Local hardware and building supply ads and notices
A cluttered page itemizes steel pipe metal prices and building supplies including vinyl flooring and door rehanging services. It lists outdoor car care deals, paint and porch finishes, metal prices for copper and brass, and contact numbers. includes real estate and rental notices, room descriptions, and broker references. The mix cites a real estate broker, property listings, and a few addresses and phone numbers.
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Ture Supplysville
Atta
Johnson orders lottery style draft with younger first
Washington AP Johnson tells Congress he will implement a lottery type draft system prioritizing younger men as part of a broader overhaul of Selective Service. Deferments for fathers essential workers and most graduate students end, while undergraduate student deferments remain under review and a four year extension of the draft law is requested.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Texas White House
New Draft Rules Outline Induction Age and Deferments
President Johnson announced plans detailing how the military draft will function. Induction begins with 19 year olds, selection by random from a 1A pool after tests, and changes to deferments for fathers graduate students and essential workers. Reservist deferment only for unit needs with priority for 17 to 18 year olds for enlistment, with a target date of January 1 1989 for implementation. Harriet Beresick 84 died in Butler County Memorial Hospital after a two car crash near Butler.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Butler, Pa
Harriet Beresick
Medenridge
Butler County Memorial Hospital
Butler
Taylor Joins Council List of Hopefuls
Corry Democrats filled out their slate and may rely on a write in for school board. Paul Red Taylor joined John Lutz as City Council candidates. Taylor is a planning commission member and works at Corry Jamestown Corp. First run for office. Police report two weekend crashes due to ice. one man seriously injured and property damage totaling 1400 dollars.
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Corry
Paul “Red” Taylor
East Street
John Lutz
Taylor
Corry Jamestown Corp
City Planning Commission
William Deutschlander
City Democratic
Mark E. Johnson
North Center Street
Johnson
Frederick Street
Plans Bomb Oil Depot South Of Haiphong
Plans bombed a petroleum installation 12 to 14 miles south of Haiphong in the closest raid in weeks on North Vietnam port. A secondary explosion was set off at the Do San depot as air forces and navies conducted 69 missions. In South Vietnam, a Viet Cong bomb killed civilians near Saigon and 24 Americans were killed or missing in 48 hours of war actions. Helicopters were downed and enemy dead totaled 46. U.S. officials disclosed Vietnam casualties under a new policy.
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U9. Plates
Haiphong
North Vietnam
U.S
Do San
Air Force
Navy
South Vietnam
Saigon
Lang Vel
Demilitarized Zone
Mansfield College Choir to Perform Here
The 46 voice Mansfield State College Concert Choir will give a free concert Thursday night at 8 15 in the Corry Area High auditorium. Diana Schramling of Columbus will sing Summer Time from Porgy and Bess. Director Jack M Wilcox is Mansfield associate professor of music and former Radio City Music Hall performer. The program spans Bach Berlioz Kern and Brahms.
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Mansfield State College
Corry Area
Judith Dwyer
CAHS
AHS
Diana Schramling
Columbus
Miss Schramling
Porgy and Bess
George Gershwin
Bach
Berlioz
Jerome Kern
Brahms
Jack M. Wilcox
Mansfield
University of Michigan
Western Reserve University
Hos
Wilcox
Paris
Maurice Chevalier
Radio City Music Hall
New York
Plane explodes crashes. 38 killed in Ohio air tragedy
Kenton Ohio AP reports Lake Central Convair 580 explodes midair killing 18 aboard and others on the ground. Wreckage scattered across snow filled fields near Marseilles with at least 150 responders. Plane recorded by flight data recorder as authorities investigate the first major domestic crash since 1986. Captain John Horn 45 piloted the flight as sleet and snow surrounded the region.
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Kenton
Feld
Indianapolis
Civil Aeronautics Board
Falls City
Neb
Cener
Cleveland
John Horn
Horn
Lake Central
Prisoners Die as Saigon Forces Overrun Camp
Reported by AP Wirephoto, government troops overran the camp and a government spokesman said ten prisoners died while handcuffed and blindfolded. San and one other survived.
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San
Prank Calls Prompt Police and GenTel Probe
City police report a surge of crude telephone crank calls targeting residents at night. Sgt James Keppel warns the mischief could harm elderly subscribers. General Telephone Co officials in Erie and Corry police vow full cooperation to apprehend the caller under the state penal code amendment against harassing phone use.
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Telephone Co
James Keppel
Police Department
Keppel
The
Journal
General Telephone Co
Erie
Stuart Phillips
Corry
Area Newswoman Named As Scott Press Aide
Washington AP Miss Joan Kurilla a former reporter for three Pennsylvania newspapers was named a press aide to U S Senator Hugh Scott Republican Pennsylvania She is a Shamokin native and Bloomsburg State College graduate and previously wrote for Gov Shaf er during his gubernatorial campaign.
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Washington
Joan Kurilla
Pennsylvania
U. S
Hugh Scott
R-Pa
False alarm at Al's Dairy Bar sparks fire response
At 9 48 p m yesterday Stanford Hose Company raced Engine 1 Truck 4 and Emergency Truck 5 to Al's Dairy Bar on East Columbus Avenue after a caller claimed a fire. Eighteen men searched the scene and found no blaze. Fire Chief Jerome Davis identified the caller as a boy about ten and warned the telephone company could install taps to trace future prank calls.
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East Columbus Avenue
Stanford Hose Company
Jerome Davis
Davis
General Telephone Company
Valued gem found in Bangkok widow of former PM
A blue diamond valued at 1.5 million dollars has been recovered from the widow of Sarit Thanarat, former prime minister of Thailand, authorities announced.
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Bankok
Sarit Thanarat
Thailand
GI Man Among 38 Survivors in Varig DC8 Crash in Monrovia
An American serviceman on eight day leave from Vietnam was among 38 survivors of a Varig DC8 crash in Monrovia. Fifty six people died including an American woman and five Liberians. The plane from Beirut via Rome ditched into a house near the runway in fog, carrying 70 passengers and 19 crew. The Rome office revised deaths to 60 with 20 passengers and 18 crew surviving. Spec. 4 James A. Brown of the U S Army 3rd Hospital in Vietnam was identified as the survivor. Muriel Swarner, a USAID employee en route from Katmandu to Monrovia, was killed. Liberian Aviation Minister Romeo Horton gave casualty figures.
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Monrovia
Liberia
Vietnam
Varig Airlines
Beirut
Lebanon
Rome
Brazil
U.S
James A. Brown
U.S. Army
Sao Paulo
U.S. State Department
Muriel Swarner
U.S. Agency For International Development
Katmandu
Nepal
C. C. Chalstrom
Spirit Lake
Iowa
Marvin
Arnolds Park
Romeo Horton
Nelson Eddy Dies After Stroke At 65 In Miami Beach
Nelson Eddy world’s highest paid singer of the 1940s collapsed while singing to about 400 guests at a resort hotel in Miami Beach. He died at Mount Sinai Hospital after suffering a mild stroke and had been in fair condition earlier. Eddy, famed for films with Jeanette MacDonald, was performing at the Sans Souci Hotel when stricken.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Nelson Eddy
Eddy
Mount Sinai Hospital
Jeanette MacDonald
Sans Souci
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Serted
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Exton
Mansfield College
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Health and Social Affairs Ministry
Paraguay
Argentina
Eeepe
Irene Heckas
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Warn
GenTel
Area Newswom
Scott
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