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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1961
Page
5
An OCR read contains garbled names and items from a local notice and funeral record. The readable parts reference a funeral procession with pallbearers and family names, plus scattered probability notes about a county or parish event, a possible inmate parole context, and a few prices or notices. The text lacks a coherent narrative to identify a single event or clear entities.
New York AP profile of nurse Luella Hennessey recounts her lifelong close involvement with the Kennedy family. From tending Pat Kennedy during a 1997 appendectomy to years in London with Joseph P. Kennedy, she credits early home life for the Kennedys. She travels nationwide aiding the President’s wife and sisters, has missed only one birth due to a virus, and volunteers without pay.
The Friendship Club of Sample Flats met yesterday at Mrs Harry Jaquith R12 for its regular gathering. Six members ten children and one guest attended with Mrs Ward Powers of Winchester Ky as guest of honor. Esther Lawson opened with the Lord's Prayer and a hello card was signed for Mrs Bertha Warner visiting Delaware. Prizes were awarded for mystery packages blins and floor prizes to several members. Hostess served salad hot rolls pickles strawberry shortcake and whipped cream coffee. Next meeting slated in three weeks at Mrs John Decker R D 2.
Sombrero room hosted a miscellaneous bridal shower for Miss Charlotte Triscutt, who will marry Victor Francek on Saturday. Cohostesses Mrs Ronald Triscutt and Mrs Donald Mitchell entertained 45 guests, with pink and white decor and favors of mint cups. Prizes were awarded in games to several guests, and door prize went to Miss Mary Gravino.
In Long Beach California the international Beauty Congress 45 began with all 53 delegates gathered. Contestants hailed from Europe, the Middle East and South America, with early-arriving beauties from the Far East and Pacific zones. JoAnne Marie Dyer of Lima Ohio represented the United States. A headline event today is a fashion show luncheon. Judging extends over four days, with the winner to be named 28 hours after judging ends.
Thirty two players joined a bridge session at the Corry Country Club yesterday afternoon with a de liglotas luncheon. Cochairmen Mrs James Mc Innes and Mrs Horton Davis oversaw the event. Winners were Mrs Olin Bracken Sr, Mrs W T Blackman, and Mrs Virginia Ross. Next game scheduled for August 3 with Mrs Franke Graft and Mrs Helen Haight as cardairmen handling reservations.
Barbara Hoffa, 23, daughter of Teamsters president James R. Hoffa, will marry Robert E. Crancer, 24, son of Valley Steel Co. president Les Crancer. The couple met at the Teamsters convention in Miami Beach and plan a October wedding. Crancer is manager of his father's Dallas plant. Barbara is an Albion College graduate and has taught in a Detroit junior high school.
A Community House meeting of 18 4-H members discussed future events. Miss Rachel Hagan advised on an approaching Roundup set for August 19 at the Wattsburg Fair and a Concord girls trip to Cleveland on August 1. Members agreed girls would wear dresses.
Miss Theresa Kielar was the guest of honor at a bridal shower hosted by Miss Joan Prugar and Mrs. Alfred Piccard at Prugar’s Liberty Street home. Eighteen guests attended and played games. prizes went to Mrs. Floyd Utegg, Mrs. Neil Chelton, Mrs. Layant Brace, and the honoree. door prize to Mrs. Tony Stee. The couple to be wed are Aloysius Novolly and Miss Kielar, who plan Aug. 6 in Cambridge Springs.
IW D Mitchell family reunion at West Spring Creek Grange Hall drew 102 members from Dunkirk Silver Creek Fredonia and Spring Creek area plus Ohio California Florida Massachusetts and Erie Pennsylvania communities. Picnic dinner served 1:20 p.m. ice cream cake later. no business due to absent president William Lindaren. officers kept for the year. next gathering date and place to be decided.
Walter D. Holst longtime county editor for the Palm Beach Post Times died Wednesday from asthma and a lung condition. The Wattsburg Fair featured needlework judging and refreshments were served after the meeting with the next session set for August 4 at 4 p.m. in the Community House.
A large number of candidates were accepted and enrollment held in the Women of the Moose meeting last night at the lodge rooms. Regent Mrs. Stanley Ball presided. Audrey Hansen sent thanks from college. Josephine Davis reported on centennial souvenir plates sales. Bailey announced the centennial luncheon. Plans for August service at Mrs. Bailey’s Marion Street home and a donation of $35 to Mooseheart House of God were approved. Florence Cuslar won the attendance award.
The Concord 4 H 4 Club met at the Wade home with 15 members present. Movies on forestry were shown and Richard Darrow reported on his trip to Penn State for the 4 H Club Congress. Joseph McCray shared highlights of the 4 H Roundup to be held at Wattshire Fair on August 19. Plans for a swimming party and wiener roast were set for the next gathering on August 17 at Richard Darrow’s home. Ice cream cookies and a soft drink followed the meeting.
An all day Women's Relief Corps session in Corry Grange Hall featured a noon dinner and a 2 pm business meeting chaired by Mrs. Horace Hankin. Eighteen members attended as reports on the Civil Suzettes float and family dress prizes were presented, with decor, door prizes, and hospital-bound members noted.
Cecile Quint gives birth to twin boys as the first of the surviving quintuplets to have multiple births. Dionne Langlois, wife of Philippe Quintuplets’ father, has two other sons Claude and Patrice. The twins were born within six minutes of each other at Al Bacrement Hospital and were doing well yesterday. Ex chamber head dies in Jacksonville.
New York based Redbook Magazine reports a Louis Harris poll of over 100 Protestant preachers and divinity students. It finds about 41 percent reject a literal ascent of Jesus and 40 percent affirm it. Denominational mix includes Methodists and Baptists.
In Jerusalem, Adolf Eichmann acknowledged joining Gestapo leaders in three brandies after the Wannsee Conference as prosecutors seek his conviction for major responsibility in the murder of Europe’s Jews. Judge Raviv pressed Eichmann on involvement, noting his rise near the top ranks and replaying his claimed role as “the third man” in planning the genocide.
Fielman asks for certainty as the judge questions the plan. Richmann reiterates he acted under wartime orders and claims he had no alternative but to act alone. The excerpt references an extermination plot outlined at a conference and the accused defense.
Donald B Harton of Pravitelin, Jatwee, had morals charges withdrawn just before a hearing led by Alderman SG MacTurnaghan. Horton appeared after arrest by Meadville City Police on July 21 and pleaded innocent to the charge. a $50 fine and costs were imposed for being drunk in a public place.
Pittsburgh and regional steel activity showed signs of life with a general business index rising to 1017 and production notes noting a pickup. Officials cited improved steel output and related manufacturing activity, while the metropolitan area faced ongoing adjustment in other sectors.
Kenized through a clipped, action filled recap the report details astronaut Gus Grissom piloting the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft after launch. It notes radio glitches and the crew’s calm handling as the Redstone rocket carried the craft toward space and the east coast visibility, marking a milestone in American manned spaceflight.
A Jamestown bakery facility is leased with a plan to purchase Jamestown Baking Co. Inc. Executives state final stockholder and creditor approval is needed before completion. After acquisition the company will modernize and expand the local plant, with payroll around 10,000 weekly, serving routes within 150 miles in the southern tier and Pennsylvania.
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