Pa Tax Cut This Year Forget It
Scranton announced little chance of a tax cut this year despite a projected large surplus. He outlined a 1965-66 budget with at least 40 million more spending and proposed an 11 million salary raise for about 70 000 state workers while signaling education public assistance mental health and industrial development funding.
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Harrisburg
Scranton
Ven
Office of Administration
Legislative Democrats
Youthed Wake-up Gadget Fatality Shocks New Jersey
Kenneth Sally 17 an electronics enthusiast in Randolph Township built a wrist device connected to an outlet to wake himself. He tested the gadget at 11 a m and was killed instantly when the current delivered a fatal shock.
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Dover
N. J
Kenneth
Sally
Randolph High School
Randolph Township
Dame Nature Gives Relief To California
Swollen rivers receded and rains tapered off as Northern California found a breather from a three week storm. Snow buried Donner Summit and Tahoe area, stranding hundreds and killing one person at Heavenly Valley. Weather eased in most areas while Western states continued their flood recovery. Prime Minister Harold Wilson to visit Berlin on January 23.
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San Wrancisco
California
High
Sierra
Eel
Mad Rivers
Oregon
Washington
Nevada
Idaho
High Sierra
Nevada-California
Transmountain
California Highway Patrol
Interstate
C. P. Ledford
Truckee
Tahoe City
Heavenly Valley
Lake Tahoe
Annette R. Salins
San Francisco
Berlin
Bonn
Germany
Harold Wilson
Foreign Ministry
Thy
Sra
Mer
Bank Employee Charged With Taking $40,000
Robert E. Hughes, 53, a Hazleton bank cashier, is charged in Scranton with making false entries and taking $40,000 from the First National Bank of Hazleton. He was arrested near the Mahoning Valley Golf Course by state troopers on a routine check and will face a U.S. commissioner's hearing in Wilkes-Barre.
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Tamaqua
Robert E. Hughes
Hazleton
U.S
Wilkes-Barre
Hughes
Mahoning Valley
Scranton
First National Bank of
Gas Fumes Kill Four Teens in Payson Jail
Four Payson High School students died from carbon monoxide poisoning in the county jail after a butane heating system malfunction. Investigators, including two from the scene, were affected during inspection. The victims, arrested for beer theft, were identified as Clifford Greenland and three others.
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Payson
Ariz
Arizona
Globe
Alfred D. Musgrave
Gila
Lyman Peace
Tom Drake
Payson Hospital
T. L. Meredith
Elton R. Jones
Justice of the Peace
Florence Greer
Payson High
Clifford Greenland
Disband 155 Air Force Reserve Units
The Air Force will disband 155 Reserve units by April, affecting about 8,000 reservists in four states and the District of Columbia. The move is seen as a stepping stone to merging the Air Force Reserve into the Air National Guard, aligning with similar Army Reserve and National Guard actions. The units include 112 recovery squadrons and 43 recovery groups, ground units supporting regular planes at civilian airports after a major attack.
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Washington
Air Force
Air Force Reserve
District of Columbia
Air National Guard
Army Reserve
National Guard
Nixon to Speak at $100 Plate Fund Dinner in Philadelphia
Former vice president Richard M. Nixon will speak at a February 10 fundraising dinner in Philadelphia at a $100 plate rate. Pennsylvania Republican finance chairman Frank P. McGlinn said Gov. William Scranton and U.S. Sen. Hugh Scott are also expected to attend.
Route 6 Bypass Planned For Corry This Summer
Franklin office engineers say Corry will begin a Route 6 bypass this summer to divert through traffic around town. The plan reduces the road width to 24 feet with gravel shoulders and avoids two nearby homes, ending a decade of local opposition and shaping the project’s final design.
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Franklin
State Highway Department
Corry
Wesley Riggs
Arthur Dunn
David Johnson
Johnson
Cherry
Erwin Merkle
West Columbus Avenue
Pennsylvania Railroad
Orent
Dam Site Progress Hinted With Test Boring Plans
Columbus Township residents seek a new dam and receive a hopeful note from The Journal. Merrill McCray of McCray Brothers Drilling Co says Neilan Engineers of Somerset plans test boring at proposed dam sites, involving 24 holes about 40 feet deep across 1,000 feet of drilling. Timing for bids and start of drilling remains unclear.
