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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1966
Page
6
The paragraph notes cool conditions with average temperatures about ten degrees below normal. Rain is expected Monday and Tuesday, ending Wednesday, signaling a unsettled start to the week for the area.
MEADVILLE AP A vacant 62 year old two story Springboro Hotel with about 40 rooms burned destroying the building and forcing three residents from an adjoining apartment. Damage estimated at 100000 with cause undetermined. Nearby barber shop grocery store restaurant and laundromat also affected by flames and telephone lines knocked out within a mile.
The Atomic Energy Commission said it conducted a low-yield underground nuclear test at the Nevada test site on Thursday. The blast was not more than 20 000 tons of TNT equivalent and marks the 18th weapons-related test announced this year.
President Johnson awarded Purple Hearts to Maj. Boyd D. Parsons and three other wounded Vietnam veterans during a brief ceremony at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Parsons, 43, of Poca West Virginia, praised his readiness to return to duty as Johnson toured the hospital with daughter Lynda. Also honored were Capt. Frederick W. Straub of Rochester New York Staff Sgt. Isonburg Virginia and Pfc Antonio Dellosso of Newark New Jersey.
In Richmond Kentucky Police Judge Tom Smith first faced brazen theft of his clothes from an automatic laundry, then on Wednesday his portrait was taken from behind his desk in his office inside the police station.
Walter Tuohy, 65, chief executive of Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, died of a heart attack on Thursday in Cleveland. He collapsed at his office while preparing a speech as stockholders pursued a planned merger with Norfolk and Western to form a giant rail network. The merger awaits Interstate Commerce Commission approval amid rival big-system consolidations.
Gov. Scranton signed into law bills boosting rape penalties and expanding the state college loan program. He called criminal assault one of the most heinous crimes and said it must be prevented at all costs.
Senator Mansfield urged peacemaker role as hearings on Johnson Viet Nam policy reveal Democratic splits. Johnson praised by friends and Foreign Relations members, while Democrats seek clear stance amid complex, uncertain U.S. foreign burdens.
At Capitol Hill a 22 minute GOP film titled The Time Is Now was shown to fundraising audiences nationwide. The Republicans call it a dramatic record of Democratic failures and claim the production will pay for itself many times over. F Langhorne Washburn, GOP finance director, noted the $25 000 cost.
Hedy Lamarr files a $5 million suit against the May Co department stores in Los Angeles claiming injury to her reputation and indignities from her January arrest on shoplifting charges. The jury acquitted her on April 22 and she filed suit yesterday.
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