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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1965
Page
1
A partial OCR reads like a real estate item listing properties near Corry with multiple features. Mentions 4 bedroom setups, 2 baths, cement floors, garages, rural amenities, and potential trades or rents. References Pa and nearby fishing and business context with scattered numbers and descriptors.
American and Vietnamese forces on Van Tuong peninsula clash with Viet Cong amid mopping up after a major operation near Chu Lai. Four Viet Cong killed and four weapons captured. U S Marines suffer casualties described as light to moderate by Lt Gen Krulak. Casualty figures not released. operation involved 5 000 to 6 000 troops.
Morganfield Kentucky Job Corps center faced a 45 minute riot by about 80 trainees. Officials say a protection racket and burglaries sparked the violence, with FBI agents visiting the post. Ten trainees treated for injuries at the camp hospital, and Fireman Stuart Lovell was injured while responding to a false fire alarm. The incident prompted state troopers and federal authorities to tighten security.
La Verna Miller, 91, has begun camping and fishing with her daughter's family in Seattle. She says she would have started earlier but was busy making clothes for her great great grandchildren.
In Juneau Alaska Operation Headstart part of Johnson era poverty war enrolls children including a senator’s granddaughter and other officials’ relatives. Some four low income families’ children joined after public registration failed to fill spots. The program aims to ready disadvantaged youngsters for first grade this year.
The plan redefines grades into elementary, junior high, and senior high with separate identities. Junior High will have its own student body and functions, including a distinct bell system to minimize mingling with Senior High. Dances and parties will follow this separation where possible.
UNITED NATIONS AP Secretary General U Thant requests a 7.7 percent increase in the regular United Nations budget for 1966 as General Assembly opens September 21. He cites revenue from UN post office and publications totaling 17.9 million, and estimates total gross expenditures for all UN activities at 82.2 million with net regular budget at 98.8 million and needs a 4.74 million rise for salaries.
A natural gas pipeline explosion as a freight train passed killed 9 year old Nancy Anna May Rigdon and injured at least eight others in a rural area nine miles south of Van Wert Ohio. The blast touched off a two hour fire fueled by gas, scorched about 100 acres of crops, and damaged the eastbound Erie and Lackawanna train. Fire departments responded from four units as witnesses saw a distant fireball up to 40 miles away.
Corry area high school construction continues amid doubts about finishing by September 8. Twelve working days remain for craftsmen to complete the burned wing and Wright School alterations while officials expect the Senior High wing to be finished by end of August. Journal observations note supervisor discontent with coverage and some workers doubting completion by September 1.
LA beset by Watts riots fallout as officials clash over inquiry and response. Gov Brown commission faulted by mayor Yorty while religious leaders push action. Guard presence remains high as damage tallies shrink from earlier estimates to about 45 million.
The Jour nal prints Paul Harvey on living in a small town like Corry. The Chicago writer’s piece echoes the paper’s own sentiment about small towns. Readers are urged to clip and share the column with family.
Cape Kennedy Fla AP two U S astronauts L Gordon Cooper Dy and Charles Conrad Jr ride a Titan 2 rocket aiming for an eight day orbital mission to set a new space endurance record surpassing the 119 days set by Valeriy Bykovsky in 1963. If successful they would reach the moon and attempt a rendezvous with another satellite while thousands at Cape Kennedy and millions on TV follow the historic launch. Mrs Cooper and the Conrads’ relatives watched the lift off as President Johnson observed the event.
In Hayneville Alabama deputy Tom Coleman 85 turned himself in on murder charges for the shooting of white theology student Jonathan Daniels 27 and priest Father Richard Morrisroe 28 during a civil rights protest near Lowndes County jail. Daniels died. Morrisroe was hospitalized in critical condition as federal and state authorities vowed full investigations.
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