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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1967
Page
1
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CHICAGO AP A spectacular blaze destroyed a large part of McCormick Place with estimated losses from 20 to 100 million dollars. No injuries reported as firefighters battled the 15 degree fire. Officials blamed water supply limits and noted the hall opened in 1960.
Weekend police activity centered on a domestic disturbance as Claude A Weingard aged 23 of 718 West Main street attacked his wife at the Italian American Club crowd and was fined for disorderly conduct after waiving a hearing. A second call to a Lemon street rooming house reported a drunken roomer causing a racket.
Senate leaders debate tax relief and space program cuts as a path to trimming government spending. Dirksen argues space funding could be trimmed while Long calls spending cuts essential to tax reform. Five freshmen Republicans say Vietnam war financing complicates any tax increase. Government data show 1966 GDP at 789.5 billion with 36 percent from inflation and rising inventories signaling possible downturn. FNMA policy reviews rise as Patman and Barrett urge Congress to examine housing finance support.
Franklin sports figure Joseph J. Fonzo died of a heart attack after collapsing while watching his son Joseph Fonzo of Venango Christian during a Venango Christian St. Agatha’s High School basketball game at St. Agatha’s gym. St. Agatha’s won 72-70 after a missed foul shot could have forced a third overtime. Fonzo died at Spencer Hospital shortly after being rushed by Meadville Ambulance Service.
Washington AP lawyers debate dismissal of charges against Bobby Baker over covert bugging. Trial enters second week with Baker charged in income tax evasion larceny conspiracy and related offenses. Williams argues March 25 1965 interception breached rights. prosecutors say Bromley sought protection from grand jury testimony.
About 170 youngsters gathered yesterday at Corry Area High School for voluntary rehearsal ahead of the Northwestern Pennsylvania Music Educators Chorus Festival in Corry this week. More than 200 high school singers will participate in the Thursday through Saturday event. Singers will arrive Thursday morning and be taken from the high school by car to local homes for a three day stay.
City Council weighs accepting the sole valid bid from Superior Refuse Co. of Pittsburgh at 48000 dollars yearly for the garbage contract under a new compulsory ordinance. A protest effort seeks to force the ordinance to a council vote via petitions needing 100 signatures and 20 percent of last mayoral voters. Tonight’s session focuses on bid validity and petition procedure after a special session on the bids last week.
A spokesman for Senator Robert F Kennedy said an agreement has been reached with author William Man and Mrs John F Kennedy over publication of The Death of President The lawyers for both sides will seek a consent decree in the suit. Police in Pittsburgh investigated the death of Essie Moore 42 found slain in her Rankin apartment with a butcher knife.
A Vietnamese boy carries his dog and a small sack as he prepares to leave his home village of Ben Suc near the Iron Triangle. Up to 10,000 villagers are to be moved from villages like Ben Suc, population about 3,200. The area has been a Viet Cong stronghold and the villages will be destroyed with residents resettled in a refugee village.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk faces sharp questions from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Vietnam policy as he is set to defend bombing targets in North Vietnam. Critics including J. William Fulbright and Mike Mansfield press for clearer aims while Republicans split on continuation. A prior public hearing yielded heated exchanges. In other notes, five freshman Republican senators favor bombing, while Dirksen warns against rushing to an endgame. Also, 19 year old David Larry Graham of East Liverpool, Ohio, dies in a crash near New Cumberland, West Virginia.
Troopers Elmer Schifke and Richard Wargo of the Corry State Police substation investigated a call about a shining object with antennas west of Corry. A closer look revealed a large burning tree casting an intense glare, visible for miles, with Elgin-Beaverdam volunteers extinguishing the blaze.
Boston AP report describes Marine Walter Lopata, wounded in Viet Cong ambush, greeting reporters with Hello, how are you? after a two-stage operation at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Doctors fashioned a tube and valve from neck tissue, enabling speech without a voice box for the first time. Surgeons say the method is a complete success but not yet widely used, and it could help about 70 percent of cancer patients who lose their larynx.
US supersonic jets attacked the Ha Gia fuel storage area 14 miles from Hanoi, the deepest strike near the capital since the civilian-casualty controversy. American bombers also hit targets 15 to 40 miles north and northwest of Hanoi amid light to heavy ground fire. Eight Americans were killed when a Chinook helicopter was shot down in the Mekong Delta. In the delta, South Vietnamese Rangers claimed 74 Viet Cong killed near a government camp linked to a prior massacre, while Vietnamese officials reported 44 Vietnamese prisoners killed by the Viet Cong.
Corry State Police investigated a snowmobile theft from a truck at Sciota Inn on Corry Clymer road reported at 2 a m Saturday. Weekend also saw three accidents near Elgin and Spring Creek with two at West Main street extension causing and property damage and minor injuries.
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