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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1963
Page
3
Parents are reminded of registration for playground base ball to be held tomorrow afternoon at the west field at Cor ty Area High School. All boys between eight and ten are eligible to compete with games in the afternoons Monday through Friday. Bays on the north side play at Bracken Field while CAHS field hosts southsiders.
Final rites for Mrs. Bessie Smith were held at 2 p.m. yesterday at Wrightsville Community Church. Grandsons Jelbert Huff Ivan Smith Larry Rogers Jimmy Rogers Herman Hebner and Donald Hebner served as bearers. Mrs Ernest Faust played hymns on the piano and Rev Williams of the Free Methodist Church of Youngsville sang Somewhere the Sun Is Shining. Out-of-town attendees included Guy Clark and daughter Marian Lakewood New York Mr and Mrs Lea Eggleston Dolgeville New York and Mr and Mrs Hilman Jones and Otis Jones Buffalo.
A compact reflection on how spoken language fades and writing endures, contrasting ephemeral speech with the lasting record of printed text.
Two white men were hit by pellet fire as bottles filled with gasoline were used in attacks on white run businesses in a Negro section. State police, led by Col. Carey Jarman and Maj. George Davidson, rushed to the Choptank River town at 1 am to restore order amid a 200-person mob. Police used riot sticks and K 9 units to disperse the crowd after a general alarm fire and ongoing demonstrations for school integration, restaurant desegregation, and job opportunities.
Erie's long serving Archbishop Bishop John Mark Gannon marks his 86th birthday as the church's elder active bishop in the United States. The Erie native led the diocese for 43 years shaping education and aiding youth and the underprivileged. Born June 12 187, ordained 1901 and auxiliary bishop in 1918, he remains a cornerstone of local Catholic life. Welfare pioneer Louise G Zabriski dies in New York at 99, founder of Protestant welfare federation.
Tass reported a 22 million mile radar survey of Mars showed sizable flat areas. The probe occurred last February and radio waves took about 11 minutes round trip. Results were compared with radar scans of Venus and Mercury.
Harrisburg AP reports the State Highways Department calls for bids by July 12 on six construction projects. One covers 11 miles of a Kingist Dam area road with a four span bridge near Warren Chunth. Another runs 12 miles from Anderstit to BUG in Porterville toward Jacksonville. A federal aid project in Erie County covers 88 miles of Route 0 through Waterford Borough with federal and state cost sharing at 450-50.
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