Shapp Strategy Tested as House Prep for Budget Vote
Harrisburg AP reports Gov. Shapp’s plan to split House Republicans faces a test this week as votes on public school aid a tax and the 1971-72 budget loom. Irvis negotiated roll calls in exchange for a $40 million two week temporary appropriation to fund general expenses for 29,000 state workers.
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Harrisburg
Shapp
Chamber
House
K. Leroy Irvis
Senate
Kenneth B. Lee
Lee
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Uly F Field
Richard A. Snyder
Lancaster
Two Fender Benders Reported in Corry Area
Police report two minor collisions Saturday with no injuries and about 700 dollars in damage. At 2 10 p m on Route 8 in Bloomfield Township Jennie Domeracki and June Seeley collided after a left turn. Each car sustained 200 and 175 dollars in damage. At 5 10 p m on Scotts Crossing road Lois Haenel slowed to turn and Rick McFate failed to stay back, causing a second crash with 175 and 150 dollars in damage.
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Corry
Jennie M. Domeracki
Erie
June N. Seeley
Union City
Bloomfield Township
Domeracki
Miss Seeley
Seeley
Scotts Crossing Road
Lois Y. Haenel
R.D. 1
Rick D. McFate
R.D. 2
Pittsfield
Haenel
B52s Venture Inside North Vietnam Again
American bomber raids inside North Vietnam continued as B52s attacked positions near the DMZ and near Cam Lo, with heavy forces pounding suspected troop concentrations near the Laotian border. A search near Burks Garden, Virginia, recovered the body of Uniontown man James Ross and wreckage of his single engine plane after an emergency landing.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
U.S. Command
Burks Garden
Uniontown
Virginia
West Virginia
Tazewell County
James Ross
Civil Air Patrol
Ross
Mercer County
Bluefield
W.va
U.S
Cam Lo
Dmz
Mudh
Fuller
Oil City Child and Waterford Couple Die in Separate Crashes
A 2 year old girl, Lisa A. Evans of Oil City, was crushed when the car she rode in overturned after going off the road. In Ashville, NY, Lloyd Peeples and his wife Laura died after a three car crash near here. Drivers Kelly Short and Dennis Pollaro, plus several passengers, sustained injuries. multiple people were treated and released.
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Oil City
Waterford
Lisa A. Evans
William D. Wise
Franklin
Lisa
Ashville
N.Y
Here
Lloyd Peeples
RD. 1
Laura
WCA
Jamestown
Kelly T. Short
David Engbloom
Falconer
Short
Kim Westerdahl
Richard Johnson
Ponder Third Trial Jury Hung In Panther Murder
Huey P Newton faces a third trial after an 11-1 hung jury in his manslaughter retrial for the 1967 Oakland police killing. He remains free on $50,000 bail as prosecutors weigh another attempt to convict or acquit.
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Oakland
Calif
Black Panther
Huey P. Newton
Superior Court
Harold Howe
Criminal Calendar
Donald Whyte
Marines Dragged Into Generator Scandal
A congressional report links hundreds of faulty generators used by the Marine Corps in Vietnam to contractor influence and petty corruption in low places. The findings, involving Consolidated Diesel Electric Co. and officials including Daniel Elmore and Daniel Ross, suggest failures may have affected combat capability and casualties and have been referred to the Justice Department.
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Washington
Vietnam
U.S
Marine Corps
House Armed Services Investigating Subcommittee
Justice Department
Consolidated Diesel Electric Co
Old Greenwich
Conn
Danang
Solidated
Daniel Elmore
Daniel Ross
Consolidated
Elmore
Ross
Pentagon
Jennings McLain
Apollo 15 crew debriefing begins after moon mission
Apollo 15 astronauts Scott Irwin Worden started a multiweek debriefing at Space Center Houston to detail the 67 hours on the lunar surface and the 2 day voyage. Doctors already completed medical checks and moon rock samples were packed for study. Officials note no quarantine was needed as germs were not feared.
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Irwin
Moon
Okinawa
Air Force
Hawaii
Ellington Air Force Base
Scott
Worden
Order UC Agway To Draw Plan To Halt Pollution
The Department of Environmental Resources ordered Agway Inc Fertilizer Division Union City to prepare and submit a plan to prevent discharges into Commonwealth waters. The action follows two major fish kills in French Creek blamed on Agway, including a recent incident when a valve was damaged at the plant releasing liquid fertilizer.
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Union City
Department of Environmental Resources
Commonwealth
Agway, Inc
Donald A. Lazarchik
Bureau of Sanitary Engineering
Lazarchik
French Creek
A Mauer Of Courage Charlie Slocum Beats The Odds
Charles Slocum, bound by almost total rheumatoid paralysis, runs Slocums Electronics a one man public utility in Corry. He operates a telephone answering service radio paging and dispatching service and last year added Corry's Western Union agency. He was first to help after the Easter Sunday fire that killed five young firefighters, continuing to work daily as the town relied on him.
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Charles Slocum
Corry
Charlie
Slocums Electronics
East Main Street
Western Union
Sherwin-Williams
Gore
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Newton
John Frey
Ruthie A. Ellis
Charles Garry
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State Court of Appeal
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Trewin
Space Center
Lunar
Earth
Solar System
Trwin
Spur Crater
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Nixon
Paul VI
Charlie Slocum
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