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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1968
Page
1
Auction listing notes a large 9 or more room residence in Waterford area near City, Pa. Property includes 2 baths, full floors, upgraded electric, and bath updates. Describes 13 by 35 foot layout details and multiple bedrooms, with references to 65 wired utilities and close to Union heat systems.
Firefighters battled a hillside blaze that gutted the Robert Wells residence on Spring street yesterday leaving the family of ten homeless. The loss was estimated at $9,000 for the building and $3,000 for contents. Fire origin undetermined. investigators to work today. Salvation Army and Red Cross organized clothing and aid while relatives host the seven children and adults.
The council will hold a special session Monday evening to discuss annexation of Wayne Township area and a planned Third Ward residential development. The annexation petition has been revised and will be presented, while a zoning appeal for a Johnson street to Macadam Hill Road apartment complex seeks a variance from R-1 to allow multiple unit dwellings with Planning Commission support. Archbishop Enrique Perez Serantes of Santiago Cuba died in Miami, reportedly having interceded for Fidel Castro when Castro was sentenced to prison in the 1950s.
A killer tornado struck Greenwood Arkansas on a spring storm Friday killing 13 people and injuring over 70. Emergency workers treated about 200 more at a library first aid station as Marine and Air Force reservists aided rubble searches. Ambulances ferried victims to Fort Smith area hospitals while the path of destruction spanned about 200 feet by half a mile.
The Journal reports a muted turnout facing no major local candidates. Voters show little knowledge beyond several constitutional questions, with limited activity from Corry area contenders. Notable mentions include George Clark, Ina Keeney, Forest Hopkins, and possible bids by W. W. Waterhouse and Gene Houser as party figures eye November races.
FBI fingerprints link Eric Starvo Galt to James Earl Ray, the man sought in the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The identification portrays Ray as a 40 year old white former inmate and escapee with multiple aliases. The bureau notes Ray has pried a life of law trouble since youth and should be considered armed and dangerous.
Corry Memorial Hospital will raise room rates after May 1. Private from 30 to 32 dollars. Private without toilet from 28 to 30 dollars. Two bed semi private 24 to 25 dollars. Four bed semi private 19 to 21 dollars. Nursery 14 to 16 dollars. Recovery room 6.75 to 7.50. Delivery room 35 to 40 dollars. Operating room 38.50 to 43 dollars. Dressings diathermy oxygen inhalation up 10 percent.
U S planes set a 1968 daily record with 160 bombing missions over North Vietnam's southern panhandle. Air Force Navy and Ma jee pilots faced light ground fire, hit bridges roads trucks and supply depots near Vinh to Dong Hoi. Casualties in the ground war included four Marines killed and 20 wounded during a road clearing fight near Khe Sanh. Also reported were hospital wage hikes, a fatal car crash near Allentown, and ongoing Allied operations in the Complete Victory campaign.
Capt Edward Snyder signals a thumbs up as two brooms mark no clean sweep aboard the battleship USS New Jersey. The ship, brought from mothballs, fires its big guns for the first time in a decade and heads to Philadelphia Navy Yard for final checks before deployment off Vietnam.
Two 22 year old men from Corry and Huntington Woods Mich suffered multiple cuts and bruises when their car struck a guard rail tree stump telephone pole and concrete abutment on Route 425 in Mina. Thomas Grice and John Pienta were treated at Corry Memorial Hospital and expected to be released. Investigation ongoing with deputy assigned.
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