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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1968
Page
6
Meadville City Council approved a get tough plan allowing officials to notify owners by certified mail that failure to repair will lead to demolition and a lien on the property. City Manager Edward Bennett and health officials backed the measure.
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau dissolves Parliament and schedules a June 25 general election to seek a Liberal majority. Trudeau, 48, brandishes a reform program and aims to capitalize on his high public profile while Liberal seats number 128 of 265 in the Commons.
Girl Scout cookies have arrived in the city and will be delivered this week by local and area Scouts. Cookie captains ask cash payment as checks are not accepted. Reorders or missed contacts may be arranged through listed cookie captains and addresses.
In Fayette City Pennsylvania a 15 year old youth who played hockey with two companions drowned while swimming in a reservoir. Divers recovered Charles Jeffreys near the Colonial Three Reservoir outlet after the three skipped classes at Frazier High School Perryopolis. The friends alerted police when they could not locate Tastee after finding his clothes on the bank.
Pittsburgh report says a 1,000 worker strike against Dravo Corp ends as 200 shipyard members vote to let a grievance committee resolve a job assignment dispute. Local 61 of the International Marine and Shipbuilders Union led the walkout begun last Tuesday with broader participation.
Dalton Georgia a convicted murderer who was jailed with James Earl Ray says Ray expressed willingness to collect a one million dollar bounty for killing Martin Luther King Jr. Raymond Curtis 40 says he and Ray were in Missouri State Penitentiary during Kennedy's 1963 Dallas murder. Curtis recalls meeting Ray in 1995 in Jackson County jail.
The Communications Workers union leader Joseph A. Beirne predicts a near settlement for the week-old nationwide telephone strike. Informal talks with Bell System continue as 165000 workers walk out, with 200000 claimed totals and 140000 Bell staff plus others on strike in 15 states. Beirne notes management is maintaining service as crews replace strikers. Beine extends permission for strikers to work in Palmouth Kentucky to restore lines after a tornado.
Rep Richard Schweiker says he and his wife own stocks in National Gypsum Scott Paper Corn Products Philadelphia National Bank Continental Bank and Trust and Harleysville Life Insurance He notes only residential properties in Worcester Pennsylvania and Washington D C not additional real estate The disclosure follows his Senate bid against Joseph S Clark
Reports detail a severe Midwest tornado season with high casualty counts and widespread damage. Wheelersburg Ohio reports 75 injured as crews search over 40 damaged homes. Frontier Michigan meanwhile suffered massive home destruction with only one injury in a near-deserted town.
Federal Judge A Leon Higginbotham Jr refused to halt grand jury proceedings against Harry Karfin a former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter accused of blackmail. Karfin fired in 1967 after alleged misconduct. he and public relations man Joseph H Ball faced over 200 counts of blackmail solicitation and conspiracy.
A Morgan County school bus failed to brake while turning from a highway and plunged down a 30 foot embankment. Two students were killed and 46 others injured as rescuers found "bloody children strewn" along the road near the country store operated by Mrs. Rose Watson.
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