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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1976
Page
3
Readable parts mention a game involving Pitt and Kentucky with references to scoring and defense. The text is heavily garbled, but hints at a past contest, players, and defensive plays. No clear date, location, or complete teams are confirmed.
Harrisburg AP A Pennsylvania man Albert Mellvain 65 East Butler died December 19 at Butler Hospital from Guillain Barré Syndrome linked to a swine flu vaccine campaign. He was admitted November 8 with respiratory complications. Health officials report 42 suspected cases in Pennsylvania and note a possible link to the vaccination effort.
In Belfast a decorated window display and Santa amid a steel cloister illustrate Christmas under siege. Soldiers with rifles and attack dogs guard the main shopping district with gates to search shoppers. The barricaded area, completed last June, mirrors a seven year civil war with about 1,700 deaths that year.
Ohio and Pennsylvania push to lure a proposed 3.25 billion US Steel plant to the Conneaut Erie corridor. Governor Rhodes calls the project top priority, forecasting 5,000 jobs with up to 30,000 spin offs. US Steel chairs a Jan. 10 meeting with leaders as sites are narrowed.
Local officials met with Rhodes Duerk and aides to Governor Shapp to press for fast tracking a U S Steel expansion. An environmental impact study could be shortened from three years to about eighteen months, with state cooperation discussed for cross state siting near Erie. Erie may gain cable TV franchise revenue around fifty thousand dollars in year one under a city ordinance proposed by Mayor Louis Tullio. The plan includes a one year operation guarantee clause.
The Retail Division of the Corry Chamber of Commerce announced 17 winners from over 5,000 entries in its Christmas Give-Away. Leo Jackman, chair man, drew winners for gift certificates totaling 150 dollars redeemable at local shops. certificates to be mailed this week. Winners include Barbara Foster, Louis Zajai, Mrs Rex Warner Sr, W R Gregory, Sharon Goodman, Jean Jewell, Mary Jaggs, Virginia Hamilton, Doris Bailey, Mrs Nick Savko, James Burton, Deanne Jewell, Mrs Al Catalla, Vera Lawson, Becky Hatch, Dorothy Hajee, and Dorothy Messinger.
CHRIS ROBERTS AP writes of Washington crossing the Delaware in a brutal 1776 night. Soldiers face ice, cold, and a snow storm as they plan Trenton then Princeton, with 2,383 men remaining and Monroe as future president. Planes? No. Victory or death is the watchword as Hessians capitulate at Trenton.
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