Mail Registration Amid Post Office Chaos In Erie County
Erie County faces delays and legal action as mail voter registration launches amid post office mix ups. Delia Desser reports only 338 county residents used the service, with 298 new voters. A postal ruling chaos prompted crews to retrieve forms, while a Corry post office stays ready. A suit led by GOP leader Roger Richards moves to block mail registrations, awaiting Commonwealth Court handling.
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Corry
John Wascak
Ur Ranton
Erie County
Delia Desser
The
Journal
aCe Say
Erie
Edward H. Carney
Carney
GOP
Roger W. Richards
Monwealth Court
Richards
County Voter Registration Commission
John W. English
State Secretary of the Commonwealth
Dolores Tucker
Robert Kane
Amentea
Tucker
Commonwealth Court
Mead Park Youths Held On Drug Possession
Two Corry boys reading a Thursday Journal drug roundup at Mead Park were spotted by a caretaker. Police found a plastic bag of marijuana on the table and charged the youths with possession. They were taken to Erie County Juvenile Court for processing.
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Corry
Journal
Mead Park
Kenneth Nichols
Erie County
Shapp to Stay at Hotel Amid Legionnaires Crisis
Gov. Milton Shapp will relocate to the Bellevue-Stratford in Philadelphia for a Monday night stay to signal confidence in the city’s hotels amid the Legionnaires disease outbreak. The move follows public relations pressure from the hotel’s firm Spiro and Associates and aims to counter declining tourist activity linked to the illness. Health officials have tied multiple deaths and illnesses to the Legion convention area while investigations found no direct causal link to the hotel itself.
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Harrisburg
Milton J. Shap
Philadelphia
Legionnaires
Shapp
Bellevue-Stratford
Lower Merion
Michael McLaughlin
Bellevue
Spiro and Associates
American Legion
Legion
McLaughlin
Pennsylvania Medical Society
Pennsylvania
Robert Lamb
Moonie visit prompts corruption and crime probes
Two young Moonie recruiters toured Corry selling candy for the Unification Church led by Sun Myung Moon. The group faces probes by Congress on brainwashing claims, U.S. Customs on an alleged cash smuggler, the Federal Reserve on a Bank Holding Act infraction, and the Justice Department over links to the Korean CIA.
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Corry
Unification Church
Church of Sun Myung Moon
New Times
Moon
U.S. Customs
Moonie
Federal Reserve Board
Justice Department
CIA
VW to finance own plant project in Pennsylvania
Volkswagen clears major hurdle for western Pennsylvania plant by dropping a 185 million loan from state pension funds. VW will use its own foreign capacity and banks to fund the project while seeking a 6 million pension loan and a 40 million PICA loan to buy an abandoned Chrysler plant in Westmoreland County. Open could be next year with up to 5000 jobs for Rabbit production.
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Harrisburg
Volkswagen
Pennsylvania
Milton J. Shapp
Siegfreid Hohn
Shapp
Hahn
Toni Schmuecker
Pension Systems
Accident Sends NY Woman To Hospital
A New York state woman was taken to Corry Memorial Hospital after an early morning Route 6 accident two miles east of Columbus. Passenger Paula Beauseigneur 20 of Hornell was in a car driven by Richard Sedlak 20 of Pittsfield who escaped injury. Police reported the vehicle left the road traveling 100 feet on the north shoulder. $25 damage noted to the underside. Beauseigneur was treated for possible back injuries.
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New Yorks
Corry Memorial Hospital
Columbus
Corry
Richard Sedlak
Pittsfield
Paula Beauseigneur
Hornell
N.Y
Sedlak
Beauseigneur
Vo-Tech Center in Corry Eyed for Public Works Funds
Erie County Vo-Tech proposes a Corry skill center at 200000 under the federal Public Works program. The plan, not linked to the Elgin Lab site, awaits funding decisions and eligibility criteria including local unemployment impact and potential reductions. Other projects include water lines, sewers, and a Lake City plant expansion.
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Erie County
Vo-Tech School
Corry
Elgin Lab
Route 6
Waterford
Millcreek
Edinboro
Union City
Girard
Lake City
Summit Township
Group Forms to Attack Racketeering in Pittsburgh
A federal unit of three new attorneys will be funded to combat white collar crime and official corruption under US Attorney Blair A. Griffith in western Pennsylvania. The Strike Force will be dissolved and all 19 prosecutors will operate under Griffith, complementing current organized crime work. Richard Thornburgh, now assistant attorney general for the criminal division, helped plan the program.
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Pittsburgh
Western
Pennsylvania
Atty. Blair A. Griffith
Justice Department
Criminal Division
Griffith
Department of Justice
Griffithe
Richard Thornburgh
Goats Clearing Fire Breaks Save Tax Dollars near Laguna
In California, 1,200 goats clear fire breaks in the Cleveland National Forest west of Mt. Laguna, saving an estimated 30 to 100 dollars per acre versus herbicides or machinery. Ranger Stan Allgeier notes goats target brush like Mountain Mahogany, with 700 new goats added to the 500 already in March, all at no cost to the government or goat owner Fred Chavez.
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Mt, Laguna
Calif
U.S. Forest Service
Cleveland National Forest
Mt. Laguna
National Forest
San Diego
Stan Allgeier
Descanso
Forest Service
Fred Chavez
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Warren W. Bentz
Corry, Pennsylvania
Mead Park ‘Conference
Moonies
Ford
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Public Work Funds
Michael Flatley
Flatley
Ironton, Ohio
Ohio River
Kentucky
Chavez
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