Corry Soldier Wounded In Viet Action
A Corry soldier Specialist 4 Thomas H. VanTassel is recovering in Kishine Japan after combat wounds in the Rach Kien area south of Saigon. He earned the Purple Heart and serves in the Fifth Battalion 60th Infantry known as the Recon Rangers. He has been in the army since January and is a 1968 Corry Area High School graduate. Also note the 100th anniversary baseball stamp planned by the Post Office in New York.
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Corry
Vietnam
Japan
Thomas H. VanTassel
Howard VanTassel
R.D
Rach Kien
Saigon
van Tassel
106Th Army General Hospital
Kishine
60Th Infantry
Recon Rangers
Corry Area High School
San Francisco
New York
United States Post Office
Inflation Tightens Marijuana Prices Across U S
San Diego AP reports inflation doubles pot prices in one year as supply tightens. Officials cite a dry period in northern Mexico growing areas leaving the market between crops and raising costs nationwide. Marijuana remains illegal in the United States since 1937.
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San Diego
Calif
Mexico
U.S
Walter Buck
Joseph House
United States
Police to Use Stop Watches in City Speed Checks
Corry Police Chief Frank Carnegie announced a new stop watch program to detect speeding. Officers will be posted at ends of measured street gaps to clock drivers. The plan targets both young and adult speeders including plant shift workers leaving work.
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Frank Carnegie
Corry
Carnegie
Record Construction Boom With 2.45 Million In Permits
Seventeen major projects currently under way total about 2.45 million in building permits with estimates exceeding that figure. Leading the list is Corry Foam Products plant at 605000, followed by a 500000 Route 6 bypass plaza project and a 350000 Fogle Lumber site.
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Corry Foam Products
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
Fogle Lumber Co
New Presbyterian Church
Tannard Mfg. Co
Hammond Lumber Co
Wayne Street
General Telephone Co
Atlantic
David Johnson
Fourth Ward
Board Hopes To Hold SA Officer Here
Corry Salvation Army board urges Pittsburgh divisional HQ to let Capt. Robert McCauley remain in Corry until the capital fund drive for a new building is finished. Capt. James Korp would replace him in Warren. drive starts January. Sept civic dinner planned.
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Robert McCauley
Salvation Army
Warren
McCauley
McKees Rocks
Pittsburgh
James Korp
Altoona
Army
McCauleys
Corry
John Waldron
Shafer Reworks Budget to Fund State Worker Pay Increase
Harrisburg AP Shafer signs a near 2.058 billion general appropriation, trims to 1.923B, and uses executive action to grant a 10 percent raise for 110000 state workers funded by school subsidy cuts. He vows further revenue measures and notes protections for quarterly school subsidies.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Shafer
General Assembly
Tan
Elgin First in Erie County to Adopt Uniform House Numbers
Elgin Borough with 218 residents becomes the county s first to implement the Metro Planning Commission proposed uniform house numbering system. County planners spent three years refining the plan using a car mounted fifth wheel and maps to assign numbers from a central baseline across the county. The move aims to end haphazard street naming and numbering, linking Elgin to broader efforts in Erie and neighboring towns. In a separate note, Christian Paul Villian 24 was fined 70 dollars for attempted theft after claiming he only sought a handbag note.
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Erie
Corry
Millcreek
Erie County
Elgin
Metro Planning Commission
Chris Capotis
Capotis
State Street
Lakefront
Durban
South Africa
Christian Paul Villian
Farm Tractor Mishap Claims Clymer Man
A 70 year old man from the Clymer area died at Corry Memorial Hospital after being run over by a farm tractor late yesterday evening. Harry Barringer died of multiple internal injuries after being found in a field by Lawrence Post who reported the incident. Barringer was conscious when found. ambulance staff admitted him at 8 36 p.m. The sheriff's office in Mayville is handling the investigation.
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Clymer
Corry Memorial Hospital
Harry Barringer
Findley Lake
Post
Barringer
Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office
Mayville
Inquest Sought Into Kennedy Drowning Case
Dist. Atty. Edmund Dinis seeks an inquest into the Chapppacuidick drowning that killed Mary Jo Kopechne after a car crash with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Judge Tauro rebukes the timing, noting he first heard of the move from the press. The case centers on Kennedy leaving the scene and the delay before reporting the incident.
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New Bedford
Mass
Edmund Dinis
Edward M. Kennedy
Dinis
G. Joseph Tauro
State Superior Court
Tauro
Martha's Vineyard
Kennedy
Mary Jo Kopechne
Congress
Miss Kopechne
Chappaquiddick Island
Donald R. Mills
Mills
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Juji Hamacki
Center
U. S
Armin H. Meyer
Tokyo
Meyer
VanTassel
Worth
Hatch Streets
Bureau of Employment Security
Tiny Elgin
County
Journal
Journal Phot
Endsley
CBS Evening News
Walter Cronkite
Ted Sorensen
Sorensen
Sharine
Paul Markham
Boston
Paul Gargan
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