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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1967
Page
3
A garbled OCR fragment mentions a person named Sid and a “ward” with references to a temporary state and a body. It includes scattered phrases about years, money, a child, and a signed symbol, but lacks coherent events or identifiable context.
Albert DeSalvo known as the Boston strangler has filed a request in Middlesex Superior Court for a new trial on assault burglary and robbery convictions not tied to the killings. The motion argues errors in insanity guidance and evidentiary predominance, noting psychiatrists linked him to 13 killings. Police say there is insufficient evidence to charge any suspect with the murders.
Sheriff D E Allen Jr and Deputy James C Peterson returned a Gypsy man to Warren County for trial. George Andrew Voitus faces charges of false pretense uttering false notes forgery and conspiracy tied to checks from a fictitious construction company. Voitus will be tried next week as criminal juries are to be chosen Monday.
Two 20 year old girls from Springfield Ohio share identical top grades after nearly three years at the University of Michigan School of Nursing. They have lived apart yet maintained equal academic standing and independence.
A detailed YMCA calendar covers Monday through Saturday events in Union City and surrounding areas. It lists board luncheon, swim meets, coed and high school activities, TOPS classes, sewing circles, dances, and family swims with times and locations. The schedule also notes sauna hours and a county courthouse item about Wausau plant operations in Corry and a separate fatal car incident in Marchand, Punxsutawney.
Berkeley headlines detail President Clark Kerr's dismissal by the UC Regents in a heated budget dispute. Kerr blamed partisan politics after the 14 to 8 vote ousting him from his 45000-dollar post. Reagan and Mrs. Hearst defended the move amid campus tensions and calls for university autonomy.
The Pennsylvania Bar Association urges the General Assembly to adopt a new penal code abolishing the M Naughton Rule and declaring defendants insane if unable to control actions. The plan consolidates murder and manslaughter into criminal homicide with distinct subcategories and keeps insanity for dangerous patients. The vote supported a constitutional convention with nonpartisan delegate elections.
Justice Charles Marks sentenced the defendant to 30 to 40 years after a guilty plea to first degree rape. McGinley urged dismissal of homicide charges citing eight other potential witnesses and a Supreme Court decision. Wright described in 41 pages the killings and stab wounds with motive stated as sex. Marks granted dismissal with reluctance.
The university leader Kerr resisted stepping down amid regents' push to trim the higher education budget from 278 million to 192 million. Since his tenure began, the system expanded from seven campuses with 43,000 students to nine campuses and 87,000 students, becoming the nation's largest university system.
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