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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1970
Page
3
Corry Journal and radio WOTR were targets of April Fools pranks. Police said a bomb threat call to WOTR yesterday warned of a bomb unless the noisy music stopped, but no device was found. The Journal received a prank classified ad form from a mysterious sender, ending with a winter weary line.
New York police charged Norman Mosseson and Mislav Paroulek after finding a dirty East Harlem basement room with skinned rabbits and jars labeled whole human blood plasma. Police said blood was drawn from rabbits for $30 a pint, with pelts drying and dozens of needles found.
Rowe Roberts 43 of Freedom died from burns after a gas spill ignition in his Monaca garage last Friday. Fireman Townsend Smith rescued him. he died Saturday after transfers to Rochester and Mercy Hospital. Survived by wife Beverly two daughters and a sister. Funeral held in Freedom.
Two Marines alleged AWOL from Camp Lejeune were arrested by state police in Richmond Township near Blooming Valley. Dennis J. Valek of Cleveland and Larry E. Garcia of Cedar Crest, New Mexico, were held in Crawford County Jail as investigators notified Philadelphia police and military authorities.
Peter E. Platou, 22, of New Orleans, waived preliminary hearing on marijuana possession charges and was bound over to the May term. Platou was arrested with Robert G Wander Jr and Buckley D Proper after a March 3 search of Wander’s Meadville apartment uncovered marijuana. Wander and Proper were bound over to the May term after the finding.
Lt. Col. Donald J. Crowley said his captors would have killed him if necessary and described the political abduction as ideological. The 48-year-old Texan was released after two days as a hostage near the polo field where he was seized Tuesday morning by six armed men in the wave of Latin American kidnappings. He was kept blindfolded and wrote dictated letters during captivity.
Crawley describes anti American, leftist views voiced by his captors during detention. He was freed after a half hour drive, dropped near St Thomas Aquinas Seminary, identified by a traffic cop, and taken to national police headquarters then the Mexican Embassy. In line with an agreement, he was held at the embassy until 19 political prisoners were freed and arrived in Mexico. Dominican government initially offered 24 but settled on 19. Crowley, El Paso native, has served at the U S Embassy in Santo Domingo since 1968 and is married with five children. In Mexico City, freed prisoners vowed to return to help oust President Balaguer, who seeks reelection in May.
Warren State Police said New Jersey police recovered one of two Sylvania Electric tractor-trailer rigs hijacked near Newark. The diner lot found the rig with motor running. 6000 pounds of silver valued at about 15000 were stolen, while the missing rig was leased by Seneca Falls division and loaded with color TV tubes.
A preliminary hearing before District Magistrate D W Ladner was postponed from March 13 and rescheduled to 10 a m yesterday, with Platou granted a continuance of the date.
The FCC issued a rule to limit ownership across broadcasting in a single market to curb undue influence. Present owners may keep all stations but cannot acquire new facilities in the same market, with exceptions. A five year study timeframe is proposed for potential dismantling of combined newspaper broadcasting holdings. no definition of market yet.
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