Corry United Fund Drive Reaches Goal With $84,355
Corry Area United Fund reports final totals showing 101 percent of the $89,500 goal and $84,355 collected at a victory dinner at the Corry Motor Lodge. Campaign leaders and division captains honored workers with Good Guy dolls as Labor and community sponsors praised efforts and listed division-by-division receipts and percentages.
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Corry United Fund
Corry
Tains
Gene” Bloom
Edward Kovach
The
United Fund
Bloom
Darwin Wolcott
Dave
Rambling Wreck” Johnson
Leroy “Swivel Hips” Peck
Olin “Coffin Corner” Bracken
Philip “Big Daddy” Zalzneck
Edward
Rogers Steel
Corry Mfg
Erie County Plastics
Ajax
Citizens Corry
Marine Bank and
National Bank of Corry
Monaghan
Rev. DuBois
Johnson
Cohen
Peck
Weber
Zalzneck
Bracken
Area
Young
Industry
Truckers Save Family From Fire in Lincoln Ill
Lincoln Illinois AP report thanks two unnamed truck drivers who saved a family from a second floor fire. Horns woke the Abbotts. they climbed to safety onto a passing truck before firefighters arrived. The home was destroyed. In St Marys Pa, a car crash killed a 2 year old boy. his mother injured.
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Lincoln, Ill
James W. Abbott
Abbotts
ST. Marys
Pennsylvania
Donald Bullers
Ridgway
Family On Welfare Buyers Take FHA Home Loan
In Boston, George Leonard and his family become Massachusetts first welfare recipients to buy a home with an FHA backed loan. Leonard, earning $5,000 yearly in welfare, paid $95 monthly for a two story apartment, now $79 monthly for a 13 room house bought for 35,700 with mortgage, tax, and insurance. Mrs Leonard says, We've been crawling a long time, and now we're walking.
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Boston
George Leonard
Massachusetts
Federal Housing Administration
Stanley Carew
FHA
Leonard
Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity in LSD Slaying
Stephen Kessler, Harvard educated former medical student, acquitted of murdering his mother in law by reason of insanity after a lengthy trial. The jury found him not guilty though he admitted using marijuana and LSD. He is ordered confined to the State Mental Hygiene Authority.
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New York
Stephen Kessler
Supreme Court
Edward Thompson
State
Kessler
Henrietta Kessler
Job Corps Center in California Under Fire for Costs and Discipline
A GAO preliminary study of the Parks Job Corps Center at Pleasanton California shows cost escalation from 128 million to 25.5 million after two years, a 55 percent dropout rate and only a small share of enrollees placed in jobs related to training. Within six days, 93 enrolles faced dismissal for offenses from assault to drug and sexual misconduct. Operated by Litton Systems on a deactivated base 40 miles southeast of San Francisco, the center opened in 1965 and covers 2200 capacity. improvements since then are noted though under study for further changes.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
California
Parks Job Corps Center
Pleasanton
Calif
General Accounting Office
Congress
Senate
House
GAO
Office of Economic Opportunity
Litton Systems, Inc
San Francisco
Report MIG Downed 10 More MiGs In North Vietnam Raids
U S Navy fliers said they shot down a MiG 21 south of Hanoi and destroyed or damaged 10 more MiGs at Phuc Yen airbase while raids on Phuc Yen and Hanoi's Paul Doumer Bridge cost three American fighters and left all three pilots missing. South Korean and Vietnamese forces reported 300 to 350 enemy soldiers trapped near the South China Sea coast with 33 enemy killed so far and light allied casualties.
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Saigon
U.S. Navy
Hanoi
Phuc Yen
Paul Doumer
U.S
South China Sea
Capture Two Escapees On Olean Campus
Two young prison escapees challenged police on the St. Bonaventure University campus in Olean New York firing rifles at officers terrorizing two coeds a woman dean and a security guard before one surrendered in a burst of gunfire the other gave up off campus no injuries reported Gary F Ayers 24 of Atlen and Richard R Gingrich 21 of Annville Pa were halted at a roadblock near a women's dormitory
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Olean
N. Y
St. Bonaventure University
Gary F. Ayers
Atlen
Richard R. Gingrich
Annville
Rumning
UN condemns cease-fire violations in Suez fighting
Firefighters contained oil fires at Nasr and Suez refineries after Israeli shells hit Egyptian targets across the canal in a renewed duel. U Thant sought more UN cease-fire observers as Cairo reported 16 dead and 92 wounded, with extensive refinery damage and plans to ration essentials.
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Associated Press
Egypt
Suez
Suez Canal
U.N. Security Council
Israel
United States
U.N
U Thant
Security Council
Cairo
al Ahram
Nasr
Hamid Mahmoud
Canal
Port Suez
Local Man Sentenced In U S Court
Corry resident Dale McQuiston of 718 West Pleasant Street was sentenced in Erie federal court on two counts of transporting stolen property across state lines. He admitted stealing a check in New Jersey, cashing it in Oklahoma, and faces a youth correction act sentence likely involving parole and prison farm terms, not exceeding six years. McQuiston was indicted last April for burglary of the Corry Concrete Block Co. and for taking blank checks, a check writing machine, and $11.
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Dale €. McQuiston
West Pleasant Street
Erie
U. S
Gerald Weber
McQuiston
New Jersey
Oklahoma
Weber
Corry
Erie County
Corry Concrete Block Co
Bus Driver Dies After Heart Attack Crash In Long Beach
A city bus with 10 passengers ran out of control when its driver, 51 year old Robert O. Wilson, suffered a heart attack. The bus struck a chain-link fence but no passengers were injured. The driver died at the scene.
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Long Beach
Calif
Robert O. Wilson
Corry Reports Pot Arrests Rise in Surrounding Area
Erie officers say marijuana cases have surged over the past 18 months with two arrests targeting local dealer Stephen Nicholas, owner of Illusion of Grandeur in downtown Erie, after an Erie Morning News report bought a gram. In Fredonia, 19-year-old Paul Howard of Glens Falls was arrested at Fredonia State College on a felony marijuana possession charge.
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Erie
Fredonia
Stephen Nicholas
Erie Morning News
N.Y
Paul Howard
Glens Falls
Fredonia State College
Ray Lapenz
Erie Police Department
The
Journal
Nicholas
Lapenz
British Base Law On Free Abortions
London reports a sweeping abortion reform bill passed in the House of Commons ending criminal penalties for elective terminations when liberal conditions are met. The measure takes effect in six months and requires two physicians to affirm risk to the life or health of the pregnant woman, existing children, or a fetus with serious abnormalities.
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London
Britain
House of Commons
Variety Store Opens Tomorrow on First Avenue
The city gains Don Bachofner's Variety Store on First Avenue opening today from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. through the week. A grand opening starts next Monday and runs all week. The shop offers women and children's shoes and rubbers, men's shirts, girls slacks caps knick knacks toys greeting cards and seasonal items.
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Don Bachofner
First Avenue
Bachofner
Seven Richardson children die after insecticide poisoning
ARCADIA Fla AP The Richardson family lost seven children to suspected agricultural insecticide poisoning. Dianne three died after six siblings, all from rice and beans with hogs head meat, perished earlier. Sheriff Cline and pathologist White linked deaths to parathion or malathion. The parents deny poisoning. the home is under investigation as babysitter absence left children unattended.
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Aracadia
Fla
James
Annie Mae Richardson
Dianne
Richardson
DeSoto County
Frank Cline
Millward White
Sarasota
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Gunepwate
Ote Loan
Gene Bloom
Johnston
Job Corps
Ops
Rune
Cline
Asst
John
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