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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1962
Page
2
A jumble of local classified items includes service offers for Turben’s Auto Service and a Tastee Freez chocolate sundae at 19 cents on Tue Wed Thu. Jewelers hours, photo class at Ginnie's Cafe, hospital line, admissions and discharges, and a Line-O-Ads notice with 23 cents per line local rates.
President declares U S warning to Cuba amid Soviet shipments to Havana. briefing scheduled with Senate committees as he lists arms and technicians arriving, including antiaircraft missiles torpedo patrol craft, and about 3500 Soviet military technicians.
Fran Striker, 58, famed for the Lone Ranger, Green Hornet, and Sgt. Preston of the Yukon, died in a Route 16 automobile collision near Buffalo. Two others in the other car were injured. Striker was driving alone to Buffalo when the crash occurred.
Funeral service for Peter J. Oppewall held at 2 o'clock yesterday at Bracken Funeral Home with Rev. Earl Docherty officiating. Burial in Pine Grave Cemetery. Bearers: John and Gerald Wykstra, Donald Knapp, Walter Darnoall, Merton Querreveld, David Cook. Attendees from away include Dunkirk and Clymer residents and friends from Corry.
Beaver Falls Pa. air mail pioneer Meile A Moltrupp died Saturday at his home. He was nine year pioneer in air mail and piloted the first air mail flight out of Pittsburgh on April 21 1927. He also flew mail from other eastern cities.
Levittown N Y AP The Levittown School Board approved a school opening exercises plan as a substitute for prayer by a 4 to 2 vote despite attorney advice. The program includes pledge of allegiance and Bible readings or songs or excerpts from documents for national importance. Counsel said the plan violates state and federal rulings on prayer. Minority argued the majority evades Allen ruling by word choice.
Two freight trains collided in Muhlenberg Park causing ten crewmen to be injured. The crash near Reading involved a diesel engine and boxcars with damages estimated at 40 000 dollars. Transport officials plan a joint probe to determine the collision cause.
A mother of four, 21 year old Mrs. Patricia Ann Gibbs, pleaded innocent to first degree murder in the stabbing of Mrs. Josephine Betts who was pregnant. The unborn child was killed by a knife thrust and a second woman was injured. Mrs. Audrey White, 25, a cousin of the deceased, was reported in critical condition at Paxton Hospital.
Four people died in traffic accidents in and near Pennsylvania yesterday. Norma Sutton of Erie, Daniel Smith, Donald Whittow, and Carl Thoms were killed in separate crashes. Sutton was returning home when passing a slower vehicle, Whittow’s car left Route 8 near Franklin, Smith was struck while riding a bicycle in front of his Cambridge Springs home, and Thoms backed from a driveway into a truck on Route 09 near Cambridge Springs. Betty Thoms, 59, was treated for bruises and released.
CHICAGO AP says traffic accidents during the 78 hour Labor Day weekend killed 501 people, a holiday record well above the 461 of 1951. Boating fatalities reached 23, drownings 37, other accidents 97, for an overall 678, also a record.
Funeral services for Mrs Daisy Rouse Ruslink will be held at Spitzer Funeral Home in Clymer at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Friends may call Tuesday 7 to 9 p.m. and Wednesday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Burial will be in Lowville Cemetery.
In Spartansburg area notices call for booth reservations by September 7 to Rolaid Putnam or Richard Hays. Spartanburg girls softball lost 12 to 9 at Elgin with a home rematch set this Tuesday. Miss Dorothy Davis returns from six weeks in the Midwest with Miss Audre Wablard of New Albany Indiana visiting Kentucky landmarks. Families and friends gathered Labor Day at various homes in Corry, Beaver Pennsylvania, and Ol City. Special Our Lady of Victory meeting planned for Tuesday at 8 p.m. Cub Scout Committee and den mothers meet Thursday. Kinney family visits and trips to Greater Pittsburgh Airport noted. Stewart Morris becomes new Sparta School faculty. Class ring orders due Wednesday and senior announcements this week. Parade entries judged for originality and color harmony. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Snapp and Mr. and Mrs. Wirt Snapp returned from western travels.
The account details a westward trek from Bron, Indiana through the Bad Lands, Black Hills, Yellowstone, Seattle World’s Fair, Victoria, San Francisco, Yosemite and Los Angeles with visits to Disneyland and Knotts Berry Farm. The southern route includes Las Vegas, Hoover Dam, Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, Painted Desert, Old Mexico and Will Rogers Memorial in Oklahoma totaling 20 states and about 8000 miles. Concurrently, Mount Pleasant Church hosts evangelists Dale and Opal Linebaugh for special meetings all week.
Services were held yesterday afternoon for Mrs Anna Corey Wilcox at Bracken Funeral Home with Rev William Seiterhaf of Emmanuel Episcopal Church officiating. Interment followed at Pine Grove Cemetery. Attending from out of town were Merrill Wilcox and family, Harvey Heiser, Donald Davis of Hudson Ohio, Richard Pope of Enfield South Carolina, Arthur Libott of Dunedin Florida, Horace Rich of Cleveland Ohio, Lawrence Hammond, Elizabeth McCord, Aane Titus of Meadville, and many local attendees.
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