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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1967
Page
1
U S bombers raid Zone C for the fifth time in two days as 575 sorties by smaller tactical aircraft set a one day record in South Vietnam. Ground action remains light while Viet Cong caches of ammo and artillery pieces are found in the Mekong Delta.
Clare Capwell of 535 Wright Street joins Republicans seeking City Council seats in the spring primary. Capwell, longtime Superior Cleaning proprietor, serves as former city councilman from 1956 to 1959 and is active in First Presbyterian Church and the Corry Elks. No Democratic announcements yet. committee meets tonight with expected statements tomorrow.
Corry State Police logged three auto accidents on Route 6 west of Corry this morning. At 6:55 Mary Sandberg 42 of Corry backed from a private drive into a westbound car driven by Harry Wilcox 55 of Corry. At 7:30 Barbara Katilich 22 of Conneautville skidded and was hit by Walter Puchacz 20 of Cambridge Springs. At 7:45 Sandra DeWitt 19 of Corry slid and collided with Richard Meier 33 of Corry after braking to avoid a car ahead. Damages ranged from 80 to 400 dollars.
Mansfield Ohio AP reports UAW President Walter Reuther and the two member executive board ordered Leaders to put down the rebellion and end the seven day wildcat strike at General Motors. The stoppage idled 133000 workers in 57 plants as Fisher Body plants at Mansfield supply 90 percent of GM parts.
Professor Edward B. Lawton 55 conductor of the University of California Chorus died Tuesday in Berkeley after a cancer diagnosis.
In Wilmington California workers on a street widening project cut through a chlorine line releasing a cloud of poisonous gas. Thirty three men were overcome Tuesday and a Wednesday incident when a tractor ruptured the same line sent five persons to hospital.
Ned Johnston began petition drives as a candidate for Corry city council. A self employed district agent for Prudential, he has lived in Corry five years and earned invites to the National Business Conference in Los Angeles in July and a regional conference in Houston in May. He belongs to the National Association of Life Underwriters and the Presbyterian Church board, chairs the church finance committee, and led the city United Fund drive in 1964. Johnston and his wife Mary have three daughters, Wendy Shellie and Melanie.
The Associated Press urges the Supreme Court to overturn a 500000 dollar libel award to former Major General Edwin A Walker, arguing such sums chill free speech and press. AP contends the trial showed the eyewitness account used by Walker supporters was fabric ated and that AP reports were true. The case comes as the court also weighs a 460000 dollar award to Wallace Butts, with potential impact on actual malice standards.
Florida man Thomas Henry Killam died March 7 1964 beside a broken shop window in Pensacola with throat slashed. His brother Earl Killam seeks exhumation and a new ruling, aiming to confirm exact cause of death and link to Kennedy assassination investigations in New Orleans. Wanda Killam, widow, noted he had been questioned by federal agents and had fled Dallas in 1963. The case mirrors broader inquiries into Oswald’s killer and Jack Ruby connections. The Pensacola News-Journal will continue coverage.
Nine members of a California family were killed when a Southern Pacific freight train struck their station wagon at a crossing in South Sacramento. The 60 mph impact tore the wagon apart, killing retired Air Force Sgt. Herbert Hill, 42, his wife Annie Laurie, 38, and eight children aged 3 to 10. Train engineer Calvin C. Searley, 56, said he did not see the wagon before impact.
New Orleans detective David Lewis, who warned last Monday he feared for his life over information about the Kennedy assassination probe, has reportedly fled the city with his family to an undisclosed location. Ferrie, a key figure in the Garrison inquiry, was found dead in his apartment yesterday. Bus station staff deny knowledge of Lewis’s whereabouts.
Washington AP members of the select House committee on Adam Clayton Powell meet to seal the report proposing seating Powell with a stern censure loss of seniority and to repay 35000 from his salary. The plan awaits final signatures before presenting to the House for action next week.
New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison hinted that free lance pilot Davis W. Ferrie may have carried to his grave secrets about President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Ferrie, 48, described himself as a psychologist and private detective.
Mayor William A. Peiffer 46 begins circulating petitions on both major tickets for the Erie County judgeship. He abandons a planned bid for district attorney and will challenge Lindley McClelland, appointed to fill the vacancy created by Judge Elmer Evans’s retirement. McClelland awaits State Senate confirmation. Peiffer, a 17 year attorney, native of Cambridge Springs, Edinboro graduate and WWII Navy veteran.
An AP Wirephoto shows a Vietnamese peasant woman weeping beside her husband as he is led away by US 1st Cavalry Division troops after a Viet Cong suspect arrest near Bong Son in the central highlands. GIs detained about a score of suspected Viet Cong after a brief firefight, handing them to South Vietnamese authorities for interrogation. The report ties into broader wartime tensions and investigations surrounding figures linked to political violence in Vietnam.
Republican County Commissioner Fred Lamberton said he will issue a statement today on whether he will run for re election. He noted he is not yet ready to decide. He had indicated he would not run unless needed and cited a development within the past 24 hours causing the delay. Democratic commissioners Hill Jr. and Louis J. Rzymek have filed petitions.
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