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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1968
Page
5
A night shooting near Seoul involved a South Korean official and two others as authorities traced a spy operation linked to a dissident group. Police said a curfew was imposed in three northern districts while the investigation continued into the motive and identities of those involved.
William Donaldson received a gift gavel from immediate past president Leroy Peck during the Kiwanis Club dinner at the Hotel Corry. Key Club officers Edward Swanson Robert Blain John Seitz and Paul Goodman attended as student guests. Donaldson spoke on Be a Builder Get Personally Involved and outlined six annual aims. Embert Earle delivered the invocation. INDIANOLA IOWA AP Student shooting in a dorm prompts weapon surrenders as deputies report indiscriminate firing against walls and mattresses. No charges yet, investigations continuing. MINISTER SUCCUMBS TO CENTENARIAN DEATH Retired Rev John Eden McVeigh dies at 100 in a Hazleton nursing home. long active in the North Central Conference.
James Scheiner, Crestline of Pennsylvania manager, will depart from Port Erie Airport for Cleveland then Milwaukee and on to Wausau Wisconsin, returning to Corry Sunday with wife Jean and children Jo, Jeri Ann, Janice, Jeffrey, Joseph, Julie, and Jay. The family will reside at 310 East South Street. Joanie studies nursing in Franklin, Pennsylvania. They plan to visit relatives in Chicago before arriving back in Corry.
In Sasebo Japan U S Navy sailors aboard the Enterprise and escort Truxton faced protests during a four day port visit. Demonstrators blocked taxis and pounded roofs as police restored order. Rabble rousers led to restricted shore leave reducing local economic spend by about 167000 dollars though 3000 leftist supporters rallied nearby. The Enterprise and Truxton were first nuclear surface ships to enter a Japanese port.
Corry Business and Professional Women’s Club will honor December Girl of the Month Christine Beck and January Girl of the Month Janet Cole at a 7:30 PM gathering in the Colonial Room of the Moose Lodge. Beck is a Corry Area High School senior active in Tri-Hi-Y, the Corrian Club and the Candy Stripers. Cole is a Corry senior and varsity cheerleader involved in Future Teachers of America, American Field Service and student government.
Dr Thomas A Gustin spoke to the College Women's Club at the YMCA about modern society's use and abuse of drugs. A Erie psychiatrist on the Hamot Hospital staff he outlined background, uses and abuses, and the program was well received. He is affiliated with St Mark's Seminary Sarah Reed Home and several medical associations. a Wooster and Pitt Medicine graduate with Army service in Hawaii. Mrs Ernest Thacker presided, January hospitality chair Mrs George Gould led the committee.
Apollo moon ship Lunar Module 1 performed near perfectly on its maiden flight from Cape Kennedy Florida on Monday. Officials said the successful test supports using the next lunar module in a deep space exercise early in 1969. A minor engine anomaly did not prevent mastery of the crucial ascent and extraction procedures for a lunar takeoff.
Seattle resident Helen Huebner scavenged through municipal waste with two neighbors and her son, hoping to recover a third ring lost in last week’s garbage. The jade dinner ring and the diamond wedding ring were recovered, both part of a $5,000 set. The third ring remains missing as crews finish the pickup.
Columbus Ohio AP a proud father places a personal ad in the Columbus Evening Dispatch announcing a boy born to Judy and Tim Carey and Amy. The payload Lunar Module 1 was launched from Cape Kennedy aboard a Saturn 1B rocket the same model involved in last year’s fatal Apollo fire. A bonus test dumped leftover propellant into orbit as astronauts plan to reuse expended stages as orbiting labs.
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