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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1966
Page
6
A group of Levittown housewives protested high food costs outside Penn Fruit in the Levittown shopping center. They carried signs and said the nationwide demonstration began in Denver and would continue locally.
Corry State Police report two weekend auto accidents. David R. Wyman, 22, of Wattsburg, asleep at the wheel, left Route 6 east of Union City, overturning a car that sustained $2,000 in damage and a building $1,000. A second crash on Route 97 near Waterford killed a cow owned by Marvin Troyer, valued at $300, with no injuries to people.
London AP reports a political storm as Prime Minister Harold Wilson faces censure over the escape of double agent George Blake from Wormwood Scrubs Prison. Scotland Yard watches Communist ships at London docks and embassies while detectives say Blake, 44, may have been spirited out within hours of his jail break.
A son arrived yesterday morning to Mr and Mrs Ashley W Beardsley of Youngsville. The mother is Mary Black formerly. Raymond Dean Piccirillo born Saturday October 22 at Doctors Osteopathic Hospital Erie to Mr and Mrs Tony Piccirillo of 17 West Smith Street. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Raymond Piccirillo Sr of 1318 West Pleasant Street.
The United States asks the Manila summit to include a bid for prisoner exchanges with North Viet Nam in the final statement to be signed at the windup Tuesday. Washington believes Hanoi holds over 100 Americans and has resisted talks via a third party. The International Red Cross has failed to gain access to prisoners. South Viet Nam Premier Nguyen Cao Ky shows sympathy for exchanges to free fliers held by North Viet Nam. Saigon holds most captured North Vietnamese. the U.S. holds 19 sailors from sunken PT boats. Agreement by the North Viet
Post office inspectors probe how two bags of bulk mail were dropped into Lake Michigan on Saturday. The envelopes, sent by the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, contained voter information on proposed constitutional amendments for the November 8 referendum. The material was part of a larger 1,800,000 brochure mailing conducted between August 1 and September 15.
Eddy Arnold the Tennessee Plowboy was named Friday night to the Country Music Hall of Fame. The selection includes Arnold alongside late stars Uncle Dave Macon Jim Denny George D Hay and other deceased members announced at the Hall of Fame ceremony. Also noted is the death of Philadelphia sports writer Ed Delaney at age 56 after a heart attack in Manoa. Delaney began as a copy boy in 1925 and rose to sports editor.
Amid scattered fighting in South Viet Nam, weather again hampered U S air strikes against North Viet Nam. Viet Cong mortar fire hit four South Vietnamese outposts and U S positions in central highlands, while one shell hit a Marine command post near the DMZ. Paratroopers near Da Nang reported light casualties as counterfire followed. A separate Havana wedding palace report claims over 750 Cuban couples married with a 1.50 fee.
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