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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1967
Page
1
Bondholders in Philadelphia area approve a bond issue with date references 417% 31M 819 and 4 098 figures while questions arise over governing code and proper authentication. Names such as Yerry and Charlotte appear among the improvised filings.
Democratic candidate J Fred Kinley urged using the city treasurer as the tax collector for the one per cent income tax to avoid a separate office. The Combined Earned Income Tax Committee debated routing receivership to a municipal office, with potential annual savings of 4000 to 6000 dollars. The committee favored an outside treasurer setup to avoid political entanglements.
A Columbus man Henry Zeyzus, 51, was rescued after being impaled on spikes of a self unloading ensilage wagon. His wife, who found him by chance, helped stop the tractor and he was taken to Corey Memorial Hospital with fractures and facial injuries. The incident occurred during unloading when a gear in the wagon started and threw him. Continued on Page Three.
A Union Pacific freight train collided with a 52 passenger bus in Waterloo Nebraska. Thomas McMahon the bus driver said the sun blinded him as the crossing was approached. Four children Ronald Clayton 12 David Clayton 9 Maria Joy Jensen 8 Sherri D Smith 11 died. Eight others were injured.
State police halted a truckers strike that created a major traffic jam at a highway intersection near North East. Seventy to eighty trucks backed up U.S. 20 after strikers blocked exits, with about 80 troopers clearing the scene. no injuries or arrests reported.
In eight states truckers opposing a steel-haul strike vote down a settlement with the Teamsters by wide margins. They seek penalty pay for idle time and higher shares of hauling costs. Nightly clashes and rock and gunfire plague steel centers from Ohio to Pennsylvania as 10 000 to 20 000 independent operators join the wildcat action.
About 500 American infantrymen scoured the central highlands near Saigon seeking a newly outfitted North Vietnamese unit, believed to be the 9B regiment, said to have slipped into South Vietnam with about 2,900 men. Airlifted reinforcements and late model weapons supported the search as pressure to block a mid country incursion mounted.
In California snow near a wrecked plane, diary entries recount a 16 year old girl Carla Corbus and her mother Phyllis Oien’s two month survival struggle. Alvin F. Oien remains missing as his stepson and Carla’s father figure is described in the diary.
Erie County field assessor J. Fred Kinley told Council countywide assessments now under way should take effect in 1989. He said the plan aims for a fair 100 percent assessment and invites appeals to court. Corry may adopt county figures or keep its own system, with no cost to access county data.
A 73 year old Corry man, Harry Neff of the Hotel Corry, lies in critical condition at Corry Memorial Hospital after being struck on North Center Street by a car driven by Joseph Pirro, 52, of 227 South Center Street. Neff sustained scalp and forehead lacerations and body abrasions. Police say Pirro’s northbound vehicle struck him after Neff paused about 18 feet from the curb. The ambulance rushed him to the hospital after the 8 p.m. incident occurred almost in front of the hotel.
Corry officials reject granting permission for a Wayne Township independent hauler to use the West Washington street landfill. Council cites risk of uncontrolled volume increases and a difficult to monitor charges, warning a precedent could invite more haulers and complicate waste management.
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