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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1962
Page
2
Emergency contact details for Corry Memorial Hospital and Union City Memorial Hospital listed with multiple patient admissions and discharges. Local ads include Line-O-Ad rates, no trespassing signs, Hallmark cards, Sea's Drugs, and bowling leagues notices with a November 1962 start date and contact number 3-3722.
GOP gains reshape Harrisburg power as Republicans win key House seats across Armstrong, Centre Clearfield, Cambria and Schuylkill counties and pick up Senate seats in Forest Hills and Ridgway areas. Veterans Helm Johnson Mahany secure leadership roles, while Democrats lose multiple seats, setting stage for Harvey Taylor return to president pro tempore and shifting floor leadership.
Final rites for Orvel R. Reed set Thursday at 3 p.m. at Spitver n Funeral Home Sherman with interment in Holland Cemetery Clymer. Arvin Dampott’s funeral at Abbe Reformed Church Clymer Friday at 2 p.m. followed by interment in Holland Cemetery. Call hours listed for Spitverdn Funeral Home in Clymer.
In Philadelphia a Pennsylvania congressional runoff in the new 6th district saw Democrat George M. Rhodes defeat Ivor D. Fenton as reapportionment pitted two former districts against each other. Rhodes will begin a seventh term, while Fenton ends 12 terms. overall Pennsylvania will have 15 Republicans and 14 Democrats in the next session. Incumbents generally fared well, with Rep. Francis E. Walter winning a 16th term, and redistricting reshaping several seats.
Rob ert B. Donaldson of Penn State will address the 1962 Erie County Agricultural Extension Association annual meeting at the Pennsylvania Electric Company building on Evans Road Erie. The event, open to the public, requires reservations through the Erie extension office.
Arvin Dameott died at his home in Clymer yesterday morning at 10 o'clock aged 72. Born January 24, 1890 in Clymer, he lived there his entire life and ran a dairy farm. Survivors include his wife Berniece, six sons, one daughter, four stepchildren, his father, 28 grandchildren, three sisters, and more. Final rites at Abbe Reformed Church Friday at 2 p.m.. interment in Holland Cemetery. Friends may call at Spitzer Funeral Home today and tomorrow.
In Allentown center square voters rejected moving the 80 foot Soldiers and Sailors Monument erected in 1899. The tally ran 40,619 for keeping the monument and 20,841 against moving it. Some local businessmen argued it caused traffic hazards in the busy center city.
Crawford County Army veteran with mental illness held on homicide charge for stabbing his mother, Mrs Julian Sapochack, 59, in Norrisville. Sapochack fled from the Pittsburgh VA Hospital after admitting to the stabbing to “stop her suffering.” He is lodged without bond pending psychiatric evaluation at Warren State Hospital.
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