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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1966
Page
7
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Colonel Clifford A. Miller a noted small arms and explosives expert died of a heart attack at Walter Reed General Hospital. A native of Clymer he lived in Culpeper since retirement and was 60 years old. He served in World War I World War II and Korea and helped write the M-1 rifle and 50 caliber machine gun specs. Funeral services will be at Ft Myer Chapel with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.
Officers of the Civil Defense Police Force held a brief ceremony in the Municipal Building on Sunday night to honor retired Corry police chief Harley Drake for his long city law enforcement service. Drake accepted a badge making him an honorary CD policeman, with Theodore Swanson and Manley Robbins Jr presenting. CD chief Ernest Emmons and executor director Clifford Holcomb were noted, with Holcomb absent.
Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania completed a two day stop in Belgrade meeting with President Tito on wheat exports and Cold War tensions. The talks covered Yugoslav U.S. relations disarmament and potential credit issues affecting its economy. Next on the seven nation tour was Prague with focus on commerce and security.
Western New York Rep. Charles E. Goodell outlined a tax sharing scheme as part of the GOP Great Alternatives. The plan would take 3 percent of federal individual income tax receipts and distribute them to states and localities with 90 percent allocated by population and 10 percent reserved for the 17 poorest states.
Goodell, chairman of the House Republican Planning and Research Committee, described grants as essentially unconditional but tied to federal rules forbidding aid that discriminates by race. He estimated a $1.8 billion cost for the current fiscal year and a rise to 5 percent of federal personal income tax revenues by year four. The proposal, Goodell said, differs from the Heller Plan by earmarking aid for local as well.
In New York a young mother with breast cancer and her 1 year old child died by a fifth floor Bronx apartment leap. Marina Jessurun, 25, and her son Santiago perished. Police say suicide and homicide notes were found. The family, living in a $2 a month flat with no food, had $1.13 in bank funds and the mother recently lost her job as a practical nurse. She had sought treatment at Memorial Hospital and had recently arrived from Colombia or Venezuela.
Wilfred Kuhlman 40 of Monongahela Pennsylvania confessed to smothering his wife Leyetta 36 in their bed and was held for return on a murder charge. Harrison Police Chief Al Reid quoted the man who said he killed her after finding her dead last Tuesday. A charge was filed before Washington Pa Alderman Thomas Scurfield.
Two Lakewood youths died in a one car crash on Station Road near 6 Mile Creek when the sports car plunged after a curve loss of control. Milton Harp and David Coratange, both 19, were killed as the car landed atop them. Four Erie teens were injured near North East when a car driven by Duane Roberts, 19, Erie, struck a tree. Patricia Post, 17, Linda Carrick, 17, and William Gifford, 17, were treated for fractures and bruises.
A Santa Claus and his helper were charged with illegal parachute jumping after landing at the Truway Plaza shopping center in Cheektowaga, Buffalo, amid cheers. Clair L. Weimer and Robert J. McDonnell were released on $25 bail each pending arraignment.
NEW YORK AP three youths wrestled 62 year old welfare recipient Philip Fiedler to a sidewalk on the Lower East Side. He pleaded for mercy and offered a dollar, but the assailants poured lye on his head before fleeing. He was hospitalized with severe injuries.
Swarthmore Presbyterian Church in Pennsylvania says Rev. Dr. D Ever Roberts will resign as pastor at a church committee request over his civil rights activities though he says most congregants support him He notes some members tried economic pressure by withholding pledges and cites his participation in demonstrations in Falcr ort Chester and Montgomery Alabama leading to the resignation request
Police described the assault as done “for the thrill or kicks of it,” leaving the victim hospitalized in serious condition with third degree burns to the head face and hands.
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