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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1961
Page
2
Attention voters and Elk members. Special registration at the Municipal Building from 1 to 9 pm this Saturday. Register and qualify to vote, update party change, and address. Braetee etereteetonge invites Elk members to Thursday night baked ham dinner. Deer Head Inn opens 4 to 10 pm Monday through Saturday.
Jim Kelly works out nightly to provide background accompaniment for a group singing at the Hotel Corry and its Gold Room. Patrons are invited to stop in and belt out songs from Tuesday through Saturday between 9 p m and 1 a m closing time.
Fragmented hospital note lists ad missions and discharges at Corry Memorial Hospital and nearby towns. Names residents from Pittsfield Union City and Waterford appear along with dates and street addresses. Includes upcoming Republican caucus and seasonal clothing and auto service ads.
President Kennedy moved toward Senate approval of Charles M. Meriwether as Export-Import Bank director amid a bitter debate. The 66 to 18 vote reflected cautious support despite opposition from some liberals and criticism from Senate critics. Meriwether denied anti Negro or anti Catholic aims and said he did not belong to the Klan though he accepted support from Klan supporters during Patterson’s 1958 campaign.
The body of Mrs Agnes Drought lies at the Bracken Funeral Home where friends may call from 2 to 7 p.m. Wednesday. A Requiem Mass will be said at St Thomas Church at 10 a.m. Thursday, interment in St Thomas Cemetery. The Rosary will be held at 6.50 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
A brown and white mixed dog escaped Sunday and has developed a taste for lollipops. Mrs. Milton Rowland said the shaggy dog has lived with her eight years and is described as well behaved. She advises hunters to check the classifieds for updates on the stray.
President Kennedy faces pressure to resume testing as Congress weighs a new round of negotiations with the Soviet Union on a test ban. At Geneva talks due in two weeks, disarmament advisers and senators pressed for an inspection regime and warned against extending the moratorium without concessions. US officials fear the Soviets may continue testing despite public statements to the contrary.
In Newark New Jersey federal court Tuesday Carl Shapiro testified Belle aided by a telephone call secured a $90 000 loan as part of a stock purchase scheme involving the Hefuricl Manufacturers Bank of Edgewater. The trial charges conspiracy and misapplication of $150 000 with several bank executives and associates named.
Wilcox, 43, helped push a car blocked in a private lot near Recorder's Court yesterday. From a fifth floor window Judge W McKay Skilm watched as Wilcox freed the vehicle with a friend. Police intervened. he appeared before the judge and was released on promise to pay a delinquent traffic fine uncovered during the incident.
AP review discusses televised practical jokes and hidden camera stunts. It notes that shows place participants in uncertain, humorous, or border line sadistic scenarios where a reveal can provoke varied reactions and public fascination with Americans’ tolerance. The piece cites humor, faith, and luck as key factors in the success or failure of these pranks.
Integration leader Martin Luther King Jr. faced a Georgia court ruling reversing a 12 month sentence for driving without a license. The case returns to the lower court with possible probation or continued confinement, amid a broader sit-in push that led Atlanta stores to desegregate downtown next fall. Desegregation talks followed weeks of protests and a pledge by leaders to pause demonstrations until voluntary lunch counter desegregation aligns with the September federal-ordered school desegregation.
Paris reports longtime Air France chief Max Hymans, 61, who led the state owned carrier for twelve years, died yesterday in France.
Nor nan T. Wilson, 18, labeled a Negro youth, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the fatal stabbing of a white boy. Two other Negro youths received up to 15 years for related charges in the Campbell incident as court heard how the March 21 assault unfolded near South Philadelphia High School. The defendants faced murder charges. Wilson was convicted of first degree murder, others of second degree. Camera witnesses included Campiella’s parents as the courtroom heard arguments about racial incidents cited by defense. Wilson said he had no intent to kill. About 150 people attended the sentencing.
Fragmented text reports the death of a political figure in Lancaster Pennsylvania tied to a nomination controversy. The garbled lines reference Lancaster General Hospital and York General, with names such as McColloigh and Dumurrat Guyige M. Lead, indicating a political or legal aftermath but details are unclear.
An unreadable OCR fragment mentions James, county, water work tasks, a port, a tractor, and a municipal reload. It hints at a local project or infrastructure update but details are obscured, leaving unclear actors, dates, places, and outcomes.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions names and an unclear event. Readable parts include a personal name sequence and scattered letters, with no complete action, place, date, or organization to anchor a factual two-line card.
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