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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1968
Page
6
Warren County residents paid $87.7 per person in school taxes for the past year, ranking 19th among 67 counties for per capita tax collections totaling $3,989,369. The report comes from the State Department of Public Instruction.
Ahmed Rageh Namer 43 and his sons Hussein 20 Abdo 19 pleaded innocent to conspiring to assassinate President elect Nixon. Indicted by a Brooklyn grand jury on four counts including conspiracy and weapon possession. bail reduced to 25000 each but not posted. no trial date set.
Nine Detroit police officers were suspended on charges tied to an off duty incident at a downtown building. They allegedly attacked and beat several Negro teenagers at a church sponsored dance on November 1. A full report has been sent to the Wayne County prosecutor for possible criminal warrants.
A mixed shelf list covers fiction titles by Hawley McInnes Blish Woodhouse Williams Bonham and Moyes plus reads like True Grit and Donnelly style Westerns. It notes a book review of True Grit focusing on Mattie Ross’s growth and the perilous chase with Roster Cogburn and a sample scene of gunfire and confrontation.
NBC News team described a Viet Cong stronghold as bike convoys passed unchallenged. They noted 300 bicycles and several vehicles along the road with helicopters heard in the distance while reporting from the scene. Premier Abdullah Itifi to remain in office after Helou and the Cabinet rejected his resignation.
Jodrell Bank reports unmanned Soviet Zond 6 circled the moon and appears to head home possibly mirroring Zond 5. Lovell notes similar flight path with Zond 5 recovered in the Indian Ocean. NASA announced three U.S. astronauts will perform a 10 orbit, two hour photography mission on Christmas Eve.
In a Mississippi federal case, the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and three white defendants face a civil verdict of 1 022 500 in damages for the 1986 murder of Ben Chester White. The suit seeks punitive and actual damages for a plot tied to racial tensions and a Dr. Martin Luther King incitement claim. The jurors found liability for the defendants. A related murder case in Natchez involved Avants Fuller and Jones, with mixed outcomes. Separate notes report a murder trial postponement in Mayville due to counsel illness.
A Seamen's Savings Bank computer glitch on Wall Street credited Brooklyn teenager Marguerite Eskenazi 1,156,968.80 dollars after a 40 dollar deposit. She kept her cool, later presenting the pass book to manager H W Bolk as the bank scrambled to fix the error.
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