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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1969
Page
3
AWARE demands an end to waving the flag and playing Dixie on campus. Bursey was taken into custody by State Law Enforcement Division officers and released on $100 bail. Elsewhere on the campus scene.
Local residents and families are reported traveling for illnesses visits and gatherings. Community groups held meetings at the library and Legion Hall with programs on Grandmama Moses as an Artist and Americanism. Plans include a tulip queen candidate float and 50th American Legion anniversary events.
Philadelphia Democrats won a power slip over Pittsburgh interests as the state policy committee endorsed Duquesne Law School Dean Louis L. Manderino for the state Supreme Court seat. The May primary endorsement carried 23 to 18, with backing from Mayor Tate and Rep. Green. Van der Voort had hoped to win.
A West Shore fire swept through Shippensburg downtown destroying four buildings housing four businesses and two apartments. Firefighter Mervin Fogelsanger Sr. 58 died of a heart attack at the scene as flames spread from a vacant Varsity Shop basement to neighboring structures. Eight companies battled the blaze and by 6 p.m. it was under control with traffic rerouted. Damage estimates were not yet available.
Pittsburgh AP An organizer for public assistance workers says a mass sick call will be held tomorrow to push for a 50 percent salary increase. The action targets Allegheny County Philadelphia and Chester and Delaware counties. Organizer Jerry Hinchey of the International Services Union said Fayette County staff will stay off work Wednesday and Thursday.
Dr Keith Speigel reports mail experiments show 80 percent of blank envelopes returned, 68 percent with slugs and stage money. Lossed letters in Los Angeles had about 80 percent chance of return. Upper income areas returned 82 percent of envelopes with stage money, middle 6 percent, lower 56 percent.
Congress opened a sweeping review of the tax code, hearing a push for a 20 percent tax on investment income of private foundations. Rep. Wright Patman said reform is needed without taxing charitable contributions, while Mills leads the Ways and Means Committee in a likely two-year overhaul. Charles McClaskey of the foundations group argued self-policing and claimed IRS audits show less than two percent violations.
Senator Patman grills large foundations on their influence and assets. He cites Ford and Rockefeller foundations and notes 596 foundations hold stakes in 288 corporations. He warns inherited control concentrates power and questions political aims in the 1970s.
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