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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1963
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR describes an auction near Watts Arbuttle area listing cattle including Guernsey yearlings Holstein stock with TB cert, 120-foot tank and 3 milker facilities. Details are garbled but indicate a sale date in August and various livestock lots such as calves and older cows.
House Republicans weigh a 3 percent general sales tax as a substitute for Gov. Scranton’s tax program. Leaders report no vote yet, and Democrats oppose the plan while exploring exemptions for clothing. Ogilvie pushes a broad 4 percent tax with exemptions to target enforcement gains.
Wet snow blanketed the city overnight as temperatures dipped to 27 degrees. Snow fell in late evening and early morning but did not persist, followed by mid morning rain. A cool 43 degrees later and forecasts from the U S Weather Bureau call for cloudy, cold weather with showers and possible snow flurries. Temperatures remain below average with a warming trend later in the week.
Downtown Pittsburgh endured a four story four-alarm blaze that damaged a china and glassware firm and sent smoke into three nearby structures. Deputy Chief Tom Connore estimated the loss after the fire began on the fourth floor and burned for about an hour before containment. The cause remained undetermined and the blaze followed a prior downtown fire within 16 hours, near the Beau Brummel Club and Nixon Theatre sites.
Erie County gains 500 more employed since February lifting total to 88,000. Unemployment falls to 8,200 or 8.5 percent, with factory output up 400 from a year ago. Weekly unemployment filings in Corry and Erie rise to 5,173. Also notes high school graduates and college-completers this June and expected summer job seekers. Philadelphia Inquirer editor John Joseph ispatrick dies at 76 in Richmond.
New York AP report: three alleged Cuban saboteurs and a pro Castro Cuban murderer are freed in a swap for 21 Americans released from Cuban prisons. The four left Boca Chica aboard a Cubana flight escorted by US jets. James Donovan led the exchange effort with Attorney General Kennedy announcing the swap. Governor Rockefeller also freed the Cuban slayer Francisco Molina del Rio as part of the deal. The Justice Department dropped charges against two Cuban nationals and a Cuban American. The exchange was coordinated to secure American prisoner returns from Cuba.
Japanese Defense Agency officials say gradual reductions in U S military aid are possible but warn a drastic cut would impact Japan s defense buildup. They note Japan budgeted on continued aid for at least a year and reference Sen Frank Church s call to halt aid of about 50 million annually. In Afghanistan floods kill nomads in Herat region with dozens dead.
Washington AP Congress opens hearings today on steel prices amid a technical, non dramatic approach by the Senate House Economic Committee. Chairman Sen Paul H Douglas says the hearings will be bipartial and factual to lay groundwork of fact and details for an informed view of the steel price problem. Rep Thomas B Curtis praised the plan as a corrective to last year’s public denouncements and price rises. Some steel firms were lowering or canceling tentative price increases ahead of the hearings.
The Corry Area school committee reduced the 1963 1964 budget from 1 092 895 to 1 061 297 in a tense session. Several directors abstained or voted against adoption citing financial strain from district building needs and cutbacks hit instruction and staff. Rural districts hope for smaller millage increases, while Corry bears over half the joint cost.
West Berlin and Allied officials dismissed Soviet Premier Khrushchev's proposal for neutral status like Austria or Switzerland. Western diplomats call the move a probing tactic as Khrushchev alternates between demilitarized free city ideas and UN supervised troop arrangements. The Milan interview with Italo Pietra is noted as continued on page six.
Tornadoes cut a 15 mile wide path across east central Illinois from Springfield to the Indiana line injuring more than 30 people and damaging dozens of homes farms and businesses. Indiana towns West Lafayette and Indianapolis area Tyrone? saw nine injuries and four homes demolished as storms spread east. Snow and rain followed the system across the Great Lakes with three inches in Wisconsin and up to 18 inches in Wyoming.
Carl Olsott visited a suburban Lingulnwaul home to thank Jim for a postcard missed during a vacation in Colorado Springs. Mrs. Olson and neighbor Elton Charleson studied the card noting it appeared stamped April 4, 1354 and last seen nine years ago, prompting surprise at the message’s timing.
In Laos, Gen. Phoumi Nosavan warned of sending troops if Pathet Lao completes its takeover of the Plaine des Jarres. A shaky truce holds as Pathet Lao presses Kong Le’s neutralist forces. U.S. considers further Navy units and possible air moves. Harriman and Couve de Murville denounce Pathet Lao attacks and reaffirm support for the coalition led by Prince Sonvannr Phouma.
The Post Office Department ordered strict economies in 68 big cities in response to House budget cuts. Telegrams from Asst. Postmaster General Frederick G. Bel en to top post offices ban hiring new staff, limit overtime to the four week period ending last March 24, and halt plans to extend mail delivery to new offices and housing developments. Postmaster General J Edward Day had warned Congress that drastic reductions would be needed if Senate approved further cuts.
Democrats prepared to demand equal televised time if Gov. Scranton makes a public appeal for support of his $139 million tax program. Democratic State Chairman Otis B. Morse said the public interest demands equal time for the Democratic Party which has resisted sales tax and thwarted Republican efforts to tax clothing in the past.
Corry Area High School trims the 1963 64 budget to fit six districts funding. The state mandates drop a $8 000 line for a third guidance counselor, leaving two in a 1 262 student building. Other cuts include $500 from principals salaries and $1 000 from clerical help with additional reductions in library and audiovisual funds and in service training.
In Harrisburg the public opposes raising taxes to fund higher teacher salaries as part of a $189 million tax program. About 600 to 700 letters object to the plan, especially boosting the four percent sales tax and broadening it to include clothing, while others defend salary increases as essential to education and future prospects.
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