Erie Grand Jury Indicts Wharton On Four Counts
Erie grand jury indicts Robert E. Wharton former Corry Area School District treasurer on four counts of embezzlement including theft by failure to report funds misapplication of entrusted money embezzlement by a public officer and embezzlement by a tax collector. Wharton allegedly diverted at least 34000 in school funds through a delinquent tax account and transfers to a professional services account.
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Erie County Grand Jury
Robert E. Wharton
Corry Area
Wharton
Wright Street
Wharton Business Service
Corry Ambulance Service
Porter Auer
4Ney
School General Fund
Professional Services
Beef Prices Rise as AP Survey Reports Increases
An Associated Press survey shows retail beef prices up 10 to 20 cents per pound over the past two weeks as wholesale costs climb 25 to 30 percent since December. Industry sources cite production cuts after last year’s freeze. Shaw’s in New England notes lean hamburger at 1.29 per lb, up from 1.09 last week and 0.99 a year ago. Fisher Foods reports ground beef rising from 0.88 to 0.98 per lb, with outlook for further increases into spring.
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Associated Press
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Shaw's
New England
Corryite
Eugene Owens
Fisher Foods Inc
Cleveland
Ohio
Third Fourth Ward Lights Set To Go
In 1974 the city will complete its street lighting program for the Third and Fourth wards and add four new mercury vapor lamps without increasing energy use. Mercury lights will replace incandescent on West Pleasant and West Main streets and along Route 277 to the city limits. Two new lights will be placed on Brook and Euclid streets. In the Third Ward 47 lights south of Smith Street will be converted, with one new light on West Park Place and one on Franklin Street. The change is expected to cut energy use by 22.5 percent. funds are budgeted and Penelec has been asked to proceed.
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William Halfast
West Pleasant Street
West Main Street
Route 277
Brook
Euclid
Halfast
Smith Street
West Park Place
Franklin Street
Penelec
Optacon Lets Blind Student Read Through Tactile Letters
Dan McEldowney profiles Wayne Joncas a Corry Area High School student who uses an Optacon device to read printed text by feeling letter shapes. The US made camera-tactile system, developed at Stanford, converts text to vibrations enabling Wayne to read lines with his left hand while guiding the camera with his right. The unit cost is 3150 dollars and is used through Intermediate Unit V serving Corry Area schools.
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Dan McEldowney
Wayne Joncas
Corry Area High School
Wayne
Stanford Unversity
John Linzell
James Bliss
Telesensory Systems, Inc
Intermediate Unit V
Corry Area
Optacon
Nancy Nardo
Nixon seeks to cut oil tax breaks and ease clean air rules
President Nixon urged Congress to end the 22 percent depletion allowance for overseas oil production and tighten foreign tax credits, while proposing two additional years of auto emission standards and relaxed deadlines for cities and plants. The energy package also aims to speed atomic power licensing and permit temporary Clean Air Act relaxations where clean energy is unavailable.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
U.S
United States
Exxon Sees 60 Percent Jump in 1973 Profits
New York AP Exxon Corp reports fourth quarter 1973 profits of 784 million, up nearly 60 percent from 1972’s 493 million, with full year 1973 profits at 2.44 billion. Chairman J K Jamieson cites higher selling prices and volume, notes 18.8 percent return on equity up from 12.8 percent in 1972, and outlines 16 percent US earnings growth to 833 million on 14.1 percent sales rise. Exxon plans 16 billion in capex over four years to expand energy resources.
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New York
Exxon Corp
International Refiner
J.K. Jamieson
Exxon
Jamieson
United States
Cities Service Co
Cities Service
Spartansburg Woman Injured In Route 8 Crash Near Union City
A series of six traffic crashes in five hours kept state police busy. Elsie Fox 53 of Spartansburg was hospitalized in fair condition after a car she drove was sideswiped by a GMC station wagon and forced into a tree on Route 8 five miles south of Union City. Passenger Timothy Fox 18 was treated and released. The station wagon driver was David McClelland 26 of Union City. Damages were about 6100 to the Fox car and 50 to the McClelland vehicle. A truck driver Thomas McWilliams 20 of Centerville was involved in the nearby crash.
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Union City Memorial Hospital
Elsie Fox
R.D.2
Spartansburg
David McClelland
R.D.3
Union City
Fox
McClelland
Timothy Fox
Thomas McWilliams
Centerville
Blood Bank Here Earns Accreditation
Corry Memorial Hospital received full accreditation for its transfusion service from the American Association of Blood Banks. Dr Klaus Mayer announced the result in a letter praising the bank's technical and administrative performance and urging display of the certificate.
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Corry Memorial Hospital
American Association of Blood Banks
CMH
Klaus Mayer
The
Blood Banks Association
Mayer
Blood Bank
CAIDC Receives PIDA Check for Thompson Project
A $95,126 PIDA loan check was presented to Corry area officials for Thompson Maple Products to finance a 14,400 square foot building on a 32 acre site near Corry. The $237,815 project will create 20 jobs with a $120,000 payroll, funded by multiple loans including from The National Bank of Corry and CAIDC.
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Corry Area
PIDA
National Bank of Corry
CAIDC
Erie County
Corry Area Industrial Development Corporation
Roy Bernardini
Bureau of Economic Development
Pennsylvania Department of Commerce
Donald Aberg
National Bank
1973 Corry fire loss may be lowest on record
The 1973 fire losses in Corry were $13,865 across 82 city alarms. Chief Lathrop reported 22 alarms in Wayne Township and minor mutual aid calls, with one fire fatality, the car fire death of Howard Morris, the first since the 1970 Easter fire that killed five. Firemen logged 85 hours answering alarms and 55 hours in training.
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Corry
Thomas Lathrop
William Halfast
Wayne Township
Mercantile
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Erie Grand Jury
Richard Scarpitti
Erie
School Board
Frank McKnight
Canada
Val D’or
Que
Val Dor
Montreal
Journal
McEldowney
Carty
Ta.m
Headon
Thompson
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