New Jersey School Shutdown Sparks Unconstitutional Tax Fight
The New Jersey district court refused to stay an order closing schools over funding tied to local property taxes. The 9 to 2 ruling held public education not a constitutional right, amid three years of reform efforts following a 1973 Supreme Court directive to find new funding. About 100000 students faced summer programs and graduation credit impacts, while the Assembly rejected flat tax and sales tax hikes and Governor Byrne delayed signing a $285 billion budget.
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Trenton
Supreme Court
Bref
New Jersey
State Senate
Assembly
Federal District Court
State Supreme Court
District Court
Brendan Z. Byrne
CMH seeks $75,000 grant for new intensive care unit
The Pennsylvania Health Secretary urged the U S Health and Welfare Department to approve a $75,000 federal grant for Corry Memorial Hospital to build and equip an intensive care coronary care unit, adding two beds. The move follows Social Security Act criteria on capital expenditures and service changes, staffing, feasibility, and cost containment.
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State Department of Health
Corry Memorial Hospital
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Leonard Bachman
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
CMH
Health Department
Calculators Stolen At Corry Area School
Equipment valued at about 650 dollars was stolen from the administration building at 200 East South Street. Police were alerted at 9 54 this morning after four calculators and a radio were found missing by employees. No forced entry noted as investigators continue the case.
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Corry Area
East South Street
Corry City
No Consent Needed for Abortion Ruling Declares
Washington AP reports Supreme Court ruling bars states from requiring a wife to obtain consent from a husband or a minor daughter’s parent for abortions. It upholds written patient consent and recalls past 1973 and 1974 decisions on abortion access and fetal viability. Archbishop Bernardin denounces the decision as a tragic error harming families.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Missouri
Joseph N. Bernardin
Cincinnati
National Conference of Catholic Bishops
Balloonist Karl Thomas Rescued at Sea After Atlantic Attempt
Karl Thomas, attempting to cross the Atlantic by 90 foot balloon from Lakehurst New Jersey, was picked up by a Soviet ship 360 miles north northeast of Bermuda. He was reported in good condition and to be dropped in Rotterdam as salvage operations continue with ten aircraft joining the search from the US Canada Bermuda England and Spain after 72 hours without contact.
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New York
Karl Thomas
Atlantic
Coast Guard
Federal Aviation Administration
Thomas
Rotterdam
Dekabriek
Holland
Bermia
United States
Canada
Bermuda
England
Spain
U.S. Coast Guard
Lakehurst
N.J
Lef
Detroit Lays Off 1000 Police Officers Amid Budget Crisis
Detroit slashed nearly one-fifth of its police force to close a multimillion-dollar deficit, with 4357 of 750 officers on the Wednesday shift calling in sick. Courts will rehired 226 officers with federal funds July 1, while women officers survived the layoffs under court orders. Emergency services remain, but patrols and response times may suffer as officials warn the public of slower felony investigations. Detroit posted the highest crime rate among large U.S. cities, with 23.6 serious crimes per thousand, far above peers like New York and Los Angeles.
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Detroit
Phillip Tannian
Cindy Clifton Casey
Bannon
FBI
New York
Los Angeles
Chicago
Philadelphia
Houston
Police Clear One Disturbance After Two Incidents Overnight
City police report two disturbances investigated from last night and a third closed. Chief Kenneth Nichols said two juveniles and an adult were arrested at Hare Creek Mobile Home Court on Sciota Street after a clash that involved a juvenile returning with a rifle. Kenneth Lindstrom 18 Corry was charged with disorderly conduct and criminal trespass.
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Kenneth Nichols
Hare Creek
Sciota Street
Nichols
Kenneth Lindstrom
R.D. 1
Corry
Lindsey Hollow Road
Supreme Court Nominee Faces Indictment For Homosexual Act
G Harrold Carswell, once Nixon’s Supreme Court nominee, is charged by a Leon County grand jury with battery and attempting an unnatural act on officer George Greene. Arraignment date set later. Carswell hospitalised for nervous exhaustion. Charges carry up to a year and 1000 dollar fines. Separate report: Patrick R Knowlton, 23, charged with indecent exposure and possession of marijuana after police received a witness tip. A burglary case at 592 Union Street was cleared. juvenile suspect identified.
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Tallahassee
Fla
G. Harrold Carswell
Nixon
US Supreme Court
Leon County
Carswell
George Greene
Carsywell
Harry Morrison
Murray
Wadsworth
Tallahassee Memorial Hospital
Patrick R. Knowlton
West
Washington Street
Tan
Knowlton
Patsy Nichols
Nichols
Donald, Ginn
Union Street
Corry Girls Hurt In Crash
Two Corry area girls escaped serious injury when their station wagon left Sparta highway Route 277 at 6 30 p m. The sisters Geraldine Hole 16 and Jill 14 were admitted with multiple abrasions to Corry Memorial Hospital where they were in satisfactory condition. Police reported $2 500 damage to the car and $830 to guardrails after the vehicle sideswiped a mailbox and rolled over down an embankment.
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Corry Area
Sparta
Corry Memorial Hospital
Geraldine Hole
Geraldine
Jill
Jerry Rote
RD. 1
Corry
Corry State
Beiruts Tal Zaatar camp hit by attack from three sides
In northeast Beirut Christian militiamen struck the Tal Zaatar Palestinian refugee camp after heavy night artillery and rocket bombardment started fires. Arafat’s guerrillas rejected a Christian ultimatum to surrender or be wiped out as the city faced renewed violence.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Tal Zaatar
Yasir Arafat
Your Nation In Brief A look at presidents and archives
A July 28 subpoena targets Nelson Rockefeller in a $1 million suit from the 1971 Attica prison rebellion, while Ford opens a centennial time capsule with 19th century portraits. FBI Director Kelley defends truth about burglaries, but confirms agents conducted break-ins in 1972 and 1973. Oil price controls ending may raise heating costs, the Senate panel seeks to question Labor Secretary Usery over Teamsters probe, and the National Air and Space Museum is dedicated on the Capitol Mall as a Bicentennial addition.
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Buffalo
Nelson, A. Rockefeller
Attica
Rockefeller
U.S. District Court
Johnnie Barnes
Brooklyn
Washington
Ford
FBI
Clarence M. Kelley
Kelley
State Senate OKs Mercer judge Evelyn Gio lubic
Harrisburg AP confirms Evelyn Gio lubic of Mercer as district justice of the peace replacing the late Donald Buckel. In Somerset a Texas woman died when her tractor trailer overturned on the turnpike 18 miles east. Vera Murray Dallas aged 26 killed. driver David Beard 31 Dallas treated. In Butler a 1969 milling accident nets Samuel Gallagher 65 $180,000. suit against Cincinnati Milacron for lack of emergency brake and faulty design. all female jury awarded damages.
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Harrisburg
Senate
Evelyn Giolubic
Mercer
Donald Buckel
Somerset
Texas
Here
Vera Murray
Dallas
David Beard
Somerset Community Hospital
Butler, Pa
Samuel Gallagher
Spang Co
Butler
Gallagher
Cincinnati Milacron, Inc
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NJ School System
Ture
Ade
Newark
Jonathan Goldstein
U.S
Torey
3Rd Circuit Court of Appeals
Panyal
Ask
Ralph Freeman
James Bannon
Lawrence W. McCray
Hank
Tokyo
Peking People's Daily
House
Senate Labor Committee
W.j.usery’ Jr
Teamsters. Union
Usery
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