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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1960
Page
5
Church bulletin lists daily services and worship events with mixed text about Bible study, prayer, and choir practices. It mentions a noon service, a youth group event, and multiple singing sessions, inviting members to attend and participate.
Town Topics reports plans from Court Conception No. 35 Catholic Daughters of America for a Past Grand Regents Dinner on April 28 in Latrobe Pa. Presentations include a medal to May Schasny by Monsignor Vogel. State convention May 21–25 in Wilkes-Barre. Reserve by March 15. Next meeting March 2 features a guest speaker. several committee reports and events noted.
Erie County district attorney Herbert Johnson told Pomona Grange members that a youth tried as an adult should face adult penalties and condemned juvenile delinquency as a harmful phrase. He cited crime rates and costs while noting a large share of major crimes involve under 18. Mrs. Alice Bliss described Ohio relief spending. K D Longley spoke on flower arranging. The Elkreek Tune Choppers entertained. next Pomona gathering is June 8 with Elk Creek Grange and Penn State Lecturer Mrs. Walker Shannon to speak and present a youth program.
Robert Lindstroms Host Harbor Half Aid held a meeting yesterday afternoon with 12 members and families present. A tureen dinner was served, devotions on Peace were shared, and a new member Miss Martha Lindstrom joined. A cookie sale was announced for April 7 at the home of Mr and Mrs Pred Lindstrom. Mrs. Will Rose attended as a guest.
Members of the Helping Hand Club gathered in the 100 Hall for an all day session. Sewing for the Odd Fellows homes occurred in the morning and a quilt was tied. A tureen dinner was served at noon for 18 members. President Mrs Ira Wickwire presided and announced the next meeting will be March 24.
Miss Rosa Larrondo spoke at Wheelock Community Aid on the R D 4 home of Mrs Kenneth Loveland. She compared educational systems in Chile and the United States where she is an exchange student. Devotions opened the meeting led by Mrs Merle Patt Yerson.
Spring Creek home extension group met last evening in church parlors to discuss fashion topics. Mrs. Victor Morris presented the program Fashions for Windows while Miss Rita Quigley from Warren spoke on Color in the Home. Mrs. Randall McCray presided over a brief business session and refreshments were served by Mrs. Kaffertin and Mrs. Dangel Phillips. The next meeting is set for April 14. CLEAR WAY FOR CHIANG TAIPEI Formosa The National Assembly cleared the way for Chiang Kai-shek to seek a third six year term as president of Nationalist China.
Officers and delegates elected at the Ladies Auxiliary No 264 VFW meeting held in the Post home with Mrs Roger Grape presiding. William Roehrig named president. senior vice Mrs Emory Benson. junior vice Mrs Raymond Grabowski. treasurer Mrs Hazel Shuss. chaplain Miss Helen Porter. conductress Mrs Eva Arnold. guard Mrs Mildred Sorenson. trustees Mrs Alma Slagle and Mr Roger Grape. Delegates named for County Council District 28 Department Encampment and National Convention with alternates. Donations authorized to multiple funds. Attendance award to Mrs Keppel. Refreshments served by Mrs Grape and Mrs Sorenson.
Erie area director for the State Workman's Insurance Fund, Frederick J. Lavonn, was dismissed by Secretary of Labor and Industry William Batt effective midnight last night. Lavonn planned to run as a Democratic candidate for state senator in Erie County, a race seen as crucial to Governor Lawrence's administration amid Democratic efforts to gain control of the Senate.
Representatives of the Screen Actors Guild and the Association of Motion Picture Producers agreed to talks today on the four day long strike. The meeting, at the request of federal mediator Jules Medoff, was aimed at a first of several sessions with no immediate settlement in sight. The core issue is actors demand for a share of profits from post 1948 movie sales to TV.
The FCC denied Paul M. Butler Democratic national chairman’s protest over Columbia Broadcasting System policy of not accepting paid political broadcasts to be carried simultaneously on other networks. The commission said directing CBS to change its policy or air a specific program would be arbitrary, but left open the possibility of reconsidering based on certain situational facts.
NASA and Cape Canaveral reported the Pioneer V launch as successful with all three rocket stages firing. Ground stations including Jodrell Bank and Millstone Hill tracked signals as the 90 pound payload headed toward the sun and Venus orbital paths for extensive space research.
Steve Meyer, a 28 year old bachelor and assistant stage manager for The Sound of Music, oversees seven Von Trapp children and three understudies aged 8 to 16. He enforces backstage rules to keep order amid concerned mothers, with room limited to basements for mothers and understudies. The children include Evanna Lien Mary Susan Locke Kathy Dunn Marilyn Rogers Lauri Peters William Snowden and Joseph Stewart, all seasoned or budding performers.
The Atlas mis sighted rocket exploded during a 5,000 mile night launch, ending a 21 flight success streak. The 85-foot missile rose briefly, then toppled and was ripped by exploding fuel. No immediate damage estimate or cause was available.
SAN Pedro Calif AP Kenneth Wilber did not remarry after Lucille divorced him after 12 years of marriage. She remarried twice more. her second husband died of a heart attack in 1952 and her third was killed in a 1958 plane crash. Four weeks ago Wilber and Lucille Miller both 43 met by chance for the first time since their divorce. They were remarried last night.
CUPERTINO Calif AP Four year old Jimmy Engelhardt habitually reads newspapers and encyclopedias and is described as a genius His father Edward Engelhardt runs a San Jose metal plating firm Officials in the Cupertino School District after observing him decided he should start school next September at age four and a half He learned to read before age two by reading labels on groceries and TV ads and the family has given him minimal help since then
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