Memorial Ice Event Shifts to February 27
The memorial ice event scheduled for February 27 has been moved to a new date. Organizers urge participants to confirm updated details and venue arrangements.
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1969
Page
1
The memorial ice event scheduled for February 27 has been moved to a new date. Organizers urge participants to confirm updated details and venue arrangements.
The Associated Press reports teens plan decency rallies in 11 communities after a Miami event drew large crowds. Leaders including Baltimore official Hyman A. Pressman praise the movement. Plans include rallies in Indianapolis Austin Little Rock Cincinnati and more with support from Civic religious and educational groups.
In Philadelphia, 15-year-old Aaron McLaurin died from a 22 caliber pistol slug after classmates Edward Green and Melvin Cinyard used a loaded public safety item at Green's home. The judge ordered custody for study while reducing charges to conspiracy. both youths had no prior record.
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower died at 7:95 p.m. EST after a long battle with heart failure. Brig. Gen. Frederic Hughes Jr. announced at Walter Reed Army Hospital that Eisenhower died peacefully with Mrs. Eisenhower nearby and that Nixon and Lyndon B. Johnson had been notified.
Joseph Kablach, 34, suffered $210 damage when his ice slicked car rear ended a stopped vehicle at a red light. Gertrude Nelson, 21, saw $2 damage to her car. Later, Kablach collided with a backhoe driven by Leland Johnston, 62, as Johnston signaled a turn into Al's Dairy Bar. Johnston noted it was his first crash in 40 years of driving.
Washington AP reports the Women's Army Corps enacted a policy directing chaplains to avoid religious indoctrination while preserving faith context in moral instruction. The move followed an ACLU complaint alleging lectures used to instill religious aims.
Corry area Jaycees rally for religious language in public life. The group aims for 3,000 signatures supporting a return to Bible reading in schools and references to God on currency and in the pledge. They plan to forward the petitions to Congress as part of a statewide drive coordinated from Harrisburg.
Edward C. Moore 20 of R D 3 Corry turned himself in to city police ending the burglary roundup. Moore was arrested on a burglary and larceny charge and arraigned seeking bail. others named include Michael Nadolny 18 Spartansburg Dennis Goodwill 18 Marion Street David A Buell 19 formerly of Corry and a juvenile.
Corry firemen avoided water to prevent cracking the Sea Way Coach Lines brake drum as brakes or bearings ignited on the West South Street terminal just before 4 p.m. Firefighters lacking extinguishing powder used 150 gallons of water until a replacement bus arrived, as passengers waited.
More than 200 North Vietnamese forces ambushed a U S convoy northwest of Saigon for a second day but were repelled by Sheridan light tanks armored personnel carriers planes and helicopter gunships. One Sheridan tank was destroyed by a rocket grenade. four tankers were wounded two seriously. Reports from the Ben Cai rubber plantation place Vietnamese and American casualties at 46 and 3 respectively with three Americans aboard an APC struck by an enemy rocket.
Harold Stanbro, 61, of Spartansburg, was forced off the Corry Spartansburg road when an unidentified motorist attempting to pass cut in sharply. His sedan clipped seven guard posts and overturned down an embankment. he was treated at Corry Memorial Hospital and released. Police estimate $1,000 damage to the car with total loss around $1,800.
City police investigate a break in at the East Columbus Avenue Skat Oil Co station. Burglary yielded a few dollars from a container holding tax money. The intruder kicked in a rear door and moved vending cases to enter. This was the third break in a week in the area.
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