Major Disaster Developing In West Pa
Weather concerns push West Pa events from City Park to the high school. Tonight features a 6 p.m. dinner at Venture Inn for $44, a motorcade at 7:30 p.m. from the inn to the high school, and an 8 p.m. program at the school. The motorcade route includes Center street, Center and Washington, East Pleasant, and final arrival at the school. The high school program is free. James Pryor photograph credit.
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West
Chamber of Commerce
Venture Inn
Inn
Center Street
Center
Washington
East Pleasant Street
Pryor
Agnes Flood Forces Wilkes-Barre Evacuations as Dike Breach Feared
Rapid rise of the Susquehanna drove sandbagging crews from Wilkes-Barre’s main dike and triggered mass evacuations across northeastern Pennsylvania. The killer Agnes storm battered the region with heavy rains, causing widespread floods, dozens of deaths, and state of emergency declarations. National Guard units aided evacuations in Harrisburg Elmira and other cities as rivers rose and flood warnings spread.
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Wilkes-Barre
Pennsylvania
Agnes
Frank Townsend
The
National Guard
Susquehana
Ohio, Allegheny
Monongahela
New York National Guard
Harrisburg
Elmira
National Weather Service
William Long
Pittsburgh
Ohio
Milton Shapp
Virginia
Albany
N.Y
State Transportation Department
Clearfield County
Philadelphia
New York State
Corning Commerce
Peter G Peterson
New York City
Joseph Sartor
Nelson A Rockefeller
Olean
Allegheny
Salamanca
Eldred
William Luce
Upstate Democrats push income tax cut in budget aid plan
The group that trimmed 150 million from Gov. Shapp's budget seeks to lower the personal income tax from 2.3 to 2 percent using saved funds. After a 116 to 74 House vote approving the general appropriation of 3.2 billion, the bill moved to the Senate amid Urban Democrats' defections over revenue sharing cuts. Rep. Robert Wise said the upstate bloc aims to vote on tax cuts next week if the measure advances.
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Harrisburg
Shapp
House
Senate
Robert Wise
D-Lycoming
Upstate
29 Corry Students Enrolled In Neighborhood Youth Corps
Twenty five Corry area youths join an eight week NYC program funded by the federal government and run by GECAC. Sixteen Corry students attend salable skills classes at Erie County Vocational Technical School with on the job training six hours daily earning 1.60 dollars per hour. Others work for Corry city Public Works the army recruiting station the Corry Salvation Army and Downing Golf Course Harborcreek. One student attends Edinboro State College work study while another pursues college prep and counseling. Nationwide 950 county youths are in NYC with 300 in Erie home repair. Other work study efforts run through Gannon College.
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Corry Area
Greater Erie
City of
Corry
Public Works Department
Army
Corry Salvation Army
Downing
Harborcreek
Edinboro State College
Nyc
Erie
Gannon College
Penn Central Future Here Looks Dim
Penn Central contemplates dropping the northbound line from Titusville to Corry while pledging no abandonment of the southbound Titusville to Oil City segment. After protests from Titusville industrialists, officials released April maps to the ICC and PCC for approval, showing possible southward line abandonments in a two step plan. Harry Noon of Penn Central told a regional planning committee that reports of Titusville service abandonment are false, and that southern service will not be discontinued.
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Penn Central Railroad
Titusville
Corry
Oil City
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pennsylvania Utility Commission
Harry Noon
Penn Central
Transportation Committee
Northwest Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission
State University commencement services canceled sitewide
State Police at the Corry substation reported prior to presstime that commencement services at Pennsylvania State University in State College have been canceled. Officials urged discouraging travel into central Pennsylvania due to high water and flood warnings.
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Corry
the Journal
Pennsylvania State University
State College
Pennsylvania
20 Percent Social Security Benefit Hike Moves Forward
Washington reports a 20 percent across the board Social Security rise edging toward congressional approval by end of next week. Senator Church and Representative Mills back a rider on a debt limit bill to quicken passage. The plan would retroactively start June 1 and link increases to a 3 percent price index rise.
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Washington
Frank Church
D-Idaho
Senate
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Mills
Church
Ways and Means
House
Nixon
Senate Finance Committee
Anti-Abortion Bill Passes House Ranked Among Strictest In U.S
In Harrisburg the House approved a restrictive antiabortion measure on a 157-34 vote. The bill would permit abortions only with three doctors certifying death risk, ban abortions for rape or incest, and require a husband's consent if the mother faces death. The proposal faces Senate debate amid election-year tensions.
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House
U.S
Harrisburg
State House
Senate
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Pennsylvania Catholic Conference
Pennsylvanians For Human Life
Martin P. Mullen
Philadelphia
Mullen
Flooding Strikes Corry As Slippery Rock Creek Rises
Eight Corry youngsters are sent home from the Salvation Army Camp at Elwood City as Slippery Rock Creek floods cut utilities and trigger flu cases including camp cook Capt James Korp. Northwestern Pennsylvania flood areas attract emergency aid while Corry city crews combat high water, with Rogers Structural Steel Co. submerged and Mead Park dam boards removed to relieve pressure.
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Corry
Salvation Army
Elwood City
Slippery Rock Creek
James Korp
Corry Citadel
Korp
Rogers Structural Steel Co
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Linda
Associated Press
Susquehanna
Bulletin
Centre Counties
Centre County
State Supreme Court
Rogers
George Black
Mead Park
David Johnson
Hare
Rogers Structural Steel
Black
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