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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1965
Page
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Senate minority leader Everett Dirksen declared the United States has blown the trumpets of retreat too long and must take a firm stand against the Soviets. He spoke on a TV radio program with Senator Miller after criticism from Senator Fulbright who argued that no concession is the aim and that U S gains in the Cold War show some success. Fulbright cited Iran 1946 Berlin 1949 and Cuba 1962 as lessons and said Americans demanding hard lines risk obstructing accommodation.
Brig. Gen. Nguyen Chanh Thi displayed Nguyen Phan a 38 year old political commissar captured near Hue with documents he joined the Communists in 1958 trained in Peking and the Soviet Union infiltrated South Vietnam Feb 2 as part of 300 commissars he said he held the rank of sub major Thi said Phan would be taken to Saigon for questioning Viet Cong mortars hit Duc Hoa west of Saigon killing five and wounding three as U S forces aided by air and artillery fought back Residents noted signs of stepped up American troop discussions in Saigon amid the fighting.
In Reading, Pennsylvania a mother Mrs. Margaret Ambrose and six of her children perished when a fast spreading house fire swept through their home around 7 a.m. A seventh child, 7-year-old Paulette, escaped. Police questioned Paulette to learn the fire's cause while witnesses spoke of a victim seen at an upstairs window.
Ground parties move into steep terrain between Te Anau and Milford Sound after a small Cessna crash. Pilot and four aboard feared dead including Miss Pauline Jones of Youngstown Ohio and three passengers Mary Duncan of Auckland, an American resident, and Brown of Nottingham. Plane was on a flight when it went down Friday.
George C. Frank of Erie Lackawanna says ICC approval to drop passenger coaches on Trains 7 and 8 would barely affect Corry. Lows usage on these Hoboken to Chicago trains shows fewer than one boarding and about one off per trip, with mail and express service to continue. Similar decline prompted PRR to end similar services. EL argues freight, not passenger demand, justifies discontinuance.
Daniel Truesdale 33 of Columbus pleaded not guilty to violation of the uniform firearms act and pointing a deadly weapon after a preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace Perry Mead. He was held on 1000 bond following arrest by Troopers Pasi and Sita after a 3:30 am call from Doris Stockton.
Erie County commissioners approved a temporary clerk for the County Owned Property Office led by Charles Graham of Corry. Chairman William G. Hill Jr. derided the office as a white elephant, saying it had not been run properly for about 20 years. Graham, who took over in January 10, warned the mess would take effort to straighten, and proposed hiring another clerk to put the office on a paying basis. Lamberton moved to hire JoAnn De Santi, an Erie woman, on a temporary basis amid debate over the office’s history of inefficiency.
Civil rights protests continue around the White House as Alabama Governor George Wallace seeks a meeting with President Johnson on federal action for voting rights in Selma. Demonstrators clash with police, with more than 30 arrests for disorderly conduct as new talks are anticipated and troops are discussed for possible duty.
The General State Authority fixed April 22 for bids on a 7.5 million Warren State Hospital geriatrics building. The six story, 700 bed facility will rise north of existing structures and include bed care and ambulatory sections. Teaching facilities and therapy rooms will serve the hospital.
In an event near the Capitol and White House, hundreds of protesters are surrounded by pickets, with a policeman lifting a girl by the legs as another demonstrator is pulled away by the feet. About four thousand churchmen from across the nation press for legislation guaranteeing Negro voting rights.
In Selma Alabama an aide to Martin Luther King Jr Rev Hosea Williams told demonstrators the planned march from Selma to Montgomery would go ahead come hell or high water regardless of any federal judge ruling. Demonstrators cheered and kept vigil since police halted a march on the Dallas County Courthouse while white clergy joined in. They aim to memorialize Rev James Reeb the Boston minister killed after a beating in Selma.
A white 18 year old, Andrew A. Mormile of Brooklyn, was stabbed to death on a southbound Independent line train late Monday night. Police report two young Negro men carried out the assault before fleeing, motive unknown. The slaying occurred near Nostrand Avenue with witnesses scarce and no arrests made.
AP reports motorists in Pennsylvania will not place new license tags on cars and station wagons until after the deadline. In Wellsburg New York a fire destroyed the 152 year old Wellsbury Baptist Church in Chemung County. Church officials estimate extensive damage and cite a defective coal heater as the probable cause.
In Pittsburgh a group damaged a display window on the North Side with a brick and stole a movie projector and five cameras valued at about $1,000. Police investigate the robbery.
Thieves stole more than 5000 dollars in gear from Pittsburgh radio station WZUM, causing hours of off air time and damage to additional equipment. Station officials reported the theft disrupted programming and is under investigation by local police.
A 15 month old boy named Lonnie Qualls slipped from a stopped car at a service station and crawled under the vehicle. He rode about two blocks beneath the car's front axle until a passing motorist shouted for the driver to stop and a man pulled him out. No serious injuries were reported.
In Ligonib a Pennsylvania two men George S. Puskar age 47 and his son Paul both of Pittsburgh were found dead in their summer cottage two miles east of town. Authorities say gas fumes from an unvented heating unit caused the deaths after they spent the night there awaiting two business acquaintances.
The Erie County courthouse saw over 1000 petitions filed this week for the May primaries in Wayne and Concord townships and Elgin Borough. From High Borough Democrat slate include mayor Victor Sexton and council candidates Edward J. Paver Edward J. Lewis. school director Romaine A. Barnhart. tax collector Dorothy J. Lewis. inspector of elections Eunice Sexton. Republican slate lists mayor H. Maryin McCray council Merle J. McCray Harr J. Ruffner school director Howard Ladd lay collector Agnes L. McCray judge of elections Peter Swanson Florence Proctor. Concord Democrat slate shows School Board Ronald Triscuit tax collector Dora M. Triscuit and inspection of elections Iva Fralick. Republican for supervisor Guy Brabic for school director Alfred L. Gates tax collector Sylvia Hammond judge of elections Vivian Gates. Wayne Township petitions include Republican slate.
Two separate crashes investigated by Corry State Police yesterday. An Erie woman, Margaret Ashbaugh, 32, sustained bruises and was treated at Corry Memorial Hospital after a two car collision on Route 8 five miles west of Corry. Herbert Hawley, 68, of Cory turned left into oncoming traffic driven by John Ashbaugh, 56, of Erie, causing the collision with about total property damage. Earlier, Evie man Herman Jeschke Ty, 40, escaped injury when his car rolled over about two miles east of Wattsburg on a rural road after losing control on the shoulder. damage to the vehicle set at 1,000 dollars.
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