City Struggles With Enforcing 11 Ordinances and Duties
City administrators oversee most provisions creating overlap and neglect. Enforcement relies on a few officials, leaving field inspections scarce. Vacant housing reports pile up as four drawers of inspection files remain dormant and unchecked.
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Bineaton
Case In Point
Robert Grice
Marie McCray
David Johnson
Douglas Rozelle
Police Department
John Hornick
Floods Remain After Wet Weather Hits Corry Area
Yesterday's heavy rains brought unexpected flooding to Corry and surrounding areas. Warm temperatures worsened runoff, sending Bear Creek, Hare Creek, and water from the watershed toward Summit Township. Cooler air today may slow the surge.
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Corry
South Branch
Hare Creek
Bear Creek
Summit Township
Amin orders Americans to meet him in Uganda
President Idi Amin ordered all Americans in Uganda to meet him Monday and barred departures until after the meeting. An official spokesman said Americans can leave if they wish after Monday, with about 250 Americans in the country and most living in Kampala or working for Uganda Airlines.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Idi Amin
Uganda
Information Ministry
Associated Press
Washington
Amin
East Africa
Carter
United States
Britain
Israel
Gana
U.S. State Department
Kampala
Uganda Airlines
One Killed and Hostage Crisis Ends in Syracuse
In Syracuse a gunman described as very hostile toward society held a pregnant woman and her baby after fatally shooting a man at an apartment house. Le Roy Cotton, 30, fired through a door injuring two officers and threatened to kill the child if tear gas was used. Police reported the dead man as George Sparks Jr. 24, with prior arrests. Two Soviet cosmonauts Viktor Gorbatko and Yuri Glazkov returned safely after 19 days in space aboard Soyuz-24, landing northeast of Arkalyk and completing the Salyut-5 mission.
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Syracuse
N.Y
Leroy Cotton
Rod Carr
Cotton
Catton
Thoms Sardine
Sardina
George Sparks Jr
Moscow
Anno I
Viktor Gorbatko
Yuri Glazkov
Arkalyk
Kazakhstan
Tass
Salyut-5 Space Station
Gorbatko
Glazkov
Asia
Salyut-S
Space Laboratory
Space Station
Orital Hight
Tassaald
Youthful prisoner hijacks deputy at Washington County Court
Washington County courthouse scene as a youthful prisoner identified as John Castner took deputy sheriff Stephen Novicki hostage outside a courtroom. Castner demanded the gun, kicked the deputy, then fled in a green car with two others, later switching to a brown Chevrolet and heading west on I-70. Castner, in his 20s, had been serving a 5 to 10 year term for recklessly endangering a game warden.
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Washington, Pa
Washington County
John Castner
Stephen Novicki
Castner
Novicki
Ellsworth
Claysburg
Washington
Not Enough Whites For LA Unified Integration Plan
Los Angeles Unified School District officials say a court ordered integration plan cannot include thousands of minority students due to insufficient white enrollment. The district of 600,000 students is 33 percent white, 38 percent Hispanic surnames, 28 percent Black, and 5 percent Asian, with 175 schools already integrated.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles Unified
Housing Gets Extra Dose Of Insulation
The elderly and handicapped housing in Fourth Ward is being insulated further to curb next year’s fuel costs. Virginia Grice of the Corry Redevelopment Authority said insulation was added beyond plan specifications, funded by a CEPA program crew and authority materials. Rental income covers operating expenses. high winter fuel bills risk a loss, possibly qualifying for HUD subsidy if needed.
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Fourth Ward
Virginia Grice
Corry
Fuet
Housing and Development
HUD
Steal TVs Smash Wall At Venture Inn
Venture Inn owner reports three incidents over recent weeks with two black and white or beige TVs stolen from rooms 118 and 124 and a car driven into a wall causing $800 damage near Room 124. Victim cites burglaries timed unknown as police investigate.
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Venture Inn
Victor Troese
Troese
Indictment Hits Fifth Largest Bank Over Cash Deals
Federal grand jury charges Chemical Bank and three former officers with failing to report 8.5 million dollars in cash transactions linked to narcotics money and laundering schemes. Indicted are vice president Paschal Demauro and two former Bronx branch managers, amid Bank Secrecy Act scrutiny since 1972.
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New York
Chemical Bank
Chemical
Frank Lucas
Anthony D'Ambrosio
Treasury
Emanuel Miller
Bankers Trust Co
Paschal Demauro
Uniondale
N.Y
Thomas Spinelli
New City
Bronx
Michael Stralla
Monroe
N Y
Spinelli
Stralla
Lucas
D’ambrogio
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Mary Hubley
James Maloney
Jane Schwab
Agsessor
Carl Hixson
Stewart Road
M.O. Baldwin
West Washington Extension
French Creek
Journal
Eaton
Corry Evening Journal
Pennsylvania
Indict
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