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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1974
Page
3
Three American high school boys aged 16 and 17 streaked the length of a football field at the American School in Japan. Bystanders cheered as they returned to the locker room with their clothes. No disciplinary action was reported.
Democratic prospects in major states face risk from likely primary battles as candidates seek to exploit Republican vulnerabilities. Leaders warn factionalism could derail gains after Watergate, notably in New York and California governorships, with similar races in Connecticut Michigan and Massachusetts. Senate hopes could be hampered by primaries in Florida Ohio Colorado Utah and Pennsylvania.
Miners in four southern West Virginia counties vow to stay off the job, signaling the third week of a strike that idled about 20,000 workers and crippled metallurgical coal production for steel mills. A few locals resumed work as dissidents protested a gasoline sale ban tied to fuel gauge readings.
Thomas Anderson of the Pennsylvania Service Station Dealers Association and energy official William Wilcox say Pennsylvania will run short of gasoline this month. Anderson adds a planned vote this week on a protest shutdown to accompany the fuel shortage.
Harrisburg report says lawmakers expect a tax cut package this week to finish the fiscal year budget work for 1974 75. The piece notes leadership fights over budget process powers, legislative reform proposals by Butera, and calls for earlier detailed budget information from agencies and the governor.
A wallup Poll from Princeton shows 1,444 adults peg the minimum weekly income for a nonfarm family of four at 152 dollars. They rate living costs higher in the East and Far West, with the East seen as the most expensive region, while the South and Midwest are viewed as cheaper.
Newsweek reports a criminal fraud inquiry by the IRS into President Nixon's 1969 income tax return. The probe centers on possible fraud surrounding a deed related to Nixon’s vice presidential papers and a large deduction claimed for donating them to the archives. Witnesses cited include Edward L. Morgan Arthur Blech and Frank DeMarco.
ERIE AP Funeral services are set for 11 a.m. Wednesday at St Peters Cathedral for George J. Mead 68 chairman and president of Times Publishing Co. Mead died Saturday at his home son of founder John J. Mead Sr. and brother of the late John J. Mead Jr. Survived by his widow Mary Evelyn Burke three sons a daughter and a brother.
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