Car and Barn Fire Claim $14,000 Losses in Two Incidents
Corry fire crews responded to a Reed Road car fire in Spring Creek Township where a 1970 station wagon owned by William Schley burned with an estimated $2,000 loss. Early today Sparta firefighters tackled a Lake Sherlock farm barn blaze at R D 3 Spartansburg, with two tractors a manure spreader and hay stored in the loft destroyed. Sherlock carried $12,000 insurance.
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William Schley
Corry
Sparta
Journal
McEldowney
Reed Road
Spring Creek Township
Sparta Fire Department
Spring Creek
R.D
Spartansburg
Schley
Lathrop
Lake Sherlock
Joseph Soety
Sooty
Sherlock
Andy Howell
Ballet to stage first Corry event with Erie Civic Ballet
The Corry Area Fine Arts Council opens the 1974 schedule with the Erie Civic Ballet performing with the Chamber Orchestra of the Erie Philharmonic at Corry Area High School auditorium on Saturday February 16 at 8 15 p m Tickets are on sale at Grice Jewelers Rossbacher Insurance Service and the Corry Chamber of Commerce priced at 2 for adults and 1 for students Patrons receive two concert tickets Ballet master Ismet Mouhedin, a Belgian native, directs the ballet portion.
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Corry Area
Corry Chamber of Commerce
Ismet Mouhedin
Belgium
Pan Am Flight Crashes Short of Pago Pago Runway
A Pan American World Airways 707 with 101 aboard crashed short of the Pago Pago runway in Samoa and caught fire. A Pan Am spokesman said some survivors were removed, but the number remaining unknown as the plane bound from Auckland to Los Angeles with stops in Pago Pago and Hawaii.
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WEW York
Pan American World Airways
Pago Pago
Samoa
Pan American
Los Angeles
Auckland
New Zealand
Hawaii
Pan Am
All Times Price U S To Buy Wheat Back From Russia
U S Sen Henry M Jackson says the United States will buy Russian grain for about five times what the Soviet Union paid in 1972. He cites a $370 million cost and supports John Murtha in the Pennsylvania race to replace the late Rep John Saylor. Jackson seeks oil price rollbacks and energy policy changes.
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Freeport
United States
Russia
Soviet Union
Henry M. Jackson
D.washington
Jackson
Pennsylvania
Milton Shapp
John Murtha
Murtha
Harry M. Fox
John Saylor
Subcommittee On
Interior Affairs
Congressional Conference Committee
Senate
Nixon
Punxsutawney Phil Has Had It Groundhog Day Farewell
In a Corry area sighting Punxsutawney Phil emerges from his den and, after seeing his shadow, returns to six more weeks of winter. Wetmore, a Elgin dairy farmer, reports tadpoles in a creek and questions about early spring as the groundhog’s fate is sealed.
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Corry
Joseph Wetmore
Wetmore
Elgin
Woodchuck
Americans Ignore 55 MPH Push in Many States
Associated Press finds drivers in 23 states refuse to lower to 55 mph while most in 27 states with 55 mph limits stay near the limit. Federal funds cutoff deadline looms if states fail to reduce speeds by March. Troopers enforce new limits in changed states. some states delay enforcement until law is enacted.
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Associated Press
Illinois
Charles Chamberlain
Georgia State Patrol
Nixon Seeks Progress In 1974 After Refusal To Resign
President Nixon vows never to resign and offers limited cooperation with House impeachment investigators in a State of the Union address. He seeks to push a 1974 agenda including energy relief, health and welfare reform, and energy self sufficiency by 1980 while defending presidential responsibilities amid Watergate scrutiny.
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Washington
Nixon
State of the Union
House
Congress
Sonal Privacy
Middle East
GOP
Senate
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
House Judiciary Committee
Peter W. Rodina Jr
D-N.j
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
Trucker Dies After Rock Struck Pennsylvania Cab
A Pennsylvania trucker died when a large rock smashed the windshield, causing the rig to crash near Allentown. Police said the rock, about 16 by 10 by 5 inches, was found inside the cab and noted several other trucks were pelted in the area amid ongoing protests over fuel costs and freight rates. Authorities reviewed a nationwide trucker protest link as investigations continue.
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Pennsylvania
Allentown
John Repko
Repko
Harrisburg
U.S. 22
William Walker
Bethlehem
Walker
Welfare Payment Plan Change in Erie County
The Erie County Board of Assistance will switch welfare payments to a prorated schedule in February. Ada Grande, executive director, says every recipient will get a first check tomorrow, potentially smaller, with subsequent checks on varying dates in February. An example shows payments on February 1, 6, and 21, then on the 6th and 21st each month.
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Erie County Board of Assistance
Ada Grande
Erie
Public Assistance Office
Somreone
Burglars Hit UC Tavern and Nitro Plant in Corry
Police investigate two burglaries in Corry area. The Pine Woods Inn at R.D.4 Uscon City was hit between 1 a.m. and 1 a.m. with about 283 dollars stolen from the tavern and 30 dollars in change from a cigarette machine. In Titusville the Otto Coupler Torpedo Company at R.D.2 saw burglars steal a five gallon gas can with about two gallons of gasoline. Investigations continue.
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Kysor
Otto Coupler Torpedo Company
R.D.2
Titusville
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U.S
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Phil
California
Maryland
Maine
Edward W. Brooke
R-Mass
Judiciary Committee
Pa. Trucker
James Cox
Cox
York
Cumberland
Berks
Lehigh
Monroe
Bedford
Allegheny
Fayette
Venango
Hiie
UC Tavern
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