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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1970
Page
6
Dr John N Stauffer president of Juniata College announced trustees plan to raise annual student fees by 210 for the 1971-72 academic year bringing total cost of a year s education to 33 190 including room board and tuition. Announcement notes no change to the 2 930 inclusive fee for 1970-71.
A Lake City area couple filed a suit in Erie County Court against Penn Central seeking more than $20,000 in damages for injuries from a January car train crash at a Girard Township grade crossing. The Bocks allege negligence for blocking the intersection. Mrs. Bock had a brain concussion and other injuries while Mr. Bock suffered multiple fractures and a shoulder injury. They accuse the railroad of failing to install gates signals or flashers as required by law.
The last survivor of the Petrone sextuplets born last week in Rome has died. An obstetrics clinic said a girl, the final survivor among three boys and three girls, died Tuesday from a cardio circulatory collapse. Mrs. Loredana Lazzitelli Petrone, 35, had used fertility treatment and has no other children in 11 years of marriage.
Obituaries note the sudden death of Michael R. Mokwa of Waterford after a seizure at St. Vincent Hospital Erie with an autopsy performed. Merlyn Ireland of Niobe dies at 67 after working as a star route carrier. Billy E. Kolstee, 45, Jamestown businessman and World War II veteran, dies after an eight month illness. Funeral details and survivors listed for each, with services announced or pending.
A rain slicked highway crash east of Mercer claimed the lives of Claireann Brooks 35 and Philip Brooks 44 of Pearl River New York and Kenneth Leach 44 of Columbus Ohio. Their three children were seriously injured and hospitalized. The accident occurred on I-80 in Findley Township Mercer County after a downpour as the Brooks family traveled west, the car spinning out and striking an I-79 overpass. Brooks was thrown 60 feet from the vehicle. Mrs. Brooks died at Grove City Hospital. Mr. Brooks died shortly after arrival.
Six Erie County girls have been chosen to represent the county at the Northwest Region 4H Dress Review in Franklin on Monday. The group includes Joy Blakeslee Pam Flick Anna Marie Pavelko Nan Chapin Carol Crandall and Patricia Zimmer. The five regional winners advance to the state contest at Penn State on August 20 with the state winner traveling to Chicago for the national event on November 2.
South Vietnamese forces clash with North Vietnamese for the fourth day at Fire Base O'Reilly in the north, claiming 96 enemy killed in two southern battles, while Saigon reports heavy losses in one engagement. A outpost southeast of O'Reilly repels a dawn North Vietnamese attack with 10 enemy killed and two VN casualties.
Westinghouse Electric announces Mihama I, a 1000000 kilowatt pressurized water reactor serving Kansai Electric Power, is now in service about 200 miles west of Tokyo. A second reactor adjacent to Mihama I should be in service by 1972. In other news, funeral notices for the Kolstee family list Hawkins and relatives from Jamestown and surrounding towns with services set for Lind Funeral Home and Holland Cemetery, including a Veterans of Foreign Wars graveside ritual.
Millcreek man pays Erie woman 100 dollars after she alerted police to two dogs involved in a Sunday bite incident at Montclair School. One dog bit 10 year old Keith Buck as he played outside while his father was away piloting a plane. Police confirmed the owner’s name and address were fictitious. the dogs were impounded for a 10 day rabies quarantine.
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