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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1969
Page
4
Local ad copy lists a free band concert at Corry Country Club on Wednesday at 8 p m open to the public, and a Thursday hotel special featuring chicken and biscuit for 1 50. Red Cross donations for Hurricane Camille relief are requested via Corry Chapter YMCA.
Funeral services for James Walter Howles John Drake and Lee S Evans set for the week with viewings listed at H William VanMatre Hunter Bracken Funeral Homes. Interments in Venango Pine Grove Cemeteries. Historic relics report cites John Bellar near Samar finding a buffalo skull. Corry hospital numbers provided for emergencies. Admitted and discharged lists include multiple local residents from Corry and surrounding towns.
A 49 year old Lacyville man was gored in the lower abdomen by a bull after entering the animal’s pasture to retrieve it. The attack occurred as Elwyn VanDeMark and his son Keith, 19, attempted to help the bull. The bull continued to charge after the man was thrown.
A catalog of classic cars includes a 1968 Ford Galaxie 500 4 door hardtop with radio power steering white wall tires and green paint and a 1967 Ambassador 4 door sedan with low mileage. Also listed are a 1967 Ford Galaxie 500 2 door hardtop V8 automatic power steering brakes radio white wall tires black vinyl and yellow, a 1966 Ford Custom 2 door V8 automatic white wall tires radio blue, three Ford Fairlane 500 models, a 1966 Ambassador station wagon V8 power brakes radio all new tires AC, a 1965 Classic 6 cylinder station wagon automatic radio heater white wall tires brown, a 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 4 door automatic radio heater gold and white, a 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 2 door hardtop automatic radio heater white with red interior, a 1967 Jeep Commando 4x4 radio heater low mileage, and a 1964 Oldsmobile 88 2 door hardtop blue and white with power steering brakes radio and heater.
Two rival teachers groups in Pittsburgh approved a no strike contract with the school board guaranteeing a $1,100 base pay hike over 18 months. About 700 teachers at each union meeting praised the agreement as students are set to return to classrooms as scheduled. Leaders credited the PFT for achieving this gain and hailed the proposal as satisfactory.
Santa Barbara County supervisors voted to end welfare payments to five relief recipients living abroad. Three reside in England, one in Canada, and one in the Philippines. The group draws about $1,000 a month in total.
The agreement boosts starting pay from 6500 to 7200 with 7400 this January and 7600 next September. A May 1970 showdown vote will decide future representation, tied to state bargaining proposals. News follows similar actions in Aliquippa and Gateway as classes opened with boycotts.
James H TenHake died Sunday merging at Corry Memorial Hospital. Funeral services were held yesterday at the Jitter Funeral Home in Clymer. Rev. Kelvin Kronemeyer and Rev. Bruce Hin officiated. Burial followed at Holland Cemetery in Clymer. Bearers included Irving Legters Vincent Legters Ronald Legters Jeffery Seblink Roger Ottaway and John White. Attendees came from Jamestown Panama Sherman Findley Lake Rochester Pittsford and Corry.
In Fairbanks Alaska a computer error delayed 1500 students at Lathrop High School after doors opened. Officials blamed the malfunction by the contracted computer firm, leaving teachers and students wandering halls for an hour before classes began.
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