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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1974
Page
1
Corry Area School District faces a daylight saving time dilemma as students travel to and from school in darkness. Superintendent Ray Elsen notes minimal parental concerns while rural routes raise worries about walking to stops. The board will revisit starting times but faces possible later schedule reversals as days lengthen.
Police said William C. Barr and Douglas Higby were arraigned on six counts each of burglary after a spree that included the International Foam Co. theft last weekend. Barr was captured at a mobile home near White's Corner. Higby was arrested in a tavern. Evidence links them to six break ins from 1973 in Corry, including Harmon Brothers plant and the Brooks, Jackman, and Morris residences, with cash missing and $500 plant damage.
Corry Area School District officials voiced frustration over a drive to collect delinquent property tax information. They said the forms, meant for informational purposes in a district embezzlement probe, are slow to come back. Officials stressed that nonresponse would mark taxpayers as delinquent, urging prompt returns to determine losses and payments.
In western Pennsylvania UPS workers voted 561 to 43 to retain the Teamsters as their bargaining representative. The NLRB conducted the election Saturday on a decertification petition filed by 30 percent of the employer involved.
In Harrisburg AP report on Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission chairmanship, Gov Shapp appointee Egidio Cerilli and Republican chair Lester Burlein agree to halt turnpike actions until court ruling. A separate suit challenges Cerilli interim appointment while commission remains neutral.
The White House said traditional political considerations influenced Nixon’s 1971 decision to boost milk price supports. It acknowledged politics and a 1970 Colson memo tied to campaign funding, while denying that campaign contributions dictated the move. The statements aimed to shield presidential files and tapes, with no further Watergate disclosures planned.
The Supreme Court unanimously struck down an Indiana loyalty oath forcing voters to deny advocacy of violent government overthrow. The decision holds such an oath burdens ballot access and infringes First and 14th Amendment rights, with Brennan writing the opinion and Powell concurring in part.
A city police officer accidentally discharged a shotgun while placing it in a wall rack after an arrest. Holes appeared in a west side window of the employees' door and a pellet hit a car fender owned by Joseph Catalfn of 236 Fairview Street. No one was hurt.
Donalsonville Georgia bulletins report Superior Court jurors convict George L Dungee a 35 year old Baltimore man on six murder counts in the Alday family killings after 55 minutes deliberation. Carl Isaacs previously convicted. Wayne Coleman awaiting trial.
CMH received a two year accreditation from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals in Chicago. Administrator Samuel Antrim announced the news noting the inspection occurred in September by a physician and a registered nurse. John D Porterfield M D of JCAH praised CMH for maintaining standards and improving patient care. JCAH issued recommendations to further enhance care, not publicized, to be implemented before the next inspection. CMH will submit a progress self analysis in about a year following the award.
Pasenda Calif AP Mariner 10, 15 million miles from Earth on a Venus Mercury mission, switched from nominal to backup power. Jet Propulsion Laboratory says both systems draw energy from the sun. if the second fails, the $96 million mission could end. Launched November 3, it is scheduled to pass within 3,500 miles of Venus on February 6.
Rotary Club members heard about the new county field house along Interstate 90 near Erie. Erie County Park Authority member Jack Quinn said taxpayers will fund the $1 million facility, which will host ice hockey, basketball, concerts, roller derbies, and horse shows with year round ice and a movable floor seating for over 5,000. Construction follows the aquarium project’s collapse and aim to provide a regional venue, with a schedule to be released to media this week. The next Rotary speaker will be FBI Special Agent Myron H. Treter, with Kiwanis invited to attend.
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