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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1962
Page
8
Freight trains wrecked on the Erie Lackawanna main line near Tobyhanna delaying traffic. Three tracks blocked. full clearance expected by tonight or Tuesday. One crewman, Jerome J. Roland, 56, of Scranton, injured with a crushed left arm and multiple cuts and hospitalized in fair condition.
Pittsburgh AP report quotes Dobriansky of the National Captive Nations Committee calling the Soviet unity myth a major deception. He cites 19 non-Russian captive nations within the USSR totaling about 114 million people and urges building US image while exposing the myth. Governor David Lawrence, at a rally, emphasizes interdependent Europe and America and support for free nations inside the USSR.
Bert Garner a 76 year old from Maryville Tennessee lives in a two room cabin built 42 years ago for 27 dollars spends less than 15 cents a day on meals and rejects Social Security his philosophy centers on simple living and high thinking cultivating 27 kinds of produce and reading 2 000 books while visitors from across the US and Switzerland seek his counsel he quips about happiness and ends with a dark joke about marriage and shooting a wife
The New York Times reports the United States and allies may accept a cutoff allowing the Soviet Union to run the last tests. A three-power end to nuclear testing is seen as the only near-term chance, with Geneva disarmament talks likely to span several years. The Western plan favors gradual disarmament with UN peacekeeping. the Soviet plan calls for total disarmament in four years with limited initial controls.
A single engine plane carrying Levy H. Davenport and his family of five crashed into a house trailer near Mathews Virginia while attempting an emergency landing. All five aboard and the trailer resident were injured. Davenport said the plane ran low on fuel and he aimed for a harness track but overshot. The riders included his wife and three daughters Cindy 13 Susan 8 Nancy 6. another occupant Venner Brown Call was unhurt. The group was taken to Newport News Hospital.
The Pennsylvania Veterans of Foreign Wars selects a husband and wife as leaders for the first time. Frank Zenver becomes department commander and his wife Dorothy leads the auxiliary as president. Other officers include Hartman, Parley, Eph, Sedga, McCoy, and McLaughlin. Delegates push for new veteran welfare structures and oppose UN entry if Red China joins. Congressman Van Zandt presses economy without harming veterans benefits.
The United States Army Ambulance Corps elected Eugene O Oronzio of Florence DC as national commander at its 45th annual reunion in Allentown Pennsylvania. The gathering commemorated World War I training conducted there in 1917.
Associated Press reports a deadly Pennsylvania weekend with multiple fatalities. Victims include a Connecticut man and a hitchhiker in a Claysville crash, two drowning youths in Beaver County, and a series of other fatal incidents across counties including Washington, Bedford, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia.
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