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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1969
Page
6
All City Recreation Football League players must turn in issued gear by 6 p.m. tonight under program head Jim Black. The season is over.
Fifty school children and the Meadville YMCA bus driver escaped injury when their bus, stopped at the Bessemer and Lake Erie crossing, was rear ended by a car driven by Wash A. Harris of Warren Ohio. The bus continued to Conneaut Lake and returned to Meadville. Harris could not stop in time and the car was heavily damaged. Police noted the bus complied with crossing rules. Later, Lake shipping news reported September coal iron ore and grain shipments on the Great Lakes were the heaviest in years.
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird says the Nixon administration will reassess foreign commitments to reduce U S world policeman role. He cites Senate approval of treaties and notes a proposed defense budget near 74 to 78 billion, with withdrawal from Vietnam under way and no 60,000 troops already leaving.
Youngsters will tour Corry for the UNICEF drive starting at 6 30 p m with trick or treat cartons at six party centers. They will return after the 4 1 signal on the fire horn where games and refreshments await. A coin counting party at the Municipal Building totals the evening collection as the Civil Defense unit assists for safety.
Milwaukee civil rights leader Rev. James E. Groppi said his jail experience awakened him spiritually and pledged to devote his life to prisoners. Justice Thurgood Marshall temporarily released him on his own recognizance pending appeal of his 1967 conviction for resisting arrest during an open housing march.
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