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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1971
Page
2
In Our Opinion the council ignores the Elmers property flanking the Corry Motor Inn on the main street. The house is unfit, rats plague the area, weed nuisance grows, and condemnation to create a parking lot is ignored. The piece criticizes repeated inaction by city leaders.
A broad transcript describes safety gains from auto standards, Supreme Court tax rulings, and a heated discussion in the Pennsylvania House over lottery funding, elderly relief, and income tax validity. Amendments by Rep. Gleason and Rep. Early seek directing lottery proceeds to the elderly and renters, amid calls for budget cuts and road funding.
Assembly action is stalled by fiscal pressures after a Supreme Court ruling, with Democrats opposing further tax measures to avoid voter backlash. The piece notes calls to cut spending and muster political will, plus a Rural Electric Association dinner scene and a namesake anecdote. It also covers Ralph Nader accusing Volkswagen of concealing safety data on 1961 to 1967 models, detailing five alleged defects and a push to reopen investigations.
Justice Department lawyers weigh introducing unreleased love letters between Father Philip Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth McAlister as trial prep continues. The defendants are charged with planning to kidnap Henry Kissinger. Officials privately criticize the indictment as flawed and stitched after FBI chief J Edgar Hoover tipped the government.
A reader asks if a Pennsylvania will is legal if signed but not witnessed and notes that two attesting witnesses are usually required for probate. The response warns against un-witnessed wills and mentions possible litigation by heirs. It also covers whether a arrested person can demand a lie detector test, noting such tests are not admissible as evidence. Context on LBJ Nixon era politics, legal figures, and local policy debates follows with scattered commentary and anecdotes.
A lyrical catalog of summertime imagery across urban and rural life. Crowds, heat, growing produce, familiar scenes of summer chores and leisure frame a vivid palette from traffic cops in white gloves to wasps under eaves and children at play, ending with a distant toy thresher.
In Corry today RM Crandall, a veteran clerk and associate director of the Westminster Fellowship Conference, retires effective now. A formal opening of the new club room tonight is expected to draw several hundred Halian American Association social and fraternal members, with finishing delays due to material shortages. Rev Paul F Bayer will return for Sunday services at First Presbyterian Church from Grove City.
Arch C. Lyons announces candidacy for City Treasurer on both Democratic and Republican tickets. The Corry Journal notes a sweltering summer day with vivid local scenery and ends with a reader note inviting brief correspondence bearing signature and address.
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