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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1963
Page
4
Editorial praises CHEER the city group aiding handicapped youth. It notes gains like handicapped youths joining 4 H clubs, parents seeking tests for schooling, some children entering special education, and senior girls at Corry Area High School planning nursing careers. The piece argues these early outcomes hint at a lasting community payoff from CHEER and allied groups.
The West Spring Creek Ladies Aid met in Corry for a tureen dinner and prepped for an eight rum mage sale. PTA postponement notes and Girl Scouts activity include purse kits and cemetery shrubbery trimming for Community Badges. Brokenstraw choir to perform at Evangelical church in Corry tomorrow at 7. Mr. and Mrs. Mulligan and relatives visited in Erie.
AP reports unemployment benefit claims eased last week. Continued claims fell to 150,470, down 6,593 from the prior week, while new claims dropped 14 to 22,182. Secretary Young cites construction, apparel, textiles, and metals as helping the decline. The state issued 138,098 checks totaling 4.1 million, with 155.4 million in the fund and 112 million federal loan noted.
Paul Harvey surveys a growing student shift toward intellectual independence while warning of active communist recruitment on U S college campuses. He cites Gus Hall and Herbert Aptheker lecturing at multiple universities, noting debates over legality and alleged foreign influence.
Readers are reminded of a scattered Erie County court breakdown affecting police handling of a burglary case. The article notes misrouted releases and detention issues, plus local civic notes on Lynn Patterson pursuing dental hygiene studies and Ruth Myers teaching in Miami while Corry residents feature in library and literary news.
Amid election tabulation chaos residents note unusually foul results and officials show poor knowledge of vote totals. A mistaken prediction by a local observer proved narrowly off by seven votes out of 1127. Charles Lucey, class of 1913, plans to attend June 8 reunion. he rose to national fame as a columnist and now edits the Trenton Times. American Cancer Society reports newspapers lead media in cancer education. 1962 Pennsylvania cancer research was funded mainly by the National Cancer Institute, with the ACS as a major supporter.
Air raids and allied bombings loom over southern Europe as Italy faces shortages and Umberto urges unity. Pennsylvania restricts deliveries and urges scrap-iron drives amid gasoline shortages while local graduates, court bids, and memorial plans surface.
Thursday sale at Union City featured good and choice hogs 15 to 16 percent and sows 13 to 14, beef cows 15 to 17, canners and cutters 13 to 15, beef heifers 17 to 19, bulls 17 to 19 percent, veal calves 30 to 85, heavy and medium calves 23 to 29, and lambs 20 to 24.
Publisher George R Sample general manager William Eaton city editor Allan Hasbrouck advertising manager John McLaughlin pressroom foreman G T Bergman production manager Associated Press rights and local news exclusive. Entered at Corry Pa Post Office second class mail. Rates by mail $13 per year $11 in restricted territory. Cartier copy 8 cents fifty cents week. Advertising rates on display deadline 9 am.
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