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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1968
Page
1
U S Steel and the United Steelworkers begin night bargaining sessions to resolve seniority and local issues as contracts for about 450 000 steelworkers near Aug. 1. A tentative accord on a new job classification manual for basic oxygen furnaces signals progress amid broader talks.
Police hunt a Bronx gunman identified as Bobby Rogers alias Bobby Pugh after he killed three men and wounded a fourth with automatic fire. A 15 state alert and large manhunt follow as officers search a five story building then suspect he fled through a basement. Victims were Manuel Angel Figueroa Efrain Castro and Jose Rivera.
Six year old Rae Anne Wood remains in casts after a Colorado mountain crash that killed her parents and three brothers. Aunt Miss Sheridan of Sacramento, Calif., recalls Rae Anne asking for gifts for her brothers while doctors plan to remove casts and send her home within a week. The crash is attributed to an overloaded four passenger craft flown through valleys to avoid mountains. In Lincoln, Nebraska, William E. MacDonald, 63, longtime farm service director for KFOR, dies.
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey urged widening contacts with Red China and replacing conflict with cooperation, aiming to normalize relations with the mainland. Aimed at San Francisco, the remarks were released as a policy paper after he was grounded by a grippe.
Nassau County Executive Eugene H. Nickerson and his daughter were at a private gathering when police found a live fragmentation grenade wired behind a heater switch in a third family car. Detectives described the device as ready to detonate if triggered and an area was cleared as officers disarmed or removed the threat.
The State Department of Public Welfare may end the Citizens Work Training program in favor of urban focused initiatives. If true, Corry and Union City along with other Erie County municipalities could lose a highly successful program that placed capable welfare recipients in municipal work and paid them modest wages. In Corry, officials say many CWT participants have secured steady jobs, while Union City worries about closing the borough museum which has relied on CWT workers. Borough secretary Harry Smiley notes 22 of nearly 40 participants have found steady employment, and the program has motivated others to seek work. (Continued on Page Six)
In Saigon a U S soldier was wounded as Viet Cong commandos were reported to be planning raids on the city. Extra guards were posted at the U S Embassy and key sites while police alerted for an anticipated third offensive of the year. A suspected assassin escaped after firing three shots near the presidential palace.
General Raymond J. Reeves, head of North American Air Defense, tells a Pennsylvania Veterans of Foreign Wars gathering that every generation must pay an installment on the price of peace. Reports from Saigon describe increased U.S. troop movements and fears of renewed Viet Cong attacks around the capital.
Four Pennsylvania men including three prison escapees face extradition to Pennsylvania after appearing on FBI bank robbery charges. Bond set at 50 000 each. They fled from Youngstown to Girard triggering police gunfire and a police vehicle damaged. The group faces additional charges in Girard for home invasions and kidnapping, with eight counts per man.
Officials plan voice and picture tape of every spectator at James Earl Ray’s trial for the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis. Access will be through a subterranean entrance, with photo ID for press, as security aims to prevent outside disruption. Ray remains jailed in London awaiting extradition appeal.
S J Grove & Sons contractors for the Union City flood control dam expect construction to begin within a week to ten days. The preconstruction conference at the Pittsburgh District US Army Corps of Engineers was cited by John Staples and Carl Mallow as the agency noted the firm must start by July 2. Union City project estimated at 11 million dollars with Lyle Hilde at the site yesterday west of Union City.
A 20 year old Corry Area High School math teacher, Ronald Franks Jr, died after his car collided with a tractor trailer at the Route 6N and Route 19 intersection in LeBoeuf Township. The driver, Danny M Brown of Wellston Ohio, faced manslaughter charges after running a red light. Franks, in his first year teaching, was en route to Edinboro State College when the accident happened. His body was taken to Uniontown for services. funeral arrangements to be announced.
New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison said his office has exchanged information with a foreign intelligence agency that allegedly penetrated the assassination plot against President Kennedy. He cited Europe based sources in supporting claims that Kennedy was killed by elements of the CIA, and he noted a magazine article attempting to discredit his inquiry.
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