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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1970
Page
4
Join us Saturday evening at the Corry Motor Inn for a strip steak dinner with a glass of sparkling burgundy at seven dollars per couple. Later, the Goldentones perform in the Foxhead Lounge for guests.
Vatican rejects the Dutch Pastoral Council recommendations as audacious after a 833 to 0 vote by Dutch priests and laymen urging priestly marriage and allowing married priests to perform functions. Vatican officials say no authority and note survey support for celibacy.
Mrs Ethel Rickers of 632 North Center street died at Corry Memorial Hospital after two years of ill health at 78. She taught in Concord Township and at Corry Junior High, retiring years ago. Funeral plans and burial set at Pine Grove Cemetery with Rev H Kenyon Leishman officiating. Also noted is the death of Mr Peter Tucki of Corry aged 68 who worked 43 years for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Service details and a Requiem Mass at St Thomas Church are listed, with burial in St Thomas Cemetery.
About 50,000 welfare checks scheduled for delivery today and Saturday will be held until next week due to late punch card production. Half the checks were set for today in Allegheny, Philadelphia, Fayette, Cambria and Huntingdon counties. the rest for Saturday in additional counties. Treasury said a one day delay this may not be possible given mail processing.
The News Today Report lists unable to summon a physician and provides emergency contact numbers for Corry Memorial Hospital and Corry Ambulance Service. It then gives admitted patients including Mrs. John Kingleski and Janis Gulick, with multiple other named individuals and addresses. Also notes discharges and a revenue update showing General Fund collections at $720.2 million for six months, about $87 million above estimates per Budget Secretary Maxwell.
State Senator James E. Willard announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for a second term in the 50th District. Representing Mercer Crawford and Southeastern Erie counties since 1966, he vows full-time service and emphasis on sound administration fiscal responsibility and pollution control. He chairs the Senate Banking Committee and leads a four state effort on Lake Erie pollution and related legislation.
Sgt Groth testifies he ordered cease fires three times during the Chicago raid that killed Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. Police, including 13 officers with a warrant to search for illegal weapons, faced gunfire from Hampton’s West Side apartment before the shooting resumed.
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