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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1961
Page
5
Fragmentary text references legislature debates on education funding, imported goods, and various named individuals. Details are obscured by OCR errors, leaving ambiguous references to amounts, dates, and roles.
Plans were made for the annual Spartansburg Alumni banquet to be held Saturday June 3 at the Spartansburg High School gymnasium. Dr James McIntosh, current pastor of the First Methodist Church Jamestown NY, will be the featured speaker. Reservations are urged with Mrs Helen Shreve taking orders for tickets.
Mrs Porter Auer spoke on the value of reading at the Concord School PTA gathering held last evening. Officers were installed by president Mrs Kirk Sawyer. Gifts were given to retiring teacher Mrs Marguerite Nichols. A school picnic is planned at Mead Park on June 1 with family attendance and provided coffee and soft drinks.
William Armitage of Elyria Ohio spoke to Corry Rotary Club on centennial plans for Corry and the J B Rogers Producing Company. He noted 300 participants in the pageant to portray life from Indians to today, at Corry Area High School football field, costing about 8000 dollars. Next Tuesday no meeting due to Memorial Day holiday.
Senior Girl Scout Troop No. 398 met at Mrs. Jolley s West Pleasant Street home Monday evening electing Marian Bauer president Judy MacGregor vice president Charleen Clark secretary and Madeline Jolley treasurer. Bauer and Jolley named senior planning board reps with Barbara McKee as alternate Donna McEldowney chosen patrol leader for council wide patrol camp. The troop will compete for senior round up at Button Bay Vermont in July 1962 and next outing at Camp Hawthorne Ridge is set for Saturday June 3 with a cook out and awards ceremony at Barbara McKee s home on Monday June 12. About 12 percent of all male college students in the United States take military training as part of their curricula.
Louise May Weidner became the bride of Glenn LeRoy Craker in a May 20 ceremony at the Evangelical United Brethren Church. Rev. H. Ray Harris officiated. The couple, after a reception at the Moose home, plan to reside in California where Craker will report to Fort Ord. Out-of-town guests came from Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Lydia Daniels was feted at her 97th birthday party at Quiet Acres Nursing Home in Corry with 20 guests. Hosts included Elizabeth Logan, two daughters, and Helen Reich. attendees spanned Daniels family members and residents, with birthday cake by Mrs. Lamendola and Arnold McCaslin. Out-of-town guest Mrs. Russell McCaslin and daughter Barbara attended from Centreville.
Mrs G T Bergman hosted the Friendship Aid of the Evangelical United Brethren Church on West Irving Street. Officers elected include President Mrs Marshall Sherwood and Vice President Mrs Eugene Matson. The next meeting is set for June 27 at Mrs Eugene Matson of Raymond.
Miss Titus and Miss Florence Pond, retiring Corry Area High School staff, were honored at separate dinners. At Reeds Steak House thirteen faculty members attended the first party. gifts and good wishes followed. Pond received a yellow carnation corsage and a gift at The Cottage in Meadville where ten high school staff attended.
The final game of the season at the YMCA featured a Ste table Howell Muster Point event. Top pairs included Mrs. H J Wil es with Mrs. Gerald Lane in first place, followed by Mrs. Morgans Beverly and Mrs. J Fred Kinley in second, and Mrs. William Myers with Mr F H Bartholme of Vion City in third.
St Pauls Lutheran Church held a congregational dinner at First Presbyterian Church with about 240 attendees to honor catechumens graduates and new members. The event featured welcomes by Hillstrom Catlin and Rozelle Jr Master of ceremonies, an address by Rev Elmer Ortner, group singing led by John Rossbacher, and performances by the senior choir the clarinet trio and youth choir.
Rev Norman Warner missionary from Kentucky was guest of the Golden Age Club at the YMCA yesterday afternoon. He read Bible passages, showed color slides, and shared four narratives about work in Stony Creek Kentucky. Members celebrated birthdays, with decorations, cake, and flowers, and planned hosting out of town visitors.
Eighteen members of the Past Noble Grands Club of the Lady Franklin Rebekah Lodge met last evening at the OOP Hall for a short business session. Miss Ethel Matthews Mrs Oleta Wickwire and Mrs Carrie Barton served dessert refreshments. The next meeting is planned for Mead Park on June 27 at 30 p.m.
DETROIT AP New York's Metropolitan Opera Co will not perform before segregated audiences in the South any longer. Rudolf Bing, the Met's general manager, said the company cannot afford to do so and had informed patrons in Atlanta and Dallas that it would stop touring in those cities.
Erie County's 1960 to 1964 consumer outlays show retail purchases of 302,110,000 and services at 130,154,000, totaling 422,270,900. The rise from 378,858,000 reflects price and income shifts, with national GNP near 500 billion, driven by steadier consumer spending and a larger share of cash used for rent medical care and owner services.
Titan missile test succeeds with a 98 foot booster reaching a South Atlantic target in 30 minutes. The launch moves the weapon closer to combat readiness as Air Force expects a Titan from Vandenberg AFB. Atlas missiles already operational and a mix of Titan and Atlas squadrons planned by 1965.
In New York the Lutheran Church of America approves a merger with three other Lutheran bodies creating a 3.2 million member church. Ratification completed when the Texas Louisiana Synod voted Tuesday in Houston. The United Lutheran Church will merge with Augustana, American Evangelical Lutheran, and Finnish Evangelical Lutheran, to form a larger denomination.
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