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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1965
Page
2
A jeep collided with a train at a crossing near Corry. Firefighters battled a jeep fire while search teams and police examined the tracks for victims. Spectators gathered as identification proceeded and hospital alerts were issued.
Communist China said it shot down an unmanned American reconnaissance plane over central southern China, via Radio Peking. Tokyo monitors reported the claim with no further details, noting this followed a similar November 15 incident.
President Johnson notes steel price increases while praising Americans in military, diplomatic, and peacetime services. He meets officials during a two week ranch stay, works on the budget, and reviews the foreign situation with Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Budget progress is about 90 percent, with a 7 to 10 day remaining. He flags January congressional dates for the State of the Union, budget, and economic report.
The snippet lists residents in various local addresses including 39 East Street and 550 East South Street with names such as John Buettkofer and Perry F Parker and notes a Pittsburgh Labor Market report. Employment in the Pittsburgh area was 866000 in November, up 1300 from October and 23100 from last year, marking the fourcounty area as moderately unemployed per a state Bureau of Employment Security update.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr plans to speak in Selma to launch a large Negro voter registration drive across Alabama. The event tests a state court injunction against mass meetings. federal involvement questions enforceability. SCLC says overall Alabama has 35 percent Black voting-age population but only about 10 percent of Black adults eligible to vote. The drive spans roughly six months across several counties with federal court involvement noted.
Youngsville coroner ordered the removal of bodies to Bracken Funeral Home by Corry Ambulance Service pending transfer to Sage Funeral Home in Tidioute.
County Tax Office expects a $40,000 rise in receipts from 1964 level but total real estate assessment for 1965 would climb to about $290.998 million. At 12 mills the levy yields $9.492 million, at 1 mill $3.201 million, leaving a shortfall. Welfare workers switch to civil service saves $23,000. hospital revenues may rise, but budgets and salary increases counter gains.
Hollywood mourns Gertrude Michael a 1930s film star who died Thursday aged 53. She co starred in Farmer Sailor Be Good Last Outpost and Sophie Lang before leaving and returning in 1950 as a character actress.
The Herald reports Sukarno weighs UN withdrawal as a path to shed plebiscite obligation on West Irian. Malaysia’s Security Council seat seen as partial context to Indonesia’s plan, with West Irian’s status tied to a mediation between Indonesia and the Netherlands. West Irian became an Indonesian province in 1963 after interim rule.
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