21 Feb 1977
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1977
Page
1
Fragmented OCR style summary cites federal plan delays and dairy herd context. Mentions calves, weights, market factors, and month by month notes from Penn related officials. Indicates prices around 4.4 and 4.2 and public interest in herd status and market conditions.
Proposed 1978 budget plan by President Carter aims to cut federal funding for 18 water projects in 15 states pending review of usefulness and environmental safety. Officials and governors react with ambivalence while critics fear loss of drought relief. interior secretary says many projects fail safety and cost standards.
Officials at Corry Memorial Hospital await a state official to inspect the facility as it moves toward joining the Pennsylvania Hospital Insurance Company for catastrophic malpractice coverage. Hospital members have contributed 3000 dollars each to support the venture, with premiums potentially rising from 15344 to about 100000 dollars next year. The insurer group covers 112 hospitals and 20000 beds, representing 40 percent of Pennsylvania’s hospitals, though Corry is not yet enrolled. The seed money awaits reimbursement approval, while the federal start date for trial practice setup is January 1, 1976, letting suits filed earlier proceed.
President Carter greets Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau with a gun salute and plans a state dinner as two days of talks begin. Discussions cover nuclear controls, trade and enviro issues, while Carter hints at cutting 1978 budget funding for water projects and possible defense savings.
Consumer complaints about property and casualty insurance will be handled by ICAP an industry backed mediation panel. The one year program operates via referrals from state insurance commissioners Michigan Mississippi Montana and Utah with contact at Patricia Borowski National Association of Mutual Insurance Agents in Washington DC.
Wesley Schalamon, 43, crossed western Lake Erie a week after his initial ice crossing, this time from Port Colchester Ontario to near Valley City on Kissimmee the horse. He rode part of the way and walked the rest to manage a slippery surface as Coast Guard warns ice near shore.
In Coos Bay Oregon the Merritt Lake and another Coos Bay area reservoir fall to under 10 percent capacity from their usual 730 million gallons. Conservation is taught in local schools and unwashed cars symbolize civic duty. A half hour of rainfall yielded little help, with open water shrinking and crossing a gap described by Schalamon who crossed with his dog Katya and a friend Daniel Greene of Cleveland. His son Bret’s horse was lame, delaying a planned trip.
Harrisburg AP Penn sylvania Republicans will enter the May 17 primary without their chairman Richard C Frame after he agreed to resign. The state committee started a search for three candidates within 40 days. names mentioned include Richard R. Filling Robert P. Fohl John S. Renninger and Roger Richards. The panel also backed two candidates for May 17 primary offices Frank J. Montemuro Jr York County Judge Robert I. Shadle for Superior Court.
Co owner James Schaller of Erie Ambulance Company says local Corry operators are satisfied after meetings reviewing two ambulances and equipment. Pay raises discussed as crews await further items and communication improvements while ready to return to Corry to finish talks.
The National Labor Relations Board ruling on unfair labor practices filed by contractors against Erie Local 833, Plumbers and Steamfitters Union, is delayed indefinitely. The trades council secretary proposes not pressing charges if the union keeps away from Route 6 school site picketing. Pickets have not appeared since NLRB involvement amid ongoing construction during the truce.
The Corry Area Industrial Development Corporation will elect officers for the coming year at the Corry Motor Inn at noon on Thursday March 3. Three director terms expire, with two resignations. Names up for renomination include Lyle Hotchkiss Philip Zaleneck and William Peiffer. New nominees are Steve Fogle and Michael DeCorte, with Hotchkiss and Zaleneck also suggested by the bylaws for possible reappointment.
Pittsburgh Mayor Peter Flaherty is to be nominated as deputy U S attorney general. Senator H John Heinz II’s office confirms the formal notice to Flaherty, a Democrat, to serve as Griffin Bell’s chief assistant in the Justice Department.
Washington reports mail fraud has grown into a half billion dollar industry with promoters selling “prime sucker lists” and ready paths to riches. Postal officials cite diverse schemes from fake weight loss pills to baldness cures and phony investments while warning consumers to beware offers that seem too good to be true. The service may halt deliveries or pursue jail terms under the 1872 mail fraud law to curb operators.
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