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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1977
Page
3
Chad McCray three builds an eight foot snowman with facial details in the weekend snowfall scene across from Corry Area High School. Journal photographer credit to McCray captures the family effort and local chatter as residents make the most of winter weather.
Americus Georgia reports say Buddy Cochran, jailed for ramming his car into a Ku Klux Klan rally, is rumored on a hunger strike though Sheriff Randy Howard questions the reports noting trays of food disappear from his cell. Cochran faces sentencing Thursday at the Sumter County Courthouse. In other notes, Lovely Liz displays mixed reactions to Billy Carter’s Billy Beer on a TV tribute to Elizabeth Taylor helping a Los Angeles hospital wing.
Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl has mounted two square reed cabins on the raft Tigris as preparations begin for a voyage to the unknown later this week. The craft follows a 5,000-year-old Sumerian design, with masts oars and steering gear still to be added before the sea voyage. Actor director John Huston shows improved health after two fall operations but his return home date remains unclear. He underwent heart surgery in September for an aortic aneurysm and had abdominal blockage surgery in October.
Dozens of London firemen halted their national strike for an hour to assist inexperienced army crews in fighting a basement blaze at St Andrew’s Hospital and rescuing patients. Soldiers battled smoke while civil defense units and volunteers supported, with no casualties reported.
Allen Aaron Jackson, 21 in 1974, says a tank ripped him in two, leaving him with only kidneys and bladder intact. Now 24 and living in Chicago, he sues the Army for breach of contract, claiming promised training and employment. The Supreme Court sent the case back to the Court of Claims after a possible error in basic training status was identified. His Chicago lawyers from a San Francisco firm led by Melvin Belli say the ruling renews his chances for damages.
Thousands of demonstrators and counterprotesters clashed on the Ellipse and Lafayette Park behind the White House as the Shah and Empress Farah prepared to land. Mounted police charged, tear gas fired, and arrests were reported. Dynamite and blasting caps were found in Manhattan near Iran Air offices amid growing assertions of Iranian government support for pro Shah factions.
Prime Minister Begin formally invites Egyptian President Sadat to visit Israel via U S envoy Samuel Lewis. Sadat says he is ready to go and calls the trip a sacred duty. Officials say transmission to Cairo will take minutes as Cairo and Jerusalem respond with cautious optimism.
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