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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1972
Page
3
A partial OCR fragment mentions entities and events with unclear connections. The readable bits hint at names and places but lack coherent context or dates to form a full news item or headline.
In Harrisburg the Senate approved an amendment to ban children under 10 from harness and thoroughbred races amid debate on lowering track attendance age. The measure accompanies a bill lowering age to attend and bet from 21 to 18, with final approval needed from House concurrence.
Harrisburg AP reports that though unlikely, the Pennsylvania lottery could have a week with no $50,000 winner if no ticket sold matches the drawn number. An official notes odds of 20,000 to 1 over 400 years, explaining tickets use million six-digit numbers repeated across series.
Pennsylvania blind pensioners will see higher monthly checks starting next month retroactive to January first. The raise came with a bill signed by Gov. Shapp in February after prior delays by the Welfare Department due to technical issues. In separate notes, a fatal Route 5 accident near Brant killed Edward Cassidy, 40, of Angola, with Gary Zmyslo, 29, of Buffalo injured. Cassidy died of a fractured skull. Zmyslo was treated for knee and shoulder injuries.
In Belfast a three way cease fire collapsed as gunfire killed an 18 year old Catholic on his doorstep and a heavy bomb campaign struck Belfast Londonderry Lisburn Strabane and Castlederg. Ten bombs wounded soldiers and a police officer while the death toll rose to 272 in 31 months of conflict with 66 deaths in 1972.
In Harrisburg, lawyer Daniel W. Shoemaker says Dr. Nathaniel W. Boyd III seeks a ruling that Blue Shield must set fair office treatment fees rather than just hospital surgery costs. Boyd claims Blue Shield discriminates against non hospital procedures like injections and freezing treatments for hernias, hemorrhoids, and enlarged prostates, seeking rate setting for all office methods. The suit could force broader, standardized fees and affect the agency's operating rules.
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