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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1963
Page
2
Opening dance at Corry Country Club on Wednesday May 29 with members and guests. Open bowling starts summer at the VFW Club with a Mixed Doubles League beginning June 5 and a Men's Handicap League starting June 3. Tickets for alumni banquet June 8 at Savelli's Orchestra. Pope in hospital update with limited activity and prayers from Vatican crowd.
Special Wednesday event at the Sparta Hotel starts 10 PM featuring Slim Cowgirl Clara and Derriel. Also notes a 228 Men’s Handicap League beginning June 3 at the VFW with team signups via VFW 1Club. Local ads 23c per line and acceptance until publication day noon. Memorial Day dinner planned at Spartansburg Methodist Church May 30 serving Swiss steak 11 AM to 2 PM.
Requiem Mass for Dorothy Brown at St Elizabeth's Church Corry with interment in St Elizabeth's Cemetery. Visitation at Schoonover Sugar Grove Tuesday Wednesday with Rosary Wednesday evening. Also notices for Mett Futter and Harley Lee Smith from Bracke Bracken funeral homes with Masses at St Elizabeth's Church and burials in St Elizabeth's Cemetery and Pine Grove Cemetery respectively.
ANSAS GELy, s8n.-capt Edward J. Dwight Jr., America's first Negro astronaut trainee, told Ward High School graduates to pursue as much education as possible while tempering it with faith in God. He spoke to the class yesterday, noting his own struggle to stay ahead after entering the Air Force in 1953.
Obituaries from Corry area noting deaths of Bert Hutter of Spring Creek Burns, long-time dairy businessman Eric Smith McSmith and Mrs Dorothy Brown of Bear Lake. Details include birthplaces, survivors, calling hours, funeral rites at St Elizabeths Church Corry, and burials at Pine Grove Cemetery.
Police link three daytime robberies and killings in Harrisburg as likely the work of a single shooter using a .38. Victims include grocer Robert Yablon, 54, on Jan 21 and Domenick Agostino, 67, on Apr 29, with Morris Lock, 54, shot at his uptown shoe store Friday. An AWOL soldier was arrested, another man questioned, as business operators hide under counters.
The sales tax bill faces approval with a projected annual revenue of 103.5 million dollars. Senate amendments shift to a general levy with exemptions for clothing and shoes. The cigarette tax would rise two cents to 12.5 million dollars. both measures await signing and vendor guidance. Action on the liquor bill may occur within a week, else July 1 implementation.
Ruth F. Wood, age 79, longtime general secretary at the Young Women's Christian Association world headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1985 to 1948, died Saturday in New York.
Dense fog on the New Jersey Turnpike caused a wreck involving fourteen vehicles. Six people died, five at the scene and one later at St. James Hospital in Newark. About ten were injured, one critically. Police cited fog, not a stated cause. A trucker, A J Gauthier of Port Huron Michigan, was among the injured and said he struck the pile after encountering the fog bank and brake lights from a preceding truck.
Actress Helen Hayes plans a sale of paintings books theatre memorabilia and furniture from her New York suburb home to benefit charity. She spoke after 32 years in the big white house.
The Senate faces a three day rush into a Memorial Day break with a $840 million mental illness program and a $95 million Interior Department budget on the agenda. House business is lighter with a two year extension of the Mexican farm labor program. The mental health bill would fund community centers and research for the mentally ill and retarded, and extend three years federal aid for teacher training for the deaf and other handicapped.
An 84 year old Anthony Demarco of Sharon Pennsylvania was fatally struck while crossing Old Ohio 82 in Masury yesterday. He died at Sharon General Hospital. Demarco lived with his wife, the late writer Charles MacArthur, who intends to sell the property.
Court actions challenge Birmingham schools integration with class actions seeking全面 injunctive relief. Federal troops bolster area after Kennedy linked riots, while Mississippi’s lone Black student James Meredith voices limited progress as nationwide tensions flare with clashes in Boston and Manhattan.
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