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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1971
Page
2
The piece lampoons Governor Shapp appointing a proclamations secretary and jokes about public relations duties and a proposed Taxpayers Week. It imagines 52 weeks of proclamations and suggests a taxpayers tribute with a funeral dirge on the village green.
Washington panel highlights a flood of top officials disqualifying themselves from cases due to personal ties to those under investigation. Will Wilson withdraws from the Collins probe and Sharp links surface, as Connally and Stans faces unrelated conflicts. Casey and Mitchell also face disqualifications amid IRS and antitrust scrutiny, signaling a pattern of corporate influence in government decisions.
The SEC analysis largely exonerates trusts banks funds foundations and insurers from broadly moving stock prices though it notes exceptions. It cites institutional access to inside merger information and uneven information distribution as drawbacks for public investors and highlights how timely data favors institutions over individuals.
A biting critique of President Richard Nixon, contrasting him with Lyndon Johnson. The piece argues Nixon’s arrogance and secrecy worsen Vietnam expansion into Cambodia and Laos, laments waning will and morale, and predicts a deteriorating U.S. position while praising Johnson as a shrewd wheeler-dealer.
In Corry motorists condemn the vandalism that saw two meters stolen and a third smashed on East Washington Street. Also noted is a birthday party for Dennis Merritt, age seven, and an upcoming minstrel show by Cub Pack 187 at the Junior High School on March 21 inviting public attendance.
The Kiwanis Club devoted today’s weekly meeting to Major R W Brown a charter member and leading figure who died in Florida on February 18. Meanwhile city workers cleared snow drifts from streets and business districts as unemployed laborers toiled to reopen intersections.
When a person dies without a will and no close relatives survive, the Register of Wills grants letters of administration. The order of preference places a surviving spouse first, then those entitled by intestacy judged best to administer, followed by the decedent’s principal creditors and other fit persons. The administrator is often the person entitled to the largest share if deemed fit.
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