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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1972
Page
1
City council in a regular meeting quickly approved year end items affecting next year’s budget. Key actions included a refuse contract with Alternate 4 and a transfer station plan, sewer rental increase to 9 dollars, and adoption of revenue sharing funds for capital projects to speed street paving and sewer work.
Erie County Judge Edward Carney directs the Corry police to crack down on Sunday sales breaches of the state's Blue Laws. Eckerd's Drugs and Jaggs IGA Store in Corry are named as violators. Officers must witness purchases and file charges using the judge’s defined list of restricted items and criteria.
Apollo 17 mission ends with a nine second thruster burn aligning the ship for splashdown in the South Pacific, 400 miles southeast of Samoa. Commander Cernan, Schmitt, and Evans await rescue by USS Ticonderoga as weather remains favorable for the homecoming.
US Command reports two B52 bombers and an F111 fighter bomber shot down in the Hanoi Haiphong raid with eight airmen missing. Six missing crewmen from one B52 reportedly captured in Hanoi, seven others rescued in Thailand. Hanoi claims civilian casualties and says Nixon’s bombing won’t yield peace terms. Additional US aircraft losses not ruled out as air war concentrates north of the 20th parallel. One B52 crashed on North Vietnamese soil, six crewmen missing. another limped to Thailand after a near miss.
In WARSAW New York twelve Attica inmates arraigned on murder to assault charges as 37 indictments from a special grand jury are opened in the county courthouse in this upstate village.
City police cite a snowmobile operator for driving on streets marking the season’s first crackdown. Charles 8 French, 17, of R D 3 Corry faces a state charge filed with District Justice Porter Auer as authorities warn of continued enforcement amid recent snowmobile related fatalities.
Kansas City AP report says former President Truman, 88, in very serious condition with kidneys less than 10 percent effective and a weakened erratic heart. He remains semiconscious but alert enough to speak. doctors note fluid buildup risk and limited protein absorption from tube feeding.
The Interior Department proposes locating coal fired plants near cities needing electricity to avoid Southwest air pollution. A 1-year study found transporting coal from Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Nevada costs similar to building plants locally. Environmentalists seek strict clean air enforcement and halt to dustier air, while noting environmental harms from coal strip mining and visual impact. The report calls for better pollution controls and notes no practical alternative to meet 20 year power needs.
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