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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1967
Page
6
Police investigate the theft of a green 1962 Ford Falcon station wagon driven by Mrs. Marcella Stroup from a North Center street parking space behind Triangle Shoe Store last night. The keys were not in the car and the theft was reported shortly after 11:30 PM.
Washington Senator Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania criticizes federal anti poverty funds for voter registration programs. He cites Reading program as not a legitimate function of the Office of Economic Opportunity and asks director Sargent Shriver to reconsider funding. The stance frames federal support as risking partisan influence on a local Berks County effort.
Two white Detroit police officers charged with first degree murder in the shooting of two youths during racial unrest were released on 5000 dollar bonds. Four youths were involved in linked killings, with two others held without bond. The case includes a looting incident at a grocery store and a police confrontation. The Space program note reports another Cosmos satellite launched into low orbit, marking a third Sputnik-era launch in three weeks.
The board announced a regular monthly meeting in Titusville and set a record date of September 11, 1967 for the stockholders to receive a dividend. The payout matches the third quarter of 1986, but September 21 will see a higher distribution due to a five percent stock dividend approved by stockholders in January this year.
Fire control squads combed the Cities Service refinery after a massive blast killed three men and left three more missing. Flames burned overnight to avoid triggering trapped gases as crews searched a one block area and nearby buildings for bodies amid a sprawling 880 million dollar plant.
Miss Grace V. Houser will have services at Bracken Funeral Home at 11 a.m. Thursday with callers Tuesday 7 to 9 p.m. and Wednesday 5 to 7 9 p.m. Burial in Pine Grove Cemetery. Wallace D. Palmer’s service is Thursday at 2 p.m. with burial in Spring Creek Cemetery. Frank L. Hillman Sr. service is Thursday at 2 p.m. at H. William VanMatre Funeral Home Cambridge Springs with callers Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. burial in Venango Cemetery Cambridge Springs.
Trooper Evanko reported three boys who left home Sunday night stole a hand power saw a toaster a hammer nails and several knives worth 115 dollars. They entered two buildings during the day and were arrested. Stolen items were found intact and returned to owners. The youths received unofficial probation and were released to their parents.
The Justice Department faces legal and evidentiary hurdles in possible prosecutions of Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown for their public remarks. Lawmakers, citizens, and officials grapple with sedition, treason, and selective service issues while debates hinge on First Amendment protections and the danger threshold required for criminal charges.
The House debated provisions to strip most fund control from a government figure in the anticrime measure and considered an amendment by Rep William Minshall to abolish the Justice Department. The amendment would create a non cabinet justice office with a 15 year term, but was ruled out of order by the parliamentarian. Minshall planned to reintroduce it as separate legislation while noting party defections were unlikely.
About 850 youths and 150 supervisors join a month long effort led by activists including Marion Barry and Catfish aimed at pride building and youth employment, amid a wait and see mood in a 63 percent Negro population area. The effort seeks to prove successful enough to extend funding and provide work for students.
Ford calls for stopping North bombings and reviews the U N Security Council bid amid U Thant’s cautious hope that council action could aid a Vietnam settlement. In Barneboro Pa a truck driver, Ronald Melhorn aged 43, died when his tractor-trailer flipped and pinned him in the cab for five hours.
Wu Shu tung a key Communist official and chief agitator in Hong Kong defected to Nationalist Taiwan. He is the chairman and general manager of China Publishing Co in Hong Kong and a member of the CPPCC in Guangdong. Wu flew to Taipei August 2 with his wife, calling the Hong Kong campaign a failure after colonial arrests. He said he joined the Antipersecution Struggle Committee and led its publications branch.
Reports describe allied troops entering the region for the first time. The enemy is initially cited as at least two companies of North Vietnamese regulars. Despite weeks of heavy fighting, improved weather allowed U S pilots to strike railway lines in the North for the first time since August 4. Pilots flew 166 missions over the North with no U S aircraft losses. Communist shore batteries fired over 70 rounds at the Destroyer Rupertus as she and the George K Mackenzie shelled coastal defenses near Dong Hoi. Cmdr E J Burke reported light shrapnel damage on the Rupertus with no injuries. Viet Cong activity is noted in Saigon area and a terrorist raid near Da Nang killed 10 civilians and wounded 10, with another attack near Saigon killing three and wounding six.
Lunar Orbiter 5 has captured the first full earth image with all sunlit areas, completed Tuesday. The photo will be televised to Madrid on Friday and released by NASA in Washington several days later. The mission has produced 48 pictures, many of the moon’s far side, with about 200 more frames possible before film runs out on Aug 18. Meanwhile, Vietnam war reports note a pacification unit near Tam Ky and several air and sea strikes with mixed results, including 16 Viet Cong deaths and limited allied casualties. The Da Nang area saw a Marine landing and an Australian sweep near Saigon, while air strikes targeted North Vietnam’s Bac Giang yard and bridges in the Panhandle.
San J. W. Fulbright, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the American Bar Association in Honolulu that the Johnson administration lacks the moral and psychological capacity to end the Vietnam war or advance social justice at home. He linked Vietnam to urban violence, urged introspection, and warned that U.S. moral leadership has been vacated while Russia might fill the gap. He questioned the claim that Vietnam and the Great Society can be pursued simultaneously, saying statistics measure wealth but not moral leadership.
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