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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1963
Page
5
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The Woman’s Society of Christian Service of the First Methodist Church plans a sub-district meeting at Corry Church on April 16 with 250 members expected. The March meeting opened with devotions on Christ Before Pilate led by Mrs. Charles Correll. Letters from missionaries in Southern Rhodesia and Japan were read and the group ratified a New Charter of Racial Policies.
Robert Culbertson, a Corry Area High School junior and wrestling coach, and Robert Mulvin demonstrated wrestling holds and scoring procedures at the Kiwanis Club meeting in Hotel Corry. They answered member questions after the presentation as H Lynn Rice led singing with Mrs. Rice at the piano. Donald Ruffher attended as a guest.
Monsignor Leo J. Post disclosed a letter from the Sisters of Christian Charity criticizing St Marys High School teaching as outdated. They protest that nuns should not teach all subjects and urge creation of a new Catholic high school after the current term ends.
The event, hosted by the Ladies Guild of St. Elizabeth’s Church, showcases spring and summer children’s wear at the Moose Club ballroom on March 19 at 8 p.m. Fashions from G. C. Murphy Company. prizes include a grand award of 100. Refreshments by Mrs. Nicholas Aquilino’s committee. Reservations encouraged but not required.
The Calvin Circle of the wirsy Presbyterian Church met yesterday at the East Pleasant street home of Mrs Ivan Smith with Mrs Howard Hammond as co hostess. Seven members were served lunch and business was led by Mrs James A Smith. Reports included the family night dinner and a program on Christianity In Action about Cuban refugees in Florida. Sewing day was set for April 28 at the church and Missionary Conference Week is May 19 26. Mrs Brown will host next session April 8 at her R D 2 home.
The Brokenstraw valley DAR will sponsor an award presentation at the March meeting in the YMCA. Mrs. Roger Brown will award good citizenship pins to three local and area high school students Kaylene Bliley Corry Area High School Lucilda Witmer Sparta Merged School and Carolyn Bayliss Tinville High School. Slides of a Pennsylvania program will be shown Miss Pia Dahl exchange student at Clymer Central School will be special guest for the evening. The committee includes Mrs. Ethel Kirwin Mrs. Gordon Wells Mrs. Ellen Blanchard and Mrs. Evelyn Sinare.
Lea Johnston of 1305 White Street in Lorraine Ohio has earned a National Science Foundation Academic Award for Brown University Providence R I He plans a master’s in chemistry followed by a doctorate Johnston is a Corry Area High School and Edinboro State College graduate He is the son of Mr and Mrs Leland Johnston and teaches science and mathematics at Admiral King Senior High School in Lorraine Ohio.
Paris reports two hour walkouts disrupt the rail network as two hundred thousand idle miners refuse government draft orders. The stalemate continues with demands for an 11 percent raise and a 40 hour week and government offers 5.7 percent plus a wage-scale review next year.
The British pound sagged against the U S dollar amid a second straight day of intervention by the Bank of England. Officials hurried to buy pounds using hard currency reserves as the pound hovered near 2 79 and 32 cents per dollar, the lowest since August 1961, with an official value around 2 80.
Lib erty Real Estate Bank and Trust Company in the 69th Street shopping area was held up today. FBI and police fingerprinted the scene and kept people out to assess the loss. Authorities broadcast an alert for three young Black men and patrolled nearby highways and transit lines.
Six members of Congress on the House Education Committee toured two Washington public schools Pierce Elementary and Hine Junior High. They described crowded classrooms, damp basements, outdated textbooks, and poor facilities as a blight on the capital. They called for construction funds to improve the district schools.
A local notice promotes subscriptions to the Corry Journal as a thoughtful gift for friends or relatives who are ill or lonely, suggesting regular delivery to provide connection and cheer.
Robert Sarhuels, 52, of Conneautville, is listed in critical condition at City Hospital after severing an artery with a meat cleaver while cutting meat at his father’s store. His parents, Aram and Mrs. Samuels of Conneautville, were in a two car accident near their home. both are in fair condition at Meadville City Hospital. The three operated a Conneautville meat market.
Philadelphia dispatch reports the Transport Workers Union objects to the Pennsylvania Railroad layoff of 108 maintenance workers. Seven of 11 jobs in Paoli shops are restored with a Saturday Sunday recall to avoid overtime, while the TWU bans overtime. Union leaders call the move crumbs and insist no layoffs should occur.
Paoli shops maintained cars bound for Baltimore faced a union dispute as TWU members refused overtime. PRR said eight cars were sent to Baltimore after workers balked on Saturday. railroad denies plans to transfer more cars and cites Railway Labor Act rules.
PluSBURGH AP Bt. Clair Lodge 962 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows is sued for over 40 000 in the drowning of six year old Dennis Gramz. The administrator of the boy's estate filed in U S District Court alleging negligence for an uncovered well on the lodge property in the West End. The boy, who lived in the Elliott section, fell into the well February 14.
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