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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1977
Page
3
Rex Christner and News staffers in Hutchinson barter 15 bushels of wheat for a year’s subscription, matching about $3.05 a bushel. In two days the paper has traded for 45 bushels, creating a growing mound of wheat in the newspaper’s parking lot. What they will do with it remains unclear.
Dr Marvin Schuster, head of City Hospitals digestive disease unit, makes regular transatlantic trips to treat Morocco's King Hassan II for a stomach disorder. Speaking obliquely, he notes the king is on an unnamed medication and that palaces across Casablanca Rabat and other cities serve as occasional homes.
Dick Gregory and wife and state Sen. Bill Owens fast into a December 21 Washington trial on unlawful protest charges after Thanksgiving arrests near the South African Embassy. They condemn apartheid and detention camps as denial of basic rights.
Two men died and 11 others were wounded on opening day of Pennsylvania’s two week deer season. John Prusak, 41, of West Mifflin, was struck by a shotgun blast near Emporium in Cameron County as 11 year old David Scheidler fired at a big deer. Prusak died at the scene. the shooting was ruled accidental. Norman Hart, 40, of Midland, was killed when his high powered rifle discharged near Miola in Clarion County. The coroner cited an instant fatal head wound. Last year only one fatal shooting occurred during the two week season.
A crowded 30 foot fishing boat from Phu Quoc carries 49 refugees including 25 children toward Khlong Yai Thailand. Thai marine police tow the vessel back out to sea after denying shore access as U S Embassy sources say boat people face a 30 to 50 percent survival risk amid hostile Southeast Asian reception. The oldest aboard is a woman in her 70s and a newborn girl born during the voyage named Freedom. The group runs low on fuel and food after a five day journey with no maps to Australia.
Erie County's jobless rate stayed under 6 percent for a third straight month, at 4.9 percent in October. Total employment fell by 900 to 115,600, while establishment data show 2,100 more workers than a year ago. The report notes a shift in nondurable goods, weekly benefit claims of 3,251, and ongoing “Group D” classification for substantial unemployment.
Western Pennsylvania faces a worsened highway problem, PHIA says. William Gruver cites unmet needs and calls for increased state highway spending and a 3 percent increase in Pennsylvania's nine cent gasoline tax to restore public confidence in PennDOT.
A trespass suit filed by Edwin T. Dunn against The News-Herald and Betty Ann Lytle was withdrawn after the case was slated for jury drawing in Venango County Court. Lawyer Raymond Woodard announced the discontinuance at prothonotary office. Dunn resided at Mercer Road, Franklin. The matter stemmed from a July 24 1975 Consumer Corner piece about the Dunn Portrait Album Plan and referenced numerous Bureau of Consumer Protection complaints from 1974-75.
In Bremerton Washington a man shot and killed his wife Marie Schneider 31 and stepson Andrew Barr 12 and then killed himself while a police dispatcher listened. The suspect Robert Schneider 28 had been shot in the neck by a Brooklyn sniper two years earlier.
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