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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1970
Page
4
Smorgasbord from 6 to 9 p.m. and dancing 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. with Jim Narducci at the piano at Stranahan's in downtown Spartansburg. Tickets or entry details unreadable in the fragment.
A community notice lists residents and addresses in Corry and nearby towns, naming admissions and discharges, births at Corry Memorial Hospital, and ambulance contacts. It includes Mrs James Hughes, Daniel Bothell, Cindy Ehrhardt, William Amacher, Casey Coon, George Craker, Jennie Bensink, Richard Shields, Raymond Williams, Maurice Gjertsen Jr., Michael Keaveny, Nebra Morrison, and others with multiple street and rural routes. It notes recent births at Corry Memorial Hospital and Union City Hospital and provides emergency contact numbers for hospitals and ambulance services.
State police report a fatal head on collision on Pennsylvania 66 near Leechburg Armstrong County. Donald E. Nelson 23 Hyde Park and Mrs Ray Myers 60 Leechburg died at the scene. Passenger William Oberdorf 26 Leechburg also died. Another Nelson car passenger Jack Wilmont 23 Apollo was injured, and the car plunged into the Kiskiminetas River before the bomb squad arrived.
Harrisburg secretary Maurice Goddard informed Rep. Forest Hopkins that the department will not offer any more submerged lands under Lake Erie for oil and gas drilling. He noted no oil production or pipelines exist in the lake and supported conservation efforts to prevent pollution.
Funeral services for Harold C Bruce will be held at 2 o clock Monday afternoon at Bracken Funeral Home. Friends may call Saturday evening and Sunday. interment will be in Pine Grove Cemetery. Shop Your Corry Stores.
London AP reports an army bomb disposal squad removed a 1,500 pound land mine found in a suburban reservoir during drainage work. The mine, thought to have been dropped by parachute in a World War I German air raid, was steamed out of the six foot long device as workers drained the reservoir. Over 1,000 workers are employed at nine nearby factories.
In Vernon Township Meadville area tests found only vapor of volatile gas not liquid gasoline. State health officials and Mobil Oil personnel worked at the site where a backhoe exposed 13 feet without discovering liquid fuel. Nine homes vacated as fumes entered basements. water wells show no gasoline, and a plan to aerate soil aims to allow rehousing. Suspicion centers on 5000 gallons lost from a Mobil service station last summer seeping underground.
Harold C Bruce, 64, of Corry R D 4 died yesterday at St. Vincent Hospital Erie after years of ill health. Survived by wife, a stepdaughter Dolly Donoghue Corry two sisters Pearl Lees Jamestown and Edward Lewis Avonore and one brother Clarence Bruce Jamestown. Burial in Pine Grove. Funeral details at Bracken Funeral Home with services Monday at 2 p.m. Rev George C Vetter of St Pauls Lutheran officiating. Born February 10 1905 in Jamestown NC, lived in Sugar Grove, moved to Corry in 1936. Married Bertha Sedon June 21 1939. Retired two years ago from auto body work. Smallpox cases rise Meschede Germany two nuns confirmed in hospital as two more deaths bring toll to two since outbreak two weeks ago.
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