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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1968
Page
6
Choral singing is planned at the Corry NMCGA in October at 2 50 p m under John Rossbacher. The class meets every other Sunday and ends with a Christmas season concert for YMCA World Service. Participants start at age 15 with no audition and may join by visiting the Y office or calling.
Auditor General Grace M Sloan reports that relief fund checks totaling 4 904 917 are mailed to 2969 communities statewide to volunteer firemen associations payments range from 31 cents to 1204928 with higher sums to Philadelphia and Windham Township Wy with an additional 100 711 withheld from 176 municipalities for not acknowledging last year’s allocation The benefits are paid from the relief fund
The FBI's annual fiscal report states investigations yielded nearly 303 million dollars returned to the government through fines savings and recoveries. For every dollar spent on FBI operations the agency returned about 1.55 dollars.
Elgin Beaverdam Volunteer Hose Co to elect a new slate of officers at a special meeting in the fire hall Thursday night at 9 o clock. Posts to be filled include fire chief two assistant chiefs truck foreman three directors and a trustee. Directors also rule no more equipment loans without board approval at a regular monthly meeting.
Two Army helicopters were downed in the Mekong Delta and 1st Corps area Sunday. Both choppers destroyed but no crewmen killed. two crewmen were wounded, raising U.S. helicopter losses to 675 in South Vietnam. Elsewhere, enemy infiltration damaged 40 homes at a civilian resettlement camp near Quang Nam City with 30 homes destroyed. no immediate casualty report. A tax on net direct premiums of out of state fire insurance companies shows 2 percent collected, with Fire Insurance Fund balance noted as of last June.
Washington Machinists President Roy Siemiller accuses Walter Reuther of trying to raid unions to build a rival federation to AFL-CIO. He cites a Houston plan to pull 22,000 Machinist locals and notes Teamsters support for an independent union in a St. Louis McDonnell Douglas runoff with TEAM and UAW involvement. Balloting showed close three-way totals. runoff set under federal law.
Eleven truck drivers jailed after a rock throwing incident outside Razor Express Pittsburgh terminal were released after apologizing to Judge Arthur Wessel Jr. He canceled 30-day sentences and cut fines from 500 to 100 dollars. The strike at Razor ended after 36 days. Earlier a truck was shot near Mercer on U.S. 19, radiator and wheel hit. driver would not name shooter and planned to wait for pickup. Additionally, Rev. Francis J. Gerst, 86, former Loyola University dean, died in Evanston Illinois.
OTTAWA the federal government adds three hallucinogens to the banned list under the Food and Drug Act. The amendments prohibit offering for sale diethyl tryptamine and its salts DET dimethylryptamine and its salts DMT and dimethoxy amphetamine STP. Thalidomide and LSD were already banned.
The FBI said probes netted 281 Mafia figures convicted in the fiscal period, up from 197 the prior year, with more than 675 awaiting trial on charges tied to the organized crime crackdown. The report notes 2,858 violations and 1,105 convictions under bank robbery statutes and highlights civil rights efforts including the James Earl Ray case. A separate item from Columbus, Ohio, covers Franklin County Grand Jury’s tour of Ohio Penitentiary as it probes rioting with testimony expected from top officials and charges against over 100 convicts.
Sylvan Scolnick, the prosecution's star witness, testified he made false statements to police in a 29 page document about Cosa Nostra involvement and the Karafin case. He recalled the interview with two police officials after the district attorney admitted misled the court about the document's existence.
Longtime Democratic rival and Robert Humphrey’s brother sent a congratulatory telegram to Humphrey. He wrote that those seeking peace in Vietnam have found encouragement and hope and praised his constructive foreign policy stance in the nuclear age. He called Humphrey the only candidate offering concrete proposals to end the war.
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