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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1969
Page
1
Miami AP reports local industrialists plan to attend a Friday noon City Council session to press for action as garbage and refuse rates are forecast to rise by about 40 percent. The piece also covers a Cuban raft survivor recounting shark peril and thirst, plus local police incidents and a rat control campaign in Havana.
The Dunkirk harbor near the Niagara Mohawk plant saw the drowning of Rev. Andrew Salter 63, pastor of Bethel Tabernacle Buffalo, after a speedboat wake capsized his boat. Edward Davis 41 of Buffalo was rescued, Salter did not survive. Police and Coast Guard investigate possible negligence.
AP reports U.S. forces clashed with enemy units in multiple skirmishes over 24 hours, with two American helicopters downed and 47 enemy killed in ground fighting. B52 bombers conducted six missions, including a strike on North Vietnamese base camps near the DMZ. A prisoner described infiltrations from Laos and Cambodia. Officials warn of a winter spring offensive and shifts in enemy tactics. Paratroopers uncover 150 bodies near Hue from the 1968 Tet offensive, with about 2,000 civilians dead and 1,000 missing overall in the Hue area.
Six Green Beret officers await court martial for murder and conspiracy after the slaying of Thai Khach Chuyen, an espionage source. Attorneys seek U S intervention to move the case and a notable criminal lawyer may defend Col. Robert Rheault.
Three crashes in the past 24 hours killed five area residents. Victims include one from Cambridge Springs two from Titusville and one from Franklin with a fifth from Tampa Florida. A two-truck crash near Cochranton early yesterday killed two Titusville men.
The U S Army Corps of Engineers commits to a 1 5 million Woodcock Reservoir recreation area in Crawford County as part of the French Creek flood control project, with Union City dam pending a permanent pool if Congress authorizes a design change and local funds exist.
Paul Clark of Davenport Street Spartansburg suffered forehead abrasions and a hip injury after falling about 30 feet at the Firestone plant construction site on Shady Avenue. An electrician for Church and Murdock Co. of Erie he was treated at Corry Memorial Hospital in satisfactory condition after an ambulance rushed him from the site following the accident.
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