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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1966
Page
4
Weekend specials at Ficcar di's Tastee Freez Route 6 feature banana flavor. Local fish fry Fridays 5 to 7 at Moose. Emergency numbers for Corry Morral Hospital and ambulance listed. Multiple admissions and discharges, with names and addresses. Community dances, ice cream social, and local ads for batteries and aluminum sheets.
In Harrisburg nine Philadelphia electors and three other counties filed a petition in Commonwealth Court seeking an audit of Shafer for Governor Committee spending. The petition alleges substantial expenditures were not reported by the campaign and Republican committees in Chester Bedford and Cambria counties.
A review finds that Shapp’s campaign account fails to detail expenditures totaling 41 774 45 including 5 000 paid to Harvey F Johnson president of the National Association for the Advancement of White People. The filing omits recipient names and questions legality of mailing list purchases and per person poll watcher costs.
Clearwater AP Forty three planes flown by women in the Powder Puff Derby have landed in Clearwater with 39 more expected by sundown. Ohio entrants Jean Bonar Mansfield and Patricia Colli Belleville were the first to touch down in the 82 plane race that began in Seattle Washington.
Gov Frank Morrison and Mayor Sorensen met with young Negroes amid 24th Street unrest in Omaha. Youth speakers demanded jobs training and better recreation facilities while citing police brutality. Urban League notes unemployment at 10 to 15 percent with housing lagging. North Side ghetto expands amid aging, rundown homes and new elderly housing blocks.
Mary Joyce Crosby 26 won a divorce from Phillip Crosby 82 after a private hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court. She cited nervousness profanity and late nights as grounds. The couple has a daughter Mary Elizabeth and a second child is expected.
The body is at Bracken Funeral Home with calling hours Friday 7 to 9 p m and weekend sessions 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p m. Funeral service Monday at 2 p m. Burial in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mertie E. Boring were conducted yesterday at the Evangelical United Brethren Church in DuBois with Rev. Gerald L. Pardoe and Rev. Ivan Hunsberger officiating. Burial followed in Morningside Cemetery. Bearers included Ronald Bergman, Rev. Lynn Bergman, Harley Reed, Thomas Reed, Paul Smith and Clifford Aikens. A prior service was held at Bracken Funeral Home Tuesday evening. Many relatives and friends from areas including Verona, Worthville, Erie, Clarence Center, DuBois, Warren and Lock Haven attended.
Soviet poet Yevtushenko published a verse letter in the Literary Gazette calling on all Americans of good conscience to protest the Vietnam War. The piece targets John Steinbeck and reflects Yevtushenko’s shift from earlier defiant youth to a Kremlin aligned stance.
John Wesley Babcock 73 died suddenly at home on Mead avenue Corry at 7 this morning. He was born March 14, 1893 in Le Boeuf Township and lived in Union City as a boy. He worked at Standard Chair Co and Union City Chair Co and owned a farm in Concord Township. He moved to Corry 20 years ago and retired from the Pennsylvania Department of Highways after 25 years in October last year. He and his wife Anna Clayton Babcock celebrated 50 years of marriage in 1915. Surviving: wife Anna, son James E. Babcock of Gardena California, four grandchildren, sister Mrs. Bertha Mitchell of Union City, several nieces and nephews. The body is at Bracken Funeral Home with viewing times tomorrow and weekend. Funeral Monday at 2 p.m. Rev Ivan G. Hunsberger to officiate. Burial Pine Grove Cemetery.
Diplomats note brief U S visits irritate Johnson while Britain seeks Soviet backing at Geneva. Indira Gandhi plans talks with Soviet leaders during a four day visit as India heads the Indochina monitoring body. Paris rumors claim Ho Chi Minh’s resolve may be weakening and France and North Vietnam discuss peace conditions.
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