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Damaged OCR fragment mentions eastward structure issues with roofs and rafters down. Police presence or patrols indicated with seven guests or attendees. Details are fragmentary and unclear.
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1973
Page
1
Damaged OCR fragment mentions eastward structure issues with roofs and rafters down. Police presence or patrols indicated with seven guests or attendees. Details are fragmentary and unclear.
Incomplete OCR text shows scattered phrases about a person named Thomas or a job, singing Hawaii, and a court decision. The garbled lines mention parking a van, garbage, a room, and a court, but no coherent event or outcome can be established from the readable fragments.
President Nixon swears in William E. Colby as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Nixon hails him as a true professional and recalls Colby’s work in South Vietnam pacification from 1968 to 1971. Colby, 53, becomes the third CIA chief under Nixon and vows to provide facts with human values.
The last holdout union ordered members to return to work in compliance with Parliament back-to-work legislation. Some locals resisted, with lines at Vancouver Thunder Bay and Winnipeg still blocking trains. D. N. Secord said 96 of 120 locals obeyed. Eastern provinces resumed service. prairies west of Winnipeg normal. grain trains assembling.
TORONTO AP. Abitibi Paper Co. says its three Ontario and Manitoba plants will restart as soon as possible after the railroad strike ends. Two other producers remain shut down and strikes halt Canadian International Paper and Price Co. plants in Quebec and New Brunswick. Parliament ordered railway workers back to work with emergency legislation. The labor actions have caused a newsprint shortage and ongoing negotiations continue.
Police logged six traffic crashes with $1910 in property damage and one injury. Patty J. Willover 42 of Shawnee Drive drove east on East Columbus at high speed, left the road and struck a bank and lawn, then was charged with drunk and reckless driving while her husband Eugene 39 faced disorderly conduct. Willover was hospitalized. A second collision on West Smith Street involved Kathy Morton 22 and Francis Pangham 97. Morton diverted attention to children at roadside before impact.
Holiday activities sent many to the emergency room and CMH over the long weekend. Treatments included a four year old boy with a leg laceration from a brick fall, an eight year old girl with head and hand cuts and finger sprains from a bicycle mishap, and an eleven year old girl with injuries to the hand from a bicycle incident.
Kane, Pa. residents enjoy normal water again after an electrical fire at Kane Water Co. pum ping station damaged equipment and sparked a three day ban on non emergency use. Plant damage estimated at 100000 dollars. Partial service restored Saturday by linking a gasoline powered engine to a pump. Also reports of local injuries from various incidents and a separate blue collar dispute in Chattanooga with police union quotes.
A Los Angeles county grand jury meets to consider indicting former White House aides in the Ellsberg case break-in at Dr Lewis Fielding's Beverly Hills office. Testimony from pending witnesses may push indictments to late today or Wednesday. Potential targets include Ehrlichman Krogh Young and G Gordon Liddy with ties to the Plumbers unit. The case ties to the Pentagon Papers and government misconduct during Ellsberg's indictment. President Nixon faced evolving stand on disclosure of the break-in.
Seven traffic accidents over the weekend kept Corry state police busy while investigating crashes ranging from a motorcycle dog collision to a hit and run. A two car crash on Carter Hill road involved Craig Stadden of Hollywood Florida and Delores Lindsey of Corry. Stadden’s 1965 model ran off the road, crossed and struck Lindsey’s car causing $1100 damage to the Lindsey auto and total loss to Stadden’s. A fence owned by Leon Shumsky was also damaged. Two Corry residents were injured in a one car crash on Route 426 five miles south of Corry when their vehicle left the road and hit guard rails. Driver Gordon Huntley, 40, of the Corry Motor Inn, and passenger James Slagle, 41, of 216 South Street, were hurt. Police say alcohol is believed involved. Corry driver Ralph Swart, 20, faces reckless driving charges after his car left the road Sunday.
A Beaverdam resident named Larry Darnofall stopped on Happy Tow road five miles east of Columbus when his car failed to start. He checked the vehicle, found it engulfed in flames, and alerted the Columbus Fire Department. Fire Chief Thomas Messinger said the 1967 car was a total loss.
Lowell Baker, 58, who wandered in Boise and was known as Tom Brown, is reunited with his wife and family eight weeks after suffering a stroke caused memory loss. A Washington woman in Seaview, reading a Boise news item, helped identify him as missing man from Delta, Colorado. Detective Hugh McNichols coordinated the effort leading to the confirmation.
The summer and Labor Day weekend ended with Pennsylvania contributing little to the national highway death count. Roads stayed jammed as travelers returned from mountains and seashore. The state recorded 12 highway deaths by Monday, four drownings, and several fatal accidents including a homemade airplane crash. A Philadelphia barroom killing followed a reported $2 check dispute. Gas stations faced potential shutdowns, but the Turnpike ran full service. Bradford County saw a 12-year-old killed by a runaway tractor, and other fatalities occurred in Tioga County from a car collision near Liberty.
A 17 year old Corry youth, a motorcycle passenger, faces marijuana possession charges after state police stopped the bike on Route 8 south of Union City. Six bags of marijuana were found. weight will determine misdemeanor or felony, with 30 grams defining a felony. The youth was taken to the Erie County Juvenile Detention Center. The rider faces separate violations for expired inspection and eye protection.
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