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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1965
Page
6
Police investigate a break in at Persell Elementary School Jamestown reported yesterday. Burglars forced a kindergarten door entered a hallway to the office and forced another door. They damaged a safe but failed to access it or the cash box.
Washington AP reports a controversial $1.75 minimum wage bill, opposed to administration aims, has been sidelined by a home rule priority for DC. The measure, advancing only on select Mondays, faces further delays as Speaker McCormack refuses Monday consideration to avoid clashing with the DC home rule bill. The bill would lift the base to $1.75 by 1968 for 29.6 million workers and extend coverage to 7.9 million farm and small business workers. overtime provisions and broader coverage were reduced during committee review. Debate continues as Congress faces possible adjournment by Oct. 11.
At a $100-a-plate Greater Chester Movement dinner in Chester Pennsylvania former President Dwight Eisenhower and Governor William Scranton shared the speakers platform. Eisenhower urged local action to tackle Chester economic problems before federal poverty programs. Scranton criticized nations ignoring human rights saying other free world nations have progressed more than the United States. Judge Leon Higginbotham urged action over patience noting that today's Negroes will not accept second class citizenship.
Pope Paul VI will meet Protestant Orthodox and Jewish leaders at the United Nations on the path to world peace. The schedule adds a Vatican pavilion visit at the World's Fair and a mass at Yankee Stadium during his October 4 New York stop, with a brief spiritual leaders conference at Holy Family Church near UN headquarters.
Erie Eastside Assemblyman Frank Polaski reports a bill to strike the indigent clause from the Erie Soldiers and Sailors Home rules. The measure, to be introduced next week with county-wide co sponsors, targets income eligibility and allows trustees to avoid enforcing the attorney general order until passage.
Hurricane Carol loses intensity while drifting northward into cooler waters. The storm advances at about 12 mph with winds near 85 mph at the center and gales spanning 150 to 200 miles outward. The Miami Weather Bureau reports continued monitoring.
Former Klansman testifies to the House Un-American Activities Committee about Klan violence and secrecy. Rep. Charles Weltner says the witness will aid upcoming public hearings, which will also probe Klan finances and internal power struggles.
The Weather Bureau reported the storm had stalled and would stay essentially stationary today. The center was about 1,300 miles north of due east of Bermuda. Carol was said to pose no threat to land areas for the next day or two.
State and federal highway experts drill sample bores on the Erie County Thruway in a two day probe into deterioration. Engineers from the Pennsylvania Highways Department and the United States Bureau of Public Roads collected base soil samples as Erie County officials said the examination would continue through Friday and possibly into next week.
A Cuban refugee wave reports 87 people fleeing Cuba including the chauffeur of Ramon Castro brother of Fidel Castro. Officials at a refugee center questioned him at length. The group included 19 children and left Cuba due to Castro’s policy on children and communism. They arrived at the Miami area.
Michael Charles Boyer, 21, son of actor Charles Boyer, shot himself at his Beverly Hills home after a dispute with Marilyn Campbell who said she planned to stop seeing him. Witnesses reported a single gunshot and a revolver found near the body. police classified the death as undetermined pending further inquiry.
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