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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1969
Page
2
In Our Opinion the piece argues youth drivers are high risk due to lack of experience and maturity. New York DMV notes deficits in anticipation and self restraint, urging patient learning through time. The piece stresses the hard lesson of highway death and the need to slow down while learning.
A Labor Department look reveals about 3.6 million workers hold two jobs, many as part time. Retail and service sectors increasingly use part timers to fit after dinner shopping and save on fringe benefits. Women dominate part-time retail roles as schedules shift with suburban stores.
A suppressed report to Interior Secretary Hickel alleges mining giants illegally removed as much as $9 million in uranium ore from public lands. It details 16 suspect claims worth about $7.5 million with 59 more accounting for $1.5 million, plus 50 to 100 possible claims. Agencies blamed delay on legal runaround, with no funds set for investigations, while recovery prospects fade.
The writer muses on clergy bias while recalling Archbishop Bernard Sheil of Chicago and his controversial stances. He links Sheil to labor strikes, interfaith clubs, and clashes with church hierarchy, praising some figures and critiquing others, ending with Sheil as a misunderstood pioneer.
TV critic notes minimal visual resemblance between Dick Sargent and Dick Yorke as Sargent debuts as Darrin Stevens in Bewitched. Esmeralda played by Alice Ghostley brings comic magic mishaps. CBS schedule opens with Family Affair, Then That Girl on ABC, Dragnet on NBC, all described with light critique and retro TV flavor.
A crowd estimated near 1500 gathered at Main and South Center streets at 4:30 PM Saturday for Corry Days drawing awarding nine prizes totaling 150 dollars. Gerald Staples caught a 48.5 inch muskellunge from Chautauqua Lake using live bait, weighing 26 pounds. A local group held a covered dish dinner and bridge at the East Smith Street home of Dre and Mrs E H Harmon, with dinner at 7 PM and contract play.
Today in history notes events from 1863 Lincoln proclaims Thanksgiving on the last Thursday in November. 1966 Austria and Italy sign the Treaty of Vienna. Other items reference Johns Hopkins, Siegfried Line actions, British atomic tests near Australia, Warsaw riots in 1957, Khrushchev in 1969, 197? hurricane in Louisiana, Peru coup in 196? and a reader note from The Corky Journal requesting brief legible letters with signatures.
Officials contact details list state representative Forest Hopkins of North Mast and state senator James Willard of Mercer County. It notes contact by mailing to State Capitol Harrisburg PA. Also lists U S senators Hugh Scott and Richard Schweiker with Washington DC office, and Congressman Joseph Vigorito of Erie with House Office Building Washington DC.
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