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A fragmented OCR item mentions payments, quantities, and possible event details. No clear names, dates, or places are readable to identify the exact notice.
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1974
Page
1
A fragmented OCR item mentions payments, quantities, and possible event details. No clear names, dates, or places are readable to identify the exact notice.
Fragmentary text appears as stray phrases about Mead Urston ink and a round swim reference, with numbers and vague mentions of costs. No coherent event, date, or person emerges to summarize into a proper item.
Heavy snows and high winds sweep the eastern half of the nation after a holiday weekend, causing crashes and fatalities. A Trans World Airlines jet crashed in Virginia killing all 92 aboard. a chartered plane crashed near Stony Point, New York, killing three crew. Two Marines and a child died in a North Carolina boating accident. A Canadian freighter sank off Milwaukee with all 15 crew rescued. Roads closed, airports delayed or canceled, and flood and frost warnings issued from coast to coast amid record snowfall in Detroit, Akron and Mansfield.
Searchers resume for 92 victims after a Trans World Airlines 727 crashed on Mt Weather near a secret government installation in Virginia during a gusty rain storm. The craft disintegrated on impact killing 85 passengers and seven crew. Remains of 23 were found as rescuers sought the cockpit voice recorder and other clues.
Across the Penelec system 460 jobs were eliminated with 300 layoffs reported. In Corry four layoffs have occurred with six employees offered reassignment, two refusing and later laid off. Edward Zarger cited the pend ing rejection of a requested rate increase from the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission as the cause for job losses. The measure affected both bargaining and nonbargaining unit positions plus technicians and professionals.
Rank and file United Mine Workers members in 84-year history begin voting on a tentative contract with Bituminous Coal Operators Association. Early returns show approval in three locals, including Local 1248 at Maple Creek mine 238-223, amid a three-week strike that has idled 23,000 workers and threatens broader job losses.
Lt Gov Ernest P Kline signed a Proclamation of Extreme Emergency to aid snow struck areas in Pennsylvania. About 200000 southwestern residents lost power as towns could hire extra workers and bypass bidding. National Guard alerted though not mobilized. 159 mile Turnpike segment closed. travelers urged to delay trips. West Penn Power reported service outages affecting heat and hot water in Uniontown Connellsville Scottdale and Mount Pleasant areas.
President Ford prepares for a nationally televised news conference to discuss the Soviet arms deal reached in Vladivostok with Leonid Brezhnev. The tentative pact reportedly caps missiles with multiple warheads at 1200 to 1300, with no throw weight limits.
Several area drivers faced hazardous roads in a late fall snowstorm. At Route 6 west of Union City Lauralee Irish 23 spun out and rested on guard rails while a second car Carol Vaughin 21 struck Irish from behind. damage totaled about 500. A second crash on Route 8 south of Union City involved Zelma Thomas 21 rear ending Ronald Shepard 49 where snowblocked roadway. Thomas sustained about 500 damage while Shepard had none.
A Carry man, Lester A. Dennison, 67, died from a heart attack while hunting near Turnpike road. An Ohio resident, Jerry J Courtney, 35, of Findlay, was hospitalized with buckshot wounds after being accidentally shot by Robert Aikents while hunting in Beaverdam area with Dennison and his son Wayne. Coroner ruled the Carry death a heart attack. Courtney listed in satisfactory condition at Corry Memorial Hospital.
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