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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1966
Page
1
City Council debated a draft making garbage collection compulsory for all, even homes with disposal units. Fees and billing raise questions whether taxation or direct charges will fund the service, with delinquent accounts possibly enforced by liens. The plan calls for weekly garbage pickup and a monthly trash run, with container limits and curbside rules.
City Council met with about a dozen residents observing and crowding the chambers. Officials say space is tight in council rooms and city offices but there is unused space that could accommodate a workable arrangement. The council gave this idea significant attention as they weigh bond fund projects. Continued on Page Four.
Pennsylvania orders upgrades to traffic light systems to meet federal standards. City Engineer David Johnson says Corry must comply by December 1968 with state surveys to determine required changes and budgeting. State will cover half the material costs, leaving the city to fund the rest.
Governor Mor rison plans return to Omaha to discuss restoring peace amid three days of racial violence on the North Side. Gasoline bombs strike stores as guards with shotguns hold vigil after weekend looting. Police report 24 adults and seven youths arrested. Mayor Sorensen vows no more tolerance. Morrison to meet Sorensen as National Guard had been sent last month.
U S infantrymen and North Vietnamese clashed near the Cambodian border in a series of running fire fights that could lead to a major engagement. Four sharp actions were reported today in the central plateau region about 100 miles east of the border and 235 miles north of Saigon involving company-size units of the 3rd Brigade task force of the U S 25th Infantry Division. Enemy strength was unknown. Earlier reports said several regiments were operating 20 to 30 miles southwest of Pleiku City. The infantrymen had killed 26 North Vietnamese in the mountain region Monday, raising enemy casualties to 648 in three months of Operation Paul Revere against light American losses. (Continued on Page Five).
Columbus Township residents received tax notices showing the highest levies yet. The school district boosted from 34 to 47 mills, with a $10 per capita tax plus a half percent wage tax. County mills run seven plus $3 per capita, township four mills plus $5 per capita and half of the wage tax. A local resident urged passage of the school merger, noting Corry’s past one-vote merger support and its expected tax impact compared with the other districts.
State Police at the Corry Barracks investigated two minor auto accidents yesterday. Arthur Harrah, 60, of Franklin, swerved into a frey while passing another car on Route 8, about a mile north of Titusville. Damage to Harrah’s vehicle was about 300 dollars. In a second crash four miles south of Union City on Route 8, David Dingle, 20, of Union City and Eugene Daszynicz, 40, of Union City RD 1, each had about 325 dollars in damage after Daszynicz swerved to avoid Dingle’s car which was over the center line. Neither driver was injured.
Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, an architectural engineering student at the University of Texas, opened fire from the university tower killing 16 and wounding 31. He held police at bay for about an hour, then was shot dead. Police found notes blaming pressures and saying he would fight it out alone.
AP reports the Austin sniper slayings may be the worst in U S history, with FBI noting no records of such cases. The piece revisits 1949 Camden killer Howard Unruh who killed 18 in 12 minutes and was found unfit for trial. It cites 1958 Charles Starkweather spree, 1929 St Valentine’s Day massacre, and a Chicago nurses’ residence attack.
City Council reviewed a report showing $92,542 spent to date on the municipal golf course with $33,587 remaining in the special account to complete the project by next May or June. Expenses include $43,652 on the construction contract, $9,501 for aerial work and surveying, $3,500 for architectural design, $18,455 for land, $4,245 for drainage and utilities, $1,768 for legal costs, and $10,867 in bank payments and equipment. Remaining major payments include $12,775 on the construction contract and clubhouse construction.
City council grappled with whether to continue plowing sidewalks after snow. They chose to keep the status quo rather than require residents to shovel or hire help, despite a contractor’s reluctance to return for another season.
Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, an engineering student and ex-Marine, rained rifle fire from 28 floors on the University of Texas campus, killing 13. He also fatally stabbed his mother and wife in predawn hours. Described as likable and mature, Whitman had been a standout student with a family life to some, while friends recall a quiet man who suddenly broke. Authorities later pieced together a complex profile of the man who shocked Austin and the nation.
The Raymond Manufacturing Division of Associated Spring and Local 629 United Auto Workers announced a new two-year contract effective Thursday. Wage increases range from 13 to 23 cents by job class plus a 3 cent across-the-board cost of living raise. The package adds a ninth holiday, bereavement pay upgrades, improved vacation plans, hospitalization benefits and other group insurances, plus shift differentials. Union members voted on the pact yesterday afternoon.
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