Mystery Car Fleet Disappears With Penn Central Cars
Investigators probe La Salle & Bureau County Railroad and Magna Earth Enterprises after 277 Penn Central freight cars vanish since 1970. FBI bands and US Attorney Bechtle report suspected thefts in switching, with 27 cars found bearing altered Penn Central marks. Federal inquiry widens to possible organized crime links and related firms.
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Philadelphia
Penn Central Railroad
LaSalle Tracks
Cinotto
Little Rail
Illinois
FBI
la Salle Line
Magna-Earth Enterprises, Inc
Penn Central
LaSalle
Snow map clash over Corry snow removal effort
A Corry Journal editorial urged PennDOT to place more snow removal equipment in the Corry area, noting Corry has Pennsylvania’s heaviest annual snowfall. PennDOT deputy chief engineer David C. Sims replied that funding targets traffic flow and total lane miles by county, not snowfall, citing Erie, Dauphin, and Montgomery counties. He provided 1969-70 Winter Traffic Service expenditures showing Erie at 1,205,594.91 dollars versus Montgomery at 580,111.79, arguing Corry’s share is fair.
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Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
Penndot
Corry
R. Budd Dwyer
Dwyer
David C. Sims
Harrisburg
Erie County
Dauphin
Montgomery
Sims
U.S. Department of Commerce
Pennsylvania
Corry Evening Journal
Hopkins
Department of Transportation
Harrist
Dauphin County
Conshohocken
Montgomery County
Major Issue Questions Set For Ballot
Five state questions will appear on the spring primary ballot May 18 addressing legal reform women's rights clean air and pure water and state resources. Wording sent to the Erie County Election Board notes amendments require minor changes and lays out the five questions for voter consideration.
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Erie County Election Board
Backers Seek Senate Help After SST Funding Rejected
In Washington the House rejected another 290 million dollars for the supersonic transport program, threatening U S SST development. Senate action looms as backers push a bill to modify the project and opponents press to end federal financing by March 30.
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Washington
House
United States
Senate
Chamber
U.S
White House
O Woo
Senate Appropriations Committee
Sidney Yates
D-Ill
Probation Set For Corry Men In Burglary Case
Two Corry men John Willis and Frederick Carter pled guilty to three counts of burglary and one count of malicious mischief in Erie County Court in 1970 were placed on three year probation by Judge Edward Carney. They had been in Camp Hill Correctional Institute since last year after a trial that included a Wattsburg laundry and Conway School case. They testified in January in the retrial of accomplices John Amacher and James Shields.
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Corry
Erie County Court
Edward Carney
John Willis
South Senter’ Street
Frederick Carter
West Bond Street
Camp Hill Correctional Institute
R.D. 4
Union City
Wattsburg
Conelway School
Willis
Carter
John Amacher
James Shields
James Dwyer
Plan to Extend Blue Shield to Nursing Home Residents
Philadelphia area Blue Shield coverage will pay doctors’ bills for nursing home residents, aligning with hospital coverage. Insurance Commissioner Herbert 5 Denenberg approved the measure during hearings on Blue Cross rate hikes, effective May 1. He urged public cost transparency and immediate negotiation of revised hospital contracts to cap nonpatient care expenses.
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Philadelphia
Herbert
Denenberg
Blue Shield
Philadelphia Blue Cross
Blue Cross
Insurance Department
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Richard Spriggs
Bechtle
Diversified Properties
LaSalle Railroad
Joseph C. Bonnano
Diversified
Cour
Magna Earth
Joseph C
Mead Park
James Long
Long
Chamber of Commerce
Civil Defense
Neas
Sen
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Boeing Co
Gerald L. Warren
Nixon
Soviet Union
Britain
France
Congress
Okay
Blaze
Quincy
Mass
Wollaston Foundry
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