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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1968
Page
4
Local Line-O-Ad notice invites readers to Chicken Barbeque at Brokenstraw Valley Campsites on May 19. Wrightsville Volunteer Fire Department sponsors event. Adults priced at 1.50 and children at 75 cents. Ads accepted until noon on publication day.
The Corry hospital board discusses raised bed capacity and steeper drive grade at the emergency entrance. They plan to request $12,000 from UF again, noting past shortfalls. A new board room will be named for Sidney Elston, with final plans after family discussions. Building fund shows 68 percent completion and $584,162 paid, plus $65,607 for equipment and related costs. Federal state checks total $232,000 toward a $396,955 commitment, reducing prior loans and covering current expenses.
The News Today Report lists admissions and discharges at Corry Memorial Hospital. Names include Mrs Georgia Conant, Horton Davis, Mrs Ruth DeMarco, Mrs Richard Brown, Mrs William Powell, James Wagner, Harold Gilbert, Mrs Claude Ayers, Thomas Bulard, Walter Foster, Ella Phelps, Mrs Joseph Jungfieisen, and Carlyle Fitch with various street addresses and notes of transfer to St. Vincent's Hospital in Erie. Local calls provide emergency physician and ambulance contacts.
A week of heavy downpours unleashed tornadoes and severe storms across Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Indiana, and nearby areas. In Illinois four died in Freeburg near East St Louis and two at Wapella with feared higher tolls due to comms outages. An elderly woman died in Natrona, and a University of Illinois student was electrocuted in Champaign. Missouri and Indiana also reported fatalities and damage including a man struck near Joplin and Shir ley Butcher killed in a Wabash trailer-tornado.
The VFW Garden Room offers Friday dinners with a full menu and new specials. Corry Motor Lodge features Don Watts on organ and Denny Belding on drums on Friday and Saturday, with live entertainment at the venue.
Corry Memorial Hospital announces tomorrow desk volunteers are Mrs. Joseph Gentilman and Miss Mary Helen Curtis.
Estate sale advertised on May 18 listing 50 Holstein cattle 30 milch cows, 5 bred heifers, machinery including Massey Ferguson tractors and plows, combines, wagons, and farm implements. Also an Elgin Pa auction with a large household and furnishings sale, terms cash, auctioneers C B Stockton and Cummings and Jensen, address details and contact numbers included.
Australian troops at a patrol base 25 miles northeast of Saigon repelled two determined waves of ground attacks two hours apart. The defense saw rocket and mortar barrages met by Australian and U S artillery and U S fighter-bombers. The enemy assault was followed by sustained air campaigns against southern North Vietnam.
Final rites for Mrs. Zena Arnold will be held at the Bracken Funeral Home Friday at 11 a.m. Burial follows in Pine Grove Cemetery. Friends may call Thursday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. In weather related notes, a tabulation shows U S planes flew 1513 missions over the area in the first two weeks of May, 127 fewer than in late April. Spokesmen did not comment on whether the decline reflected a conciliatory gesture to North Vietnam amid Paris peace talks.
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