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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1949
Page
5
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About 60 members met at Harding School for a 6 30 p m dinner. Miss Mary Anderson gave an invocation and tables were decorated with spring flowers and flower nut cups. Officers were elected with Mrs Johnston re elected president and Mrs Zalsneck as vice president. Ten per cent state gold seal membership awards were presented to Harding Washington Concord and Junior High Elementary Schools. A booth for ice cream and pop was planned for the Fourth of July at Glenn Mead Day committee. Several members attended the 63rd general Jeornet conference in Rochester NY and other locals noted include hospital visits and travel plans.
Kiwanis members toured surrounding farms aided by the Farmers Home Administration. Chairman Joseph C. Myers led a bus tour showing pre loan conditions and post loan improvements. The stop ended at McCray Church with a chicken dinner. Next week a testimonial dinner for District Treasurer Sam Wagner is planned in Erie.
Miss Dorothy Johnson and families announce the engagement of Dorothy to Robert H. Meyer son of Mrs Hattie Meyer of Buffalo New York. Dorothy is a graduate of Corry High School and Howard J Meyer Memorial Hospital School of Nursing Buffalo and works on the nursing staff at DeGrait Memorial Hospital North Tonawanda. Robert Meyer graduated from Buffalo High School and Wagner Memorial Lutheran College Staten Island and works for the Social Welfare Department Buffalo. He served three years in the Army Air Corps with duty in the China India Burma theater. The wedding is planned for early fall.
Ten members of the Navy Mothers Club gathered at the TO 0 F Hall Monday evening for social time. Mrs Stella Klinger hosted. The group enjoyed a quiz and bingo with awards to Ms Harvey Loveland and Mrs Edinger. Refreshments included cupcakes tea and coffee. Next meeting on June 6 will be a business session.
Larry Gallagher aged eight was celebrated at a birthday party hosted by his family at 2004 Delaware Street Ames. His mother Her wallagues and Nancy, his sister, plus eight friends attended. Games were played, prizes awarded, and refreshments including decorated cake ice cream and lemon blend were served. Larry received many gifts and well wishes.
Mrs. Theodore Bradley celebrated age 92 with an open house from 6 to 10 p.m. at her home on Marion Street. Friends and relatives attended as Mr. and Mrs. Roy Atkins hosted, with pink and white decorations and Mrs. Bradley helping to serve a long lunch. Gifts cards and cash were given to her.
Mrs Ellis Brown of R D 1 Spring Creek was honored at a Sunday surprise party attended by over thirty relatives and friends. A tuncheon was served and guests enjoyed games and visits in the afternoon.
In Manhattan's West Side a high turnout is anticipated as Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. seeks to win Sol Bloom's old seat. He faces opposition from Tammany Hall, with Benjamin Shalleck also on the ballot under Liberal and Four Freedoms party banners. Roosevelt campaigned across the 20th district after voting.
Gov. James H. Dutt signs a new law authorizing vocational education classes for out of school youth and adults. School districts may establish training programs where facilities exist upon request, expanding adult and youth educational opportunities.
A proposed law, backed by Bev Fred E Hare Jr, would fund eighty percent of struction costs, set teacher pay at 260 per hour, and bar school boards from demanding payoffs from staff. It would expand the definition of professional employees to include school nurses and fix part time pay at 250 per hour for exceptional children and extension schools. Emergency certificates would pay 1.50 per hour. Obscure note mentions wasp communities dying with approaching cold.
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