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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1963
Page
1
Local notice reads as a memorial and funeral tribute with names such as Margaret, Sean DeLaval University and others. It mentions devotion to community members, a service time at 8:30 and notes about thanks and remembrance.
Alfred W. Holton a 57 year old owner of Al's Dairy Bar was found dead in his car with a gunshot wound to the left chest at his camp three miles west of Corry. State Trooper Edward Pass reported the death occurred after an employee failed to find him for a 5 p m appointment.
Exile leaders prepare new operations against Fidel Castro with invasion veterans and commandos moving toward Central American bases. Dr. Manuel Artime meets Nicaragua’s leaders as a pro-Castro resistance rallies. Fort Benning trainees Jose and Roberto San Roman and Erneido Oliva await return to join anti Castro efforts. A famed sculptor, Frank Dob, dies at 78.
In Harrisburg a 150000 appropriation bill (H1799) was introduced to fund the Columbus Dam project. Sponsored by Reps Goldstein Blair ODel Hall, the measure shifts the effort from the State Fish Commission toward direct state assistance. A July 31 adjournment deadline looms as supporters gauge further backing.
A group of about 35 peace marchers, headed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, faced heckling at a Scranton rally near Soldiers and Sailors Monument. The crowd of roughly 125 students booed speakers including Bradford Lytter of Voluntown Conn, and Henry P. McGraw urged removing the protesters from the monument. The marchers, starting in Quebec, planned stops in Mount Pocono Pa Stroudsburg Pa and New York City.
A district highway engineer W P Malligan in Franklin presents plans for secondary road work, supporting concerns that secondary roads will receive little attention amid spending on new super highways. Public relations chief Robert Hetherington disputes the exaggerated view, noting comments came from a Harrisburg traffic engineer and did not reflect the department's repair plans. Continued on Page Five.
A nine hour Brooklyn construction sit down protest over hiring discrimination led to 300 arrests Monday as police cleared demonstrators. Five Negro readers planned to meet with Mayor Wagner to press for more jobs for Negroes and Puerto Ricans on public works.
Washington AP reports leaders from the GOP and Democratic sides pursue a civil rights accord. Atty Gen Kennedy and Asst Atty Gen Burke Marshall caution progress may satisfy some while easing violence threats. Cambridge and Dorchester traders join Maryland Bar mediators in seeking agreement with Negro and white communities.
Republicans push a renewed civil rights offense at the 55th Governor Conference in Miami Beach. Democratic leaders back Kennedy welfare and health measures including a public works youth program while GOP leaders seek a minority report to force a straight civil rights vote.
Erie police arrested Kentucky Barbecue manager Willie Phillips 42 on voluntary manslaughter charges after a disturbance at the restaurant ended with a customer, Joseph Harris 42, dying from a gunshot that struck his shoulder and lodged in his leg during a bottle threat incident.
Congress battles Kennedy railroad featherbedding dispute with ICC oversight proposals. The plan would curb new rules until ICC study and approve, delaying a potential nationwide strike for two years. Senate and House committees prepare hearings as unions and carriers await action.
A citywide Corry cancer screening meeting brings about 40 local women to the YMCA at 7 20 pm to hear state health officials outline a Pap test program. Erie County Cancer Society funds support the effort with potential state health department funding under consideration. The test costs about four dollars per woman, with a projected local budget near eight thousand dollars if two hundred participate. Attending are Dr Hugh Gilmore state health official Miss Catherine Boughman and Victor Weir of the Pennsylvania Cancer Society, plus Erie doctors Ralph Bacon George Boblender and Palmer and Erie County Cancer Society chair A J Davies.
Senator Warren Magnuson of Washington remained hospitalized in Seattle as tests continued after his admission with a high fever last weekend. Doctor Grinstein said initial test results would not be available until late today and the fever cause, reported between 100 and 104, had not been determined.
Moscow reports that a limited nuclear test ban pact is almost finished though Western delegates question whether Khrushchev will demand a simultaneous East West nonaggression pact. Harriman and Gromyko held long talks as Western powers push for a signing this week.
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