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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1964
Page
6
The regular Thursday issue of The Journal will not be published tomorrow due to Thanksgiving. The Corry Moose lodge reports Operation Santa Claus donations lagging, with toys to be delivered or picked up at the Moose lodge on East Washington street. Weather outlook calls for eight to twelve degrees above normal then cooler, with weekend precipitation near half an inch.
The Corry Red Cross organization accepted the resignations of two directors Clifford Taylor of General Telephone and Carl Linola formerly of Treford Ford Sales. At the session 14 directors reviewed reports and plans for the future and welcomed new appointee Mrs. Walter Thoms to fill a vacancy.
On a 1959 Atlantic voyage from New Orleans to Le Havre the lone passenger was Lee Harvey Oswald. Four others aboard recall his withdrawn, cynical mood and vague talk of religion and science as they thought he was bound for a university. The trip ended with his return to the United States.
A heavily misspelled note on stationery by Oswald condemns both capitalism and communism. He writes I have lived and sought the answers and although it would be very easy to dupe myself into believing one system is better than the other, I know they are not. The lament appears in a satire or political critique tone.
A 52 year old New York man, Joe David Peirsol of Houghton, was killed in a head on collision on the Ohio Turnpike. His car struck a truck driven by Paul R. Waller, 81, of Mercer Pennsylvania, three miles west of the U S 21 interchange. Waller was hospitalized at Southwest Community Hospital in Berea.
Gov. Scranton urged President Johnson to suspend the Defense Department plan to close the Middletown Air Materiel Center at Olmstead Air Force Base, citing 11 000 civilian jobs and 70 million dollar payroll at stake. He called for a full fact presentation and a January meeting with Secretary McNamara as area leaders form an executive committee to gather information. The move is set to phase out over five years.
Former New York City mayor from 1945 to 1950 William O Dwyer died yesterday from a heart ailment. He later served as ambassador to Mexico after his mayoral term ending in 1950.
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