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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1977
Page
7
Lincoln AP Gerald R Ford told Nebraska football players he feels more at home on the gridiron than in academia. Coach Tom Osborne said the team focused on Ford being a former Michigan center rather than a former president.
Bing Crosby, 78, began his England tour in Preston after performing for American servicemen during the war. More than 2,000 fans, mostly middle aged, filled Guild Hall as Crosby sang despite back trouble from a fall. He opened with Ive Got A Dog Named Rover and moved the show to Manchester then London, his first northwestern England appearance since wartime duty at Burtonwood Air Base.
Deborah Sale, vice presidential aide, pleaded guilty in Southampton Justice Court to sunbathing topless on Gibson Beach August 20. She faces sentencing next Thursday. She was among over a dozen cited this year for violating the town’s nude sunbathing ordinance. She said she was lying face down with the top untied when police cited her.
Santa Monica AP Walter Pidgeon the veteran film star is recovering from brain and lung blood clots that sent him to St John s Hospital on August 4 for surgery and kept him hospitalized. Spokeswoman Peggy Frank said he is gaining strength daily and doctors have not yet set a return date to his Bel Air home.
Pennsylvania announces the 1977 78 archery deer season starting at sunrise October 1. A record 225,894 archery licenses were sold, with archer harvests totaling 3.48 deer per hunter in 1976 77. The regular season runs 24 days to October 28, Sunday hunting is banned, and an extended season runs December 26 to January 14 with bow use allowed in late antlered and anterless seasons.
Two Senate committees advance bills to create a strong state energy council and overhaul Civil Defense to manage energy emergencies. The plan grants the council authority to allocate fuel during shortages and shifts local Emergency Preparedness chiefs from political appointees to county commissioners, aiming for swift action ahead of winter 1978. The reframed agency emphasizes rapid statutory power.
Washington urged Congress to ease steel water pollution duties by extending deadlines beyond July 1, 1979 and tailoring systems to local needs. In West Virginia a Beaver County man, Donald North, 20, was jailed without bail for allegedly shooting Ronnie Kasanovich, 19. Pittsburgh plans to borrow up to 20 million while awaiting a 62 million state education appropriation, with monthly loan costs estimated between 30,000 and 40,000. Clairton School Board considers suspending coach Pat Risha for altering a graduating athlete's transcript, linked to Eric Johnson, 1977 Clairton graduate. Madison's Elvehjem Art Center hosts Masters of the Camera, an exhibit of 20th century American photography.
Mat thew Miller, 19, has sat through Star Wars 100 times at Mall Cinema in Wichita. He says he may seek a Guinness World Record if interested, noting the film’s 125 minute length gives him 208 hours 20 minutes of total viewing. Miller explains he paid $3 per ticket for his first shows and now attends sporadically, not aiming for a specific total yet. He owns Star Wars memorabilia and does not rule out further viewings.
A proposed 2625 mile 12 billion dollar natural gas pipeline from Alaska and the Mackenzie River delta through Canada to the northern United States has prompted an intensive environmental impact inquiry. Justice Thomas R. Berger of the British Columbia Supreme Court leads hearings in remote Indian and Eskimo villages inviting informal testimony in native languages per The Compass publication.
Local page notes residents returning from a Canadian silver mines trip and a Michigan tour with a Sherman senior group. Several visits and remembrances across families including Marsh Bemis Wallace and Willey, hospital recoveries for Hayes and Willey, and social events at the Conservation Club and Hi Neighbor Club.
Local social updates include Mrs. Merton Bemis hosting in October and visits by Mrs. Glen Evans a Corry hospital patient. Families in Conneaut Lake and nearby areas, including the Humphreys and VanEardens, share recent gatherings and overnight stays. A community church family night with the Good News Singers is set for Friday September 20 at 6 pm.
The Association of Argentine Tractor Manufacturers reports a record 23,923 tractors produced domestically in 1976, marking a new high for the industry amid ongoing growth.
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