Property taxes soar as residents face higher school levy
A Corry city resident said he and his father own 41 city properties and every one shows a 25.5 percent school tax rise. Corry Area School District boosted millage from 18 to 21 and restored the per capita tax, part of a budget up less than 10 percent. Taxpayers flood treasurer Mary Hubley with gripes and phone calls amid merger plans and higher levies.
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Board of Education
Corry Area
Mary Hubley
Corry
Macabre Houston killings yield more buried bodies
Police uncovered additional corpses in a boat stall after a teen confessed to shooting Dean Corll amid a Pasadena youth’s killings linked to a sex perversion. Authorities, aided by missing persons checks, expect more victims as autopsies identify remains and probe multiple suspects.
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Houston
Pasadena
Breck Porter
Dean Allen Corll
Corll
Elmer Wayne Henley
Porter
David Mullican
Odd Two Car Crash Baffles State Police
State Police probe a Route 97 sideswipe near Waterford as two motorists Shorts and Setzner each report the same crash claiming the other crossed the centerline. Shorts visited the barracks later. damage to his car about $100. Investigation continues with both vehicles gone.
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Corry
Waterford
Wallace E. Shorts
Gold suffers biggest drop in European markets
Gold fell sharply in Europe as prices slid four to five dollars an ounce from late trading. Dealers noted a two month low pricing at 109 dollars per ounce in London and Zurich. The weaker gold helped boost the dollar across major European markets.
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London
Europe
Zurich
Frankfurt
Paris
Boy Seeks Help as Search Follows Radio Distress Calls
Rescuers and Albuquerque volunteers using citizens band radios pursue a weakening distress signal from a seven year old boy who says he and his father were rabbit hunting when their pickup rolled. The search area spans about 250 square miles around the Manzano Mountains with Army planes and Civil Air Patrol monitoring the signal.
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Albuquerque
N.M
ACRA-19
Manzano Mountains
Citizens Band
Linda King
ACRA
Manzano Mountain
Darlene Ross
Fontana
Calif
New Mexico
Larry
Civil Air Patrol
Ancona Guard
Agnew Defends Himself Denies Kickback Allegations
Vice President Spiro Agnew branded rumors of kickbacks as damned lies and said he will not resign. He stated he may face a Baltimore grand jury probe, but he sees no indictment and plans to stand on his own and contest the charges publicly. He met with President Nixon to seek support while insisting on his innocence.
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Washington
Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
Maryland
Baltimore
U.S
U.S. Atty
George Beall
Baltimore County
Nixon
Area Crashes Kill Three Injure Two
A Spring Creek teen is listed in critical condition after a motorcycle collision with a car near the Warren County fairgrounds. In separate crashes yesterday and last night, three area residents were killed, including a 12-year-old girl, and a 71-year-old driver remained in guarded condition at Warren General Hospital. Additional incidents included vandals dumping sugar in a car’s gas tank and thefts of gasoline and a gas cap at the same site near Pittsfield. A 1-year-old girl died when her bicycle collided with a car in Greenwood Township. A Philadelphia truck driver died in a fiery Oil City crash involving a Mushroom Transportation tractor trailer. Firefighters trained at Corry Foam Products when a fire occurred near Shady Avenue, captured in a Journal photo by McEldowney.
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Spring Creek
Warren General Hospital
Warren
Andrew Gurdak Jr
R.D.1
Warren County Fairgrounds
Pittsfield
Gurdal
Corry
Julia Ann Skinner
James Exley
Gertrude Teconchuck
R.D.2
Fairgrounds
Greenwood Township
Meadville
Kelley Jo McCrory
Cochranton
Meadville City Hospital
Daniel E. Donner
Jamestown
Philadelphia
Oil City
East
Corry Foam Products
Shady Avenue
Penn Central
Deer Poaching Rises Sharply In Pennsylvania
Harrisburg AP reports deer poaching in Pennsylvania has jumped about 80 percent this year, with 435 illegal kills in the first half versus 269 the same period in 1972. Game Commission chief James A. Brown cites high meat prices and warns that poaching could grow further this fall. He urges recruiting volunteers to report violations and notes penalties for out of season kills. Hidden venison can spoil if not quickly recovered.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
State Game Commission
James A. Brown
Commission
Brown
Prowler Returns August on County Line Road
Two families on County Line road south of Corry report a prowler revisiting their properties in August 1972 and again last night. State police responded but could not locate the intruder. Neighbors arriving at the scene scared the prowler away on foot. Reported by Mr and Mrs Dale Fralick and Mr and Mrs Lewis Jewell.
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Corry
Dale Fralick
Lewis Jewell
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United Farm Workers
Guimarra Vineyards
Lamont
Journal
McEldowney
Prowler
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