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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1970
Page
6
Mohawk Airlines notified all 2,500 employees of a potential shutdown beginning Wednesday if pilots union ALPA calls a strike. President Russell Stephenson said negotiations continue in Washington with slight progress and hope for a settlement before the deadline.
In Seattle, two University of Washington professors propose discarding nonrecyclable solid waste by compacting it to sink into deep ocean trenches. They argue trenches’ depth and tectonic movement will carry waste far beneath the crust, into the earth’s interior, with geologic slowness.
Juarez Mexico AP reports quickie divorces ended by a stricter six week residency and mutual court appearance rule. The old Chitmalma state law allowed a one party appearance and rapid mutual consent divorces attracting millions from Americans. Over 1,000 last minute petitions were filed in three days as lawyers and clerks worked to process. No new applications under the 1933 statute were accepted after midnight Saturday. The new statute, while conservative, remains more lenient than broader Mexican laws requiring 90 days residency and waiting period.
Hanoi approved Christmas and New Year gift parcels for U.S. pilots held by North Vietnam. The Vietnam News Agency said each parcel may weigh 11 pounds, up from 6.6 pounds, and must be mailed through Moscow under existing procedures.
Mrs Lyndon B Johnson said former president Lyndon B Johnson gets White House world events briefings every Friday and discusses issues by phone at his Texas ranch with Cabinet members and Henry Kissinger. She added Nixon calls occasionally and Johnson has had one or two talks with Vice President Spiro Agnew on Issues and Answers.
Pentagon sources say North Vietnamese troops have stepped up infiltrations into South Vietnam in 1970. Analysts estimate about 60,000 NVA soldiers crossed into the south in the first ten months and roughly 20,000 were diverted to Cambodia.
Grand jury in San Jose meets to assess violence at the October 29 Nixon event while the FBI probes an unverified report a shot was fired. Foreman Ernest Renzel says officials have scarce evidence of a gun being used, though reports swirl from Washington and Key Biscayne. Separate dispatches note North Vietnamese infiltrations and a Kentucky dystrophy survey.
An Iranian DC3 carrying 22 people diverted to Baghdad, Iraq, landing after authorities reluctantly allowed it to land when the American pilot warned of fuel exhaustion. Iraqi officials reported nine hijackers among the passengers, believed Iranian, while Iran demanded the return of all aboard and the hijackers. The plane had earlier refueled in Doha after departing Dubai bound for Bandar Abbas.
The Warren County American Cancer Society unit launches a 1971 public education campaign on cancer prevention. A 10 point program includes anti smoking efforts regular checkups and memorial contributions with education seminars in schools and neighborhoods. Volunteers invited at unit headquarters Warren AIRO Ill. (AP) a black soldier was wounded in a weekend of unrest in Cairo Illinois. Wiley Anderson 21 on leave from Ft Leonard Wood Mo was shot near a church while a minister suffered minor injuries. Police report arson and a lumberyard fire causing 100000 damage linked to racial strife. State troopers were deployed after a sniper attack on the citys police station.
Flanigan and Weston chase a fleeing robber after he shoots at them near East 24th and 25th. Gunfire erupts as they circle the block, a shadowy figure is ordered to stop, and a shotgun blast follows. Det Sgt Chuldzinski reports the wounded suspect staggering from a driveway as the investigation continues.
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