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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1970
Page
2
An opinion urges stiffer auto insurance premiums and higher registration fees based on horsepower to curb dangerous hot rods. It warns of deadly high speed crashes and argues ownership should not be a reckless sport. The piece notes the law requiring clearer loan charges yet questions consumer understanding of finance costs.
Compounding confusion in credit bookkeeping leaves borrowers frustrated by unreconciled payments and lingering interest. Editors warn card holders face messy records as merchants vary in applying payments and discounts. Case in Montebello shows cash discounts ignored by credit oriented stores. The piece also laments booming bank cards and looser controls that push lending risk onto customers.
New York AP report notes TV documentaries turning to antique car photos and 1900s to 1927 eras. ABC's The Golden Age of the Automobile blends restored models with period costumes and sociological notes, highlighting self starters and emancipation links to women.
The narrator recalls being part of The Lost Generation, rebellious teens who flirted with bohemian life in the Jazz Age. They describe flapper fashions, speakeasies, wild dancing, smoking, free love, and readings by Fitzgerald and Joyce, contrasting parents’ piety with their own unruly citadel of youth. The piece ends noting they revolted against adults yet later became ordinary adults.
AP reports a humorous look at life in an office hierarchy where the vice president is mocked as second best and overly dependent on the president. The piece uses witty quips about Tiswell and office politics to illustrate the pale shadow of VP status.
Corry suffered property damage estimated in the hundreds as winds up to seventy miles per hour buffeted the city overnight. Tonight Elks Dance features Harry Summers orchestra from Watten and a one hour floor show by George Bailey of Freeport. Tomorrow at 3 15 pm the Corry Legion Rockets face the Jamestown Vikings at the State Armory, with a preliminary between the Legion Rockets B team and Albion. 40 years ago notes recall Eagle street sewer work clearing, and a school finance chart shows 58 cents of every dollar spent went to instruction.
Washington column details a powerful mutual fund lobby opposing SEC reforms. It cites millions in investor fees, backroom tactics, and a push for self regulation to blunt protections for five million shareholders and pension fund owners. It notes SEC chair Budge’s criticisms and congressional resistance amid reform efforts.
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