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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1977
Page
2
In a reflective note, publisher David M. Turner, once a legislator, announces retirement amid concerns that state spending has grown beyond taxpayers' ability to pay. He argues that government remains stuck in a pattern of spending followed by tax increases, and returns home with his views.
The speaker notes the leader may seek other public offices including federal county city township borough or school board posts. He suggests a repeat of a Harrisburg conclusion about spending to please everyone and urges citizens to resist. The rank and file citizen may soon face this issue at home.
Around October 1949 James Earl Ray embraced crime as a career, repeatedly robbed stores in vivid straw hats, with a deaf accomplice and a bold escape plan. He later pulled a Kroger heist in St Louis with James Owens and clerk Hazel Meyer, netting small cash and a manager’s larger take. He fled, was captured, and bragged of prison escapes.
Sylvia Porter notes four factors shaping any national health plan. Costs dominate as expenditures surge toward 223.4 billion by 1980, with Medicare and Medicaid rising and inflation consuming half of new health funding. Carter calls for cost and quality controls, prospective rate setting, rapid phasing in, and government reorganization to end bureaucratic fragmentation.
The new House Speaker Thomas P. O Neill backs a staged, funded program on health controls. Proposals focus on catastrophic insurance with prenatal and infant care, aiming for universal coverage with cost controls, and a gradual rollout possibly over 12 years.
A California federal court dismissal of a Time Inc. privacy suit against a Sports Illustrated article on body surfing signals a broad shift toward recognizing privacy encroachment as fair game when the subject is deemed newsworthy. The ruling follows prior decisions and reflects an evolving boundary between First Amendment press rights and individual privacy.
CBS veteran Walter Cronkite covers his eighth presidential inauguration while ABC’s Robert Trout, age 68, covers his 12th. The piece recalls Trout reporting the 1933 inaugural parade and notes the evolving press landscape for such events.
CBS and ABC report on the 1977 inauguration coverage and a veteran broadcaster recounts covering Roosevelt’s 1933 parade from a blimp high over Washington. He recalls nervous moments, career moves, and shifts in broadcast style amid Carter era preparations and live network plans.
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