Fragmentary Notes Hint At Local Schedule
Vague OCR fragment hints a time and day schedule with a child referenced, unclear location or event. No clear names or organizations emerge to identify the incident or purpose.
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1968
Page
1
Vague OCR fragment hints a time and day schedule with a child referenced, unclear location or event. No clear names or organizations emerge to identify the incident or purpose.
Fragmentary estate notice lists items and cattle terms, includes phone numbers 868-6015 739-2252 663-2832 and names Chaney Sons and Narduce, mentions heifers and spring bred stock, partial date Friday, scattered phrases about sales and friends.
Seven killed and one missing as a blast at Ingram in Pittsburgh area leveled five shops and injured 17. Equitable Gas Co workers were among the dead as investigators question the cause of the four-inch main rupture outside a sidewalk crew.
The Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads will consolidate at 12:01 a.m. Thursday to form the world’s largest privately owned railway system. A federal three judge panel approved the $4.29 billion merger after Supreme Court clearance on January 15. An April 23 hearing will decide merger price jurisdiction. Directors will meet in Philadelphia with Saunders as chairman of Penn Central and Perlman as president and COO.
The Corry Savings and Loan Association asks the Zoning Board of Adjustments to rezone the North Center and West Frederick street corner from residential to commercial. A two to four story building is planned with S and L offices on the first floor and upper floors for professional offices, plus off street parking. If approved, several nearby buildings may be razed and construction could begin in 1969.
Gov Tom McCall of Oregon rested in a Salem hospital after virus pneumonia. A spokesman said no change in his condition but a bed change is expected as hospital officials work to fit him in a shorter bed. Ex-solon jailed in Baltimore for six months for conflict of interest.
The Corps of Engineers will present a flood plain information study for the Hare and Bear Creek area to Corry city officials at the Monday City Council meeting in the Municipal Building. State officials and the Flood Plain Management Services Unit will assist. Copies of the pamphlet will be available to officials, newspapers, libraries, and citizens with an interest in land use and flood planning.
Los Angeles designer Rudi Gernreich predicts skirts will stay short despite midi and maxi trends. He promotes the miniskirt as part of our time and dismisses calls for knee-length styles while critiquing the Bonnie and Clyde 1930s look.
Saigon erupts in fierce fighting with tanks artillery and machine gun fire across the city. Viet Cong commandos battled U S troops for six hours inside the U S Embassy compound and counts of casualties rise as strikes hit Tan Son Nhut Air Base and the Presidential Palace. General Westmoreland calls the attacks diversionary while North Vietnamese forces mass near the north for a major operation.
South Korea's foreign minister called for more attention to the alleged assassination attempt on President Park than to North Korea's seizure of the USS Pueblo. Choi Kyu-hah warned against US moves that would politicize the Pueblo incident and urged a firm security-based settlement. The crisis drew bipartisan support in Korea as the National Assembly met to push for decisive action, while in Washington officials pursued diplomacy and UN efforts faltered amid a US-Soviet deadlock.
State police investigated whether three skeletons found in unmarked graves at Cummins Prison Farm were inmates buried in a paupers cemetery or victims of prison violence. Maj. Streubing said the graves likely belong to a pauper cemetery after reviewing records, with further digging halted pending pathology results.
Residents along the Route 6 bypass in Corry Erie County Pennsylvania seek immediate speed limit signs in a petition signed by 24 homeowners. Copies go to the District Highway Offices Franklin Corry City Council Senator Lesler and Assemblyman Hopkins.
Harrisburg AP reports three Constitutional Convention panels aim to finish today but the judiciary committee makes little progress.
In GREWNVILLE a 12 year old boy fell into the Little Shenango River while walking a gas pipe. Police sergeant Dean Stuyvesant dived three times to reach Douglas Zimmerran and both were pulled from 12 feet of water by a rope tied to the officer. They were hospitalized overnight and released.
In Titusville a seven year old boy, William Roger Ender, was seriously injured when a .22 rifle discharged while his 14 year old brother David cleaned it. The bullet passed through his cheeks and lodged in his thumb. The accident occurred about 6 45 p m and the boy was taken to Titusville Hospital by a passing motorist.
Labor officials seek a peaceful solution as 18,000 soft coal miners idle in Pennsylvania West Virginia and Ohio. Riotous action includes arson vandalism and clashes with police as UMW AFL CIO aims to organize independent mines. Governor and state labor leaders meet with union heads and Solar Fuel Co. in Somerset County where arrests occurred.
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