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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1974
Page
1
The Pennsylvania legislature narrowly backed a bill reinstating the death penalty for specific murders. The measure, sent to Gov. Shapp after a 44 4 Senate vote, sets execution by electric chair for nine defined crimes, with life imprisonment if mitigating factors apply.
Corry state police and Warren County units investigated two auto thefts and two accidents over the weekend. Eight New York residents were arrested with three jailed after two stolen vehicles crashed near Freehold Township, Warren County. Holmberg pleaded guilty to unauthorized use of a vehicle and received one year in Chautauqua County jail. Foster, 3 months. Krause, 15 days.
The Corry Area School District Board closed a contract grievance with teachers over school hours approving an agreement that future hour changes require CAEA input. A second grievance from Miss Annette Coates seeks mileage reimbursement for driving from Corry to Spartansburg. superintendent Elsen will respond within five days. If unsatisfied, the issue may go to the next board meeting on April 8.
President Nixon's advisers intensify pushback against resignation rumors. Bryce Harlow accuses Rep. Wilbur Mills of McCarthy era tactics while aboard the presidential jet and after dining at the Florida bayside home. Mills had spoken in Little Rock.
President Nixon and Henry Kissinger met with Jordan's King Hussein in Washington to discuss a large military aid request and a shopping list of weapons including Hawk missiles, jets, tanks, and radar. Hussein seeks funding to modernize Jordan's forces as he presses for Israeli withdrawal from the Jordan Valley.
Corry Area School District awarded bids totaling about 28 000 for a bookkeeping machine 237 252 and for tables chairs and stage curtains. Burroughs Company won the lowest on the machine while Janson Industries supplied the curtains and C M Eichenlaub provided the tables and chairs for use at Wright Street and Conelway schools with some funding from federal sources.
IRS officials fear taxpayer backlash from Nixon tax scandal may reduce 1974 revenues. Analysts warn losses could reach 1 billion, or up to 10 percent of anticipated intake, as taxpayers imitate perceived corner cutting while seeking legal deductions.
An 18 year old Japanese youth hijacked a Japan Air Lines 747 with 426 aboard but was captured seven hours later by police who brought food on board. He demanded Alpine gear 15 parachutes and $59 million in cash. Police identified him as Kat suhito Owaki, a minor, saying he planned the act for about a month and was interested in geology and biology but had no funds for study. He denied links to any radical group.
Richard Shuster of Corry, the region’s only Democrat, won endorsement from the Farmer-Labor Federation of Northwestern Pennsylvania at a Meadville meeting. The group, covering Erie Warren Venango Crawford and Mercer counties, pledged support after the May primary and noted Shuster’s status as the first Southeastern Erie County assembly candidate in years. County Commissioner William O. Hill Jr. withdrew after Hopkins’s declaration to run again.
Corry Area School District directors approved a $2,000 subsidy to the athletic program, raising total athletics funding for the year to $6,000 after a prior $4,000 allocation. They cited reduced gate receipts and previous underserving of the department’s request as factors in the district’s tight budget.
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