09 Feb 1968
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1968
Page
1
Fragmentary notice references address 5884 Nell Estate and numbers 739-2252 310 72 668-6015. Mentions furnaces, a city council, Pennsylvania, and an auction deadline around 1968 with rejection of data. Details are unreadable and partial.
Helicopters dropped 199th Light Infantry Brigade troops onto Saigon’s racetrack to bolster action against Viet Cong in Cholon. Across South Vietnam heavy fighting heated up near Da Nang and Khe Sanh with 321 Communists and 67 U S troops killed and 170 Americans wounded.
Cooperation between Titusville police Corry State Police and a junk yard owner led to the arrest of Archie Rosenburg Jr. 21 of Grand Valley and a 15 year old after they tried to sell a stolen auto radiator. They returned $5 and paid court costs when arraigned, then were released.
A U S Marine private in a black leather jacket with a 45 caliber pistol tried to hijack a Pan American DC6 at Da Nang. After two hours, a bold move by the copilot and tear gas thwarted the effort. The arrestee was Pfc. William Lee Clark of the 1st Field Artillery Group. No charges filed. investigation pending. The plane carried 83 servicemen bound for rest and recuperation in Hong Kong. pilot John P. Jones and co pilot E L Archer led the crew.
Congressional budget cutters press to trim the three billion dollar foreign aid request. While some lawmakers favor reductions, a hundred million for South Korea is seen as likely to pass. Hearings on the authorization bill are planned for late February with House action aimed in May. the Vietnam war shapes current support.
Bradford Era reports a $21,375 Housing and Urban Development grant for a county census study, but county commissioners BRA and city hall say they know nothing of its purpose. The county population is 4,517.
With five days left in the 1998 Leap Year Y Membership Drive the second and penultimate report meeting is set for 7 30 tonight in the YMCA main meeting room. Kenneth Burr and Carl Taylor urge all workers captains and team to attend as divisions vie to hit lofty goals.
Mayor John Lindsay rejected Rockefeller panel recommendations to end the sanitation strike, calling the proposal blackmail. 400 shop stewards backed the deal, yet the strike continued as health officials warned of rat and typhoid risks from 60,000 tons of uncollected garbage. National Guard callup urged as crisis extends to day eight.
On Thursday night in Orangeburg South Carolina three Negro teenagers were killed and more than 49 wounded as gunfire erupted between students and police during a drive to break segregation at two adjacent colleges. SNCC official Cleveland Sellers was arrested on riot charges and held on bond.
In Concord Massachusetts a 14 year old freshman at Concord Carlisle Regional High School hanged himself with a necktie after leaving a note to his father saying he could not endure the ridicule at school. Police said the body was found in his bedroom closet. The note opened by the medical examiner includes a plea of love to his father and a statement about unable to cope with taunts from classmates. His father recalled taunts labeling him Fatso and Fat Boy.
Real estate valued at 1 051 414 changed hands in Corry in 1967 across 212 transactions, as reported by the city engineer administrator. Forty two deals used nominal $1 considerations, while 170 transactions reflect actual prices. The 1 percent real estate tax raised 10 511.
The United States and West Germany reportedly ended joint development of a vertical takeoff and landing jet after investing about six million dollars. The move follows years of Pentagon support with several hundred million spent on various prototype paths with limited success.
Erie County voter registrar Mrs. Shirley Colvin reported 205 Corry residents were purged for not voting in the past two years. In total 6,653 were removed countywide including 3,833 Democrats 2,718 Republicans and 97 independents or minor parties.
North Viet Nam Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh proposed peace talks as soon as the United States stops bombing and other acts of war. General Vo Nguyen Giap warned of continued fighting until final victory, tying talks to a broader settlement under the 1954 Geneva accords.
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