Welfare fraud audit exposes Bucks County tip of iceberg
In six months, Bucks County Doylestown welfare office auditors found 14 suspected fraud cases. Levittown office had 23 in two months. The critique presses for full disclosure of prosecutions, fraud types, and prevention, noting expensive cars at welfare sites and alleged narcotics purchases with welfare funds. The report questions transparency and suggests wider issues across the department.
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Doylestown
Pennsylvania Department of Welfare
Levittown
Welfare Department
Bucks County
Public Welfare Department
Office of Pennsylvania
Robert P. Casey
Mr. Casey
Why Outhouses Had Three and Four Holers
A humorous reminiscence on Chic Sale and outhouses, recalling a West Side Corry prank where youths rigged a switch engine to pull an outhouse, a boy’s dramatic tumble, and the era’s discipline. The piece ends with a puzzled note about why three and four holes were used, suggesting practical and historical curiosity.
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Chic Sale
Chic
West Side
Corry
Sounds of Summer A collage of summer scenes and memories
A vivid montage of summer images from lakes and beaches to family gatherings and city life. It contrasts heat, leisure, and daily rituals with portraits of people from different ages and places, capturing the mood of a season through sensory snippets and scattered vignettes.
Little mailbag gems from New York AP column
A digest of assorted trivia and quotes touching on plastic surgery trends, Bob Hope career paths, hunter lead poisoning, Elizabethan bottle laws, ocean currents, sponges and driving dangers. Includes notable quotes by G Lowes Dickinson and Goethe with brief observations on daily life.
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New York
Jim
Bob Hope
Hope
United States
G. Lowes Dickinson
England
Public reaction differs in TV and film says Rock Hudson
Rock Hudson discusses public reaction to television versus movies noting larger audience reach for TV and that viewers separate a film from the star. He explains television demands bigger, punchier performances and adds he feels more involved creatively on a TV series through scripts editing and casting.
Corry Hospital Approves Two Purchases Last Night
The Corry Memorial Hospital Board of Directors approved two expenditures in their regular meeting. A spot film attachment for the x ray room will cost 1000 dollars. A lighted sign with a time clock for front entrance will cost 200 dollars.
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Corry Memorial Hospital Board of Directors
Legal Q and A on family support and in laws in Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania statutory law holds that husband wife child father and mother of every indigent person are liable to support or financially assist such person, but no child is liable for a parent who abandoned them for ten years. A remarriage or divorce does not affect a father's duty. children who abandoned a parent for ten years during their minority may escape liability. In-laws are not recognized in Pennsylvania inheritance law. a brother's widow is not legally a sister in law after death, though social regard is permitted. The Corry Journal invites brief reader letters on single topics.
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Rock Hudson
Pennsylvania
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