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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1963
Page
1
Readable fragments mention cattle, implements, and equipment with vague terms and numbers. Names and places are unclear, but references to Erford, August, and 1956 mileage appear amid a mixed inventory list.
Havana reports Fidel Castro extends alert to armed forces and increases troop and militia concentrations at strategic points in the capital. Intelligence warned of possible anti Castro exile incursions larger than recent raids, with security focused on Nicaragua and other Central American refuges. News of exiles meeting in Managua surfaced as the alert was broadened.
A three-diesel Erie-Lackawanna freight struck a dump truck and trailer one mile west of Union City injuring 31-year-old Jack Shearer of Corry. He suffered head injuries, a fractured nose, and a severe left arm fracture. he remained in Hamet Hospital in Erie in critical condition. Police pegged vehicle damage at about $8,250. Train engineer Jack Crawford of Meadville had no injuries.
In Wilmington a six month old boy named Charles E. Taylor of Holly Oak choked on a plastic doll piece and died after his mother Helen E. Taylor, 42, found him unconscious. He was rushed by ambulance to Delaware Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The tragedy followed the infant's collapse at home.
In Miami Coral Gables a loan firm refused a young man lacking a cosigner, directing him to return with one. The applicant later came back with another youth and a revolver, fleeing with $512 after the manager demanded a co signer.
Ardella Pearson announces a Warren County voter registration drive for new voters and address changes starting next Tuesday. Registration will be 1 to 9 pm at local sites from Sept 3 to Sept 6, with extended hours Sept 13 to 15 at the Warren County courthouse Voter Registration office.
Fifty American students who defied a State Department ban on travel to Cuba returned from Madrid to New York. They staged a stand in at Idlewild Airport to protest. Each student received a letter suspending their passport but not marked invalid. Subpoenas were issued for ten students to appear before the House Un American Activities Committee.
A federal judge ruled that a Pinetop Arizona school board require students to stand for the National Anthem violates the Constitution. The ruling supports three Jehovah Witness youths expelled from Pinetop Elementary School and their families seeking readmission.
In Tokyo, Saigon and Seoul, critiques of long U.S. involvement in Asia surface. The piece notes daily Vietnam costs, American deaths, and the broader economic and political toll, with observers questioning the outcome of decades of aid and intervention.
Corry children will throng streets and bike routes as school resumes. Officer Leslie Kelly, head of the schoolboy patrol, urges drivers to be vigilant and protect youngsters on city streets.
In Folcroft Pa riot police patrolled a suburb after a racial disturbance. About 50 state troopers and area police faced up to 1,000 demonstrators who hurled Molotov cocktails and fired shots as a Black couple sought to move into an all white neighborhood. Troopers secured the Baker home and planned escort as authorities pursued order amid clashes in Darby Township and surrounding areas.
In Hazleton Pennsylvania a TV camera in a mine chamber sighted what appears to be a human body. Secretary H B Charmbury said rescuers will reevaluate the object after repositioning the camera. Louis Bova, missing since the Aug 13 cave in, was reported by his brother and is not seen by the rescued men since their 14 day entrapment.
MOAB Utah AP five more trapped miners were rescued alive and in good condition Thursday night but 10 others were found dead final toll 18 killed seven survived two rescued earlier eight dead when two rescue teams searched remaining 15 late afternoon within 99 minutes chief engineer June Crawford Texas Gulf Sulphur Co owner of the potash mine announced five survivors were found in the east shaft miners waited out of that drift then up they came by the lift in grimy but smiling condition one survivor Grant Bilick said ready to go back to mining three hours after rescue Crawford told tearful wives and parents still waiting by the mine what most feared the last 10 men in the other tunnel where the blast occurred were dead plans announced for a joint state federal investigation starting Monday a state official said we ll subpoena everyone who might have anything to say the last five survivors owed their lives to the two and their makeshift barricades that kept out gases while awaiting rescue
At Willow Grove Naval Air Station a T 33 trainer piloted by Marine Maj Charles E Kiser of Springfield Va crashed in Spring House while attempting an emergency landing. Eight people died when an F 14 Fury crashed near the base. Kiser, 33, was leading the Marine Air Reserve detachment at Andrews Air Force Base and had flown to Willow Grove for a briefing before the fatal return flight.
AP report details a two truck collision 15 miles west of Utteville. Clayton Starr, 41, of Cressona died, Joseph Mutachler, 26, of Pine Grove was hospitalized in serious condition after his vehicle jackknifed on a bridge and struck the other truck. Police said the trucks moved in opposite directions before the crash.
Erie County municipalities share in an 8189,760 beer and liquor license return. Erle County includes Corry 3050 and Erie 100,776. Boroughs Mill Village 6160 North East 2050 Union City 31650 Waterford 8600 Mentville 12100 Titusville 3575 Cambridge Springs 1200 Spartanburg 150 Venango 450 Warren County Bear Lake 300 Sugar Grove 200 Warren 850 Youngsville 650. State board notes no strings on allocations.
Senator George A. Smathers says he doubts the Senate will act on President Kennedy s tax cut bill this year. He cites House delay and civil rights debates delaying hearings, with the Ways and Means Committee expected to report in late September. The plan calls for a two stage net income tax cut totaling about 10.5 billion dollars starting January 1, 1964.
A fog bound collision at a Route 89 and Route 6 intersection injured George Middleton, 32, as his station wagon struck a tractor trailer driven by William Aldrich, 26, near Corry. Middleton suffered a concussion and finger injury and was hospitalized. vehicle damage was estimated at 75 dollars for the truck and 1,000 for the car. Possible charges were pending.
Corry prepares a Labor Day dedication of the Mead Park stone wheel honoring Glenn Mead. Congressman James Weaver and Rotary leaders plan unveiling with a 2000 attendance goal, music by the junior band, and ceremonial plaques.
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