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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1968
Page
6
A police log lists found items and a stray dog incident, plus city hall planning and a charity drive. Notable items include a child's sunglasses found on a porch and a charm bracelet missing since a Fourth Avenue address.
The Senate rejected a ban on interstate mail order rifles and shotguns 53 to 29 while backing a ban on mail order handgun sales. The debate featured Sen Edward Kennedy proposing the rifle ban and Sen Roman Hruska pushing a more limited approach to handgun sales.
Two of seven men who escaped Bradford County prison in March have been sentenced in Missouri to five year federal terms for interstate transportation of a stolen auto. David Red of Athens and Gerald Timberlake of Troy were captured near Columbia, Missouri, two days after the breakout. Authorities will seek detainers to bring them back to Bradford County to face prison breach charges.
Linda LeClair, 20, who lived off campus with her boyfriend, will remain a Barnard student. President Martha Peterson reversed an earlier decision, saying continued enrollment is allowed though her actions are not condoned. A student faculty council had given a mild sanction, removing campus privileges. A petition by 35 students protested the override. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Carman Scadden in Corry Memorial Hospital.
Services for Mrs. Sylvia May Wiley were held at 2 p.m. yesterday at the Union City United Methodist Church, formerly the Evangelical United Brethren Church. Officiating were Rev. Donald St. Clair and Rev. Claude Groters. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery. Family and friends from Waterford, Girard, Wattsburg, Meadville, Townville, Cambridge Springs, Saegertown, and Alexandria attended. bearers included James and Robert Artman, John Kibbe, Norman Foy, George Wilcox, and Warren Willey.
Nang area Marines and tanks fought a day-long engagement against stiff North Vietnamese opposition. With air support from fighter bombers helicopter gunships and artillery the Marines reported 131 enemy killed 26 Marines killed and 37 wounded before contact was broken. Air Force B52s later raided Viet Cong concentrations and bunkers south of Saigon.
Jere Truex, 22, confined by polio, will earn magna cum laude honors with a bachelor’s in business administration at Taylor University in Upland Indiana. He never attended classes in person, studying via a two way phone link and books from his farmhouse as professors visited to teach. He maintained a 3.85 GPA over four years and aims to be self supporting and community oriented.
In Paris unrest pours from the university and Renault plants as students resist the established order. Police reserve calls accompany negotiations while TV appeals urge calm. Strikes disrupt newspaper distribution and calls for independence from government control grow amid ongoing demonstrations.
The government seeks to clear occupied plants and universities by mobilizing about 10,000 police reserves in addition to 60,000 already on duty to restore order and control.
In Miami McCarthy and Kennedy will address the AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education in San Francisco next Monday. Aides say Kennedy will speak 8 to 8:30 a.m. followed by McCarthy from 8:30 to 9 a.m. A question and answer session will follow.
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