Intoxication Defense Sparks Legislative Moves in State
In our opinion attorneys comfort trial lawyers with difficult cases to argue no doubt find comfort in the recent State Supreme Court decision recognizing intoxication or a drugged condition as a defense in a criminal charge. It would not be surprising if a rash of pleas on temporary insanity by intoxication follows. There is irrefutable evidence that intoxicants and drugs influence behavior, yet drunkenness and drugged condition are not insanity. State Senator Franklin L. Kury argues that a criminal act must speak for itself and the convicted must be held responsible regardless of intoxication. corrective legislation is urged and hoped for soon.
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State Supreme Court
Senate
Franklin L. Kury
Recreation access plan targets Pennsylvanians
An Office of Planning and Development consultant warns of a large group in Pennsylvania labeled recreationally disadvantaged. The proposal calls for equal access to recreation sites through mass transit groups, state park and game land promotion, discount licenses for hunting and fishing, and free recreational stamps for seniors, signaling expansion of welfare state policies.
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Office of Planning and Development
Pennsylvania
Williamsport
City government and urban renewal plans in Corry
The commission form of Corry grants the mayor one vote with four councilmen. The mayor oversees the Department of Affairs including the police, while four other departments are led by councilmen: Finance, Streets and Public Improvements, Parks and Property, and Safely. The mayor has special powers in riots, ordinance magistrate duties, overseeing city officers, and solemnizing marriages. Urban renewal proposes a single 30 unit one story elderly housing building facing West Pleasant Street between First and Third Aveneus with rear parking and brick facing. Planned paving includes Plastics Road, East Bond Street, East Irving Street, and Pennsylvania Avenue with storm sewers west of Mead Avenue and parts of Marion Street, cost borne by the city. Storm sewers contractor to move in soon. paving tentatively next year. Public opinion on smoking in council chambers is deemphasized with focus on other matters.
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City of Corry
Police
West Pleasant Street
First Avenue
Third Avenue Ts
Congress Street
Frederick
Congress
Mound
Mead Avenue
Marion Street
Private schools boom as public education declines
Paul Harvey reports lawmakers prefer private schooling for their children and millions follow suit in over 30 states. Between 1971 and 1973 public school enrollment fell by half a million in 49 cities, while private and church schools surged, many still mostly white, with tuition from 400 to 1000 dollars.
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Washington, D.C
Watts
California
Jack Buttram
American Association of Christian Schools
Transfer payments and the economics of sharing
Carolyn Shaw Bell argues that transfer payments shape national life beyond inflation fears. She explains how pensions, unemployment, education funding, and welfare rise with aging populations and more separated households, then poses political questions about tax levels and work incentives, noting society sets the share of income to be spent or shared.
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Ford
Cotter tied to CIA mail openings and a housing showdown
Washington reports allege William Cotter the chief postal inspector helped CIA cover illegal mail openings and misled Congress. Rep Charles Wilson urges Bailar to fire Cotter citing dedication to CIA over Postal Service. Separate housing row shows White House strategy session and Hills warning of rising delinquencies and bill costs.
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Washington
CIA
Congress
William Cotter
Charles Wilson
D-Calif
Benjamin Bailar
Wilson
Bailar
Cotter
Postal Service
White House
Carla Hills
Housing and Urban Development
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Dave Johnson
P.O
Corry, Pa
Plastics
Bond Street
East Irving Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Paul Harvey
United States
Birch Bayh
D-ind
South
Carolyn Shaw Bell
Fé Advisory Council On
Wellesley College
Alwas
Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Rockefeller
Postmaster General
Brian Kanzaki
Queens College
Kanzaki
Hills
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