Never pay the freight for good roads debate in Corry
In Corry and statewide a clash over road funding persists with drivers quoted as paying the price for substandard streets. An unrelated Washington investigation alleges illegal corporate payoffs to politicians from Ashland Oil Gulf Oil Northrop Aircraft and Phillips Petroleum spanning the 1960s and 70s.
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Corry
Washington
Ashland Oil
Gulf Oil
Northrop Aircraft
Phillips Petroleum
White House
Ford
Phillips
House
Richard Nixon
Ashland
Nixon
Contaminated Parks and Polluted Waters Stir Urban Alarm
The piece details Kepone and PCB contamination in sites from Swann Park in Baltimore to Hopewell and the James River, prompting plant closures and fishing bans. It also reports suspected illegal political contributions from Gulf, Ashland, Phillips, and other firms to U S lawmakers, with totals and denied records.
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James Eastland
D-Mass
Ashland
House
Tip O'Neill
Phillips
Baltimore
Swann Park
al Kaline
Ron Swoboda
Reggie Jackson
Patapaco River
Allied Chemical
Hopewell
Life Science Product Co
James River
Hudson River
Hudson
Atlantic
Delaware
Maine
General Electric
Testing toxic substances act moves toward Senate vote
The Toxic Substances Control Act aims to require testing of potentially hazardous chemicals before market release and to tighten regulation of production, use, and disposal. Proponents cite health costs from cancer and birth defects, while opponents warn of higher consumer prices from testing costs. The Senate Commerce Committee backed the bill and a full Senate vote looms, with support from environmental, consumer, labor groups and health advocates.
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The
Blue Cross Assn
American Lung Assn. March of Dimes
U.S
Senate Commerce Committee
Senate
Blue Cross
Walter J. McNerney
Ben Duggar and the making of aureomycin
Ben Duggar, a Wisconsin botanist turned pharmaceutical pioneer, defied mandatory retirement to work at Lederle Laboratory. At 73 he began cross matching earth samples, later isolating aureomycin the antibiotic that transformed medicine and saved countless lives before his death at 84.
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Duggar
Ben
Lederle
Wisconsin
Pearl River
N.Y
Ben Duggar
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R-Neb
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
James McClure
R-Ida
J.B. Johnston
D-La
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D-Ark
Mills
Gult
Jack Anderson
Gulf
Hubert Humphrey
D-Minn
Humphrey
Mark Hatfield
R-Cve
Matfield
R H. Bogle Chemical Co
Alexandria
Potomac
Washington, D.C
Strom Thurmond
R-5
Carl Albert
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Northrop
Sylvia Porter
Vry Evening Journal
South Street
A. Sample
Wiliam
Eaton Jean Mctaughlin
Associated Press
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AP News
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Deadlina
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Jim Bishop
Kcians
State Dept
Thailand
Leonard Unger
Unger
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Executive Branch
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Richard 5. Schweiker
R.pa
Milton Shapp
Capitol
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United States Representative assembLy
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Cannon House
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Forest Hopkins
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University of Wisconsin
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Pennsylvania Bureau of Consumer Protection
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