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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1968
Page
7
The YMCA schedules a weekly set of activities from Monday through Saturday with multiple daily sessions. Key events include competitive swimming, junior life saving, various beginner and advanced classes, Leaders Club, basketball leagues, golf and dances, with pool time and program committee meetings noted. The calendar lists times and activity groupings across days, including youth, senior, and adult programs plus closed Friday.
Gov. Lester Maddox rejects a phooey themed campaign mocking him. Atlanta attorney James Moore initiated the humor driven effort with phooey buttons bumper stickers and a phooey flagpole. Moore says he aimed to spark Georgians to say phooey to Maddox while noting offices ban miniskirts. Also reports a pedestrian fatality in Johnstown and local family swim times.
Kansas City AP reports Allen Pearson of the Weather Bureau says only about one in ten towns in the tornado belt has adequate warning systems. May 15 storms killed 61 and caused over 45 million in damage as warnings issued did not prevent fatalities. Jonesboro Ark. had 34 dead. Charles City Iowa 13 dead. Weather Bureau urges community Civil Defense groups, sirens, and Emergency Broadcast System adoption.
Erie Globcal and Erie Forge workers at the Steelworkers Hall voted unanimously to accept the latest contract proposals. USW rep George Klemm praised the result as 42 of 42 present supported the pact granting a 0.76 per hour raise and enhanced benefits. Local 1573 members at Stremy Vincent High were voting today on the production workers contract proposal. A West Hazleton woman, Mrs Harold James, 60, was killed when a car driven by her brother in law crashed into an iron bridge in Sybertsville.
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