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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1966
Page
1
A partial OCR note outlines a real estate listing with a Watts DD property, a $6 825 figure, and mentions retirement, a remodel, furnishing, and a front property setup. No clear dates or complete addresses are given.
National Guardsmen and police patrolled a 140 block area in Chicago after days of racial violence. Soldiers fired if fired upon as sniper attacks and looting had scarred the streets. By midnight the area was mostly deserted with scattered incidents reported.
Moscow hosts India's Indira Gandhi and Britain's Harold Wilson as both seek progress toward Vietnam peace. Gandhi reports Soviet willingness to aid but insists North Vietnam must accept proposals. Kosygin to be pressed on reviving the 1954 Geneva talks as Britain cochairs Southeast Asia peace efforts.
Two 17 year olds and a 22 year old companion were charged with slaying rookie patrolman George Jacobs and wounding another officer in South Philadelphia after a stop light incident. Lawrence allegedly fired. all three statements implicate him.
A Erie General Telephone operator logged three calls from a South Center West Main booth at 2:35 to 2:45 a m. The same man asked to call Corry police to close a tavern after hours and later asked to be freed from the booth. Police arrived too late. outcome of the tavern unclear.
Corry Memorial Hospital administrator Samuel Antrim reports no rush of elderly patients to the hospital since Medicare began. The census matches last year, with added paperwork from new forms and adjustments, but no need for more staff yet. This pattern aligns with other Northwestern Pennsylvania hospitals.
Ambassador Harriman warned North Vietnam that mistreating American captives would change the war’s dynamics and jeopardize postwar relations. He cited no bitterness from the U S side but called barbaric acts harmful to the North Vietnamese. He noted failed prisoner exchange talks and Hanoi’s refusals to disclose fliers’ names or allow Red Cross access.
The Civil Aeronautics Board authorized 13 supplemental airlines to operate nearly 100 routes for the four struck carriers and others for 30 days. The move aims to ease widespread air traffic jams amid a machinists strike affecting Eastern, National, Northwest, Trans World and United. Reservations begin immediately on major coast to coast routes.
A laborer named Dennis Dolan fined 70 dollars in Sevenoaks court for sacking a driving tester after a failed exam. He claimed the examiner lied, saying the harsh act was not to punish the failure but the reasons given.
Sister Mary Urban of St. Thomas School Corry joins 30 teachers and supervisors from 18 states and Italy at a six week National Science Foundation Institute at Adrian College Michigan. NSF stipends cover room board and travel. program concludes July 29.
Erie County Democrat William C. Hill urged tax deductions for costs to combat water pollution and proposed a Lake Erie pollution monitoring station. Rep Raymond Wilt of Allegheny called Lake Erie pollution deplorable and urged stronger effforts by industry and public to cut pollution.
An artist’s sketch of the nurse killer in Chicago prompts a flood of tips and new optimism. Deputy chief Spiotto says phone calls surge and the survivor Corazon Amarao can identify the suspect. autopsy finds no sexual assault. police show Amarao 200 sex offender photos but no match yet.
The Corry office of the Pennsylvania State Employment Service lists 100 plus openings in the Corry area. Jobs include electronic assembler work with $1.35 hourly pay plus incentives, plus many skilled posts requiring specific experience. Contact Joseph M. Kablach at his North Center street office Monday for details.
Two Clarion men died when their single engine plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Rea Airport. The pilot, John E. Truck Jr., 50, and Conrad Newell, 2, a commercial photographer, were killed Friday.
Garfield Parker 74 was arrested in Petersburg Virginia and charged with murder and voluntary manslaughter in a 1946 Philadelphia apartment killing over a dispute about milk. Police say Parker fled, living under varied jobs for 16 years, aided by the city’s five squad homicide unit.
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