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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1974
Page
1
A damaged OCR snippet references a fund, Lewis, Dan, and a form in circulation. It mentions no clear date, place, or concrete outcomes, and reads as an incomplete report of a financial matter or legal issue with uncertain participants.
Fragmentary text mentions Union of Erie and Carey Ww with vague action. No clear event, date, or outcomes available.
Reports from Saigon Tokyo Seoul and Caracas cover a wide array of events. In Vietnam a thousand candidates contest provincial and municipal seats amid an economy focused campaign. In Tokyo Fukuda contemplates resignation. In Seoul a military court sentences Kim Chi-ha and six others to death. In Caracas the UN sea conference will invite the PLO and 11 other fronts as observers.
Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen, who led the Watergate probe, testified to impeachment investigators that no information implicates President Nixon in a cover up. Nixon secures a six month extension on his San Clemente mortgage with reduced payments as tax troubles bite. In Houston, Elmer Wayne Henley's mass murder trial ends with no defense witnesses after 25 witnesses testified. The Senate Watergate Committee closes, with a 2717 page final report and sharp rebuke from Chairman Ervin about abuses of power.
Seven members of Teamsters Local 290 vote Sunday on a new contract offer from Coca Cola Bottling Co s Pittsburgh division. The ratification will not trigger a strike by about 200 drivers at area plants. Western Pennsylvania Water Co says two supervisors were attacked by striking employees. one was punctured in the back with a sharp object.
John Ehrlichman, longtime Nixon aide, is found guilty after a 12 day trial of conspiracy to violate rights in the Ellsberg psychiatrist break in and perjury before the FBI and a Watergate grand jury. Sentencing set for July 31 with up to 25 years and $40,000 fines possible.
A group of 25 Wattsburg Lowville area residents leaves for a one week voluntary work trip in Wisconsin under the Methodist Missions program. They will live on the Lac Du Flambeau Reservation and perform house painting roof repair and light construction to aid the Menominee Indians. The trip cost over 1700 funded by group members.
Gov. Shapp calls the measure clearly unconstitutional and violates the 1973 Supreme Court ruling by forcing a husband’s consent or parental approval to terminate a pregnancy. He notes the bill would restrict aid to poor women and demand informed consent, while urging regulations to protect women’s health in abortion procedures. The sponsor vows to seek an override next fall.
City Council meets Monday night to hear bids for revamping traffic signals at seven intersections and discuss administration appointments. Other items include expansion of recreational facilities, painting at fire station one, 1974 construction, final sewer payments, master plan and zoning updates, water line easement, water development, alarms system, and reporting forms.
Baltimore officials and AFSCME union leaders met again after a Friday night two hour session at the Lord Baltimore Hotel. Mayor Schaefer joined city negotiators including Hillman and Benton while Police Council 27 director Rapanotti was present part of the discussion. Union president Crofoel called the progress unclear but noted previous meetings had occurred.
A New Castle man, not immediately identified, drowned after jumping from a small boat on Shenango Valley Reservoir. He disappeared while swimming beside the boat around 4 a.m. A Shenango Valley scuba team recovered the body as a multijurisdictional search including Fish Commission personnel, local firefighters, police, and a state police helicopter conducted the probe. The Mercer County coroner pronounced him dead at the scene.
Gov. Shapp signed a one cent levy increase in the state gas tax from eight to nine cents, boosting Transportation Department funds to repair more than 10,000 miles of secondary roads. The total gasoline tax rises to 13 cents with the federal levy.
Members of the Guy E. Abbey Memorial Squadron 504 of the Corry Civil Air Patrol traveled to Meadville for a Red CAP Alert ground search for a downed aircraft. CAP teams converged on Meadville after an unidentified flight from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia reportedly crashed en route, with air searches covering a wider area.
In a dramatic standoff two inmates, Frank Gorham and Robert Jones, renewed efforts to barter seven hostages for freedom at the U S District Courthouse. They promised to release 12 inmates as good faith while more than a dozen remained confined in the cellblock basement amid ongoing negotiations.
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