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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1961
Page
2
Spot Line O Ads lists Turben's Auto Service as a Chevrolet dealer and invites friends to St Edward's on Mondays at 8 05 p m. Jim Kelly provides nightly background for group singing at Hotel Corry s Gold Room with singing sessions from 9 p m to 1 a m Tuesday through Saturday.
Hospital notes list admissions including William Morton and Susan Sheraf with relatives in Corry and nearby towns. Discharges include Larryy-16 and Albert Covey among others and multiple residents of Union City Spartansburg and Cambridge Springs. Local notices advertise maple syrup products and an Italian American Club stag party on March 14.
In Canonsburg Pennsylvania a four year old girl Norma Kirby of Houston died three hours after eating poisonous wild hemlock leaves. Four playmates including her sister Ruth Ann, also ate the plant and required medical treatment. Deputy coroner Dr Earnest Abernathy said a large quantity was found in Norma’s stomach. The children were playing in a field near their homes Saturday evening. Another girl Patsy Ann Small of Washington R C was treated at a hospital for the same cause earlier.
In Cleveland Carnegie College dormitory blaze injures eight students including Ronald Shaw of Houston and Dale Hawk of New Bethlehem, both in fair condition. Shaw suffers leg and facial wounds and burns. Hawk has burns to hands and feet. The three story building had seven students jump from upper floors. Damage is estimated at 18000 dollars. Cause under investigation. Also named ambassador to Denmark is William McComtick Blair Jr of Chicago.
Three of the state s original forty witnesses have yet to testify in the murder trial of Joseph A Peel Jr charged in the disappearance and killings of Circuit Court Judge C B Chillingworth and his wife six years ago Main testimony already heard includes Floyd A Holzapfel the confessed killer and P O Wilber an undercover agent Both allege Peel ordered the slayings amid gambling moonshine rackets and fear of exposure Further major witnesses Bobby Lincoln and James Jamac s are expected Lincoln confessed to riding with Holzapfel when the couple was drowned while Wilber aided in trapping the confession in a motel tape Holzapfel was cross examined for days with no change in his testimony The case scene is Union City and street extension Mrs Kenneth Fay Mrs Robert Steen and others are listed as residents or witnesses.
In New York AP reports President Kennedy’s education proposal excludes direct aid to parochial schools, prompting Catholic leaders to seek long term federal loans within constitutional bounds. Debates focus on church state separation and whether aid would edge into sectarian ends.
Belgian radio reports Mobutu loyalist soldiers in the Congo committing sexual assaults and home intrusions, forcing women from beds at bayonet point and parading them naked amid looting of food money and jewelry. Soldiers mock whites with manioc remark as protests leave victims with nothing to eat.
Kirk Sawyer elected head of the Corry Archery Club at a reorganizational meeting at East Main Street range. Sawyer, a local photographer, will lead the club with Earl Price as vice president. Dick Kinney secretary and Harry Lamona treasurer. Board members are Kurt Lindberg Robert Fleming and Ralph Bailey. Plans include exhibitions by Jim Mackey and Patty Bailey, archery classes, and a junior league.
A woman dropping clothing on Route 19 south of Meadeville caused Theresa Gool of Erie to swerve and collide with a southbound truck driven by Joseph Wa nanin of Sharon. No injuries were reported. The clothes, mistaken for a body, were dropped by Margaret Green of Meadville as she walked toward Meadville.
An American couple and three others pleaded innocent in London on charges of releasing naval secrets to Moscow. The group, including Gordon A. Lonsdale and Peter Kroger with spouses, are linked to the Portland underwater weapons base thefts. Conviction could mean seven years. five were arrested January 7 as details of espionage devices emerged.
Washington reports Thruston Morton plans to resign as Republican national chairman within weeks to focus on seeking reelection to the Senate. Four men are discussed as successors including Rep. William E. Miller and Ray C. Bliss, with Scribner and Whittier also floated. Morton may step down to satisfy factions and allow a strong bid for 1966 reelection.
Funeral services for J Sherman Lilley will be held Wednesday at Glenn Funeral Home Union City at 2 p m. Friends may call there Monday 7 to 9 p m and Tuesday 1 to 4 and 7 to 9 p m. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery Union City. Need Cash Quick Try the Classifieds.
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