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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1966
Page
1
HR Elwin Fuller, receiver, reports 1965 city income tax receipts totaled about $204,491, up from 1964 and $10,743 above 194. Residents earned over $20 million, with city receiving 52 percent and the school district 48 percent. Continued on page six.
The Public Utility Commission considers changes to save money for Russell and Sugar Grove customers. A base rate area would expand in Russell, saving about 1,115 annually for 76 customers on Cider Mill Road Liberty Main Streets and Old Routes. Zone rates would save 3,012 for 112 Russell customers, with 10 more gaining 0.5 by inclusion.
A heated meeting questioned who controls the earned income levy collection. Mayor Willem Peiffer appeared to lack a contract with the income tax committee, while three committee members disputed his authority. School Director Robert Ott noted the group had made no progress. The situation hinges on Fuller’s three year contract and the solicitor’s ruling on contract authority, with continuation promised on Page Three.
A blustery week brings heavy snow to the region. Four more inches fell, raising ground totals to 19 and January snow to 56 inches. Blowing snow and icy roads caused multiple crashes, including a two car collision in Blooming Valley killing a 44 year old woman. police report limited movement to emergency and plows while main roads stay open.
A local man was one of two sentenced to the rarely used week end jail term by Judge Thomas Barber in Erie County court. Corry was sentenced to 3 months in Erie County prison and fined 100 after he pled guilty to leaving the scene of an accident. Ree jeree means ors. Will report to the prison every Saturday at 4 pm and day mornings. After February 26th, Frank Liebel will recommend either continued week end imprisonment or parole for Ayers. Liebel said the week end terms to give a man a taste of jail but let him continue not at his job. Ayers sentence was the result of a two car crash at West Church and Union streets on November 27th. Ayers was driving a car owned by another man when it struck a car driven by Janice L Fellows of Warren Ohio. After the crash Ayers led. The Warren woman appeared at the police station here to report the crash and then left. Officer Charles Lutton then left the station to see if he could locate the car. Minutes later he did and the owner told Lutton Ayers had been the driver. Sutton then took off in pursuit of the Ohio woman and caught up with her, bringing her back to straighten out the affair. Ayers was charged and pled guilty at a hearing here and was bound over to court.
Allied drives encounter heavy Viet Cong fire as U S forces push toward Bong Son and Route 1. First Cavalry and 101st Airborne report intense clashes with no immediate casualties. Air Force bomber crashes. pilot rescued. Since Operation Masher began three days ago, Viet Cong losses amount to 37 killed and six captured, marking the campaign’s first major engagement with guerrillas.
President Johnson met with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and Joint Chiefs chair General Earle Wheeler to discuss ending the North Vietnam bombing halt. Officials say the 36 day pause has not yielded hopeful response from Hanoi, with some urging a wider expansion of attacks and others calling to maintain the pause. Continued on page four.
World War I era draft dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll died at 72 at Westbrook Psychiatric Hospital Philadelphia. He fled after a 1917 draft call, was court martialed as a technical deserter and sentenced to five years, later released to Maryland where he claimed buried gold, fled to Canada and Germany, marrying a German woman and producing four children. The U S government seized an alleged $800000 fortune. Prince Charles leaves London for Australia school.
Bernard Porter was elected president for the 1966 term at a Fire Department meeting. Leon Sickler named fire chief. Howard Johnson as first vice president and other officers listed include Sickler secretary Donald Whaley treasurer Hycrett Greeley assistant chief Richard Mulligan John Payne Fred Wilkinson Preston Wynn. 1965 report shows two house fires one total loss, three grass fires three emergencies one chimney fire two mutual aid calls and three rubbish burn requests.
The University of Miami voided the results of a final examination stolen from a professor’s office and sold to students. One thousand six hundred students will not retake the exam. semester grades in the natural science course will be based on prior exam scores. An official probe found the theft was attributable to a single individual.
U S aid officials report doubling of auditors in Viet Nam to 20 over the past year as graft and mismanagement allegations loom. A post audit system samples transactions for the expanding aid program, with penalties and restitution for losses. Congressional hearings probe black market profiteering and fund diversions as Rusk and Bell warn Saigon on market manipulation.
Mercer Pa Fire leveled a two story frame house in Jackson Center. Firemen said the occupant a man in his 60s perished in the blaze. He was identified as Paul Koyen.
In Cheektowaga New York an early morning fire at the Holiday House motel confined to three rooms in one wing of the two story building. About 100 guests were evacuated into sub zero weather for about an hour before being moved to nearby motels. One man suffered minor injuries from a fall while escaping through a second story window. Cause not yet determined.
A Chicago AP report details Carl W. Clark of Peotone Indiana who shot himself after state income tax woes. He owed about 325 dollars for the period lived there, and Indiana sought to withhold Ford Motor Co wages to satisfy the debt. Ford complied by withholding pay, drawing union interest and prompting inquiry by UAW Local 58a President Rudolph Mi. The story continues on another page.
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