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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1968
Page
4
Moose Lodge hosts a card party on Tuesday September 24 at 7 45 p m For reservations call 663 5673 or 668 7251.
Dr Charles Walters York District School Superintendent announced all York schools would reopen today after a wave of walkouts led William Penn High to convene a large student assembly. About 1,700 pupils at William Penn faced disruption as others joined a walkout sparked by police action following Friday's football game. Police arrested John Day, a York man, after shotgun blasts were fired at police headquarters Sunday. no injuries were reported and 10 people were treated at York Hospital Friday night.
Honolulu AP reports Spiro Agnew, the Republican vice presidential candidate, saying the Democrats must be desperate to accuse him of using a contemptuous term for Japanese. Matsunaga of the University of Hawaii had charged him with the slur.
Emergency contact details for Corry Memorial Hospital are listed along with a series of admitted patients including David Moore age 13, Rupert Keppel of Columbus, Donald Tanner of 111 Gould Street, and several others with addresses in Corry Clymer Spar tansburg Jamestown and Spring Creek. Discharges include Mrs Guy Hayes and Mrs William Kingsley.
Public notice announces bid requirements for city projects with 10 percent bid security and submission deadline at City Engineer's Office. Also reports private funeral services for Martha Glazer Speiser former state legislator who died at 89 at Gueters Hospital.
A five unit diesel freight from Youngstown to Buffalo derailed west of Ashtabula, sending 40 to 50 coal cars into a pile up at about 70 mph as airbrakes failed. Fire followed the crash, crews evacuated seven hurt workers, and emergency responders fought the blaze. Wreckage spread over a wide area, with oil drained and sand dikes built to contain spills.
Democratic contender Hubert H. Humphrey assails George Wallace's labor and order platform as a hoax for workers in remarks prepared for the Minnesota AFL-CIO Convention. He argues Nixon’s record shows him an enemy of labor while Wallace draws blue collar interest in the North and South. Wallace counters that he has more than 21 percent support as he plans to name a running mate by next Monday in Atlanta. Meanwhile Kennedy urges UN action to relieve famine in eastern Nigeria and Indira Gandhi begins a South American tour.
A 23 year old mother of two known as the miniskirted robber of Fidelity Savings and Loan has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Judge Wallace Gourley indicated a possible reduction if she cooperates with authorities, though she declined FBI cooperation amid claims of two male accomplices. The Pittsburg woman pleaded guilty to the March robbery saying she needed the money to feed her children.
An Altoona Pennsylvania student, William E. Toup, 23, a Columbia University graduate student, was arrested at the Maine New Brunswick border with a small amount of marijuana. His companion, Robert A. Lanus, 95, of Wingdale New York, had charges dropped. Toup was released on $300 bail.
CHICAGO AP A US District Court judge warned Zsa Zsa Gabor of possible jail if she misses a deposition in Leo Durocher’s $1 million suit alleging use of his name in a TV ad violation of contract Durocher joked the Cubs manager needs pitching more than press. The case ties to advertising and publicity, with the Cubs in a late season stretch.
State Police uncovered a huge marijuana cache in an old barn at the end of a dirt road in Morristown near Stowe. Detectives estimate 800 pounds seized, part of an accidental discovery by property owner Mrs. Catherine Taylor who had not visited the site for a year.
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