thursday evening for rehearsal July 22 at 7 pm.
The Corry Navy Mothers Club No. GBS met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Merril Lillie for a picnic. Sixteen members and husbands attended a social evening with games. Lillie showed colored slides from a trip to Oregon and Washington. The next meeting is a Mead Park picnic on August 19 at 6 o'clock.
Wayne Valley Evangelical United Brethren Church Ladies Aid met at Mrs Harry Fitch s home for officer elections. Dinner for 18 was served. Elected officers were Mrs William Sturdevant president Mrs Leon Proctor vice president Mrs Dan Wright secretary and Mrs Lydia Lindquist treasurer A bake sale at Canadoe Lake was planned with date TBD.
George Orcutt, local securities adviser, was guest speaker at the Kiwanis Club noon meeting at Hotel Corry. He outlined an ideal investment program pooling small monthly contributions via an investors trust, yielding dividends and capital gains. Frank McKnight announced a directors’ meeting next Monday at Leo Alon's Wright Street home and an inter-club dinner meeting with an out of town group on Wednesday the 24th at the Corry Country Club, with a golf match at 1 PM.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Matteson announce the engagement of their daughter Sarah Ann Sally Matteson to Richard Lee Pryor of Philadelphia son of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Pryor of Rolla Mo. Sally is a Corry High School 1962 graduate with a BA from the National College for Christian Workers and studying social work at the University of Pittsburgh. she works at the Family and Children Welfare Service at Western Psychiatric Institute in Pittsburgh. Pryor is a Smith-Cotton High School Sedalia Mo graduate with an x18 Bachelor’s in physics from Missouri School of Mines Rolla now employed by RCA in Philadelphia as an electrical engineer. Wedding is set for September 34th.
Phoenix police and emergency crews complain air conditioning and car radios prevent motorists from hearing sirens. Officers say hot cars with windows closed and refrigeration running hinder alert responses. Ambulance and fire crews share the concern as awareness drops in heat. Auto kills 11-year-old boy near West Sunbury Branchton road. driver Paul W. Duffy 47, of West Sunbury, identified by state police.
A daughter was born July 14 at Spencer Hospital in Meadville to Mr. and Mrs. Cassius A. Elston. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Sidney B. Elston of 108 East Park Place.
The Corry Moose Lodge No 93 hosted the Northwest District No 1 meeting at East Washington Street. Delegates from Old City, Meadville, Franklin, Albion, Union City, Titusville, Erie and Corry attended with Leo Ryan of Bradford and Patrick Bearer of Pittsburgh as speakers.
At the turnpike trial, Torrance dismissed any significance of a multimillion toll road contract awarded to Manu Mine Research and Development Co. of Reading, led by a nephew of a former commission chairman. Charles W. Stickler Jr., Manu Mine president, is the nephew of ex-Chairman Evans. The defendants, including Evans, Stickler, and Torrance, face charges of conspiring to defraud the commission of 1946 million dollars as the seven week proceeding continues.
Torrance testified about switching contractors for the gold filing project after Manu-Mine drilled for months under another contract. The commission paid $6,700,000 before cancellation amid a State Justice Department inquiry, with prosecution claiming only about $100,000 was engineering work and defense arguing the whole contract was engineering. Torrance said he would approve the Manu-Mine contract if given another chance. Actress Ann Todd won a divorce from David Lean on grounds of desertion. they married in 1949 and she claimed desertion in 1964. The name Acadia was changed to Nova Scotia in 1713.
Saint John New Brunswick reports Thomas Bowes of Lower Ears New Brunswick and his sister Nora Reamer of New Castle Pennsylvania were reunited after nearly six decades apart. Reamer last visited England in 1908. Bowes recalled meeting as a boy. Grace Reashford of Scranton joined Reamer on her first Canada trip, last seeing Bowes 31 years ago.
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