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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1966
Page
7
Beginning Jan 1 Social Security taxes rise for 72 million workers to finance elderly health benefits under the Medicare program. About 5.5 million employers match employee contributions. The increase aims to add 2.6 billion dollars in 1966 funds. Self employed persons with 5.5 million to start higher rates in 1967.
In Philadelphia a judge accepted a guilty plea to aggravated assault from Calvin Jones 33 avoiding a murder charge after medical testimony showed the victim Sara Tolbert 23 died from a blood disease hours after the beating. The case stemmed from a June 1963 incident in which Tolbert was beaten with a rubber hose in Jones car during a lovers quarrel. The district attorney called the medical findings extraordinary and linked the beating to her death while Jones awaits sentencing after psychiatric evaluation.
County aides and other officials, excluding commissioners, gain a 15 dollar daily boost for one annual convention. A new law lets them spend unlimited convention funds and receive 35 dollars per day for five days plus 10 cents per mile for travel. Scranton must sign a broader county pay raise by February 2. For Erie County, raises apply to 1967 elected officials from January 1, 1968, to 1970 after the 1969 elections, with judges effective January 1, 1967.
Mrs. Booth Tarkington, 95, widow of the two time Pulitzer Prize winning Indian a novelist, died yesterday in Indianapolis. She had been ill since last summer.
Members of the Lou Menies School will join the Warren County School Board at 8 p m in the Warren County courthouse to discuss building plans and other mutual concerns as the interim group prepares to become the Warren School Board after July 1. Dr. Thomas K Barratt, named first superintendent of the new unit, works on facets of the unified program with current Warren Area Schools duties.
John Malush Jr., a 35 year old Pittsburgh salesman, received 86500 in an out of court settlement two years after a car crash. He claimed back and neck injuries from a collision with an Armour and Co truck in Pittsburgh West End on December 9, 1983, ahead of a planned civil trial.
Dr. W. D. Stewart says about 11 hepatitis cases in Pleasantville with health officials testing spring water as a possible source. A school in the Pleasantville Elementary District reports two to three cases and certain classrooms and the library have been fumigated or closed to prevent spread.
A group of over 50 tourists, largely women, led by Capt. Finn Ronne, heads toward Antarctica. Among them is 83 year old Mrs. Bessielind Sweeney of Washington. They fly to Buenos Aires to join scientists aboard Argentina’s naval research ship Patia.
A 2 year old man, Arthur Huff of Youngstown, was shot in the chest and killed as he fled police serving an assault warrant. Patrolman David Bole confronted Huff at a rear window while another officer served the warrant at the front. Huff allegedly grabbed the officer s weapon barrel twice during a struggle. The incident occurred at Huff s apartment rear.
A federal court jury awarded 95 000 to the family of Donald W. Powell Sr. of Wexford for an August 1962 fatal accident at U S Steel Duquesne Works when a crane boom touched a high tension wire. The verdict names John Mohr & Sons Inc and U S Steel as defendants.
An Agriculture Department survey shows U S farms fell 3 percent from 1959 to 1960. Jan 1 totals dropped to 3,286,000 from 3,380,000 a year earlier, with the 1935 peak cited at 6,812,000.
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