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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1968
Page
1
A garbled OCR fragment mentions a memorial or funeral context with names such as Carl Pa and John, a date-like string, and numbers resembling contact lines or pricing. Unclear details point to a notice of family bids, services, or balance due, with scattered references to relatives and a funeral.
Carry State Police reported five Saturday crashes left nine autos damaged, four people lightly hurt and two drivers facing possible charges. At 1:10 p.m. near Bayles Restaurant Route 6 Corry, Morton 48 Union City rear-ended Smith 43 Union City, who hit Owens 88 Waterford. Injured but untreated were Smith 13 and Owens 45. A second crash at 2 p.m. east of Union City on Route 6, Beverly Wood 20 Sev enth Street, ran into a pole with no injuries. At 7 p.m. on Route 8 near Titusville, Askins 24 Evie skidded into an embankment. no injuries. Gustafson 72 Titusville on Route 8 near Titusville arrived at the scene. charges pending. (Continued on Page Three).
Mobile officials declared a day of mourning after an Alabama Supreme Court decision allowing the film The Fox to be shown. Flags flew at half staff, black ribbons on City Hall doors as Mayor Mims denounced the ruling as a setback for local control, nullifying a city ordinance against obscenity. In Eldred, Dale L. Childs, 25, Bolivar, died in a one car crash Saturday in McKean County.
U S Marines conclude a large cordon operation near Da Nang with heavy bunker fighting. Official counts cite 862 North Vietnamese killed, near 1 000 possible, 2 600 peasants evacuated and later returned after screening. Marine casualties reach 95 dead and 504 wounded across the Meade River campaign.
Harrisburg AP reports that delegates to the Pennsylvania State Education Association will decide on a model salary plan to raise teachers' pay permanently above previous levels, forming a major policy shift aimed at recruiting and retaining staff.
Moon training vehicle, the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle, crashed during a test at SPACE CENTER Houston. Pilot Joseph Algranti ejected and was unhurt. NASA officials called the incident an unassessable setback to the man to the moon program, noting the craft’s one sixth gravity and erratic motion. Continued on page six.
Twenty one servicemen died in three separate accidents. A Coast Guard buoy tender sank after a collision on the Mississippi River with only three of its crew rescued. A hovercraft crash at Houston Space Center injured none and a Greenland fuel stop forced three pilots to abandon their planes. weitere details describe the Kitty Hawk and Enterprise carrier incidents with fatalities and crew asphyxiation.
South Vietnamese negotiators meet in Paris to align strategies with the United States on expanded peace talks. President Johnson’s timetable remains uncertain as Ky asserts willingness for peace without surrender and rejects the Viet Cong NLFs status.
Senate antitrust hearings open this week to examine credit reporting firms and possible legislation to protect consumers. Testimony will include three claimants and executives from major agencies amid concerns over misreporting, conflicts of interest, and market concentration. Retail Credit Co. of Atlanta expands via purchase while under Justice Department scrutiny. task includes other firms amid a growing data economy.
Corry Pennsylvania faces a stalled bid for a $7,000 housing inspector amid federal funding tied to urban renewal. City council included the salary in its 1969 budget. tests failed to yield a suitable applicant. The job, aimed at inspecting every dwelling over five years, provokes privacy concerns and threats of opposition. The outcome hinges on federal funding and future civil service exams.
Rome AP Leaders of Italy's Christian Democratic and Socialist parties push Premier-designate Mariano Rumor's centrist left program toward ratification tests. The coalition, backed by a weekend accord with the Republican party, targets university and pension reforms to ease unrest as unions plan regional strikes from Sicily to the Alps seeking higher pay and better conditions. Rumor aims to name his cabinet by midweek and faces confidence votes next weekend.
Corry Key Club members, sponsored by the Kiwanis Club, will canvass Corry city for the Christmas lighting fund. Henry Hicks, project chair, says over twenty high school students start at 6 p.m. tonight with a house to house effort south of the railroad tracks in wards one and four. Volunteers wear Kiwanis badges. unbadged callers will not be connected to the drive. The schedule continues tomorrow on the north side of the tracks east of North Center street and finishes Wednesday west of North Center street and north of the tracks.
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