Students push for rights over discipline in Harrisburg era
A state Education secretary’s Student Advisory Board produced a 14 000 word Student Bill of Rights and Responsibilities proposing no punishment for kissing in halls and open study halls while favoring tenure style protections for students. Critics in Corry say proposals distort discipline and ignore school realities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Pittenger
Harrisburg
Pittenger
State Board of Education
Pennsylvania House Debates School Board Election and Local Bills
A hectic session included bills on Pittsburgh school board elections by referendum, a beer sale measure for stadiums, a Sunday thoroughbred racing bill aiding Commodore Downs and Penn National, and proposed limits on abortions. Other topics covered police leadership remarks, liquor control hearings, tax and municipal funding issues, driver license suspensions, and local appropriations.
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Commodore Downs
Erie County
Penn National
Harrisburg
U.S. Supreme Court
House
Pennsylvania
George Gekas
Liquor Control Committee
David Hayes
Pittsburgh U
Temple U
Lincoln
County Salary Board
Calley tapes reveal mental questions in My Lai case
Secret tapes show Lt. William Calley’s psychiatric interviews after the My Lai killings. Some psychiatrists say he was legally insane, others find no mental disease. Nixon vows review. Calley describes disillusion with the war, confusion over enemy identity, and a personal struggle with guilt as he faces murder charges.
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William Calley
My Lai
Nixon
Calley
My Lal
Attorney General’s Office
Killer fears freedom in a haunting Hawaii crime tale
A memoir-like profile chronicles John Edward Carvalho, a Hawaii killer free for only 16 of 44 years. It details a violent arc from a troubled childhood to repeated prison terms, a fugitive sense of freedom, and a 1959 abduction of a 13 year old Japanese girl on Nimitz Road ending in her death and desecration on Sand Island.
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Oahu State Prison
Hawaii
John Edward Carvalho
John
Carvalho
Honolulu
John Carvalho
Kahalakahua
Nimitz Road
Sand Island
Keehi Lagoon
Oahu
Record of Corry history spans harvests and council bids
In Corry region, August 1 1953 reports a 50 box car shipment effort by the Union City cooperative of the Orange League Federation, a resumed five week Aero Supply strike talks, a 10 cent per 100 pounds charge for small consignments, and a city council short term race with Orris Casler entering for a two year seat amid ongoing freight line changes.
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Pennsylvania
Union City Cooperative
Orange League Federation
Corry
Orris F. Casler
Municipal Commission
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Corry Journal
Victor Westerberg
Kane
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
New York
Compensation Commission
Pittsburgh
Reading
Joseph Zeller
Russell LaMarca
Zeller
West South Street
George R. Sample
William 5. Eaton
Jean McLauphite
Nore
Pola
Mall
Calley Tapes
Washington
Supreme Court
White House
Mama San
Vietnam
New
Reds
442Nd Nisei Regiment
U.S
The
Aero Supply Co. Inc
Erie
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