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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1968
Page
2
The piece argues for expanding piggyback rail service to reduce longhaul trucking on crowded highways. It envisions phasing out longhaul trucking, shifting freight to rails over years, easing highway danger while boosting railroad revenue, despite opposition from trucking interests.
The piece argues that preserving God given liberty requires hard work by current generations for future Americans. It emphasizes that government shapes daily life at local, state, and national levels and that individuals cannot detach from government. A personal duty to ensure efficient government is urged to minimize costs.
New York AP humor column explores a catalog of phobias and fears with playful definitions. It lists varieties from aerophobia and trichophobia to photangiophobia and androphobia, framing everyday anxieties as humorous psychological labels.
Drew Pearson reviews the Whitten amendment fight in Congress to cut enforcement of the Civil Rights Act in schools. Southern senators shift to back the House measure, risking halting desegregation, potential resegregation, and renewed tensions with black communities as federal enforcement faces cuts ahead of a 1968-69 school year. Space program notes discuss a possible moon mission backdrop to this political moment and the race with Soviet space milestones.
Corry barber shop singing society members join Chorusea in a Parade of Quartets at Warren High School auditorium this Saturday. Corry High footballers tied Oil City twice as junior and senior squads both settled for stalemates. Ki Wanis Club met at Hotel Corry with Stewart Long in charge as the local employment service organized the gathering. Pennsylvania Railroad replaced Crossing planks on North Center street with a crushed stone surface. Olive Hixson elected president of Corry Junior High student council. Helen Lewis Long named vice president.
An evocative tour of Colonial Williamsburg contrasts 1770 life with today, inviting readers to walk the cobbled streets, visit the Palace and Capitol, and imagine Washington and Jefferson at work. The piece ties the historic restoration funded by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to a renewed call to elect competent custodians of the republic.
A city Q and A column answers readers on the Washington Street gravel lot plan not paved this year, relocation allowances under urban renewal, and what a housing inspector examines under the city Housing Code. It notes public health and safety focus, plus potential benefits for homeowners and concerns for slum landlords.
On this date in 1954 Italy and Yugoslavia settled their Trieste dispute. Columbus discovered Costa Rica in 1502. Chester A. Arthur born 1830. Picasso born 1881. WWI nearing end as Hindenburg Line breached in 1918. Truman urged meat and egg limits in 1947. Five years ago three American reporters beaten after monk self-immolation in Saigon.
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