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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1964
Page
4
A Levittown Times opinion piece recalls Governor Screanton’s Science and Technology Council report. It urges private investment, prudent public upkeep, and stronger industrial, recreation, and conservation policies, with calls to expand urban transport, computerize government, and stabilize higher education levels.
Paul Harvey recalls a freezing Oklahoma City episode where a woman in labor received no aid from bystanders for nearly an hour. He contrasts public indifference with charity abroad, urging readers to seek genuine neighborly help during the Christmas season and reflect on moral conscience amid cold indifference.
Washington notes focus on Don Reynolds secret testimony in the Bobby Baker case alleging cash deliveries to Baker in a brown bag and a Johnson meeting. FBI found no corroboration. Reynolds also charged AT T and other claims, disputed by many. The piece covers Reynolds’s sex allegations, a Kennedy aide tied to Ellen Rometsch, and a Security Risk finding. McNamara cites constitutional limits on holding both office and reserve duty and notes key reservist senators and generals.
A collage of 1944 world war news from Paris reports a German counteroffensive pushing into Belgium as Allied lines hold. In the Pacific, MacArthur notes rapid progress on Mindanao with heavy Japanese losses. The community Christmas choir concert at the Senior High School impresses with standout soloists Mary Jean Sullivan Shirley Depew and Helen Hildebrand. Cancellations upset local basketball fans as the Mine dory game with Canton McKinley is called off.
A 430000 brick express station in Corry was formally opened with a banquet last evening. Officials from American Express Company chapters in New York City Buffalo and nearby cities joined local officials and staff to celebrate. Tonight a St John s Day banquet will be held by Corry Lodge Chapter 365 F A M and Columbus FA Chapter 200 at the Eastern Star Hall with toastmaster B A L Cottrell.
Thursday's sale lists good and choice hogs 15 to 17 dollars per hundredweight, sows 12 to 14, best cows 11 to 14, canners and cutters 8 to 10, feeders 16 to 18, bulls 16 to 49, veal calves 30 to 34, heavy and medium calves 18 to 23, lambs 49 to 22.
A feature in Behind The News Age highlights Associated Spring Corp and its Raymond Mfg. Division, with Edward C. Spal and Carlyle F. Barnes pictured. The issue touches on region updates from Sparta Merged Schools, local tax questions, fire schedule shifts, and community notes including donors to the Lawrence Airport fund and local civic matters.
In Philadelphia 1958 Bob Dickie, 33, quit his job as a trash collector. He went door to door soliciting Christmas donations posing as a trash man. A resident reported him to police who arrested him for impersonating a trash collector.
Esquivel Mendez aged 56, governor of Baja California, Mexico, died in El Centro California on Thursday from an apparent heart attack. The passing removes a regional political figure and prompts tributes from local officials and party colleagues.
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