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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1959
Page
3
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Merle Akam named noble grand of Jonathan Lodge 685 LO OF. F. last evening at Odd Fellows Hall. Miss Mary White and Ivan R Downey unite in Panama City church ceremony. Bennink admires party at United Brethren Sunday School. Fairview PTA met to plan card parties for American Legion Auxiliary. Catholic Daughters, Ladies Aid, and other society notices span Sept 28 to Oct 2 with birthdays, weddings, and community gatherings.
Mrs Lindsey Davis and Mrs James Mehs hosted the TGT Ladies Variety Club monthly gathering at the Utility Building on Rawlin H. President Harold Nelson led business planning for the Christmas party with a ham and potato menu chosen. Prizes and hostess gifts were awarded and refreshments served as games concluded the evening.
Bright blue and white wedding decor at Frank and Verna's Restaurant in Columbus set the rehearsal party for the Best-Sharer wedding. Donna Rox ann Sharer and Clarence Gerald Beal, both named, will wed this afternoon at Furst Presbyterian Church in an open church ceremony.
The Clymer School Class of 1939 gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Matthews for their 20th reunion. Hosts refreshment duties and arrangements for the 1960 reunion were discussed. Attendees included Mrs. Maxine Wallace Cady, Mrs. Anna Hill Miller, Frederick Rhebergen, Francis Whitcher, Russell Damcott, Mrs. Carolyn King Damcott, Mrs. Jeanette Wiggers Cady, Mrs. Esther Quervel McCray, Harvey Bensink and Mrs. Dorothy Beckerink Matthews.
The Women of the Moose held a regular meeting at the Moose home led by Miss Rosemarie Malek senior regent. An invitation was accepted for the Corry chapter to travel to Jamestown on October 11 to present the Mooseheart Endowment Fund Pledge, with all officers and escorts required to attend. The next meeting is planned for October 15.
President Eisenhower enjoys golf at El Dorado Country Club in Palm Springs. Grapefruit trees border several fairways, hindering his game while water hazards add to the challenge. The dry climate aids his cold, with ideal weather continuing for another round.
The weatherman warned storms continued in the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming. Tornado funnels were reported near Aspermont Texas and Affton Missouri but officials said none touched ground. Light showers spread from Iowa to the Upper Great Lakes while scattered rain stretched from Arizona to Colorado and coastal Virginia areas saw activity.
Leopold now paroled for his part in the Bobby Franks slaying seeks 21.405 million in damages in a Circuit Court suit charging that the book and movie Compulsion invaded his privacy. He names 57 defendants including book author Meyer Levin. Leopold, 65, was freed on parole in 1958 after conviction in the 1924 crime.
Eight defendants including six men and two others face indictments for dynamiting the Rayfield home in two blasts after the family moved into a Wilmington suburb. Arraignments had two pled innocent and six pleaded not guilty as lawyers seek dismissal claiming one grand juror was absent, possibly invalidating the indictments. Judge William J. Storey set bail at 65,000.
New York AP reports Miriam Etter, a 20 year old from Brooklyn, learned her uncle Samuel Glazer left her 800000. Glazer, a noted South African entrepreneur with holdings in gold mines and real estate, died September 20 in Johannesburg.
New York reports World Wide Communion Sunday with churches worldwide inviting participation in the Lord's Supper. The observance, led by the National Council of Churches through its Department of Evangelism, began in 1936 and has grown into a major ecumenical event emphasized by pledges and visitor canvassing the week prior.
In Meadville a robber entered Jamestown jeweler Robert Williams's shop at 4:30 a.m. and forced Williams to turn his back. The gunman opened the safe, took about $158, then ordered Williams to a rear room before fleeing. No one sighted the robber, only his voice described to authorities as Mercer substation investigates.
Funeral services were conducted at Bricken Funeral Home at 2 p m officiated by Elder HM R Vench of the Lowville Seventh Day Adventist Church. Burial followed at Pine Grove Cemetery with bearers including Orville White Lyle White Iya White Donald Jewell Paul Walters and William Ferry. Attendees from away included G W White Willlin Perry Majora Heath the Buller family of Lowville and Leslie Jewell and Donald Jewell from Crewe NY as well as several others from Union Springs Waterloo Ashtabula and nearby towns.
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