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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1965
Page
1
A fragmentary report notes a disruption near a main road where a rally occurred. The text references May, locations in Pennsylvania, and mentions a valued route with a notable past and present. Details are unclear due to OCR corruption but indicate a public gathering and surrounding activity.
Readable excerpts show North Vietnam and China dismissing an Indian peace plan calling it an offense to Vietnamese people and an aid to U.S. aims. U.S. raids pause while reconnaissance assesses damage. South Vietnam sees continued air sorties. Kosygin urges nonaligned states to condemn U.S. actions. Tunisian note calls Chinese protest unacceptable.
In Vienna for the tenth anniversary of Austria's independence treaty the Big Four ministers eyed a private talk with Soviet counterpart Andrei Gromyko on Viet Nam. Rusk and Stewart hoped for a breakthrough to involve Red China and North Viet Nam, but Western officials sensed Moscow's disinterest. Couve de Murville doubted a moment for peace talks. Kreisky hosted the dinner. Rusk said the gathering was social and offered no real discussion.
An all day protest style debate unfolds in Washington and on 120 campuses as Johnson advisers and academic critics argue U.S. Southeast Asia policy. McGeorge Bundy faces Cornell professor George M Kahin with Rostow and Jordan also aboard. notable scholars join critics. Proceedings aim to explain policy to professors and students amid campus criticism.
A young local driver caused a near accident at the Wright School crossing on East Congress Street. Teachers Glenn Middleton and David Johnson directed students as he advanced, bumped Mr Johnson, and frightened the children. Police will identify the driver after sending the license number to Harrisburg.
Four suburban Pittsburgh youths were held for court after burglaries of schools repair garages and service stations in West Deer Shaler Hampton and Richland townships. The suspects named are Gary W. McAfee 18 Charles L. Myles 19 Kenneth Kletter 18 and Russell Clutter 18. In another brief, Lock Haven State College student Timothy Harry Adams 21 of State College died in a dormitory fire that swept his apartment.
Washington AP reports the Senate blocks Southern attempts to weaken voting rights legislation. No timetable set for passage as House waits for the Senate version. Herman Talmadge warns against suspending constitutional protections in seven states. An attempted nondiscrimination literacy test amendment fails 63 to 148. Also notes Erhard to visit Washington for honorary degree and possible meeting with Johnson.
Erie County court heard two men held for the next term on a pistol without permit charge after a May arrest following a disorderly conduct roundup outside a National Guard Armory dance. Frederick Murphy pleaded not guilty while Eugene Merritt pleaded guilty. both remain on bond. Murphy faces $105 total costs from a prior disorderly conduct conviction. Merritt was fined $34.
Two separate crashes on East Columbus avenue and East Main street left two cars total losses and two damaged, with six figures in damage. Paul F. Smith and Thomas R. Thompson faced drunken driving charges after a 145 a.m. head on collision. Smith from Bear Lake and Thompson from Fort Lauderdale.
The Most Reverend Leonty, age 83, metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America, died yesterday in Syosset New York.
Tax figures for the Corry Area Joint School budget show 1964-era math across Erie and Warren counties, with different millage formulas. Despite three taxing bodies, a $10,000 home faces property taxes ranging from $216 to $288, a spread of $72 per year.
The table explains how six municipalities and two counties in the Corry Area School Jointure set property taxes. All millage uses 1964 figures, reducing millage where bases are strong and raising it where bases are small to balance revenue.
United Nations to set up a watchdog post in Santo Domingo as the ceasefire frays. Indian Maj. Gen. Indarjit Rikhye leads a four‑member UN team reporting on the situation for the Security Council. Rebel radio is knocked off air, and a teenaged bystander is killed by shell fire. Honduran troops form a 260‑strong contingent near Duarte Bridge as part of an inter‑American peace force authorized by the OAS.
Frances Perkins former secretary of labor under FDR died at 89 in Manhattan after a stroke at Midtown Hospital. The colorful reformer who faced anti New Deal hostility led the Labor Department from 1933 to 1945 and left Cornell two weeks earlier as a lecturer. Wirtz and Meany lauded her steadfast support for workers and social protections.
A jury in a nearby criminal court found Glenn L. King of 11 Lemon Street guilty of aggravated assault, a reduced charge from assault with intent to kill after the judge ruled evidence of intoxication could negate the intent to kill. King faces up to three years in jail and a $2,000 fine, with sentencing set for next Thursday.
Downtown traffic moved swiftly last evening as Corry Civil Defense members manned three intersections. Chief Manley Robbins said Mayor Philip Zalznees adaptation kept flow steady between 5 and 6 p.m. Officers Sgt. Raymond Huffman Patrolman Augie Mosier and Patrolman Charles Mack directed signals at Booth Center South and North Center Washington to ease congestion.
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