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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1967
Page
4
Round and square dance set for Clymer Community Building on March 25 with Perry McCray Band. Easter plants available at Mrs Jackson's greenhouse 102 Essex Street. new phone 663 6481. Open evenings.
In South Vietnam scattered but sharp ground fighting continued as 18 ground operations involve U S, South Korean and Australian troops. Marines report the heaviest clashes in the north where 92 North Vietnamese regulars were killed in an unusually intense mortar versus 105mm howitzer duel aboard two Marine amphibious craft.
The First Baptist Church hosts a 7 45 pm showing of The Rower of His Resurrection about Peter. Pastor Schreckengost outlines after Sunday events with Sunrise Service at 7 pm and Worship at 11 am themed Why is Easter Different. Missionaries Rev and Mrs Tex Warnken expected to address adults. The day’s aim is 350 in Sunday School. Evening Gospel Hour features music and The Rent Veil message.
Private funeral services for George H. Gordon were held at Bracken Funeral Home with Rev. Walter Gilliland officiating. Burial followed at Pine Grove Cemetery. Out-of-town relatives included George Gordon Jr. and family from Chagrin Falls and others from Akron and Pennsylvania. Three Marines were killed and 11 wounded.
Commonwealth Court ruled that the state board lacked authority to revise county school reorganization plans once they met automatic accept ance criteria. The decision overturned a board action consolidating Adams County into one district, affecting districts that appealed the plan. Judge Bowman's opinion stressed no right of appeal if the county plan met act provisions.
At 7 AM today Corry Memorial Hospital lists admissions including Grant Johnson Vila Fruges Manley Robbins Jr Carolyn Sherwood Barbara Edwards John Karkoski Arthur Butters Victoria Orn Edward Wettenburg and Cecil Van Giesen. Discharges include Gary and Cindi Merkle Robert Howard Oliver Whitney Robert Simpson Edward Curry Garrett Bensink Warner McCray Karen and Sharon Merritt and others. A Pittsburgh teenager James Best 13 of Brookline died from glue sniffing per Allegheny County coroner.
Mayor Peiffer pressed for immediate work on a Public Housing Act proposal. Architect Bontempo outlined two housing types elder and low income with elder units centrally located and low income units on the outskirts. Corry, with about 10 000 people, could need 80 to 120 units based on factors like elderly population and substandard housing. Federal funding covers construction and rental income, with an on site manager. Occupancy is typically high due to low rents, and approval is near automatic though concerns about funding and taxes were discussed.
Classified listings include brokers and agencies in town and a public sale notice for March 28 at 10 a.m. The sale, south of Spartansburg and north of Titusville, features an apartment size gas range and numerous household items. Auctioneers are Arthur and Laurence Scouten.
Public sale ads detail a March 26 auction near Meadville with 29 dairy cattle and numerous farming implements listed. It also includes a separate Erie County public sale notice for tax clearances and a corollary executor notice for the estate of Anna E B Judge, plus township tax ordinance reenactments for 1967 in Columbus Township.
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