Paragraf and vicinity notes and local police items
Mr and Mrs John L Rose transfer to American Chemical Co in Wayne and Concord townships and Elgin Borough. Martha B Blatt to Mr and Mrs William Sharpe Jr Corry. State Police surveillance of two Eazor Express Co trucks through Crawford County amid strike tensions. Rollin Kibbe charged with soliciting without permit. Real estate transfers recorded in Warren County. Death of Paul V Goodwill of Deland Fla. Erie County tax deadline approaching. Winners of Corry Chrysler Plymouth 1969 auto show draw. Stray dog picked up on White Street. Rock tossed through St Pauls Lutheran Church bulletin board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vicinity
John L. Rose
American Ae Co
Wayne and Concord Townships
Elgin Borough
American Chloride Co
Corry Bridge and Supply Co
Martha B. Blatt
William Sharpe Jr
Corry
Meadville
Crawford County
Eazor Express Co
Kenneth Leeper
Mercer County
Erie County
GM Price Plan Eases Public Uproar and Approval
DETROIT AP General Motors will raise 1969 model car prices by an average of 49 dollars less than Chrysler’s announced increase. President Johnson praised GM for moderating the hike saying it aids price stability and saves consumers about 350 million dollars compared with Chrysler’s plan. Chrysler is reportedly studying a rollback to near GM levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
General Motors
Chrysler
Ic Mn
James O Roche
Johnson
Taipei
Formosa
Yunnan Daily News
Mao Tse-tung
Yurman
Kingdom
Quick Takeoff Jet Tests At LaGuardia
The French built jet prop aircraft, modified by McDonnell-Douglas, is undergoing field trials at LaGuardia. With four large propellers blasting air rearward over the wing, the craft can take off in about 700 feet, allowing operation at smaller air ports and reducing congestion at major hubs.
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la Guardia
McDonnell - Douglas Corp
Fine Bar Owner 100 Maximum In Race Bias
Meadville Tony Damico owner of the Mayflower Cafe was sentenced by Judge P. Richard Thomas to pay the maximum fine of 100 dollars plus costs after a jury convicted him of discrimination based on race and color. The judge said the evidence was overwhelming and noted his prior good reputation. He warned against future discrimination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meadville
Tony Damico
P. Richard Thomas
Thomas
Damico
Pa Mental Escapee Battles Cops in Georgia Standoff
A 43 year old Pennsylvania mental hospital escapee, John E. Purdue of Americus, held off Georgia lawmen for over two hours at a house. He wounded two officers with a shotgun and later slashed his neck with a butcher knife. Purdue’s wife, Lucy Purdue, asked sheriff Fred Chappell to intervene. The injured officers, Sgt. Lynwood McClung and Lt. W H Beauchamp, were hospitalized. Purdue surrendered after tear gas and delayed negotiations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Americus, Ga
Pennsylvania
Fred Chappell
John E. Purdue
Americus
Lynwood McClung
W.H. Beauchamp
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Beauchamp
McClung
Chappell
Purdue
Lucy Purdue
UN Starts 23rd Annual Session Today
The United Nations General Assembly opens its 23rd session with the United States threatening to push a debate on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Thant urged a vote on a bombing halt in North Vietnam, and U.S. protest noted in Washington. The assembly will elect Emilio Arenales Catalan as president and admit Swaziland as the 125th member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations, N.Y
U.N. General Assembly
United States
U Thant
Czechoslovakia
Vietnam
Thant
U.S
North Vietnam
George W. Ball
Paris
General Assembly
Eee
Washington
State Department
Ball
Zdenek Cernik
Security Council
Moscow
Emilio Arenales Catalan
Swazilland
World Organization
Red China
Corry Chief Receives National Pedestrian Safety Citation
Chief of Police Frank Carnegie accepts a Pedestrian Safety Citation on behalf of Corry citizens from Richard Hetho of the Erie County Motor Club. Present are Mrs. Tunnell and James Brown. The award, one of 214 in the United States, honors city efforts to reduce pedestrian fatalities from two in 1986 to zero last year, per Clairence Pulling of the American Automobile Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Carnegie
Citizens of
Erie County Motor Club
Robert Tunnell
Corry
James Brown
United States
American Automobile Association
Clairence K. Pulling
Journal
Johnston
Mexican student strike escalates amid police clashes in city
In Pago Onte city students have been on strike for two months demanding disbanding of the grenaderos and firing of three top police officials. A 25 year old medical student Angel Martinez Velazquez was shot to death. Hospitals report 52 wounded. Snipers on rooftops and gunfire directed at Green Cross Hospital. Police say tensions rose as youths attacked officers with Molotov cocktails and rocks. Electricity cut by suspected short circuit as violence continued in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pago Onteco City
Angel Martinez Velazquez
National University
Green Cross
Mexico
Trucker Killed In Expressway Ramp Crash
Philadelphian Mark Sykes, 40, died yesterday after his truck overturned on the ramp from the Schuylkill Expressway to the Walt Whitman Bridge area. Police reported the fatal crash with Sykes pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators are reviewing the cause of the accident and traffic restrictions were in place during cleanup.
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Philadelphia
Mark Sykes
Schuylkill Expressway
Walt
Evacuate Residents After Blast Near Port Arthur Refinery
Fire and several explosions at the Atlantic Richfield refinery in Port Arthur caused evacuations for about 1,000 residents in the Fairley Addition. Two homes burned, chlorine gas risk suspected, three workers with severe burns taken to Galveston Shriners Burns Institute. Fire under control after hours while the cause remained unknown. Archbishop Luis Alfonso Manogerro, 80, former vicar-general of the Spanish army, died after a long illness.
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Port Arthur
Tex
Atlantic Richfield Co
Groves
J. E. Welk
Velk
Shriners Hospital Burns Institute
Galveston
Atlantic Richfield
R. J. Venable
Porth Arthur
Fairley
Welk
Madrid
Luis Alfonso Manogerro
Sion
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Rollin P. Kibbe
Union City
Kibbe
Norbert Bachemer
Bach
Warren County
Merle C. Dodd
Carl J. Clabbatt
Columbus Township
Clarence S. Hutchinson
George ‘A. Moats
Spring Creek Township
Deland
Fla
Paul V. Goodwill
Alfred Cone
East Washington Street
Warren
Peterson- Blick
Theodore Hubley
Chrysler Plymouth
First Avenue
William Raupach
Brook Street
Betty Shamp
Bear Lake
White Street
Robert Schilling
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
LBJ
Schweiker
Electoral College
Harrisburg
Richard S. Schweiker
U. S
RAF
London
Royal Air Force
Siete
Britten
Ralph A. Lambert
Allentown
Departement of
Mines and Mineral Industries
H. B. Charmbury
Yeater
Pidee
Roberts Furniture and Carpeting
Columbus
Daily
Nderson Bread
Corry Dodge-Mobil
Ivory
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