Corry City Council Faces Waste Fee Clash and Recreation Plans
Corry’s city council contends with Erie Disposal Co in a fee dispute over transfer station charges for loose versus compacted refuse. City engineer David A. Johnson warns against unilateral contract changes while Erie insists no obligation to alter terms. Recreation plans advance with a potential state allocation for Seneca and Lake streets and Mead Park, though some oppose hiring a consultant at 10 percent of project costs.
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Bill Eaton
Corry
Erie Disposal Co
David A. Johnson
Richard Melzer
Corry Jamestown Corporation
Leonard Lechtner
Melzer
Erie
Lechtner
Johnson
Erie Disposal
Johson
Jack Downey
Parks and Public Property
State Department of Community Affairs
Downey
Seneca and
Lake Streets
Mead Park
William Halfast
Benjamin Calderone
Gulf Oil Cuts Prices Amid Oil Embargo Shuffle
Gulf Oil Corp announced immediate price cuts on jet fuel kerosene diesel and residual oils in anticipation of Arab oil imports resuming. Distillate fuels drop 15 cents per gallon jet fuel 5 cents and residual fuel 1 dollar per barrel. President Bonner said the move aims to ease the crude allocation burden and boost refining at Gulf facilities.
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Pittsburgh
Gulf Oil Corp
Gulf
Z. D. Bonner
Federal Energy Office
Bonner
Ex-Newsman Huntley Dies From Cancer
Bozeman Montana AP reports former NBC News anchor Chet Huntley died at 62 from abdominal cancer. He teamed with David Brinkley for 14 years on the Huntley Brinkley Report and died at 2 20 a m after periodic treatment and a January surgery.
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Bozeman, Mont
Chet Huntley
David Brinkley
Nbc-Tv
Huntley
Tippy Huntley
Nixon and Simon warn ongoing shortages and higher fuel costs
President Nixon and energy chief William Simon say gasoline shortages will persist even after the Arab oil embargo ends. They project a 5 to 8 percent U.S. shortage, with gasoline and heating oil prices rising, and note rationing will end but voluntary measures like car pooling will continue. Prices could top 70 to 80 cents per gallon this summer.
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Washington (Ap
Nixon
National Association of Broadcasters
Houston
United States
Federal Energy
William E. Simon
Simon
U.S
John C. Sawhill
Congress
Naval Petroleum Reserve
Elk Hills
Calif
Superintendent Accepts Offer For Post Here
Corry Area School District plans to hire a new superintendent after the formal signing of a contract. The top candidate has accepted an offer made last week, but officials would not disclose details or name the appointee. Board chair Margaret Morrow expressed enthusiasm and pleasure with the choice.
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Corry Area
Ray Elsen
Margaret Morrow
Budget Has Few New Plans Shapp Budget Drive
Gov. Shapp unveiled a 1974 75 budget in a year of politics with a bipartisan tax relief bill cutting personal income tax from 2.3 to 2 percent and a $4.2 billion spending plan for the coming fiscal year. Republicans face a tough task countering the tax cut while noting a 12.7 percent spending increase. The withholding rate drops May 1 to 1.85 percent and stays there until Dec 31, restoring a 2 percent rate for 1974 retroactive to January.
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Harrisburg
Shapp
House
Nixon Defends Self Defense at Broadcasters Meet
President Nixon told newsmen at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Houston that he will be fair to reporters while sparring with questions. He traded barbed remarks with CBS White House correspondent Dan Rather who asked if he is running for something. Nixon also used a question about recession polls to critique the networks and defend his stance against a downturn.
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Houston
Tex
Nixon
National Association of Broadcasters
CBS White
Rather
Washington
White House
NAB
U.S
Europe
Chicago
Middle East
Soviet Union
Henry A. Kissinger
Spring Weather Brings Snow Flares As Spring Arrives
Temperatures near 20 degrees greet the season as Spring makes its entry tonight at 8 07 CST with a slow transition. Snow flurries and increasing clouds are forecast, with low 40s expected tomorrow and warming later in the season. Nixon defends media access and signals future press meetings while Kissinger plans to restart disengagement talks between Israel and Syria in Washington March 29.
Couple Arrested After Hijacking In East African Flight
An East African Airways Fokker Friendship with 95 aboard was hijacked by a presumed Ethiopian husband wife pair during a Nairobi to Mombasa flight. The aircraft refueled in Entebbe, Uganda, where Ugandan troops detained the hijackers after landing with no injuries reported among passengers. The flight carried mainly European tourists plus a few African and Asian Kenyans. Authorities provided few details on the hijackers or motive.
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Natrobs
Kenya
East African Airways
Uganda
Nairobi
Mombasa
Edward Penford
Libya
Entebbe
Tanzania
East Africa
Addis Ababa
Paris
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Gulf Oil
Kenneth Lee
Ernest Kline
Milton Shapp
Sion
General Assembly
James L. Buckley
New York
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