Cigarette Smuggling Big Business In Pa Revealed
The first in a four part series reports Joe Smith smuggled 48 000 untaxed cigarette cartons from North Carolina to Philadelphia losing Pennsylvania taxpayers 86 400 in one trip. Officials say organized crime dominates smuggling with corruption, extortion and even murder tied to the trade. Revenue figures place annual losses around 30 million. The scheme involved state police escorts, mafia cards, and bribes to city and state officials. consultants doubt the plausibility, while bootlegging rings operate via warehouses in Winston Salem and Petersburg with payments to guards and officials.
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Pennsylvania
Paul Carpenter
Associated Press
Wester Philadelphia
Joe Smith
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
North Carolina
Philadelphia
Virginia
Smith
Win
Pennsylvania Revenue Department
U.S. Tobacco Journal
Maryland
Hocco Frumento
Frumento
Robert Aliphin
Revenue Department
Aliphin
Allphin
Bureau of Cigarette and Beverage
Federal Athicvals
Smuths
Kentucky
Washington
Man health reformer sheds 155 pounds with mind over diet
Denning J. Connor, once 350 pounds, developed a mental based weight loss method called behavioral reconstruction after trying 14 diets and hospitalizations. He claims to have helped over 500 people through a 16 week mail order program Weight Masters with 80 percent success, emphasizing mental change to stay thin permanently.
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Philadelphia
Denning J. Connor
Iver
Connor
Information on Strangler Case Shifts to Suspect with Mustache
Los Angeles police probing the hillside strangler case seek a mustached limp-walker who allegedly phoned the latest victim, 17 year old Kimberly Diane Martin, a prostitute who took calls by phone. Detectives linked a pay phone at the Hollywood Public Library to the call and a composite sketch was made. Martin’s nude body was found on a hillside lot near downtown, near the site of previous victims, after two paper boys found her Wednesday morning. The investigation advances as authorities assemble new details and pursue the lone suspect lead.
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Los Angeles
Daryl Gates
Kimberly Diane Martin
Miss Martin
Jane Evelyn King
Hollywood Public Library
State Budget Needs Shapp's Signature
Governor Shapp is expected to sign a 1977 78 budget and tax package ending a 10 month funding fight. Senate approved 83 million in budget cuts and a 2.2 percent income tax increase while corporate tax rises and a utilities gross receipts levy are proposed. The plan shifts costs to taxpayers and affects universities and state services.
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Harrisburg
Shapp
Senate
Shappis
Peter Donnelly
Pennsylvania
Clarence Bell
Delaware
Gomche Manbeck
Lebanon
State Transportation Department
Penndot
Bell
Henry Messinger
Bigueau
Messinger
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Penna
Council Against
Hartsdale
New York State
New Jersey
Smath
Gineone
Smyth
Allphins
Stith
Cale Tate
Winston-Salem
N.C
Petersburg
Carolyn
Bill Blakeslee
Lilo
Wisdon
Oklahoma
Othen Hodes
McCulloch
Leisure Time Toys
Columbus Ave
Corry, Pa
Parkhurst Repair
East Smith St
GLO Rat
UKA
Lion Spartansburg
Strangler
Corry
Christ
Nas
City Park
Kibler
Chamber of Commerce
Santa
Meerhoff Appliances
Grice’s Jewelers
Boston
Theodore E.i Step Stebbins
Bins Jr
Harvard University
Yale University
Law 1
Museum of Fine Arts
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