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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1968
Page
4
Spot listings announce an annual pancake supper on Monday December 2 at East Branch Grange Hall serving from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Also notes Corry Beverage distributor delivering beer and soft drinks Friday and Saturday nights until 9 p.m. Phone 665-1002. 5-tf Geedeeteeed testesty.
Hong Kong flu spreads to Colorado, southern Arizona, North Carolina, Philadelphia, and Puerto Rico per the National Communicable Disease Center. About 85 of 155 Shriners returning from Honolulu with the illness in October are affected. Bisbee Arizona reports mild outbreak with 6 percent school absenteeism. At Colorado Springs Air Force Academy nearly 2,000 cadets ill but hospitalization is under 1 percent. Ft Carson and a Colorado base report cases as well. illness rate declines at Ft Carson.
The El News Today lists admissions at Corry Memorial Hospital including Mrs Lloy d Sherlock and Linda Bedow among others. Discharges include Mrs Samson Apps and Mabel White. The report notes the Hong Kong flu outbreak is slowing with nine flu deaths in Riverview Philadelphia and mentions servicemen returning from Asia.
Two local servicemen begin basic training at Fort Dix and Fort Polk before officer and warrant officer schooling under guaranteed enlistment. Marine Cpl. Paul Mountain serves with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 164 in Vietnam, unit of the First Marine Aircraft Wing which earned a Presidential Unit Citation for May 1965 to September 1967. Airman First Class Ralph B. Gruber serves with the 5258th Strategic Wing at U Tapao Airfield Thailand, supporting B52 bombers and KC-135 tankers in the Vietnam air war.
House Republican Leader Gerald Ford says Nixon could let the 10 percent income surtax expire next June if Vietnam war pace and inflation are controlled, but if war accelerates Congress may act. Ford favors resisting continu ing the surtax to fund spending, while Mills and Byrnes caution on tax relief depending on war progress and Senate balance.
Around 1800 the Tidioute valley housed an abandoned settlement after Indians and settlers moved on. A trapper’s daughter feared forest sounds until an owl’s nightly hoot inspired the name Did he hoot which evolved to Tidioute as history and myth merged.
Mrs. Anis Yaiko aged 72 of French Week New York died yesterday afternoon at home. Born April 7 1896 in Pittsburgh she lived in French Creek 80 years. Survived by five daughters two sons and many relatives. Funeral details at Spitzer Funeral Home Clymer with a Requiem High Mass at St Matthias Church. Burial in St Matthias Cemetery.
Anthony Palmer 28 of Pennsauken was shot in the face with a sawed off shotgun by two men in the Latin Casino parking lot. Palmer was taken to Cherry Hill Hospital in satisfactory condition after confronting the suspects who fled in a car.
A plane sank its wheels into soft ground causing extensive damage and likely non repairable. A public air crash investigator was expected to arrive later that morning as police and the Journal staff pursued the identity of Mrs Sharer's father, making 19 calls in Warren and the Corry area with no success.
Laura Burrows died recently and her body lies at Bracken Funeral Home. Friends may call Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Services are Monday at 1 30 p.m. Burial will be in Beaverdam Cemetery.
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