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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1976
Page
3
A damaged OCR fragment notes a legal or judicial matter with unclear phrasing and missing details. It mentions possible actions and a ruling, but key names, dates, and outcomes are unreadable. The readable portion hints at an ongoing case needing confirmation.
Mary A. Davis Jones 28 was charged with criminal homicide in the death of 65 year old Charles D. Beard in Erie. She claimed Beard attacked her in a bathroom after a night gambling in Ashtabula Ohio. Beard died from a chest wound as police questioned the suspect. The weapon, a .38 caliber Colt Agent, was later found.
The National Citizens Committee for Broadcasting charged NBC with the most violence among networks in a report funded by the AMA. It named Chevrolet as a leading sponsor and cited shows like Quest and Starsky and Hutch as highly violent while CBS and ABC programs ranked lower. NBC disputed the study, arguing it counted murder the same as a shove and offered no context on perpetrators or outcomes.
A San Francisco Zephyr passenger train derailed after six cars jumped tracks en route from Oakland to Chicago. Rescue workers lifted a passenger from the wreckage, eight people hospitalized, Gary Uribarren of the University of Nevada Reno, a train passenger, captured the scene.
In Leitrum County Ireland Padraig McKenna born with jaws locked spent years unable to eat or talk until a 3 year old operation freed him. After years of taunts and frail health his mother recalls the turn when doctors advised him to speak and eat normally. Irish government and Irish American groups funded his transfer to New York for treatment last January with follow up care urging him to eat steak and Chew gum.
MAYVILLE The Chautauqua County Sheriff asks Family Court to charge 15-year-old Robert Fennan with falsely reporting a burglary incident. He claimed a burglar shot him with his father's .357 magnum at the family home. investigators found the report false. He remains in satisfactory condition at Brooks Memorial Hospital in Dunkirk.
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