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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1968
Page
1
A compact notice page lists real estate brokers with multiple phone numbers including 668 6015 739 2252 663 2832 and 365 6231, plus 72 i NELL ESTATE and SOL19 references, indicating classified ads for properties and agent contacts.
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SAN ANTONIO AP President Johnson signs measures expanding Social Security benefits and federal education aid, calling them core to his Great Society. A separate foreign aid bill imposes tight limits amid expectations of welfare system reform. The education plan totals 9.3 billion, benefits rise at least 19 percent for 24 million. Minimum checks up to 55 dollars, maximum to 160.50, average up per month for couples. Medicare gains include more hospital days and looser earnings rules with no benefit cuts.
NORCO Calif AP about 280 narcotics addicts interned at the state rehabilitation center seized control burning buildings and stoning guards until massed law officers quelled the riot Six officers were injured five rioters wounded one fatally damage estimated 250000 at the California Rehabilitation Center 60 miles east of Los Angeles 51 inmates shipped to the California Reception and Guidance Center in Chino cause undetermined a day later officials said no evidence of liquor narcotics or race involved. ATTACK FATAL NEW VERNON NJ Dr Andrew James Swede Oberlander 62 former Dartmouth football star and Hall of Fame member died of a heart attack Monday He was a head football coach at Wesleyan University while attending Yale Medical School.
Montgomery Ward catalog store on South Center street was burgled last night. Entry was by breaking a glass pane and reaching in to open a rear door latch. The theft yielded less than $20 in change from the cash drawer. manager Floyd Hockenberry and his wife reported the drawer contained only coins and nothing else missing. Police Chief Frank Carnegie said an inventory will confirm whether anything else was stolen.
The quadrennial patronage shift at the Erie County courthouse leaves Republicans with the top jobs while Democrats lose posts. Thomas M. Zelasky, once head of the aging bureau at $8,000 yearly, is ousted as the bureau moves under the Erie County Hospital. Democratic aide John Wagner also removed in the reorganizing shakeup.
A Crawford County man, Stanley Leroy Calvin, 98, of Atlantic, died from carbon monoxide after his car became stuck in soft dirt on County Line road. State police say the exhaust clogged, the engine ran, and the driver was found motionless in the auto after a neighbor alerted authorities. Calvin was single and had wed with his parents.
Union City principal Wells Stockwell and his wife and children escaped injury when their car stalled on the Erie Lackawanna crossing on Main Street as the gate began to lower. Stockwell, of R D 3 Titusville, backed to safety minutes before the collision. the car sustained minor damage and the family continued their trip.
City accepted Leland Crosscut of Corry bid to demolish the former Starr Memorial Works on East Washington street as a step toward creating more off street parking. Council previously approved a 13000 loan to cover buying razing and lot costs. Crosscut bid 1200 for demolition, about half of the rival Union City firm. City engineer negotiating with Corry James town Corporation for alley shifts to gain about 10 extra feet for parking space.
CAPE TOWN AP Dr Philip Blaiberg the world's third heart transplant patient was doing very well today a hospital spokesman said The 16 year old retired dentist regained consciousness Tuesday night and in his first words since the operation he said I am thirsty Please give my regards to my wife The heart beating inside the white dentist's chest belonged to Clive Haupt 24 a mulatto but there was no objection from apartheid's chief defender Prime Minister Vorster said I am very glad to hear that the operation was successful Dr Christian Barnard head of the surgical team said the operation Tuesday went as well as the epochal first transplant on Louis Washkansky perhaps a little better since we didn't have to shock the heart Barnard said He was cheered by spectators journalists when he came out of Groote Schuur Hospital after the five hour operation and many shook his hand The mulatto donor died of a brain hemorrhage after a stroke while playing rugby with his wife and friends The neighbor recalled Clive Haupt had followed Louis Washkansky's progress since the first transplant last month
A Philadelphia couple who married in 1948 has lost their tenth child, Arthur J Noe, shortly after his mother rushed him to St Christopher's Hospital for Children. Investigators probe a pattern of infant deaths with 90 living children in the family. Catherine Ellen died at 14 months after Catherine, another child who died suddenly months earlier, leaving no clues from the medical examiner.
Thousands of delinquent books were returned to the Chicago Public Library on Amnesty Day. The program allowed overdue volumes to be turned in without the usual fines, helping borrowers with long overdue items regain access to library services.
Communist raiders struck the Da Nang American base with a 10 minute rocket barrage damaging aircraft and wounding four Americans. Three planes were destroyed and 23 damaged as attacks also hit two district towns and three outposts within 15 miles.
A service station owner joined Titusville police at 3 40 am today to confront burglars. He armed himself and entered the building capturing two suspects in the act of ransacking the station.
Fires Tuesday night leveled Allentown Elementary Center south wing injuring nine firefighters and damaged Honey Moon Haven in Dingmans Ferry. A Pike County resort two story building housed dining and staff quarters, with two workers missing believed trapped on the second floor. About 60 firefighters battled subzero conditions as guests were relocated. Police also reported a Titusville burglary with three men captured. suspects faced hearings. A San Francisco police blotter notes a fishing burglary using improvised gear to nab thousands in women’s apparel.
Officials say 236 residents of Dunreith may return home once a deadly chemical is removed from a damaged tank car in a wreck involving two freight trains. The blast damaged buildings, and a team works 8 to 10 hours to move acetone cyanohydrin to a tanker. Some townspeople stay with relatives or in motels. Poison possibly leaked into Buck Creek and water supplies. officials sample the creek and nearby river to assess contamination.
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