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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1963
Page
6
The Meadville area hotel reported a net loss of 30912 on 333267 income for the year. The report notes a five percent improvement from 1961, despite revenue declines, with an operating profit of 35197 before depreciation interest taxes and amortization, which totaled 66109 leaving the net loss.
Reports say Syria facing threats of force from a republican government against British troops aiding Yemeni royalist forces in Ariabian Red Sea area. In Vatican City Pope John XXIII urged Catholics to prayers and penance for the Vatican Council’s success guiding Lent, as defense ministers noted at a reception marking the seventh anniversary of the East German state.
West Berlin police report a 21 year old private first class patrolling the wall slipped his submachine gun to the other side and crawled across before colleagues could react. In London, most of Tristan da Cunha volcano refugees plan to return next fall per Britain's colonial office as the Danish ship Bornholm will repatriate island residents.
A Pomona General Dynamics missile test area exploded injuring twelve people, five seriously. A witness said it “blew the hell out of the test area” during testing of a tactical missile. Injured workers were treated at Pomona Valley Community Hospital.
Warren police tied 16 local students ages 12 to 16 to a shoplifting outbreak at Warren Area High School and Beaty Junior High School. Six boys and ten girls confessed to taking jewelry cosmetics radios and clothing over a year, with cosmetics most popular. Some items were recovered. others used or discarded.
Kennedy urged Congress to extend the life of civil rights measures and expand a national clearinghouse to aid agencies. He pressed voting rights, proposed interim referees to judge voter qualifications, and sought federal rules barring different tests while presuming literacy for those with sixth grade education.
Bell Telephone Laboratories reports Telstar, the space relay satellite, has not answered Earth commands for a week. The device, launched last July, previously failed in November but was restarted in January. The malfunction mirrors earlier trouble with the international communications satellite.
The White House bomb shelter is being modernized with an estimated cost around 500000. Andrew T. Hatcher, assistant press secretary, confirmed the work is well under way. The underground shelter, first built during World War II for Franklin D. Roosevelt, was improved under Eisenhower.
The speaker notes six graders literacy for voting and calls on legislatures to join 13 states in ratifying the proposed 24th Amendment banning poll taxes. He lacks employment anti discrimination legislation but exerts pressure on unions to curb discrimination, hoping legal action would reduce the need for new laws.
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