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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1962
Page
6
Joseph J. Wawrejko, 47, of 17 Mill Street, was fined five dollars and ordered to pay court costs after a hearing before Alderman Porter Auer for failing to file last year’s city income tax return. He was released after promising to pay the fine and costs on Thursday.
Joy Tö Mullcke said yesterday there are no leads in the theft of $5,000 from a basement safe in the home of former township tax collector A. A. Archie Robinson. Police noted the safe was hidden and entered via a broken basement window.
Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division parachuted into a frost encrusted Florida field during a surprise drill under Super Sabrejets. Four were injured including Lt. Col. Kenneth C. Buell of Ligonier Pennsylvania.
Area Ministers' Christmas Meditations centers on the second name for the Christ Child in Matthew 1:18 25. Rev H Ray Harris of Corry EUB explores "God with us" linking divine companionship to psalmic assurance Josephs deliverance and Paul's claim "Christ in you" as the hope of glory.
Reading from the district report, Covelway and Concord schools face severe crowding with Covelway at 412 students this year for a 360 capacity and Concord set for new construction by fall 1964 involving condemning 11 homes. Columbus and Corry boards pursue site acquisitions to relieve space with plans for a new high school and a large multi-building project, while Wright needs no major fixes. The district estimates eight high school rooms needed, six for general classes and two for retarded students, and final costs could exceed seventy thousand dollars excluding land clearance.
President Kennedy created a blue ribbon committee to reassess the 4 billion dollar annual foreign aid program. Retired General Lucius D. Clay will chair, joined by former defense secretary Robert Lovett and others, with aims to gain 1963 approval and set attainable goals for stability. The panel, to meet in January, will review military and economic aid and its distribution.
NBC’s The Tunnel aired dramatic footage of a Berlin escape tunnel with rescued refugees emerging mud covered and exhausted. The program showed actual digging in a three foot square shaft and used student leaders for reenactments though some viewers found portions weakened by staged scenes.
CBS plans rare color programs starting with a February 35 Monaco tour hosted by Princess Grave. The network delays full color rollout, offering it only on sponsor request and with an extra charge, about four thousand dollars per half hour.
NBC airs a courtroom drama tonight from 9 30 to 10 30 EST starring Dick Powell Shaw with Robert Webber and Dina Merrill. The episode centers on a heated military tribunal and legal maneuvering as the captain faces accusations.
Coroner Frank Belm of Greene County says the mine explosion killed the miners as rescuers extended the string out 4,000 feet from the working face. Most victims lay within 1,000 feet of the coal vein face. In a separate report, an automobile crash at Route 1 crossing in Chadds Ford, Chester County, killed Thomas W. Harrison, 30, of Stevenson, Maryland, after a Reading Railroad freight collision.
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