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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1969
Page
2
The Corr y Journal editorial attacks United Nations funding and calls for a halt to further American tax dollars. It criticizes UN interventions in Korea Vietnam and the Congo and argues new construction would burden U S taxpayers while New York leaders push the project for a larger UN campus and richer social life.
A reader style political summary notes a bill to bar transporting school children to maintain racial balance, with critics calling it wasteful spending. The piece covers House activity including tax stance, narcotics education, a safety measure for school buses, and endorsements of a new Ways and Means chair. It mentions reactions to state police promotions, local political figures, and upcoming death penalty decisions.
On this date February 25, 1969 Congress began authority to levy taxes and set tax days remaining in the year. The entry also marks Jose de San Martin, born in 1778, as a South American liberator associated with Argentina.
President Nixon pressed by Sen Strom Thurmond to let local districts set desegregation rules in five Southern districts while HEW Secretary Bob Finch upholds federal civil rights law. Finch sought to keepRuby Martin in civil rights post, offer Cohen promo, she declined for private practice.
New York readers recall the rise of performance honed funds that chased quarterly and monthly gains. Managers turned portfolios over rapidly, using computers and quick trades to boost returns, sometimes doubling share prices in a year while attracting vast assets. This shift jolted blue chips and reshaped research, with in out trading becoming the hallmark.
Corry residents hear Auditor General Harold Wagner announce a $2 597 share from a $2 070 237 motor license fund payout. Erie East clinches a Section 1 title shot by edging Corry High 42 34 on Sunrise Court. Miss Patricia Guth turns three yesterday as a birthday celebration occurs with her mother Mrs Joseph Guth at the Community Refining Company plans. Plans advance for a Corry distributing center including a warehouse and four storage tanks east of West Wayne Street opposite Rogers Structural Steel in Third Ward. Carmen Hill of Corry works out with the Pittsburgh Pirates in Paso Robles California as a sore arm slows training.
The piece critiques a plan tied to federal tax sharing advocated by Rockefeller and discussed by Heller and Goodell. It argues the proposal would divert tax dollars from hard‑pressed cities to states, prolong welfare rolls, and shift costs to taxpayers nationwide while overlooking urban mismanagement. The author urges redistributing population concentrations rather than dollars, citing California Governor Reagan’s call for self-reliance.
Hal Boyle recalls a lone American private in a wet An Thi trench who asked for water before dying from a stomach wound after a North Vietnamese machine gun burst. The scene contrasts courage and futility as battles rage around him and a medic hesitates to aid.
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