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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1968
Page
4
Line O Ads list local rates 25 cents for four lines and note noon day2f publication. A rummage sale at Presbyterian Church gym runs Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. contact numbers 668-1674 6635382 and 3130 2 3. Venture Inn advertises Don Watts on the organ Monday through Thursday for a relaxing night with music atmosphere and drinks.
The Boeing 747, a giant swept wing jetliner, rolls off the Everett production line in a public ceremony. Costing about 7. to 7. a million each, it will carry about 490 passengers and fly up to 6,000 miles at 625 mph. Secretary of Commerce C. R. Smith attends with 1,200 guests as 26 stewardesses splash champagne.
BAL cannot summon a physician in emergency. Corry Memorial Hospital and local ambulance numbers listed. Admitted and discharged names include Mrs. Albert Popovich, Mrs. Clara Riley, Dennis Eastman, Mrs. Dalton Weidner, and others in Spartansburg, Clymer, Kennedy, and surrounding towns with street addresses and relatives noted.
In Sheffield England Joy Phillips built a 62 foot steel yacht for a world voyage. The craft was christened with a rum bottle smashed across the bow, then launched but sank into the water during the ceremony.
Nixon announces crime fighting proposals including a national academy of law enforcement and a high level crime fighting council. He pledges Social Security cost of living increases for the elderly and intensifies attacks on Humphrey and Wallace as he tours Michigan Pennsylvania and New York. A regional telecast in Atlanta precedes a speech in Spartanburg and aides note a measured pace to avoid early overexposure.
In Athens the government announced a 94 percent yes vote for a new Greek constitution, curbing the king's authority and tightening control while promising parliamentary return. Martial law stays, about 2,100 leftists imprisoned, and 12 ex-deputies under house arrest or exile. Queen Frederika loses her pension. King Constantine and Crown Prince Paul maintain allowances.
Pittsburgh governor Shafer on television warned Republicans that George Wallace offers a superficial sense of satisfaction to voters. He argued Wallace’s simple solutions mislead the public as polls show Wallace at about 10 percent in Pennsylvania while Nixon leads.
The Portland Zoo welcomed its seventh elephant in six years on Sunday. The newborn female weighed 200 pounds and stood 36 inches from shoulder to ground. Mother is Oakland Effie and father Thonglaw, who sired all the baby elephants.
Government reports describe a five village advance by commando troops to defend the Thuong Duc district headquarters and camp near the Laos border. Casualties run to at least 12 government soldiers killed and 25 wounded over three days. enemy losses remain unconfirmed. Refugees fled Ha Tan as B52 bombers targeted positions and a market area, while a church and school were left intact.
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