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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1976
Page
1
Students voiced discontent with the high school system urging back to basics in English and math while criticizing wasteful study halls. They proposed a separate junior high, a middle school, and a swimming pool, plus a smoke free area and better rest room privacy.
Joanne Wagner, 39, of Erie, seven months pregnant and mother of 12, died on a bus bound for Washington D.C. in what authorities termed natural causes. The death occurred as friends and supporters gathered for a protest urging a constitutional ban on abortion. Her husband and other family members were with her. autopsy results pending final determination.
The Corry Memorial Hospital board, after a Finance and Personnel Committee review, approved higher room and service rates. The hospital reportedly lost about $73,000 in the first six months of the current fiscal year, prompting the pricing changes.
Police report yesterday and today saw three-vehicle collision at East Columbus avenue and Sciota street when a tractor trailer slid and hit a following car. Damage totaled $400 to the Davis car. two other vehicles unscathed. Early today a parked car was struck on Worth and Duane streets. Weeks’ car damage $50 and Blount’s $150. A VanTassel car hit a Daniels car on East South street. damages $9 and $175. CMH hospital faces higher costs and tighter patient days as rates rise across multiple services to address deficits.
Hollywood Florida AP The Seminole Indians vote to accept a $16 million federal compensation for lands seized by U S troops. The payment covers much of the peninsula including Miami Beach Disney World and Cape Canaveral amid decades of claims dating to 1823 and 1840.
Columbus man Jack C. McCay fled his stalled car at a Bear Lake crossing just as an Erie Lackawanna freight train struck the rear of the vehicle. Corry state police report minimal car damage and no injuries. the crossing lacks gates or lights and the incident occurred around 7 p.m. McCoy gave no clear account of seeing the train before crossing.
In Zilwaukee Michigan rescue crews found a fourth body after a grain storage elevator blast at Farm Bureau Services injured ten and left one missing. Debris and concrete walls collapsed trapping workers. survivors endured hours in wreckage while cranes and a helicopter aided the search. The state fire marshal investigates the blast cause and the three dead were Saginaw men.
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