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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1970
Page
2
A Corry area column urges readers to avoid drinking and driving during New Year celebrations. It notes Christmas traffic was safer but warns snow and holiday excess raise crash risk. The piece emphasizes personal responsibility, the danger to others, and the hardest lesson of all is learning from tragedy to prevent needless deaths.
In Edgerton Wisconsin the reporter reflects that youth is a state of mind not a stage of life. It emphasizes courage imagination and 活力 as core traits beyond age, arguing aging comes from abandoning ideals rather than years lived. The piece contrasts youthful vigor with complacency, urging sustained ideals.
A reader recalls quirky family Christmas gifts that became keepsakes and narrates a lighter moment about memories made from small, silly items. The piece shifts to Washington where the FTC backs a probe into the Parke-Davis Warner-Lambert merger amid GOP-linked ties and alleged insider trading profits.
Parke-Davis traded 448100 shares in early hours as Warner-Lambert also saw heavy activity. Much of the action involved arbitrages in a merger context. FTC staff gathering data on drug industry concentration, hinting only few firms compete and patients pay higher prices. Warner-Lambert linked to former Nixon allies. Elmer Bobst’s ties noted.
CBS and NBC labeled the North Vietnamese supervised Navy pilots interviews as propaganda yet found the broadcasts intriguing. Cmdrs Wilber and Schweitzer described prison life, meals, books, and visits as cameras recorded rooms with family photos, while CBS and NBC aired broader domestic and youth perspectives on the nation’s state.
A first person reminiscence recalls the 1930s downturn, detailing layoffs, evictions, Hoover era policies, and destitution. It notes plummeting wages, bank failures, Hooverville camps, soup kitchens, and the struggle to obtain food, shelter, and assistance. The narrator contrasts memories of prosperity with widespread poverty and social strain.
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