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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1967
Page
1
Classified fragments show rentals rooms apartments and small sale items with contact numbers and partial addresses. Entries mention upstairs rentals, furnished rooms, a near electric gas area, various phone contacts, and miscellaneous metal or hardware references alongside incomplete street details.
Willis Brown of 318 West Church street nailed an intruder in his attic to stop him. Police freed the door. Donald L. Johnson of Corry was fined 25 dollars or 20 days for disorderly conduct and later charged with unlawful entry for December 24 at Fran and Jim’s Confectionery. Johnson remained in custody after an attempted payment failure.
Washington AP Congress shifts focus to Vietnam as CIA chief Helms testifies in a closed Senate session, with Rusk set to brief in a public hearing next week. Mansfield calls Hanoi remarks peace indicators while Lodge Ford and Laird press the administration to define Southeast Asia objectives, as partial excerpts surface from TV interviews.
Helene Christensen a Corry Area High School junior becomes the first local student selected for a full year abroad under the American Field Service program. She will attend school in New Zealand after leaving Buffalo for Los Angeles to fly to the Down Under.
In Columbus, Ohio, Delaware County sheriff's corporal Al Williams linked a missing person report to a discovered submerged car at Hoover Reservoir. The vehicle reportedly carried Mary Rutherford, her husband Charles, eight children and four nieces. A motorist's tip about a broken guard rail spurred the investigation, though the guard rail had been repaired. Sludge from the ice and an oil slick suggested a fatal swim. The case evolved after Williams rechecked the guard rail and evidence.
The Supreme Court weighs the legality of delaying the $6 billion Pennsylvania New York Central merger as three smaller railroads contest the deal. The ICC must decide on protections for Erie Lackawanna, Delaware and Hudson, and Boston & Maine, which seek to join Norfolk and Western. Fourteen lawyers set to argue, marking a major single-case hearing.
Two Corry teenagers Arnold McCaslin 18 and Paul Adams 17 face new charges after earlier liquor law citations. Adams threw beer from a car while McCaslin, the driver, was cited for allowing the act. They also face counts for possessing and transporting malt beverages. A reckless driving report preceded the incident as police chased the car on West Bend Street. Adams fled on Mead Avenue but later surrendered.
A Viet Cong sympathizer captured by U S paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade pleads for mercy after being taken from a village near Bien Hoa north of Saigon. He, his two children, and 400 pounds of captured rice were helicoptered to Bien Hoa and handed to Vietnamese authorities.
In Saigon, Viet Cong fire downed a U S Dragon plane killing all seven aboard, one of two Dragons lost in the war. In the Mekong Delta the Viet Cong sank the dredge Jamaica Bay with two civilians dead and one missing. The attack near My Tho and shelling of a British tanker plus two Vietnamese minesweepers marked limited ground action amid bad weather hampering air operations. Civilians, including 10 Vietnamese children, were used as human shields and then fired upon by advancing Rangers.
In Washington Democrats voted to remove Rep. Adam Clayton Powell as chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee after a closed caucus. Rep. Carl D. Perkins would become chairman, with Udall promising to press the transfer. The action follows investigations into Powell’s travel card use and a libel judgment.
Erie police said an arrest at Stroup's Service Station involved a girl initially identified as 18 year old Shirley Ann Higby of 218 East Main Street. Further checks revealed the suspect is 15, not Higby, and not the address. The missing Erie teen has been sought since October. Investigation continues on an Erie angle.
York Pa AP reports a continuing garbage strike as 55 workers walk out over wages. City council sought an early solution, had planned a bid from a pirate contractor but did not act. Optimism for action persisted though details remained vague. Sloan Foundation grants total 7.6 million to twenty colleges to boost science teaching for liberal arts students.
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