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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1967
Page
7
A terse note hints at missing Viet war context as a troll’s evasive claim circulates. The piece implies skepticism toward assertions about the Vietnamese conflict without offering concrete facts or dates.
Margaret Hansen a 43 year old Peace Corps volunteer from Middletown New York travels to Nigeria aboard the African Lightning bringing 100 Holstein cows to help establish productive dairy herds. This is her second Africa assignment following a year in Sierra Leone in 1966. She sold her Middletown home and prepared for the journey after learning dairy farming from her Danish father. Hansen described adapting dairy to Sierra Leone where rice farming dominated, starting a community project to grow 60 acres of rice and using profits for a water pump to supply clean water. She emphasizes practical experience over genius and says she gains personal satisfaction from the work.
The Sparta Mer Ged School names its fifth six week honor roll with grades 7 9 10 11 and 12. Notable students include Becky Blakeslee Tom Byler Vicki Firth Greg Linden Patty Most Diane Reed Cheryl Scouten Cheryl Shambaugh Barbara Boythe David Boythe Lucy Cook Robert Esh Kenneth Firth Galen Goodwill Marlene Halfast Rebecca Jones Harold Linden Marcia Miller Denise Patterson Denise Rose Beverly Straite Linda Hays Chris Johns Nancy Most Karen Berkey Nyla Boythe Tom Dyne Kenneth Esh Renda Greer Jerry Linden Judy Varney Laurel Winans Martha Yoder Joel Richards Janet Linden Janice Miller Valerie Straite Judy Troyer Carol Blakeslee Clifford Halfast Anna Johns Terry Murdock Sandra Richards David Straite Hal Tubbs Gayle Wetherbee Pam Witmer.
Patrick J. Charest 18 of Bemus Point was charged with illegal consumption after a high speed Route 27 chase. He paid a 25 forfeit and faces a 10:30 a.m. hearing. The youths reportedly tossed liquor out the car and may face untaxed liquor charges. Police will charge the driver with speeding and illegal consumption and others with illegal consumption and littering. The case remains under investigation. Woody Allen to direct Don Quixote U S A for MGM.
Harrisburg AP report shows 161 highway fatalities in Pennsylvania during March, 32 more than March 1966, with 27 killed in 18 fatal accidents. Through March, total deaths reach 448 vs 404 a year earlier.
In New York AP reports a switch in signals likely slows a projected Protestant church merger. Leaders say the pause is not a halt but a push for firmer terms, with a May Cambridge meeting to discuss organization. Ten denominations, about 25 million members, are involved as talks expand.
In Harrisburg lawmakers prepare to introduce a package of consumer protection bills including aid to parochial and non public schools and measures against slum landlords. The package includes a Bureau of Consumer Protection, landlord repair enforcement, and strict regulation of Pennsylvania real estate mail order deals. Funeral rites for Merley Evans set for Wednesday at Spitzer Funeral Home Clymer with burial in Cutting Cemetery.
The unions represent 137,000 workers as the rail strike drags on with the parties and mediators in separate and joint sessions. J E Wolfe the railroads chief negotiator cites matters of principle while Fahy notes the parties are on call and serious prospects loom.
Advertisements invite readers to call the store and get a free ticket to BLATT'S REX THEATRE. For three days beginning Friday April 28th through Sunday April 30th two features, HOT RODS TO HELL and THE LOVED ONES, are advertised as entertaining attractions.
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