Black Spartans Move To Stave Off Transfers
A Corry Area School District board meeting rejected Sparta efforts to block transferring the district's three top Sparta grades to Corry Area High School starting September. The move sought to have the district desist in the 1973 1974 term and to answer the equity complaint filed by Sparta Concerned Parents attorney Michael Visnosky. The 5 to 3 votes supported replying within the 20 day limit and sending the district’s answer to the court. The matter proceeds as the court determines whether a hearing is needed.
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Sparta
Corry Area
Board of Education
Frank McKnight
Equity
Erie County
Michael Visnosky
Erie
Sparta Concerned Parents Organization
Robert Nichols
Nichols
T. Allan May
Corry
James Bennett
Concord Township
William Kafferlin
Spring Creek
Robert Joy
Wayne
Township
Roger Lansberry
Melvin Messinger
Columbus
Louis Morrow
James Howard
Bennett
May
Joy
Lansberry
Messinger
Kafferlin
McKnight
Corry Area Board Answers Allegations On Student Transfer
At a board meeting the Corry Area School Board outlined responses to equity complaint seeking to block moving 83 Sparta high students to Corry. The board asserts the transfer was carefully studied, not harmful, could save money, and would expand educational opportunities while noting safe capacity at Corry and fire safety concerns at Sparta.
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Board of Education
Corry
Sparta
Equity
Erie County
Frank McKnight
McKnight
Corry Area High School
Corry Area School District Board of Education
House To Consider Death Penalty Bill In Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania House leaders planned action on a bill to restore the death penalty for specified murders. The measure, drafted by the Law and Justice Committee, would replace the electric chair with a lethal gas chamber and remove discretion from judges and juries.
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Harrisburg
House
Pennsylvania
Joseph Zord
Allegheny
Senate
Senate Judiciary Committee
Louis Hill
Philadelphia
Governor
Shapp
Study Commission
House Law and Justice Committee
U.S. Supreme Court
Senate May Junk Phase 3 Inflation Plan Debate
The Senate moves to vote on a Proxmire amendment to junk Nixon Phase 3 and freeze wages and prices except raw farm products while the Nixon administration ponders a fourth phase of inflation controls. Leaders clash over risks to production and economy with officials signaling a midweek decision.
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Washington
Senate
Nixon
Niscon
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Proxmire
State Department
Mike Mansfield
Hugh Scott
U.S
Indochina
North Vietnam
House
Mansfield
East Coast Heat Strains Power Grids Across Regions
A widespread East Coast heat wave drives power companies to cut voltage by up to 5 percent to prevent brownouts while Chicago and Michigan utilities reduce by 2 to 5 percent. The heat slams eastern cities with air conditioning demand and reports of pavement buckling near Chicago O’Hare. Severe storms bring heavy rain from the Gulf coast to New England, with thunderstorms easing behind a cooler midcontinent air mass. In Charleston, record rainfall floods streets and forces evacuations, while Tornadoes spin near Laramie, Cheyenne, and Beaufort, Texas, causing refinery damage but no reported injuries.
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Central Plains
Seaboard
East Coast
Chicago
Electric Company
Michigan
O'Hare International
Gulf
South Atlantic
Great Lakes
New England
Charleston
S.C
Laramie
Cheyenne
Wyo
Beaumont
Tex
Dean Wins Immunity for Senate Testimony Dismisses Jury Block
Federal judge John Sirica granted immunity for John W. Dean to testify before the Senate Watergate committee and allowed broadcast of the proceedings. Dean must also testify before the Watergate grand jury without immunity, a move his lawyers oppose. The ruling enables prosecutors to use Dean in building a case while limiting denial steps and continuing coverage. The Finance Committee to Re-elect the President reported 146,639 in legal fees this quarter, bringing total documented fees to 237,725 since last July.
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Washington
White House
John W. Dean
Senate
U.S
Sirica
Dean
Grand Jury
Cox
Senate Committee
General Accounting Office
Finance Committee
Skylab runs unusual tests for space manufacturing
SPACE CENTER Houston AP Skylab astronauts fire up an electric furnace and an electron beam gun to begin materials processing tests that could spawn a multi billion dollar space manufacturing business by century's end. Tests study molten metals in zero g, welding by electron beam, and gallium arsenide crystal growth as Conrad Jr. Kerwin and Weitz conduct the 19th day of a 28 day mission while health and earth resources studies proceed.
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Space Center
Houston
Skylab
Conrad Jr
Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
Daniel J. Fink
General Electric Co
Corryite Held Charged With Drugs Possession
Carl R. Holmes, 23, of A.D.3 Corry held on drug possession charges after Erie State Police crime lab found 14 grams of liquid hashish and 47 LSD pills valued at 484. Holmes arraigned before District Justice Mary Jane Fuller in Union City with a $2,000 bond set. He remains jailed in Erie County awaiting a June 19 hearing. In separate item, South Africa will require temporary resident permits for white settlers from multiple countries.
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Corry
Carl R. Holmes
A.D
Erie
Holmes
Mary Jane Fuller
Union City
Erie County
Manslaughter charges dropped for Corry man in Wattsburg death
Four Corry motorists facing manslaughter counts in the Wattsburg pedestrian death last October saw charges dropped after the DA cited suppression of key evidence. The ruling followed defense reports that police questioned the suspect without advised rights and that a blood alcohol test was taken without consent, weakening the case.
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Wattsburg
Lawrence Sheehan
West Park Place
Sheehan
Theodore Padden
Erie
Director Balks At 900 Dollar Bill For Carousels
At a Corry Area School District board meeting a $900 charge for two carousel movable partitions used as study stalls was questioned. Director T Allen May sought Elsen’s explanation and proposed paying all other bills while reviewing the carousel item. He chair of the property committee would inspect the equipment before deciding.
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Corry Area
Board of Education
Ray Elsen
T. Allen May
Corty
Elsen
May
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