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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1966
Page
4
Spot Line-O-Ads reports an important meeting of the Corry Council of Republican Women. The group will gather Tuesday January 18 at 8 p.m. at the Grange Hall to elect officers. Local members urged to attend.
Hospital notices list admissions in Corry area including Mrs Clara Hein and several others at North Clymer and surrounding streets. The body of Miss Dixon was found. coroner states she was strangled with no sexual assault. Butler confessed to fleeing Jersey City in employer's car, stealing $800, and traveling to Philadelphia then Portland. Public notices include a Line O Ad with local prices for boots and shoe store ads.
A 22 year old Jersey City man William H. Butler confessed to strangling Barbara Jean Dixon, leaving her body along a desert road east of Boise Idaho. Butler told Chicago police he met Dixon on a bus ride to Portland and killed her after a troubled relationship.
In Corry Pennsylvania the notice lists post office handling as second class mail. Rates: $100 per year, $11.00 per year by mail, ten cents per copy, sixty cents per week. Ad rates available on request by deadline. Publication date October 0 smn.
Final rites for Mrs Clyde Lucy Courtwright are set for 3 p m Tuesday at Spitzer Funeral Home Clymer with burial in Holland Cemetery Clymer. Friends may call Monday 2–4 and 7–9 p m at the Spitzer Funeral Home. The funeral for Mrs Fred Gertrude Damcott is Tuesday at 1 p m at Abbe Reformed Church Clymer followed by burial in Clymer Center Cemetery with visitation Monday 2–4 and 7–9 p m at Spitzer Funeral Home.
Mary K. King 77 of Gordonville was killed when a horse drawn buggy overturned on a curve near Intercourse Pennsylvania yesterday. She was thrown from the buggy and died at the scene. A neighbor reported the crash and authorities investigated the mishap.
In a taped Pennsylvania debate, Senator Clark says the Vietnam situation is worse than most know and urges flexibility for Johnson to seek negotiations. Senator Scott backs giving Johnson every chance for peace but warns escalation or deferral of Great Society programs if talks fail.
Kane Area Union School District members approved a change in athletic policy allowing a more liberal penalty clause for training-rule infractions. A one year varsity suspension may in certain cases be waived to permit the pupil to participate in other varsity sports.
Norristown, Pa. Alfred W. Northacker was found guilty Saturday night of voluntary manslaughter in the Oct. 20 fatal shooting of Early Hookway, 39, in Hookway's estranged wife’s Norristown apartment. He faces six to 12 years in prison.
Fred Clark led the day with a 583 series as locals enjoyed a steak supper at the lodge. The Corry Elks teams will head to Warren for a return engagement on February 20.
The local Elks lodge defeated the Warren lodge in bowling and billiards yesterday afternoon and evening. Paul Clark organized the bowling team while Gordon Brynolfson and Melvin McElroy led the billiard squad.
Vatican sources indicate Pope Paul VI may name new cardinals in about ten days. Archbishop John J. Kroll of Philadelphia is among six Americans under consideration for elevation.
Local shop Lathrop Electric advertises boat and appliance repairs with contact options and service notes. The fragmentary notice mentions repair work and a phone-like call to action.
The Senate Banking Committee voted unanimously to approve President Johnson’s nomination of Robert C. Weaver to head the new Department of Housing and Urban Development. Weaver, a former head of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, would be the first Black cabinet member. The panel also backed Prof. Robert C. Wood to be undersecretary.
Philadelphia police seek burglars who stole 14 978 dollars from a South Philadelphia food market using a 12 foot rope to gain entry and exit. The owner Harry Lit a 65 year old butcher reported the crime after arriving for work. Police say thieves cut a hole in the roof and ceiling.
Johnny Broderick, long dubbed the world’s toughest cop for his Broadway beat and Prohibition era battles, died at 70 in Orange County. The ex NYPD detective served until 1947 and was once bodyguard to President Roosevelt. He earned respect from police and public after a famed one punch KO of gangster Legs Diamond on Broadway.
Harold Spellman Russell, cofounder and director of Henry Miller Spring and Manufacturing Co., Sharpsburg, Pa, died in Chicago on Saturday as a rope escape was attempted after a safe was opened.
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