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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1973
Page
1
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Former White House chief of staff H R Haldeman acknowledged approving a 90000 dollar campaign budget for black projects last year but said he does not know what the projects were. He denied a 300000 dollar campaign intelligence budget and disputed an aide's claim to destroy a memo about budgets and other troubling documents after the Watergate break in.
A Delta Airlines DC9 with about 90 aboard crashed in heavy fog at Logan International Airport near Boston Harbor. Reports say up to 40 may have died, with at least one survivor taken to Massachusetts General Hospital. The aircraft was believed inbound from Burlington Wisconsin. Debris spread across runway and water. eyewitnesses describe disintegration on impact.
Erie County workers excluding prison staff walk out in the first county strike by AFSCME. Judge Lindley McClelland orders prison guards back to work under Act 195 while other county employees may picket. Negotiations over pay sparked the action with unions seeking 1100 while offer stands at 885, hospital and jail lines form outside county facilities.
The Homemaker Service of Erie County expands with new funding and more workers. One Corry homemaker currently serves four families, with capacity for additional referrals. Services include light housework, child supervision, meal prep, and errands, with fees adjusted by ability to pay.
President Nixon begins a two day meeting with Japan's Prime Minister Tanaka to discuss joint oil and gas development in Siberia and broader cooperation on trade Middle East and Southeast Asia. They also plan nuclear energy talks as a growing oil shortage looms.
Corry state police investigate a burglary at Wolf's Head Oil Refinery Company station at Routes 8 and 77. Thieves smashed a door, reached inside, grabbed the latch, and took about $2,000 in cash and checks reported by station manager Ralph DeArment. Police noted a ransacked interior.
Skylab 2 astronauts Bean Garriott and Lousma, recovering from motion sickness, began catching up on housekeeping chores delayed by illness. A planned space walk was postponed to Saturday to allow rest and recreation, while Garriott tested a two minnows experiment to study weightlessness on swimming behavior.
A three vehicle chain reaction crash on Route 8 near a railroad crossing in Centerville left nine injured and caused 1750 dollars in damage. Vehicles driven by Neva W. Thurau Ralph L. Zacher Jr and a coal truck driven by Byron Henry were involved. Debra Zacherl and others were treated at Titusville Hospital and released. A second Route 6 crash involved a Faith Church bus driven by Ray Stutaman.
A three month old boy, David B. Knavel, died April 25 from pneumonia complicated by acute alcohol intoxication. An Erie County medical examiner released the finding, as parents David and Kathleen Knavel face family court proceedings on child abuse concerns and custody. The Erie County Department of Social Services seeks a ruling to declare the children abused and place them with grandparents.
Plant engineer George Rapp says the yard crane at Cooper Penjax will be repaired this week to resume full foundry operations after a two week shutdown. Rogers Structural Steel fabricated new steel, placed by Corry Industrial Construction Company on the 225 by 100 foot crane now nearing completion.
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