Authority Sets To Urge More Hotel Parking
City hotel seeks more parking along East Park Place to serve guests. Authority votes to forward plan to City Council, aiming for 15 metered spaces with hotel leasing and revenue parity. Discussion of acquiring adjacent property to expand parking, potential future need for 50 spaces. Includes reader letter criticizing city parking and praising the hotel amid downtown shortages.
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City Council
We Parking Authority
West Side
Corry
Authority
Charles LaRocca
Oth LaRocca
LaRocca
Fred Eimers
Ripley
Two City Lots Paying Off Satisfactorily
City Parking Authority reports revenue from two lots on East Washington and Park streets. Lot No 1 has $1 902 in nine months including $1 754 in meter receipts and $148 in violations, averaging $211 monthly. cost $15 000 to be paid in about six and a half years. Lot No 2 shows $590 over nine months with $502 in meter receipts and $88 in violations, averaging $61 monthly. cost $8 800 to be paid in about 10 years.
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East Washington Street
Park Street
City Parking Authority
Corry
John Rossbacher
Rossbacher
Arden Nomination for Bear Lake Postmaster Came After Long Wait
The Associated Press reports President Johnson nominated Michael Arden of Bear Lake for postmaster after a four year wait and a six year vacancy. Arden’s name rose following journal pressure and Civil Service procedures, with approval by Sen. Clark and Senate confirmation pending.
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Associated Press
Johnson
Senate
Michael Arden
R. D. J. Bear Lake
Arden
Bear Lake
Corry
Civil Service Commission
Harvey Martin
Martin
Journal
Post Office Department
Joseph Clark
Kapenstein
Civil Service and
Sen. Clark
Pennsylvania
Clark
Gutemstles
Michael Kuzma
Columbus
Corry Ends With One-Horse Reputation Stir
A late night incident in Corry involved a stray horse that dashed into West Smith Street at 4:30 AM, causing a trucker’s rig to swerve. The horse allegedly kicked the cab fender before fleeing. Police say they know the horse’s owner and will question them.
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Corry
Supe City
West Smith Street
To Raze Site Of Slayings
In Chicago a brick North Side garage where seven of George Bugs Moran’s men were killed on St Valentine Day 1929 is slated for demolition to clear space for an elderly housing project. The front page news recounts the mass execution as the seven were lined up and shot by machine gun fire.
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Chicago
George “Bugs
Moran
Top Roads Problem in Ree Area Access
Meadville Pennsylvania AP reports Northwestern Pennsylvania highway officials see opening rural and recreational areas as the area’s top need. Seven counties told a State Highway Commission hearing that a circulating network must be improved to ease traffic from Pennsylvania New York and Ohio. Corry area needs include relocating Route 277 to eliminate two tight turns and building the Corry Watts Road arc from Corry toward West Main.
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Meadville
Pennsylvania
Northwestern
State Highway Commission
New York
Ohio
Corry
Erie County
Christopher Capotis
Corry Sparta Highway
West Main Street
Corry-Watts‘bare
Carter Hill
Alive After Death Pronounced GI Case Stuns Army
In Vietnam near Chu Lai Specialist 4 Jacky C. Bayne aged 22 from Fort Mill D.C. was declared dead after booby trap wounds. An embalmer’s knife reveal life signs, bayne revived and moved toward recovery at Walter Reed. Army doctors call the case amazing and rare, noting strict death tests. Continued on Page Three.
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Washington
Vietnam
Jacky C. Bayne
Fort Mill
D.C
Chu Lai
Bayne
Walter Reed Hospital
Knight Newspapers
James Batten
Washington: Buren
Walter Reed
Hospital
Army
Loc Ninh battle drives Viet Cong losses to 607
SAIGON AP reports a five day Loc Ninh fight sees American and South Vietnamese troops repelling a predawn assault. Communist casualties reach 607 with 238 killed in this period. Allied losses total eight Americans dead and 32 wounded, 23 South Vietnamese killed and 74 wounded.
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Saigon
Loc Ninh
U.S
278Rd
Dmz
War Goods To Autos 200000 Jobless As Strikes Tie Up Industry
Labor disputes nationwide left over 200000 workers idle and slowed many industries from autos to machine guns. Copper strike neared 111 days with little hope of settlement before year end. Ford UAW contract ratified, but local supplements still unsettled. Maremont plant, Western Electric crews, Mountain States Telephone, and others faced walkouts. negotiations lagged as pay remained the core issue across nineteen unions.
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Associated Press
U.S
Ford Motor Co
United Auto Workers Junion
UAW Ford
New England
Maremont Corp
Saco
Maine
Textile Workers Union of America
Apl-Cio
Colorado
Western Electric Co
New Mexico
Arizona
Texas
Utah
Communications Workers of America
Local 2490
Mountain States Telephone Co
Two Arrested and Store Owner Sought in Penn Student Death
Philadelphia police issued a murder warrant for Stephen Weinstein a 35 year old tobacco shop operator missing since Tuesday in the death of University of Pennsylvania freshman John Walker Green 3d whose body was found in a trunk in the Delaware River. Two teens James Hammell 14 and Vincent Myers 16 were charged as accessories after the fact and admitted helping dispose of the body.
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Delaware River
Edmund Zongolowicz
Stephen Weinstein
John Walker Green
Des Moines
Iowa
Penn
Green
James Hammell
Vincent Myers
Marines view Vietnam war through Corry native gaze
Dennis Rogers, Corry Area High School graduate and Marine corporal, returns from thirteen months in Vietnam with the 3rd Battalion of the 4th Marines. He and fellow Leathernecks critique war tactics, fault the M16 rifle for deaths, and express frustration with draft card burners, urging decisive action to win.
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Dmz
Vietnam
Cpl
Dennis Rogers
Herbert Rogers
Covery
Rogers
Corry Area High School
Pentagon
Hill 881
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