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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1969
Page
1
The fragmentary text notes an election entry referencing Mur and a major tally or contest. Readable elements identify two named individuals and an organization, with unclear dates or places. The garbled OCR limits precise facts but preserves a sense of an electoral event and involved parties.
In Washington the new Congress began its first session with a routine day. Leaders signaled likely belt tightening and a focus on pay raises for members of Congress, Cabinet members, and the President. The Senate planned confirmation hearings and preinauguration actions as Nixon’s presidency loomed.
A Warren County area crash killed Launa Jean Wooten an 18 year old Sheffield mother of two. The driver 18 year old Juanita Jane Bitner of Clarendon sustained shoulder and ankle fractures and was admitted. Police blamed icy pavement and loss of control as the car slid over 100 feet before hitting a tree.
Erie County grapples with an $8.2 million 1969 budget and potential three-mill property tax increase. County Controller Byron Clapper cites cuts or revenue hikes as options while commissioners push across-the-board belt tightening and removal of large grants. Expenditures total $8,223,112, up $825,000 from 1968, with hospitalization grants a major contention.
President elect Nixon selected Henry Cabot Lodge 66 to head the Paris negotiating team as chief negotiator with authority to shape Vietnam talks. Lodge, a former ambassador to Saigon, urged hard but hopeful negotiations and will be joined by Lawrence E. Walsh as deputy. Ellsworth Bunker remains as ambassador to Saigon with Nixon signaling continuity and confidence.
Secretary of Defense designate Melvin R. Laird announced Rhode Island Governor John A. Chafee as secretary of the Navy and MIT professor Robert C. Seamans Jr. as secretary of the Air Force. Stanley R. Resor would stay on as Army secretary after a surprise reappointment, with Senate confirmation needed. Also reported is a fatal crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Reading, killing Bowdin H. Bersinger, 50, and his son Wayne, 18, when their car left the road and struck guard rails.
Harrisburg AP Shafer follows the advice of the Tax Study Commission in planning a state income tax based on net federal taxable income. The plan would not violate the state’s graduated tax ban if carefully drafted, with rates rising with income. For example a 1 percent tax on net taxable income would cost a $4500 earner about 23.05 dollars, a $12000 earner about 91.80 dollars, and a $29000 earner about 282 dollars, under the proposed framework.
Tax proposals for Pennsylvania residents hinge on the taxable net income reported on Federal Form 1040 line U1 D. The plan aims to outline how recommendations affect individual taxpayers and the specifics of how the income tax would operate.
Lebanese and Israeli officials met at the border under UN observers to discuss complaints of guerrilla attacks from Lebanon. Beirut says no attacks originate there and Israel rejected UN observer entry. a Soviet peace plan drew mixed reactions in the region.
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan 26 is to stand trial Tuesday in a fortified Los Angeles Hall of Justice courtroom for Kennedy's 1968 murder. Nearly 200 witnesses may be called. 75 spectators allowed, newsmen to watch via closed circuit TV. Sirhan's mother and brothers plan to attend. judge Herbert V. Walker presides.
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