Corry WOTM Members Attend Erie Meeting
WOTM members attended an Erie meeting yesterday with Corry community leaders and several named attendees. The session featured featured speakers and updates on local community projects and ongoing initiatives.
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1956
Page
5
WOTM members attended an Erie meeting yesterday with Corry community leaders and several named attendees. The session featured featured speakers and updates on local community projects and ongoing initiatives.
A son was born yesterday at the Corry Memorial Hospital to Mr and Mrs Frid Duell of 15 East Burd Sini. Also a daughter was born to Mr and Mrs HYMor Loomis of Clymer at the same hospital.
The Erie Garden Club hosts a Friday symposium featuring Conway, author of three books on flowers. Lectures cover arranging ideas and season decor with dessert and light refreshments. Tickets from Mrs J N Flora and others in Erie.
Mrs Veo Lindsey hosted a First Methodist Church class session on East Try ing street with Mr and Mrs Lindsey and others presiding. Russell Churk chaired the business meeting and announced future sessions will be held on the fourth Wednesday each month with a later announced price for October.
Western dispatches report Tito may back Khrushchev against old Bolsheviks in Moscow. Khrushchev’s overtures risk straining Soviet ties with Yugoslavia and jeopardizing US aid. Rumors say Molotov and Kaganovich view Tito’s independence as diminishing Moscow’s satellites influence.
Columbia report notes Miriam Stevenson once Miss Universe now Mrs Donald Gplen. She continues TV work at WES TV with husband as chief journalist. plans home decor and fashion design projects. She describes college hobbies in home economics and cooking, and hints at the shift from pageant fame to married life and studio duties.
A studio colleague named Lolo comments on Miriam Valor in a film scene exploring her makeup and demeanor. The piece notes the ongoing media focus as Miriam’s public image and performance are scrutinized amid a backdrop of music and local processing in Lebanon and Wilinsboro.
A quirky incident centers on Uni John O. McShan, president of the First National Bank, as the bank shifts to new quarters. A masked Robber, posing as a pickpocket, pockets a claimed million dollars in negotiable securities while plainclothes officers blend with the crowd. The event escalates into a cautious, low-key affair with attention focused on safety.
The 48th convention of the State Congress of Parents and Teachers opened its first business session after dedicating a new Harrisburg headquarters. Directors voted to raise by ten dollars to seventy dollars per semester the tuition grants for 34 students to state teacher colleges, retroactive to the current semester. Mrs. Eugene S. Smith of Potts Town was elected vice president of District 1, succeeding Mrs. Leslie R. Angus of Jenkintown, nowSelinsgrove.
Relief checks funded by a $400,000 monthly boost in benefits were issued today by the Department of Public Assistance. The plan affects about 250,000 people with a statewide single-person food allowance rising from 23.20 to 26.20 monthly. A family of five saw food aid jump from 74.40 to 80 monthly while overall assistance totals adjust accordingly. The article also notes Tennessee derives its name from the Cherokee Tanasi village.
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