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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1970
Page
6
Late Saturday night vandals broke 13 window panes and damaged siding at the Warren Art League Center. League President Abe Schwartz says grounds will be posted and he will personally pay a $50 reward for information leading to the vandals’ arrest and conviction.
U S B52 bombers attacked a new North Vietnamese buildup in South Vietnam’s northern provinces while allied troops hunted for more enemy forces near Cambodia. About 60 B52s dropped nearly 2000 tons on base camps and staging areas along the DMZ and south of Da Nang. South Vietnamese troops reported 45 North Vietnamese soldiers killed and 17 weapons captured, with 4 government troops dead and 16 wounded. U S and South Vietnamese commands said about 9000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong casualties in Cambodia and 201 American battlefield deaths in Cambodia. Five Americans killed and eight wounded in a night attack near Saigon, and Saigon forces reportedly seized the Chup rubber plantation.
A local man set a national record when he installed the Union City VFW officers for the 25th consecutive year. Burch M. Gordon, 72, past commander, led the ceremonies and will likely continue as long as willing. Fred Conklin, newly installed commander, noted Gordon’s long service and the 25-year span may be unmatched. Also listed were Roman Ben, Walter Bojaczko, Glenn Kerr, Russell Hall, Ellsworth Henderson, Jiggs Beers, Frank Pichler, with Alfred C. Breault as immediate past commander. A second item reports Fogelsville’s former Upper Macungie school joining Penn State Allentown for off-campus classes starting next year with 40 freshmen enrolled.
The Erie Strayer Company will hire and train 10 disadvantaged jobless under the JOBS program in a $19,680, 20 week contract approved by Labor Department. Four welders, four assemblers and two spray painters will be employed with on the job training and supportive services. RH Billingsley leads JOBS for the company amid a joint Labor Department and National Alliance of Businessmen effort to create permanent jobs.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports Gov Shafer will issue an executive order requiring officials earning over ten thousand dollars to publicly disclose all outside income and assets. The plan seeks the toughest state disclosure law, applying to governor, staff, and all state commissions and authorities with thresholds of over fifty dollars income and over one thousand dollars assets. The order would have the force of law unless repealed by a future governor.
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