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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1966
Page
4
The Corry Rod and Gun Club hosts a Thursday evening meeting on January 6 at 7 30 p m to plan the year and start an indoor league with junior members sought. Other notes list discharges and local ads as well as wartime dispatches from Saigon and Da Nang.
Reports from Vietnam detail a continuing operation named Jefferson across 12 miles south of Vay Hoa. Korean and Vietnamese forces captured 147 suspects, including many women and children, believed used as spies. U.S. raids persisted, with B52 strikes 70 miles northwest of Saigon as a large tunnels complex was targeted and some cash and guerrilla payroll items recovered.
A Los Angeles savings and loan fraud scheme ties 33 000 to executives Bromley and Baker with illegal tax concealment and 67 000 taken by felonious conversion. Former Nevada lieutenant governor Clifford Jones faces three perjury counts for alleged false jury statements. Johnson’s aide Baker, once Democratic secretary, is named in conspiracy but not indicted. White House silent.
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP a new era in long range weather forecasting this month with the launch of the first of several satellites forming a full time forecasting network. TOS 1 will be launched late January with TOS 2 about a month later. Nimbus B will arrive in late 1967 or early 1968 enabling forecasts two to four weeks in advance. One TOS satellite will aid local forecasts while another sends data to headquarters for worldwide predictions.
Gov. Scranton announced that Pennsylvania’s average unemployment rate for 1965 was 4.4 percent, lower than the national 4.8 percent, marking the first time the state’s figure has topped the national rate since such figures began. The statement was released Wednesday.
Anatol Slavinski a 25 year old Polish interpreter for the International Control Commission said he defected from Saigon to the United States fearing for his life after overhearing Polish military officers plot to remove him. He described his Saigon posting as an introduction to life in the free world and noted he read Western magazines which strengthened his resolve. When he sought refuge at a Saigon police station near New Year police from Vietnam refused to turn him over to the Polish delegation.
Joseph B. Dobbs, defeated for reelection as Allegheny County coroner last November, was appointed to a $10,140 job as assistant director of Greater Pittsburgh Airport. The appointment was announced yesterday by the county commissioners.
Santa Monica California. An unemployed machinist, Eugene K. Van Denburgh, 26, was arraigned in Superior Court on a charge linked to the December 11 shooting death of his 9 year old daughter Elizabeth Marie after attempting to shoot a tangerine from her head. Deputy Public Defender Eli Powell entered motions to reduce the charge to involuntary manslaughter. Judge Edward R. Brand set January 12 for a hearing on the motions, with Van Denburgh held without bail at the County Jail. The complaint states Elizabeth was shot in the forehead and died about nine hours later after the dad reportedly urged her to stretch the trick like William Tell.
In Miami a 12 year old Cuban refugee named Jose Gonzalez received a $108 electric guitar from President Johnson for Christmas. Marshall Wise of the Cuban Refugee Center handed the gift, funded by the Cuban Christmas Benefit Committee, after Jose asked the president for such a gift in a letter seeking work and money for his family.
The Corry Evening Journal lists staff roles including Publisher George R. Sample and City Editor Allen Hasbrouck. It notes advertising agents Bottinelli Rimballi and associates, with information on office locations in New York Chicago Detroit Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Subscription rates appear as 13.00 yearly, 11.00 prepay, and 0.60 per copy with a 9 a.m. advertising deadline.
Washington AP Ros a Magee a Ku Klux Klan leader and Bogalusa Louisiana area figure refused to answer questions before the House Un American Activities Committee. Magee a former vice principal and basketball coach cited the 1st 4th 6th and 14th amendments as he stood with his lawyer offering only his age and birthplace. The committee chair Ed Roybal floated possible new laws to curb masked gatherings prohibit organized threats of violence and require Klansmen to register as Communists are now supposed to do.
Joseph C. Diddinger Jr., 22, son of a Philadelphia architect, was found dead after falling from a third-floor window at the Boston Army base while awaiting a pre induction physical. Medical examiner Dr. Michael A. Luongo called it presumptively accidental with no witnesses. Diddinger's father resides in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania.
California Republican Ori Hosmer accuses the Atomic Energy Commission of bungling the site selection for the nation's 200 billion electron volt accelerator. He calls to cancel current proceedings and restart the process.
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