Urbanites Get Road Aid and Gas, License Hikes Discussed
Harrisburg AP reports the Transportation Commission approved a 1.6 billion six eleven year plan favoring urban counties 55 to 45. Erie area priorities include the Bayfront Highway and East Side Connector with ongoing debate over funds and rural maintenance amid a PennDOT funding crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
State Transportation Commission
Corry
Penndot
Erie Area Transportation Study Commission
Bayfront
East Side
12Th Street
Glenwood
Peninsula Drive
Erie
C.P. Saupp
District 1
Franklin
Erie Bayfront
Saupp
Erie County
Lottsville
State Transportation Department
Philadelphia
Allegheny
Centre
Lackawanna
Luzerne
Northampton
Montgomery
Delaware
Cambria
Lycoming
Lancaster
Northumberland
Butler
Bedford
Commission
Foreclosure action on Peak ski resort stalls stock trading
Banks from Jamestown and Erie region initiated foreclosure on the Peak n Peak ski and golf resort near Corry. The Peak stock halted on the exchange amid uncertainty about indebtedness and potential bankruptcy options. Creditors likely precede common shareholders. estimated assets may exceed seven million. The resort, opened ten years ago, has been a major local employer and visitor draw.
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Etie
Jamestown
Peek’n Peak
Corry
Stock Exchange
Bankers Trust of
Marine of Erie
Security Peoples Trust of
Erie
Clymer and
Tnn
Wrench Creek
Threats violence end inpatient care at Titusville hospital
Titusville Hospital in Crawford County closes inpatient facilities amid threats and a shooting during a month long employee strike. Forty seven patients are to be sent home or transferred as emergency services will remain open with staffing decisions pending. State police guard premises while union members resist callbacks and firings prompt court involvement in a renegotiated contract that failed to resume full operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Titusville, Pa
Titusville Hospital
Crawford County
American Federation of State
Joseph Jacobs
Harry Martin
Re Law
Elderkin, Martin, Kelly, Messina and Zambaldi
Martin
Jacobs
Corry Area Gets More Game Land
The U S Bureau of Outdoor Recreation approved a 236 grant to the Pennsylvania Game Commission to acquire 218 acres in Erie County for public hunting. Congressman Joseph P. Vigorito said funds will buy land in Wayne township about five miles northwest of Corry for small game and deer hunting and to bolster state game lands with federal and state matching funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ITON
U.S. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Pennsylvania Game Ission
Erie County
Joseph P. Vigorito
Vigorito
Wayne Township
Corry
Pennsylvania
$20 000 Contribution Stirs Probe of 1970 Campaign Data
Pittsburg AP report says Michael Baker testified he gave Milton Shapp two envelopes of 10 000 dollars each in 1970. The grand jury probe seeks campaign records to verify reporting and legality. Shapp denies knowledge of proper reporting. auditors seek duplicates of 1970 records.
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Pittsburgh
Milton J. Shapp
Michael Baker
Shapp
Baker
U.S
Atty
Samuel J. Orr
State Secretary of Property and Supplies
Frank Hilton
Frank Mazzei
Baker-Shapp
Alex Satinksy
Philadelphia
Corry Area School District declares final offer to teachers
The Corry Area School District says it has issued a final two year contract proposal to the Corry Area Education Association after months of talks. 28 negotiations meetings have occurred as the district seeks to settle before the school opening. Teachers have not yet commented on the offer.
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Corry Area School
Corry Area Education Association
WAEA
Krepps
Daniel
Scannell
CAHA
Tne
Corry
Pennsylvania State Education Association
Fall From Horse Kills Erie Woman
Kathleen Birkmire, 18, died at Warren General Hospital after being thrown from a horse near the Dew Drop Camping area in Allegheny Forest, about 14 miles northeast of Warren. She suffered multiple fractures and a head injury after the fall.
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Warney
Warren General Hospital
Kathleen Birkmire
Dew Drop
Allegheny Forest
Warren
Hostages Freed By Rebels
Rebels release 15 hostages from a Japanese airliner in Kuala Lumpur after storming the U S Embassy building. Among freed are U S Consul Robert Stebbins and two other Americans plus a Swedish diplomat. plane heads to Libya with other freed radicals and substitute hostages. Stebbins says terrorists would have killed all 52 captives if demands were not met. plane refueling in Colombo en route Tripoli.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Iwo
Red Army
U.S
Robert Stebbins
Libya
Stebbins
Clovis
Tater
Japan Air Lines Dcb
Colombo
Sri Lanka
Tripoli
Egypt
Aden
CJ Contract Talks Resume
Corry Jamestown talks resume as CJ and iLocal 1097 representatives meet with TAMAW and a U S Mediation official. Language items include holiday pay collection and total economic proposal. tentative agreements on other language issues await union ratification. A legal action over vacation pay collection and withheld checks remains unresolved.
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SUN Undecided
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No Man’s Land
Department of Transportation
Robert Hakim
Central Penn National Bank
Hakim
Carol Lewis
Lewis
Noice
Shrapp
Charles W. Krepps
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