Corry Radio Buffs Hold Field Meet
Corry Radio Amateur Club members held a field day at Scandia near Warren to test emergency contact skills. Six stations logged 39 contacts including across the West Indies Ontario Georgia and Nicaragua with the shortest 10 miles to Coal Nob tower near Kinzua Dam. Final results await nationwide totals before a winner is announced.
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Corry
West Indies
West Coast
Ontario
Georgia
Nicaraagua
Kinzua Dam
United States
Canada
Body recovered after woman falls from Erie dock
Erie police recovered the body of Mildred Dobbs 27 from the bay near the Public Dock late last night. Divers led by Sam Lee located the victim about 10 feet off the dock wall in 10 feet of water after a two hour search aided by Coast Guard and Fish Commission boats. An anonymous call reported a jump at 9 43 p m with two witnesses hearing a splash and seeing a person treading water briefly.
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ERIE
Erie Public Dock
Mildred Dobbs
Erie Skin Divers Club
Sam Lee
Erie Coast Guard
Pennsylvania Fish Commission
Frank Pettinato
Presque Isle
Edward Gorecki
Gorecki
Jerry Kaufman
Eric
David Sullivan
Bay
Wates
St. Hospital
Drug Abuse Fight Launched As Nixon Seeks Action
Dr. Jerome H. Jaffe testified as the White House opens hearings on about 50 anti drug bills. Nixon named him to coordinate federal narcotics actions and urged Congress to grant formal status. Rogers said the problem is a national menace and proposed rapid expansion of treatment centers via community mental health networks. Nixon asked for $155 million more for anti drug programs, totaling about $370 million for 1972.
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Washington
Jerome H. Jaffe
White House
Capitol Hill
Nixon
America
Jaffe
Illinois
Congress
Paul Rogers
D-Fla
Rogers
No Fault Insurance Threatens 70 Pennsylvania Lawmakers
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that 18 state senators and 52 representatives with private law practices could be financially harmed by a no fault automobile insurance plan. The survey notes many are in auto bodily injury or negligence work, with seven of ten top leaders involved. The piece mentions the American Trial Lawyers Association campaigning against no fault, while insurers and opponents argue both sides on speed of reimbursements and accident rates. State Insurance Commissioner Herbert Denenberg says a $1 million campaign to kill the legislation is being prepared.
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Inquirer
General Assembly
The
Inquirer
American Trial Lawyers Association
the Inquirer
Herbert Denenberg
Shapp
Oakland man held on murder in guard shooting
A 27 year old man from Pittsburgh Oakland is held on murder and burglary charges in the shooting death of a security guard near a downtown Lawyers' Building. Detectives say the guard George Gilliam 45 confronted him after spotting a cigarette machine cashbox in his possession and was shot with his own revolver during a struggle.
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Pittsburgh
Oakland
Donald G. Williams
Lawyers
George Gilliam
Charter Plane Crash Kills Sixteen Californians
A chartered airliner carrying 23 Californians including 19 real estate salesmen crashed into rocky coastal waters near Shelter Cove during takeoff. Seven survived. Ten bodies recovered. six missing. Winds and waves hampered search. Survivors include stewardess and six salesmen. dead identified later by sheriff. The crash occurred about 220 miles north of San Francisco.
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Calif
DCS
Coast Guard
Here
Shelter Cove Co
Los Angeles
Shelter Cove
San Jose
Stewares
Tom Wallace
Redway
Machi
Dave Zebo
Humboldt County Aviation
Point Ledge
Fort Bragg
Garberville
Elizabeth Deauville
San Francisco
Joel du Plain
Encinitas
Herbert Huber
Fairfield
Anthony Sanchez
San Diego
Grossman
Billy Nelson
Steven Reed
Fix Blame In Warren RR Car Fatals
GAF Corporation was found guilty of wanton negligence in the 1988 Warren Car Company explosion at Starbrick. Three men died and two were injured. Warren Car Co and Penn Central were exonerated. The blast stemmed from cleaning four cars with tear gas base material reacting with water. Injured: Philip F. Lauffenburger and Raymond Grubbs. Judge Gerald Weber presided.
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Titusville
GAF Corporation
General Aniline and Film Company
Warren Car Company
Starbrick
Henry Lanman
Penn Central Railroad
Warren Car Co
North American Car Corporation
GAF
Philip F. Lauffenburger
Warren
Raymond Grubbs
Clarendon
Gerald Weber
Youth charged with three arsons in Fryburg area
A Snydersburg youth, 18, was jailed in Clarion County after being charged by state police at Tionesia with three counts of arson and one count of malicious mischief. He allegedly set two fires at Austin Weaver's Fryburg home last Thursday, causing minor damage totaling 50 dollars. A third fire Friday at Tracy Passaver's Fryburg home destroyed a wood frame garage worth 500 dollars, and wires on Passauer's truck were cut. He was arraigned before Justice Walter Maxwell and remanded to jail in lieu of bond.
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Tionesta
Snydersburg
Clarion County
Tionesia
William F. Fitzgerald
Austin P. Weaver
Fryburg
Tracy Passaver
Passauer
Fitzgerald
Walter Maxwell
Leeper
Naked Man Arrested After I 90 Incident in Oregon
State troopers found a man walking nude along Interstate 90 near the Peepaine ramp at Station Road. He was charged with public indecency and held at St. Vincent Hospital psychiatric unit for observation.
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Oregon
Station Road
Per
Lawrence Park Barracks
Justice of the Peace
John Ditrich
St. Vincent Hospital
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Mume Iaster
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Gregory Peck
Tuesday Weldik
Bronx
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Frank Garcia
Sal Lucena
Jacob Javitts
N.Y
Harold Hughes
Iowa
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