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Columbus Township
Merrill McCray
McCray Brothers Drilling Co
Elgin
5. A. Long
Chamber of Commerce
McCray
Neilan Engineers
Somerset
Neilan
Oklahoma man wins twice with matching license plates
Oklahoma City motorist Johnny Jackson surprised his wife by bringing home license plates for their two cars without looking. The numbers matched their 1964 tags XB 5263 and XB 5264 exactly, a one in a million coincidence. Oklahoma will sell more than a million tags this year.
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Haystack
Oklahoma City
Okla
Johnny Jackson
Oklahoma
Corry School District to receive increased state aid
Elgin and Spring Creek will also gain subsidies under the state reimbursement formula, despite modest local market value gains. Corry’s aid rises to 87.9 percent of the $8,800 per teaching unit, with Elgin at 89.40 and Spring Creek at 84.56, as district construction remains limited.
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Corry
Pennsylvania
Department of Public Instruction
Helmone
Frank McKnight
Mace
U. S. Revamps Space Schedule in 1966 Plan
Houston AP report details a schedule shift in the Apollo program with the third Saturn mission replaced by an unmanned earth orbit test of the lunar excursion module. The plan now delays the three manned orbital flight to later in 1966 and cites potential spillover into 1987.
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Houston, Tex
U.S
William A. Lee
Manned Spacecraft Center
Lee
Earth
Tee
Tragic Crash In Rocky Grove Ends 2-Year-Old Boy’s Life
In Franklin, a 2-year-old son of Cooperstown Elementary School principal Gregory E. Sheffer was killed when a car driven by a 1-year-old boy on his first driving lesson plowed into him at 7:25 pm. The driver and father, Harry A. Van Zandt, tried to brake but hit the accelerator, sending the car across the sidewalk into a lawn and striking a garage. The boy’s father suffered a leg injury. both drivers were shaken but survived.
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Franklin
Cooperstown
Rocky Grove
Gregory E. Sheffery
Eugene C. Sheffer
Franklin Barracks
Harry A. van Zandt
Celerator
Sheffer
van Zandt
Poet T. S. Eliot Cremated in London Funeral
The body of poet T. S. Eliot was cremated after a private five minute service at St. Stephen's Church Kensington. His ashes will rest next week in East Coker Somerset the village he immortalized in verse. Eliot died Monday aged 76 leaving a widow and about 60 relatives and friends.
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T.S. Eliot
Kensington
St. Stephen's
Somerset
East Coker
Eliot
Mariner 4 Now 70 Million Miles From Earth
Pasadena report says Mariner 4 remains 70 million miles into its 325 million mile Mars flight. After 40 days in space the craft heads for a July 14 Mars fly-by and the transmitter is expected to relay the first close-up television pictures of the planet.
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Pasadena
Calif
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Earth
Johnson proposes federal aid to medical school operations
President Johnson urged a broad health package that would have the federal government share basic operating costs of medical and dental schools. He also pressed for hospital insurance for the elderly and a five year grant program to develop regional medical complexes to fight heart disease cancer and stroke.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Commission On
Michael DeBakey
Houston
Siz
Delay In Giving Alarm Blamed For Four Deaths
A 20 minute delay in reporting a central city fire at College Manor 1122 24 Spruce Street led to four deaths. Fire Commissioner George E. Hink said earlier call might have saved lives. Victims were Mignon Couser 75 Florence Graham 65 Dolores Mc Cauley 34 and Lloyd Devinnie 00.
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Mlaavelphia
Central City
George E. Hink
College Manor
Spruce Street
Hink
W. Mignon Couser
Florence Graham
Dolores McCauley
Lloyd Devinnie
Hit-Skip Assessments Stir Millcreek Tax Tension
A Millcreek Township coalition of about 20 property owners protests hit and skip county assessments used in Corry. They seek relief via court action or independent appraisers after receiving 165 assessments jumped to 19 million dollars. They cite inequities in the first ward and broader county pattern.
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Corry
County Assessment Bureau
Millcreek
Assessment Bureau
Assensor
J. Fred Kinley
Fom Corry
Busen
Thrillcreek 2
Oiner
Whitey
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