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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1969
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR text shows municipal or public notices with garbled items including addresses and numbers. It references Sylvan March installations and city services, with unclear details and a cash or permit context. The readable bits point to a city notice about installations and a March event.
Local notices list brief ad items from Leaton including small postings for services and sales. Readable fragments show dated references and nearby business names. The items are concise and resemble typical community classifieds in a small town newspaper.
A massive undersea oil leak off Southern California spreads crude toward Los Angeles at three miles an hour, threatening 800 square miles of beaches. Crews pump mud into the hole but heavy seas and 15 foot swells hinder efforts. 24 nautical miles south of Santa Barbara Harbor, oil reaches Ventura Marina.
Five drugmakers tied to price rigging of tetracycline propose a 120 million settlement to resolve nearly 100 civil suits. The deal would provide damages to states, local governments, and possibly individuals who paid inflated prices for the antibiotic produced cheaply. The firms include American Cyanamid, Bristol-Myers, Charles Pfizer, Upjohn, and Squibb Beech-Nut.
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan and his mother testified about scant income as three prominent lawyers defend him in the Kennedy assassination case. Grant Cooper Rusell Parsons and Emile Zola Berman say they work for free though Cooper estimates a potential half million dollars in costs. Cooper, Parsons and Berman defend Sirhan, 24, a Jordanian charged in Kennedy's slaying, arguing lawyers must represent the accused in unpopular cases.
Harrisburg AP The State Crime Commission reports five divisions of a nation wide crime syndicate operate in Pennsylvania with 142 members and two bosses inside the state Angelo Bruno Philadelphia heads Southeast John La Rocca McCandless Township Allegheny County leads Southwest Russell Bufalino Pittston is underboss Northeast Carlo Gambino New York heads the division Also named Northwest headed by Stefano Magaddino Buffalo with Erie County members and Bucks County boss Samuel DeCavalcante Trenton NJ The report notes crimes range from vice to homicide and cites underfunded police and crowded courts. Continued on page six.
Harrisburg AP report from the Pennsylvania Crime Commission outlines daily averages of crimes in 1967. One murder, three rapes, 18 robberies, and 20 serious assaults per day, plus over 40 million dollars in property losses and 92 billion from organized crime nationally.
The Corry Area Industrial Development Corp. named a seven-man Corry Housing Committee on the recommendation of the Industrial Division of the Chamber of Commerce. Appointed were Raymond Weber Jack Osman Robert Borkowski George Cote William Dykes Kubiak and Anthony Amoroso. The CAIDC will sponsor the effort with Blackson and Associates handling planning work and the group operates separately from the Corry Housing Authority.
General Telephone proposes a tariff revision with the Public Utility Commission to end four party residential service in Phillipsville and Spartansburg and a four party business line in Union City. If approved the rules would take effect April 7. Northern Division manager William J. Schilling says demand for four party service has declined and the plan aims to eliminate it gradually, not affecting current shared lines for existing locations.
Mike Jones and Rosa Lee Stinnett, both 18 and 19, planned to wed after military service. They swore in January 9 and traveled to Lackland AFB. Mike soon suffered a hip injury and received a medical discharge. Rosa remains in basic training in Texas with about four years left.
Sap flow should be good this year but labor shortages will keep several maple sugar bushes from opening. Harry Burrows of Wattsburg notes high syrup prices and wage demands prevent small producers from hiring outsiders, relying on family and friends to run production. Season likely begins between.
City police chief Frank Carnegie presents a Corry FBI annual report showing crime levels remain extremely low by national standards. Major crimes were scarce with only one robbery in 1968 and none in 1967, while total serious offenses stayed near constant. Prosecutions rose slightly as arrests increased from 1967 to 1968.
New York AP report from the Insurance Information Institute shows nationwide economic losses from traffic accidents near 13 billion dollars in the first 11 months of 1968. The prior annual peak was 12.4 billion dollars in 1967. Losses cover wages, medical costs, property damage and insurance service costs.
The 1969 YMCA drive reports 125 new and renewal memberships turned in at the Y chat report meeting. Kenneth Burr, general chair, says the Columbia Division leads with 24 percent of its goal, followed by the Ranger Division at 18 percent and the Century Club at 58 percent as about 75 volunteers canvass the city.
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