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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1965
Page
4
An editorial critiques the motivation behind urging people to vote and questions how easy or hard it should be to register. It argues against special voter registrations, suggesting making registration more difficult to obtain the right to vote. The piece mentions racial tensions in the deep south and warns against provoking voters to act negatively instead of positively.
Hal Boyle lists small verities to treasure in hard days from sailing boats and church bells to puppies and home cash finds. He recalls airport greetings, lightning shows, a good book, and kind deeds as bright threads in a troubled era, urging hope and humanity.
Fragmented OCR shows publisher names and advertising sections. Repeats and misread lines cover printing offices and republication rights with addresses in Chicago Philadelphia New York and details about second class mail.
In Natchez and Jackson Mississippi NAACP leader George Metcalf’s car was bombed amid a spike in violence linked to voting rights. Medgar Evers warns of rising danger as only four Mississippi registrars exist for eighty five counties, delaying black voter registration and prompting threats of armed self defense.
Meadville. A two year old boy from West Homestead wandered from his parents camper trailer and was found at 3 a.m. near a culvert by Espyville on Pymatuning Lake. Don Ryan of Espyville delivered the child after a car avoided him, and State Police were notified. The boy wore red flannel pajamas and suffered no injuries.
Seventy five years ago today American troops held Tokyo Bay as the stage for Japan’s formal surrender, while Washington marked peacetime shifts with mixed outlooks. News noted meat and gasoline brighter, unemployment proposals uncertain, and a 19 billion cut in the federal budget. Corry paused for Labor Day with no general observance and public schools set to reopen under new superintendent Milon Brown. A benefit game for Keystone hoops drew interest from Old Timers and Charley Greening's Independents. Birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Merle Newhouse announced. Rotary leader 8 S McMichael paid a formal visit to Corry.
Across ten major cotton states mechanized picker use jumped from 500 000 seasonal workers in 1961 to 250 000 fewer employed today. California remains highly mechanized while Texas Arkansas Georgia and others cut labor needs sharply. About 230 000 seasonal workers will harvest nearly 13 million acres this year as agencies note former workers moved to low skill industries. Also a Haiti feature recalls Christopher Columbus era and Haiti’s historic struggles as a nation.
Jim Bishop recalls Christophe’s Sans Souci palace near Cap Haitien and the mountain citadel built to resist French forces from 1804 to 1820. The massive fortifications, 225 foot walls, storerooms, gun galleries, and a star apple tree remain as ruins after Christophe’s death by lead ball and quicklime burial.
A congressional panel reports the federal civilian employee count rose by 34 471 in the prior month, the largest monthly increase since June 1962. The July total reached 2 542 590.
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