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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1968
Page
4
The Jamestown City Council boosted the borrowing limit from 600000 to 15 million and approved a plan to acquire seven acres for a future sanitary landfill. Other notes include a hospital elbow injury, a fractured wrist from a fall, infant burial, a drunken driving fine, a two car crash on Union Street, and a delayed garbage pickup schedule due to a holiday.
In Huntington West Virginia between 2000 and 3000 gallons leaked from a 250 000 barrel storage tank at the Pure Oil bulb plant near the Ohio River Firefighters diluted the fuel with water and foam and pumped it to the river as they ordered area residents to douse all fires to avert possible blast hazards.
Schenectady residents Krist and Karen, with children Sharon and Jeff and infant Daniel, face shock over a tale of love and alleged crime. The pair, using the alias George Deacon, took part in a marine institute Bermuda cruise, amid rumors of a kidnapping case that may hinge on cross state transport.
U S. Attorney William Meadows says Barbara Jane Mackle identified Gary Steven Krist and Ruth Eisemann Schier as the kidnapers who buried her alive in North Georgia. The disclosure came at a Miami preliminary hearing where federal extortion charges were added to kidnapping counts. Krist, captured off Florida, pleaded understanding of the new charges. Eisemann-Schier is being sought. hearing is continued to Jan 10. Mackle, 20, Emory coed and daughter of a Coral Gables developer, was kidnapped from an Atlanta motel last Tuesday and found buried in a coffin-like box 20 miles from Atlanta after a $500,000 ransom. FBI said Mackle guided them to the pit by rapping on the lid with knuckles. Krist, a Marine researcher, and Eisemann-Schier, a University of Miami student, worked at the Institute of Marine Science. No third person is believed involved. In Redwood City, Krist’s estranged wife said he wants to be remembered to make an impact.
Santa announces a plan to give presents to all children good or bad as he departs with his eight reindeer. A young elf named Cluny creates a special angel with butterfly wings and a magic wand, promising to bring peace to every home for one day.
In Lewistown Pennsylvania AP report a Mifflin County father Frank Seaholtz aged 30 and his three children eight year old Vommea two year old Beth Ann and five year old Mark died in a two story frame house fire in McVeytown about eight miles from the area authorities said.
Two of the 21 convicts who escaped from Orleans Parish Prison were captured in New Orleans near Lafayette Square. Robert James Miller, 35, of Ford City, Pennsylvania, and Peter W. Jarvi, 23, of Concord, Massachusetts, were seized after police tips. The escape involved a fourth floor utility room, attic, roof routes, a shattered skylight, and a knotted prison uniform rope. Maj. Henry Morris called the event the biggest prison break west of Lewistown.
Space Center officials say Apollo 8 cannot be seen with naked eye and there were no telescope sightings. Astronomers note Venus near the moon likely caused a daylight glare myth, with observers worldwide hoping to spot the craft as it flashed moonward.
Eldridge Cleaver, 83, failed to appear in Alameda County Superior Court and forfeited a $50,000 bail. Kathleen Cleaver and four others signed the promissory note backing the bail set amid charges of attempted murder and assault on police last April. Cleaver, a fugitive from federal authorities, forfeited the money when absent.
Pittsburgh AP Two big U S steel makers cut planned price increases on hot rolled carbon and high strength shear steel by 8 per ton. U S Steel and National Steel lowered from 125 to 117 dollars a ton effective January 1. National Steel said the cut keeps them competitive. U S Steel cited market workings. Bethlehem Steel had previously set 117 dollars but did not follow the same move.
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