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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1971
Page
3
A Pittsburgh area housewife found relief from high long distance bills by using a pay phone in the bathroom. She saves costs by avoiding operator assisted toll calls and uses a dime to reach friends, despite initial skepticism from the phone company. Her husband declined public installation, preferring a discreet beige unit in the downstairs bath.
Two unattended children in a running car injured when it rolled forward, struck a parked car and a meter, then crashed into Meadville Optical Co window. Dennis, 2, was cut. Douglas, 8, broke the windshield. Both were treated at City Hospital and released. In another item, Pan Am withdraws Casablanca flight ad after Bacall objects to Bogart image.
The United States reports that South Vietnamese actions into Laos and Cambodia have pushed Hanoi onto the defensive, disrupted North Vietnamese plans for dry season offensives, and allowed further American withdrawals. Officials note reduced enemy truck traffic along the Laos panhandle and a key base abandonment near Hotel 2, with ongoing heavy air strikes against antiaircraft batteries.
The California prosecutor says Angela Davis plotted an abortive courthouse takeover that killed four people, arguing her defense conduct would make for a disorderly trial. The memo contends Davis conspired with Jonathan Jackson to arm convicts and seize judges to free the Soledad Brothers.
Corry Area High School Key Club joins Marathon in Meadville on Friday March 12 for a 26 hour basketball marathon to raise funds for The Bridge Philadelphia a rehabilitation center aiding drug addicts. Joseph Nichols president says youth in Pennsylvania must act against drug abuse while Corry Kiwanis sponsors join the effort.
AP reports two women found dead in a Boston apartment believed strangled by an iron cord. Theresa French, 29, a longtime secretary, was identified. the other woman was her roommate. There was no sign of struggle or forced entry. The case echoes the Boston stranglings linked to Albert DeSalvo, who claimed to be the killer but was not tried for those murders.
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