26 Nov 1976
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1976
Page
1
Fragmentary text notes the approval process for a new panel to serve as civilian commissioner. Key names and precise actions are unclear in the readable fragments, but the item signals a municipal move toward appointing a civilian official and setting potential criteria or board structure.
Fragmented OCR summary mentioning Broun, Colum, and a construction site. Other readable names include Anthony, Blanche, George, and Powers. Events imply an injury and a supervisor, with locations like Ashwille and Des Moines. Details are unclear but suggest a local incident with a person named Corry.
Two pickets from Local 333 protest non union contractor C J Peterson and Son at the Corry Area School District Ve-Tech building on Route 6. Assemblyman Forest Hopkins cites three cosmetology course approval problems including credit hours, teacher ratio and missing equipment, with state approval contingent on equipment by January 1.
Americans held in Mexican jails welcome a new treaty that would allow them to serve sentences in 11.8 prisons and plan to challenge convictions and the treaty in court once they return home. The pact was initiated in Mexico City on Thursday.
A Corry man, Barry Randall, 29, is in undetermined condition after being pinned by a falling tree while felling on Follett road in Wayne Township. He was treated at Corry Memorial Hospital where doctors reported a fractured pelvis. The Elgin Beaverdam volunteer hose company and Corry rescue units assisted at the scene.
At a Harrisburg meeting the Pennsylvania Police Chiefs Association agreed to push in the General Assembly to change juvenile crime rules. They seek release of juvenile offenders names to alert communities of burglars and sex offenders and want 16 year olds charged in court in some cases. They also back color photo licenses and fingerprinting juveniles.
Senator Schweiker urged federal health officials to scrutinize an old basement incinerator at the Bellevue-Stratford hotel as a possible source of the deadly Legionnaires disease. A House subcommittee heard two days of testimony on the illness that killed 29 and sickened 151 after a July American Legion convention there, with calls for a better investigation.
Relief workers battle snow and destroyed roads in Van and Caldiran after a major quake in Muradiye. Officials report 3,027 bodies recovered with fears the toll nears 4,000 as aid flows in from the United Nations Italy and the United States. Rescue teams report chaotic operations, aftershocks, and blocked communications amid heavy snowfall.
Gary Gilmore, 35, nearing his birthday, spent Thanksgiving in solitary at Utah State Prison after starting a hunger strike over denied contact with his girlfriend Nicole Barrett. He refused steak and eggs and turkey, sipping only water and coffee with sugar. Doctors say he is pale and weak but in good shape. without liquids he could last days. The board of Pardons will meet to decide whether to commute his death sentence or reschedule the execution.
A banquet of contrasts marked Thanksgiving across the nation. In Miami a church reenacted the rite with costumed congregants while Plymouth villagers mourned changes for Native tribes, notably the Wampanoag descendant lamenting loss of forests and home. Abnaki in Vermont and Creeks in Alabama celebrated legal gains in tribal status, and Gov. Salmon’s executive order promises land and hunting rights, as Pow Wow crowds in Poarch, Alabama joined in heritage dances. National figures shared meals with the poor, paraded balloons floated in major cities, and a prison holiday dinner scene in Baton Rouge contrasted with expansive charity efforts nationwide.
The Housing Authority of the City of Corry invites the public to an open house at the newly completed elderly housing development in Fourth Ward. Units will be open for inspection from 2 to 5 pm, with tenants moving in next week according to the executive director Virginia Nuxzo.
A 19 year old surfer, Alan M Brenneka of Sunrise Florida, was critically injured by a five to six foot shark about 40 yards offshore in Delray Beach. Two bystanders Mark Schroeder and Jatin McCurdy helped bring him to shore as police closed the beach.
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