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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1957
Page
4
The College Entrance Examination Board now reports scores on a 200 to 800 scale with no universal pass mark. Results will no longer be verdicts of acceptance or rejection, but will help explain admissions by comparing high school records, recommendations, and other factors to select the best qualified students.
The National Safety Council projects that by 1995 traffic safety will expand faster than vehicle numbers. It cites public concern, coordinated government action, strong licensing, tougher enforcement, universal driver education, and safer highways as key to lowering the accident toll despite higher travel.
David Sarnoff, chairman of the Radio Corporation of America, warns that the next five years may be the critical window for the free world to avert a hydrogen war holocaust, stressing the urgency of action to prevent catastrophe.
Retired brigadier general Sarnoff warned before the United States Army Association that an adequate war offense must be taken now to avert a global crisis within five years as ocean spanning missiles equip both sides. He said the Soviet empire faces inner pressures and that disintegration could be hastened with every resource. He warned that dreadful parity would empower the Soviets to intimidate small nations and extract neutrality or blackmail from larger powers. He also notes Madagascar, once called La Prince Orientale, as a French colony since 1904.
Several hundred youths chose volunteer service over summer wages to ease tensions across cultures. Organized by the American Friends Service Committee, many participants were Americans though students from foreign countries were present. Camps spanned Japan, the United States, Austria, France, Poland, Yugoslavia, and Israel, focusing on road building and construction projects.
Local items note Judith Dwyer joining Lambda Mu at Mansfield State Teachers College and a WICU power boost update. Pennsylvania and municipal groups plan nearly 1.0 million dollars in tourism and industry ads nationwide, with local impacts. Weekend hotel rushes defy quiet expectations as visitors arrive. area efforts press civic projects, Keep Christ in Christmas, parking shifts, and YMCA open house plans to celebrate a new building complex.
The funeral for Archie B C Darling was conducted at 2 30 p m yesterday from Bracken Funeral Home. Rev William Saltz Jr officiated with burial in Pine Grove Cemetery. Bearers included Parthurst Sperry Smith Young Sandburg and Kinley. Honorary bearers were Sullivan Kep pel Gordon Jones and Horton Davis. Attendees from away included Kathryn Bright Dell Darling and Mr and Mrs Harry Darling Brie and the Beringtons of Chicago.
Yesterday's Memories of Corry recalls Shanghai war red flags and a local business move as Frank C. Chapin and Sons lease a 1007 building to relocate a ladies ready-to-wear shop by December 1. Treasurer J R Dearing reports a October treasury balance of 10 003 21 for the Corry School District as board members attend the meeting.
A gang of young vandals caused considerable damage in the city’s west end over several weeks. Police are investigating. Paul and Percy Lapaze of Company A, quartered at Camp Hancock, will serve with the 28th Division football squad. Mary Downey has left to teach language at Utica High School. Old flank sidewalks on York Street have disappeared, replaced by a gravel walk. Time once saw walls built of hemlock plant.
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