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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1969
Page
3
A Colorado letter to the editor questions the Postal Department loyalty to spending on new stamps. It contends tooling, publicity, first day caches, and printing drive taxpayer costs, urging restraint and simpler stamps. The piece notes the department’s debt and criticizes ongoing stamp expansions as unnecessary.
A reminiscence recalling Indianola Pennsylvania in 1923 with a homemade crystal radio, KDKA reception, sledding near a cliff, early car models, gun registration debates, flapper culture, silent westerns, and nostalgia for the past alongside interest in the present and future.
Nixon pledges to end the draft as Vietnam winds down. Army recruiters blame the promise for missing last year’s target by 9,000, with only 188,000 enlistees. Col Donald Roberts notes enlistments fell after the pledge and Paris talks. A task force will study the all volunteer plan, due recommendations by early November.
President Nixon told congressional leaders that the United States will not withdraw from Vietnam abruptly, aiming to exit Vietnam but not Asia. He cited military gains in Vietnam under Gen. Creighton Abrams and warned that a premature pullout would alarm Asian nations, while signaling continued material rather than manpower support to others, including Thailand, and framing China policy as cautiously relaxed.
On this date in 1945 the second atomic bomb was dropped on Japan. In 1780 Francis Scott Key was born. In 1821 the first US steam locomotive train ran Albany to Schenectady. Webster Ashburton Treaty settled a US Canada border dispute in 1842. Spain ended the Spanish American War in 1898. Edward VI crowned in 1902. Gandhi arrested in 1942. Semyonov proposed Soviet science reform ten years ago. Yugoslavia’s Tito visited Czechoslovakia a year ago.
Mankind Museum New York proposes turning the moon into a museum of human artifacts for future explorers. The list includes aspirin, Bibles, weapons, dictionaries, martini, wedding dress, hotdogs, jelly, tax forms, constitutional documents, toys, electronics, and records of pop stars, with a playful yet reflective tone.
The Corry Board of Education plans a meeting with Erie architect Johnson this week to push ahead with the Junior High addition. At the August meeting members said progress was too slow. Also, H Lynn Rice hosted Kiwanis at Findley Lake with about 70 attendees. Robert Red Lytle was named head coach of the Titusville school board after three years with Corry Beavers and a year at Franklin.
A warehouse burglary attempt in the Hammond Elevator Company offices ended without the safe being opened despite a battered door and smashed combination. The first aid team from Corry, led by J. Roscoe Dearing, won first place in an internal company competition, with teammates Elbert Miller, Albert Young, Dorr Clark, and Clyde Anderson. Contact details for local state and federal officials are provided for attendance.
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