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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1963
Page
1
Gov William W Scranton of Pennsylvania is pictured attempting to speak during a conversation with New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. The image captures a moment of casual exchange amid a broader regional political engagement.
John Tabor, new Commerce Secretary, met with Erie leaders in a three hour Erie Club session to gather grass roots input on how the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority can aid local communities. Four ideas were discussed, including refinanced second mortgages, 50 percent financing for expansions, include machinery in financing, and broader application forms. Twenty five Corry representatives from the Corry Area Industrial Development Corp. attended.
The Post Office will launch a four hour same day downtown delivery service in seven Pennsylvania cities. Cities listed include Allentown, Altoona, Erie, Harrisburg, Johnstown, McKeesport, Scranton and Williamsport. Mail deposited by 8 a.m. in downtown boxes will be picked up and delivered by 9 p.m. the same day within the area.
An airman from Waymart Ba blimbed to death in a barracks fire at Alconbury Base last Friday. Airman 1Thomas B. Holmes, 27, is the deceased. His wife Barbara Ann lives at Waymart. The cause of the fire is not yet known. Holmes was the son of Mrs Elizabeth Boch of Fredonia, New York.
The 196 World Day of Prayer will be held at the First Methodist Church tomorrow evening at 7 45 with Martha Underwood as guest speaker. She served two terms as missionary to the Congo and teaches in the Millcreek School District of Erie. Mrs. William Gumbleton will lead the service, the Evangelical United Brethren Church choir will sing, joined by Charles Correll and organist Mrs. Harold Flowers. Corry residents are invited to attend this annual Lenten service on the first Friday.
A KC135 jet tanker taking off from Bolton Air Force Base exploded near a guard house at the entrance, killing nine. Seven aboard perished then two more died when the blast flattened the guard house and a waiting room. The plane veered left and crashed about a quarter of a mile from the gate onto the Alaska Highway toward Fairbanks. On board were the pilot copilot navigator and four technicians. the tanker was refueling during a Strategic Air Command mission.
Joseph Murphy of Tonawanda faced arraignment before Justice Arthur Winmer after backing onto Route 2 half a mile south of Wattsburg and colliding with Hazel G. Bumos of Biba City. Murphy pled guilty to failing to yield and paid a $10 fine plus $5 costs. Damages totaled about $350 with $20 to Murphy’s car and $150 to Bumos’s vehicle.
A grease-fueled blaze at the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. facility three miles north of Franklin caused about 50,000 dollars in damage to the main building and five oil storage tanks. Forty workers escaped injury as flames from a steam kettle exploded. Firefighters from Franklin, Oil City and Reno battled the blaze from 3:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Water supply from Two Mile Run hampered efforts. Two Franklin employees, Fred Schwitzer and Joseph Seifert, reported attempting to fight the fire with hand extinguishers before raising the alarm.
In Kansas City Missouri a bandit pointed a pistol at clerk Lloyd A Anderson demanding cash from the register The clerk retorted that it was a self service store and the robber helped himself to the money without further incident.
Washington reports the State Department has received no notice or inference that Russia plans to withdraw all Soviet troops from Cuba. Assistant Secretary Robert Manning said no such communication exists and quoted estimates placing withdrawals at a few thousand, leaving about ten thousand, with total removal not implied by Moscow’s commitment.
Washington AP reports the Atomic Energy Commission backs an extensive overhaul of the Savannah due to safety concerns. The 53 million dollar atom powered merchant ship at Galveston Texas awaits full review before further sea trials. AEC officials call the letter from the reactor safeguards panel a reminder of the required overhaul. Atlas missile launch at Vandenberg AFB described as routine training with few details released.
Gov Scranton urged legislative leaders to move faster on his administration program. He blamed Democrat inaction for slow passage, noting only two bills have been signed into law. He said education and industrial development proposals are due soon as harness racing legislation is the only major bill advanced so far.
A Washington County blaze destroyed a two story brick building killing two Hoberek children, Ricky Lee 1% and six month old Donald. Their mother saved another child and escaped with a third, while a woman in the adjacent unit also escaped. Police noted parents are separated and the children lived with their mother.
President Kennedy appeals to Congress to extend and expand the Civil Rights Commission and to push federal support for desegregation of public schools and protection of Black voting rights. He warns against partisan filibusters and outlines three civil rights bills: education, voting, and civil rights commission renewal.
WASHINGTON D C Democrats and Republicans clash as bipartisan foreign policy in Congress falters over Kennedy Cuba actions. The uproar follows Kennedy's October quarantine on arms to Cuba and Republican claims of being left out of predecisions, with leaders citing a dying unity in crisis moments.
Premier Khrushchev signals a possible Peking Moscow meeting to ease the split in world communism. He softens his tone after Red China demanded an apology and names Ciba along with North Viet Nam North Korea and East Germany as sides in the dispute. He asserts Moscow can aid any socialist country attacked while defending Cuba from imperialist pressure.
Mrs. Gladys Turben sues Tony and Mrs. Trebik in Erie County Court alleging she owned 40 cattle valued at 7,900 due to an oral labor-for-cattle agreement from 1956 to 1982. She claims the Trebiks refused her cattle after she left employment in 1962 and seeks either the herd or its value plus interest.
Corry YMCA conducts its annual business meeting Tuesday to elect and retire directors. Pictured left to right: Robert AL Of Jr, Mrs. Martin Keppel, Allen Dahlstrand, Dr. Bruce Summerville, Dr. James Thileitan, Louis Miller, Dr. J. Guy Butters, John I. Gastar Jr. Absent: Cilford Ruesink, J. G. Bennett, A. Brace Smith, ELF. Pain, William Pellier. New officers named: William A. Leaby president, Frank Sturwis vice president, Claire Porter secretary, Elwin Fuller treasurer.
Sparta man Pat Scouten, 36, of Spartansburg area, was cited for drunken driving after a two car crash near Northwest and West Church streets. He faced a preliminary hearing set for 2 p.m. tomorrow before Alderman Cobbett. Hull of Townville reported Scouten drove on the wrong side, with snowbank preventing avoidance. Damages listed as 150 for Hull and 20 for Scouten. Authorities noted Scouten underwent a medical exam and a alcohol test. bond set for Scouten to attend the hearing.
The new food plan starts tomorrow in Pittsburgh and Cambria County, with about 30,000 eligible families. Gov. Scranton's office announced the change, noting that benefits and eligibility details vary by income and family size. A separate note mentions a funeral in New Cumberland for R. Michenor, former president of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association.
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