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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1957
Page
5
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a high speed incident near Carter Street involving a crowd of riders and a vehicle. Mentions injuries and various names including Cowden Ros and Mc, with references to a pistol and a Snider, and a 135 foot impact.
Members of the Start Nurses Association met Tuesday in the hospital nurses dining room with president Mrs Walton Potts. They arranged for delegates to attend the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association meeting in Pittsburgh and planned a Christmas party at the Hotel Corry for December with Miss Alberte Armitage as chair. Sixteen members attended the Bethany Baptist Youth Rally in Meadville with Rev Glenn Klann as speaker, listing several attendees. Corry residents appeared at the Warner Theater for the Biggest Show of Stars of ’57, including Mrs J Fred Kinley and several Miss Kinley and Kinney family members.
Ehner C. Carter Post 204 American Legion Auxiliary met on Tuesday to hear a report on the Spartansburg installation. Mrs W. E. Orn received a past president’s gift, yellow roses, and money. Christmas orders from Sue Marlin products were distributed. A family Christmas party is planned for December 10 at 6 p.m. with a career supper, Legion members and families, a visit from Santa, and a gift exchange.
Seventeen members of the Evan gelical United Brethren Church Ladies Aid met for a meeting at the church. The session opened with devotions led by vice president Clara Walker. The group voted to donate to the Needlework Guild and to fund a quilt for the Quincy Home. Refreshments followed, and the next meeting is set for November 26 with a Thanksgiving basket for a shut in to be filled.
Twenty nine members of the Ladies Fellowship of the First Baptist Church met with Mrs. Ralph Carroll. Devotions featured a poem and Psalm 103. A temperance study followed. Mrs. Clyde Hall led a business session to send Christmas boxes to missionaries and gifts to a North Carolina mission. Next meeting December 11 with Miss Cosma.
Girl Scout Troop No. 998 approved a fundraiser to sell mixed nuts at their regular meeting held at First Presbyterian Church. Rob era Mackey and Donna McEl downey seconded the motion. The scouts plan to meet at the new YMCA on North Center Street at 4 PM Saturday for an open house. Susan Castor’s patrol will have horseback riding lessons from 10 to 2 Saturday at the Albert Hill Farm.
The Corry Bridge Association held a weekly session in the Garden Room of the VFW Post with an average score of 67. High scorers were Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Beverly at 96, Mrs. James MacInnes and Harold Gilbert tied with Mr. and Mrs. Ted Treat of Union City at 81, J. Fred Kinley and Duke Graham and Mr. and Mrs. Horton Davis with 71, and Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Hubley at 0. Next week will feature master point play and begin with a dinner at Frank and Verna's Restaurant in Columbus at 6 p.m. Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Mac Tunes are in charge of the dinner.
Olin Bracken Jr. was the featured speaker at the Corry Rotary Club meeting held at the Hotel Corry. He discussed the future of the community and its industrial and social growth as Duane Fogle led the routine business session.
Members of the EUB Church Mets Group toured The Journal building conducted by G T Bergman. They then returned to the church for a routine business session presided by Robert Williams. Refreshments were served. The next session of the group will be held at the church on December 11.
The Procrastinators Club of America crowns its 1956 queen Bettie Swinand, 17, amid a humorous nod to the club’s motto of delaying tasks. Members joke that procrastination is a healthy life habit and plan future action with light whimsy.
FBI lab identified the suspect as Wetzer from a stolen Acerise plate on a 1957 Oldsmobile found abandoned. The car contained loaded revolvers and items traced to a hardware store burglary two days earlier in Bradford. Wetzel has an arrest record since 1930s for assault burglary and grand larceny and is wanted in Geneva for violating a five year probation after release from Attica in December 1954. He escaped from Willard Hospital October 21. NY authorities placed him in care after an April 1949 arrest. Decision on exact timing postponed.
London reports Prince Charles, aged nine, marking his birthday at Cheam School away from royal palaces. His parents told the headmaster no special treatment, and he spent the day in chapel and classes with fellow boarders while receiving cards and gifts at breakfast.
Navy trials at Sasebo base convict Corporal Glenn W. Fredericks 21 of Alaska for punching a sailor during guard duty in the brig. Fredericks got 14 days hard labor and rank reduction. sentence subject to review. Co Corporal Dayton W. Dierkson’s charge was dropped after Fireman Gattas failed to recall being struck. Dierkson due for discharge Friday.
A son named Daniel Mark born to Mr and Mrs Terry Lindsey in Norfolk Virginia last night. Mrs Lindsey formerly Elsie Bush. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Grove Bush of Jamestown and Mrs Kenneth Gates of R D 1 Corry. Corry Memorial Hospital in Sherman reported the first birth.
New York report notes Tony Bennett, famed jazz singer, has turned down multiple offers for his own program. He prefers guest spots to learn television, saying he isn’t ready yet and wants to avoid merely appearing as a name. Bennett cites Ed Sullivan and Steve Allen as recent appearances as he weighs future plans.
About 400 miners in Waynesburg Pennsylvania remained on strike for a tenth day protesting Crucible Steel Co seniority and furlough policies. Union members urged continued walkout while Crucible followed union procedures. Picket lines formed at nearby mines in Washington Greene and Fayette counties, though many workers returned after pickets were withdrawn.
Mrs Jane Long and Robert Steinmels both 30 of Bakersfield California were arrested after police questioned them at a suburban motel about a disturbance. Long admitted passing bad checks totaling about 20000 in 32 cities across the country while Bremmers and her two children aged years had been moving since October 1996.
English professor emeritus Macinnon of Brigléh at Onlb Uslversity died yesterday at age 68. He served on the faculty from 1012 until his retirement in 1965 and was born in Beeton.
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