Johnson Criticism Continues Over South Vietnam Action
Washington AP reports criticism grows that the Johnson administration escalates the war with a ground operation in the DMZ area near South Vietnam. Supporters see it as a defensive move while senators warn it risks broader conflict and possible Chinese intervention.
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Washington
Tohnson
U.S
State Department
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Johnson
John Sherman Cooper
Rky
North
New Bill Seeks Stricter Annexation Limits in Erie County
Harrisburg moves to curb second class township annexations by boroughs and cities, requiring all or none annexations with limited partial exceptions. The measure targets Corry Wayne Township disputes over golf course areas and city services. A separate bill would allow townships to seize water systems via eminent domain without PUC approval.
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Harrisburg
Erie County
House of Representatives
Corry
Golf Commission
Municipal Authority
Wayne Township
House Committee On
Public Utility Commission
House
Committee On
Hospital needs and appeal questions and answers
The Q and A discuss funding for a Corry Memorial Hospital Long Term Care addition. If the $550,000 fund drive is not subscribed the project must be reduced to fit the subscription and the government would cover only one third of a smaller project from the $961,607 provisional allocation. Nursing care will rely mainly on nursing aides with about twenty aides planned after April 1997. The current building is 33,429 square feet and the addition adds 26,600 square feet, about 80 percent more space.
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Corry Memorial Hospital
Corry
Journal Wins Top Award Among State Newspapers
The Corry Evening Journal was named a sweepstakes winner in the 1967 Keystone Press Awards. Editors George R. Sample and William Eaton earned honors for editorials local government news series and sports pictures as the Journal shared top honors with six papers.
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Journal
Corry Evening Journal Today
Keystone Press Awards
the Journal
Pittsburgh Press
Chester Delaware County Daily Times
Clearfield Progress
Doylestown Daily Intelligencer
Ardmore Main Line Times
William Eaton
Marines invade buffer zone to oust North Vietnamese artillery
North Vietnamese artillery, rockets and mortars had used the demilitarized zone as a sanctuary to strike Marine outposts just south of the zone. Since April 20, four Marine outposts suffered 189 dead and 1,018 wounded as troops advanced to root out the Communists.
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DA Nang
South Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
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Editorial The Choice Is Yours
Corry s community wide appeal to help the hospital serve the city nears a crossroads crisis. The next two weeks are critical as industrial workers are asked to give an hour’s pay a month for 36 months toward 550000. When faced with excuses the piece urges readers to think of loved ones ill and decide if they will support the appeal.
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Corry
Five U.S. Planes Lost In Hanoi Power Plant Raid
U S and South Vietnamese forces drive a pincer in the DMZ near Ben Hai River with 226 Communist troops killed since Thursday. U S Marines report 36 killed and 290 wounded. Navy claims five planes lost in an attack on a Hanoi power plant and says MIGs were shot down in air battles.
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Saigon
U.S
North Vietnam
Hanoi
South China Sea
Ben Hai
North
South Vietnam
U S Air Force pilots down two MIG21 Interceptors near Hanoi
Bulletin from Da Nang reports two MIG21s shot down by FAC Phantom fighters from the 306th TFW as escort for F105 Thunderchiefs on a bombing raid. This raises the total MIGs downed by U S pilots in North Vietnam to sixty six.
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DA Nang
Vietnam
Hanoi
Air Force
City Police Busy With Variety Of Complaints
Two Union City youths, 20 year old Francis B. Malee Jr. and a 17 year old companion, were caught stealing gas from an Erie Lackawanna Railroad truck on Maple Avenue. They paid restitution and $7.50 in costs each after being taken into custody. A 7 p.m. report from Lawrence Airport manager Frank Lucie noted a gun found in a shack near the old archery course off Airport Road, now at the police station for owner claim. Police checked a vacant Duane Street location but found no occupants. A YMCA card belonging to Billy Hammerlee was found on North Center Street in front of Ponder Sunoco Station and placed at the station. Four boys were seen firing a gun in a field behind Coulter’s home and near the airport. one boy admitted being with the group and that the guns belonged to him and his brother.
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Union City
Corry City
Erie Lackawanna
Maple Avenue
Francis B. Malee Jr
Corry Jamestown
Frank Lucie
Lawrence Airport
Airport Road
Lucie
YMCA
Billy Hammerlee
North Center Street
Ponder Sunoco
Harry Coulter
Prospect Street
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Storm Rips Across Pennsylvania With Uprooted Trees and Power Loss
A squall line swept Pennsylvania with high winds and heavy rain, uprooting trees, blowing signs down, and interrupting power and telephone service in scattered areas. A house trailer on the turnpike near Everett was flipped by the gusts. In Wilkes Barre a vacant home roof was torn off and fell onto a 12 000 volt line, cutting electric service to about 7 000 customers. Telephone service was disrupted for about 1 200 to 1 300 customers in the Wilkes Barre area.
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Associated Press
Pennsylvania
Everett
Wilkes-Barre
Pennsylvania Power and Light Co
Wyoming Valley
Bell Telephone Company
Lindbergh Reenactment Flight Reaches Paris Air Show Target
Two American doctors Dr Francis Sommer and Dr John Rieger who departed New York in a single engine plane to replicate Lindberghs 1927 flight landed at Cormeille Airport near Paris. They left New York 20 hours earlier and were diverted from Bourget due to air show traffic.
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Paris
New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Francis Sommer
Barbourville
John Rie~ger
Los Gatos
Calif
Cormeille
le Bourget
Lindbergh
Bourget
Lindbergh 40 Years Later Honored At Roosevelt Field
Garden City New York Forty years after his Spirit of St. Louis flight Charles Lindbergh is honored with a marker ceremony at Roosevelt Field Airmail prize money of 25000 posted by Raymond Orteig spurred the nonstop New York Paris flight Lindbergh declined to attend several observances now 65 he and Anne Lindbergh aged 38th wedding anniversary May 27 live in Darien Conn He is Pan American World Airways director and avoids interviews.
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Garden City N.Y
Charles A. Lindbergh
Spirit of St. Louis
Roosevelt Field
Paris
Raymond Orteig
New York
Lindbergh
Long Island
Roosevelt
Anne
Darien
Conn
Pan American World Airways
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Dmz
Cong Fortress
Clymer
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Clifford Aikens Jr
Here
James Lictus
Lictus
Con Thien
Demilitarized Zone of Vietnam
Editorial
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Cochairman
Homer Bulard
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Johnston
Duane Street
Worth
Marion
John Alcock
A.W. Brown
St. John's
Néld
Cliffton
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