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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1968
Page
2
A local school jointure enjoys calm annual negotiations between teachers and directors. The letter praises the cooperative tone, minimal friction, and statesmanship shown by both sides and hopes for continued harmony in future bargaining.
The average young American often lacks interest in government service at home. Parents hold the key to changing the world for the better.
The plan creates six regional jails to hold inmates under six months to five years with the Bureau of Corrections selecting suitable county jails. It splits Pennsylvania into regions, moves long-term prisoners to regional facilities or state prisons, and aims to improve county jails with better custody for those awaiting trial or outside fines. The shift is pitched as modernizing the state’s correctional system and boosting rehabilitation opportunities.
Drew Pearson reports a confidential PBI memo on underground black nationalist strategy in the United States. The piece ties the plan to violence in Cleveland and links it to Washington power dynamics, Stokely Carmichael, and calls for white countermeasures while noting limits on prosecutions from Communist-country witnesses.
A Corry game last night near Loveland ended in a 22 tie as a bonfire blaze damaged a rear area of a house. A petition to curb a northern smoke nuisance circulated with over 100 signatures and a city council vote looms.
The article notes a fire that destroyed a house at 188 East Fred, the VFW softball team on Sopumerick Street, and a field full of donkeys owned by Mrs. Roscoe Brigham. It also mentions G. W. Knowlton closing his North Center Street grocery after nearly forty years, selling out stock.
Jim Bishop reflects on the decline of the British Empire and its symbols from Victoria to Churchill. He notes economic strain, social changes, immigration pressures, and a population blind to national decline as they pursue daily life in pubs, on the telly, and along the Strand.
Joy Stilley writes from New York about Hal Boyle who embraces ferry travel from New Jersey to Delaware and on to the Chesapeake Bay area. The piece riffs on his enthusiasm, the couple’s ferry detours, and humorous skepticism about seaworthiness and arrival rituals.
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