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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1967
Page
1
An agency advertises auctions in New York and nearby areas featuring Meadows Wilt-Inn Ranch and a brick home with wall closets, heat, and livestock facilities. It notes contact numbers and invites bids from buyers seeking real estate and related assets, including dining room items and metals.
An Associated Press survey shows at least 41 members of Congress employ relatives, including spouses, children and in laws, with salaries over 20 000 in some cases. The study lists numerous kin across 47 congressmen, 35 Democrats and 12 Republicans, with payments surpassing 355 000 overall.
A hillside house and two apartment buildings in a fashionable Rio de Janeiro suburb collapsed after 24 hours of rain. Rescue teams found three bodies overnight and saved 12 to 15 people, including two families of six. The disaster left at least 13 dead in Rio state, with 875 homeless and hundreds injured in a train derailment nearby. Governor Negrao de Lima credited drainage work for limiting casualties as more rain was forecast.
City seeks to address public queries about the March 1 start of the compulsory garbage program. City Engineer-Administrator David Johnson has compiled the most asked questions and will publish daily answers in The Journal until March 1 when the new collection contract takes effect.
In Media Pennsylvania the Penn-Delco School District suspended teacher Carl Feree after the father of an 11 year old sixth grader, Robert Boyer Jr., complained of a spanking at Green Ridge Elementary in Aston Township. Superintendent William G. Moser said district policy allows spanking but the act must be just and not cruel.
Washington AP reports a nationwide effort to implement President Johnson's crime commission proposals. About 20 000 copies of the blue pound report with over 200 recommendations go to governors mayors and leaders. State crime commissions number 28 with 11 more forming.
New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison says he is running the Kennedy assassination investigation and will keep details secret. He argues federal intervention could slow progress and rejects handing facts to the U.S. attorney general to pass to President Johnson.
Richard Speck faces eight murder counts in Chicago nursing slayings. Judge Paschen's media coverage rulings draw protest from ANPA and RTNDA as trial opens in Peoria with security measures and pre trial news conference.
County officials clash over whether Arthur Brueckman can campaign while serving as Hospital Administrator. Louis Rzymek argues Brueckman cannot split duties, while also noting Brueckman and the hospital have political ties and that Brueckman may campaign during work hours. Rzymek seeks reelection amid controversy. Continued on Page Six.
Defense Secretary McNamara tells joint Senate committees bombing has not greatly reduced infiltration into the South. He argues air strikes meet stated goals of boosting South morale, raising North’s costs, and increasing political price to continue the campaign.
A U S soldier, worn by three months in jungle and rice paddies, strikes a Viet Cong prisoner in the face after the guerrilla is flushed from an underwater hiding place near Bong Son. Two Viet Cong are captured by a company of the 1st Air Cavalry Division.
South Vietnamese paratroopers and U S Marines reported major battles 50 miles apart on the central coast. In one clash near Quang Ngai City, ground forces and air bombardment killed 746 North Vietnamese regulars, with 248 killed on the ground and 400 by air and artillery. A separate Marine operation south of Da Nang resulted in 118 enemy deaths.
Ronald J. Romano wicz, a 50 year old Gannon College junior from Erie Pennsylvania, plans to file petitions to run as a Democratic candidate for one of three Erie School Board seats. He is a psychology major who hopes to become a teacher and argues youth should have a voice on the board.
The CIA's involvement with the National Students Association prompts questions about prosecutions for students who disclosed CIA financing of international NSA activities. Lawrence R. Houston says prosecutions require intent to breach national security, while NSA members face possible jail terms for oaths. The Nation ties CIA grants to USIS linked Foundations and groups from World Assembly of Youth to the AFL-CIO pressuring Congress to increase oversight. Senator Javits and Fulbright urge open reporting and closer congressional scrutiny of CIA actions.
In Columbus Ghia, AP report says 37 year old James Davis was shot at his wedding reception after an argument. Effie Davis, 29, is accused of the shooting. Davis is in satisfactory condition with wounds to the abdomen and left hand and will not press charges.
Marine Cpl. Frank Ferraro Jr., 19, came home from Vietnam in February to a Christmas tree kept by his mother Mrs. Frank Ferraro Sr. in Brookville. She watered the tree every four days and said she planned to celebrate Christmas New Year and his birthday together now that he is home after a 12 month Vietnam tour.
The House investigating committee, racing a Thursday deadline, considers seating Powell while docking his pay to recover funds allegedly used for personal purposes. Testimony alleged forged signatures on 19 checks totaling about 26000 from Powell payroll. The panel also weighs discipline for secretary and traveling companion Cor tine Huff who defied a subpoena and faces possible contempt or removal from an 18000 annual post.
Weekend crashes involving parked cars left two totaled and one heavily damaged. Richard E. Snyder 26 of 227 Wayne Street struck a Grobholz vehicle, pushing it 45 feet into a utility pole. Snyder’s car also totaled. No injuries reported. A second incident on Ohio Street involved a girl backing from a driveway, scratching Michael L. Clark’s car with no damage estimate available.
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