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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1968
Page
1
The Federal Reserve Board voted a small discount rate cut from 5 3/4 percent to 5 1/2 percent. President Johnson welcomed the move saying it should aid homebuilding and ease funding for loans to the public, signaling relief from the prior dollar crisis and potential inflation impact.
Sparta community and School Fair will run three days starting September 5 at the high school grounds. Events begin at 12:30 p.m. with midway, concessions, and buildings opening. The 1858 Sparta Fair Queen contest starts at 4 p.m. and local talent performs after the crowning. On day two buildings open at 9 a.m. with exhibit judging from 9 to noon, and entertainment at 4 p.m. featuring Larry Baird and Linda, plus a booster badge drawing at 4:30 p.m.
State police raided the ramshackle Hippie camp 10 miles west of Meadville and arrested 35 adults and 3 children. Dist. Atty. Paul D. Shafer announced plans for a court injunction to shut down the Anthropodic Church camp after a two week undercover probe with photographs. The three children were sent to juvenile court while health officials warned of possible hepatitis spread and squalid living conditions.
Corry representatives at a meeting of Erie County school board presidents stated local member districts prefer a merger limited to the six Corry districts. Dr. John Mohr noted the aim is to determine reorganizational preferences with the State Board of Education requiring plans by October.
Negotiations at the Raymond plant broke off yesterday as bargaining efforts failed and a federal mediator was requested to help resolve the dispute. Ross A. Bailey stated the company’s last offer matched or topped recent Corry area settlements while the union called it unreasonable. Bert Williams said representatives from the international office would assess next steps. The plant has been on strike since August 9 after the union rejected the company’s proposal and each unresolved issue remained.
Patrolman Joseph Wichensky spotted a large washing machine box between meters behind the fire barn. Inside the box he found a meter covered and a boy hiding, with two other youths acting as lookouts. The three boys aged 15, 14 and 12 were turned over to juvenile officers.
Corry residents report hard water with 12 parts per million. A London doctor notes softened water correlates with lower death rates from all causes and cardiovascular disease, citing English and Welsh data. Research from Barton on Humber and the London School of Hygiene supports the link to calcium and long life.
In Miami 14 Cubans granted asylum after arriving in a crop‑dusting plane filled with poison fumes. The plane flown by pilot Angel Ricardo landed at Homestead Airport from Cuba’s Matanzas province, carrying a tank for Parathion. Several aboard grew ill amid the tense, month long plan, as described by Mercedes Dodge, a naturalized citizen.
The Army will deactivate 23 Nike Hercules anti bomber missile batteries across 12 states to trim fiscal 1969 spending. The Pentagon will also close 22 firing sites and seven headquarters installations, saving $15.8 million this year and $54 million in remaining years.
Amid heavy fighting on the northern frontier, Saigon reports 234 North Vietnamese killed in a day of clashes. South Vietnamese troops suffer 3 killed and 15 government and 15 U.S. Marines wounded. U.S. B52s fly intensified missions as allies push back enemy armored and infantry formations near the DMZ and Gio Linh.
Washington AP report summarizes a 1967 task force urging stepped up federal and private efforts to cut cigarette use and related deaths. Recommendations include tighter advertising limits, school instruction to deter youth smoking, more doctor led anti smoking work, group prevention strategies, nonsmoker insurance discounts, and safer cigarette development. The Tobacco Institute attacked the report as defamatory while noting declines after the 1964 Surgeon General report.
Twenty five Corry youths attended the first in a series of YMCA meetings led by acting secretary Max Bennink. The sessions seek to expand youth involvement in program planning and future offerings, with a general discussion before breaking into small groups to note positives, negatives, and suggested changes.
Harrisburg AP five Public Utility Commissioners saw their salaries rise by 5 000 each under a bill the governor did not sign. Bloom’s pay jumped from 20 000 to 25 000, others to 25 000. The move connected to Republican National Convention politics and a companion pay bill remains pending.
Nigerian forces advance 10 miles south of Aba and drive toward the Ibo heartland as Col. Adekunle presses the northern line with two Marine Commando columns. Radio Biafra claims heavy clashes and a Biafran victory along the Imo River while peace talks in Addis Ababa stall and Nigeria rejects relief flights to Biafra.
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