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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1956
Page
3
A court in Illinois postponed ruling in the Carter case as investigators gather details. Prosecutors describe a felonious plot involving multiple named parties and a staged kidnapping, with motions to appoint counsel and obtain coroner reports amid ongoing hearings. Local officials and witnesses are cited, as the case unfolds with heightened public attention.
At Columbine Community Church a large farewell gathering honored Mrs. Swanson 77 who will travel to Goteborg Sweden in July. Friends from California Jamestown Not East Clymer Erie Maidville Union City Washington Ty Spelig Creek and Corry attended. Swanson a former domestic nurse and school cook for 30 years has lived in Columbus since 1899. She will fly from New York to Sweden, returning by Columbus for the next school term.
Roger W Babson argues courage drives stock buying and selling, praising contrarian moves. He cites Wisconsin University’s Growth Stocks fund as a model, notes diversified, disciplined buying, and avoiding crowd behavior amid market cycles. He shares a patient’s psychiatrist tale linking childhood signals to buy and sell impulses.
District Attorney Raward C. Boyle plans to file charges against five penitentiary guards unnamed in his probe of State Penitentiary smuggling. Parolee James Alder, 28, of Pittsburgh, aided the investigation and named six inmates tied to contraband including sleeping tablets cash hacksaw blades and chewing gum smuggling since 1954.
At 821 North Center Street Rev H Roy Harris leads Sunday activities starting 9 45 am with Sunday School using Perilous Times text and 11 am Morning Worship including a sermon The congregation World Not Do prompt. Nursery for little children. Evening Youth Fellowship at 6 49 pm followed by 7 45 pm Evangelistic Service with sermon The Furtherance of the Gospel and Dr Alvin B French family photos shown. Tuesday 9 15 am Cottage Prayer at 129 East Irving Street Tender with Mrs Harold J Lloyd and Mrs Robert Shannon. Thursday 7 45 pm Church Prayer and Bible study Israel Rejection and Gods Faithfulness Power and Righteousness.
West Pleasant Street and Beyond Avenue hosts Rev. Robert J. DeBoer at 9:00 am on WOTR 1870 kHz with The Baptist Broadcast Virgin Birth of Christ. 9:45 am Sunday School led by Ralph Austin. 11:00 am Morning Worship sermon Exertations in View of Christ's Return. 6:30 pm Youth Fellowship Inner Stroup. 4:45 pm Evening service Baptism observance. Tuesday 8:00 pm Sunday School Cabinet meeting. Wednesday 1:30 pm Ladies Prayer. 8:00 pm Bethany Bible Class. Thursday 7:45 pm Midweek Prayer and Bible Study. 6:00 pm Choir rehearsal at 9:00 pm.
Church notices list Emanuel Episcopal Church at 327 North Center Street with Holy Communion services at 8:00, 10:15 A.M. and 11:00 A.M. Sermon. Friday Feast of St Peter Holy Communion at 1:00 A.M. Also Christian and Missionary Alliance Church at Corner Host Washington Street and Maple Avenue with Bible School at 9:30 A.M. and service at 11:00 A.M. Rev. T W Owensotn addresses Acmetonia, Pa, noon Bible meditation daily via WOTR, and weekly prayer bands and missions meetings noted.
Community church schedules list services across multiple denominations. FIRST PENTECOSTAL CHURCH 102 West Pleasant Street offers Sunday School at 9 45, worship at 11, youth service at 6 45, women's missionary council meets first and third Tuesday, radio broadcasts on WOTR. SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST North Center Street shares Sabbath school at 10, divine worship at 11 30, prayer meetings. ST N Nazare ne Church Essex Street near West Washington. ELIZABETH'S R C CHURCH West Pleasant Street broadcasts, Sunday school, morning worship, young people meeting, evening service. THE SALVATION ARMY East Washington Street lists multiple services, street meetings, corps cadets, band practices, and prayer meetings. FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST East Columbus Avenue at Wayne Street runs a Sunday radio broadcast and Sunday school with a Wednesday testimony reading.
Activities at First Presbyterian Church corner South Center and West Pleasant feature a 9:45 am worship with reception for new member 14700 m. at 12:10 pm church choir, 2:00 pm evening service with sacraments, 7:30 pm Monday committee on Men's Work, and Thursday 2:00 pm Ministerial Relations Committee meeting at the Presbyterian.
Corer South Center and East Rev George A Myers hosts Sunday school at 9 50 morning worship Speak Lord nursery for young children at 9 30 am youth fellowship 7 30 pm evening service Burning Bush Official Board meets this evening Marthe Circle picnic at East Main home of Vertine Loveland 6 pm Mary Circle at Mead Park 6 30 pm rain option at Mrs K 8 Dirham 88 Railroad St Esther Circle in Wattsburg transportation by church members youth women group Strawberry Festival 6 20 pm to 10 pm church parking lot rain plan church basement Saturday 7 30 pm Men s prayer service
Concord and East South Streets shows Rev Elmer Ortner Sunday School at 11 00 am The Service and the Hymn Built On A Rock on Saturday 545 pm Church Calendar of the Air over WOTR 800 am Dr A Steimle on The Protestant Hour over WOTR Vis For Victory 200 pm Camps Laitherlyrr opens for visits Grade days waters
West Washington Street church lists Sunday Mass at 11:00 a.m. plus Work Day Masses at 7:00 and 8:00 a.m. Holy Day and First Friday Masses scheduled for 6:30 and 8:00 a.m. Names Rev Francis J Grivel and others appear in the OCR fragment.
A church schedule appears sponsored by Corry area businesses including Davison Funeral Home Paul's Men's Wear E. E. Guignon Ajax Iron Works Olds the Florist Crystal Coal Co Thomas Motors Corry Inc Fogle Lumber Co Corry Instrument Co Corry Jamestown Mfg Co.
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