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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1961
Page
6
The projected Canandohta Lake water level regulation moves ahead with bids advertised by the State Department of Forests and Waters. The plan includes an earthen dam and creek straightening to limit level variation and improve flow along about 3 600 feet of streams near the lake.
Schuylkill County Court refused the Commonwealth petition to jail three Philadelphia men awaiting trial for a 1959 burglary. Judge James Curran found no evidence the defendants posed a violent threat or that bail should be revoked. The case involves theft of jewelry and cash from John B Rich's home and linked gunfire and killings amid witness testimony.
Municipal authority planned to hire a contractor to fix the roof and would bill the Platt Co. Special supports were included in the specifications between the roof and floating cover but not installed at the time of construction.
Mrs. Kitty Osborn of Girard fractured a collarbone and sustained multiple abrasions when she fell from the Osborn's car on the Erie Thruway near Route W. She was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital. Her husband, recently released from St. Vincent's, also fell from the car and suffered a broken shoulder weeks ago.
Soviet Premier Khrushchev warned of mobilization as the Soviet Union reshuffles top command. Marshal Keeney, a veteran of Finland and World War II, succeeds Col. Gen. Ival Yakubovsk after more than a year in command. Keeney led Warsaw Pact forces and headed the purge tribunal that sentenced Lavrenty Beria to death. He has been out of the public eye since July 1960.
Petroleum geologists in Warren County conduct a heat wave experiment to push oil from wells no longer profitable. A four to five hole heated shaft 4 feet below surface in Southwest Two releases gas and air to create a burning front, with plans to cut gas supply when rock reaches oil burning. Quaker State Refining Corp and Sinclair Research assist. results expected in months. all data become public. Thieves steal two sledgehammers in Jacksonville, Florida burglary.
Soviet cosmonaut Titov recounts the Vostok mission details from Aue 6 news conference. He says he felt no effects from acceleration and used mind and manual control to steer the craft, maintaining reliable contact with ground control and observing sunlight and stars from orbit.
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