Fires harass area as volunteers battle multiple blazes
Fire crews from Erie Lackawanna freight yard and Elgin Beaverdam units fought three grass fires yesterday. Engine 1 Emergency Truck 6 and Truck 4 with 18 men fought a blaze at a cigarette butt drop in an Erie Lackawanna area building. Grass fires near 1345 West Main Street drew two trucks and 20 men, quickly doused after about half an hour. Elgin Beaverdam volunteers sent two trucks and 100 men to a grass fire along the Elgin borough line after a diesel engine passing through ignited dry grass.
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Corry
Elgin
Beaverdam
Erie-Leckewanna
Espe Ke Ac
Erie-Lackawanna
Jerome
Almon Foster
West Main Street
Elgin-Beaverdam
Roger Barnhart
Elgin Borough
YMCA plans second staff aide for field of physical education
The Corry YMCA expects about $10 000 yearly from Bliss estates trusts to hire a second fulltime staff aide. Projected cost is $7 000 for the aide. An evaluation group urged using 9 percent of trust income for new facilities, starting with blacktop parking lot paving at the rear. Directors awarded a $1 950 contract to Fielding Company of Centerville, the lowest of two bids.
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Clifford Bliss
Corry
Centerville
Chimp Washoe Learns Sign Language From Nevada Researchers
In Reno, psychologist Dr. R Allen Gardner and Beatrice Gardner report Washoe the chimp, raised at home for three years, uses over 70 hand signs aiming for broader conversation with humans. The team spent about 13 hours daily with the animal.
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Reno, Nev
R. Allen Gardner
Beatrice
University of Nevada Psychology Department
Washoe
Gradner
Train hits car at Mead avenue crossing. minor damage
Penn Central diesel struck a car on Mead avenue crossing last evening. Richard Hand, 41, of 80 Marion street, northbound, escaped injury as train prevented backing off in time. Engineer M. G. Tanner from Oil City reported being on the opposite side during impact.
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Penn Central
Mead Avenue
Richard Hand
Marion Street
Hand
M. G. Tanner
Oil City
Four Children Of On-Duty Cop Die In Fire In Easton
Easton police say four sons of Harold and Frances Beam died in a house fire about 2:30 a.m. while their father, a four year veteran, was on duty. Firefighters could not reach the children. smoke inhalation is blamed.
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Easton
Jeff
Harold Jr
John
Todd
Harold
Frances Beam
Beam
Crash Kills Meadville Youth and Girl in Two Car Wreck
Two Meadville youths died instantly in a two car crash near Jamestown New York just after midnight. Michael Q. Berrier 22 died from chest injuries and a fractured skull Angeline R. Sheckler 18 suffered a fractured skull and multiple injuries. Lewis E Napper 32 of Rochester was the other driver with head and body lacerations a nasal fracture and shock. The crash was witnessed by a Chautauqua County Sheriff's patrol including Sgt John Bentley Patrolman Carl Behm and Patrolman Jerry Adams.
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Meadville
Jamestown
N.Y
Frederick Hitchcock
Michael Q. Berrier
Angeline R. Sheckler
Lewis E. Napper
Rochester
Chautauqua County
Berrier
John Bentley
Carl Behm
Jerry Adams
Hamlet Not To Be At Royal Opera House Again
London AP reports Hamlet at the Royal Opera House canceled for the fourth time as tenor Victor Braun relapsed from laryngitis and understudy Donald Rutherford was also forbidden to sing on medical advice. Audience members received refunds.
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London
Hamlet
Royal Opera House
Victor Braun
Donald Rutherford
Withdrawal Of U S Troops From Vietnam Rumors
AP reports U S Command planner Maj Gen Richard Schafer met with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu for about 90 minutes at the presidential palace. They discussed Paris peace conference results and next week’s session amid talks of troop withdrawals and prisoner issues.
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Saigon
U.S
Nguyen van Thieu
Richard F. Shhaefer
Creighton W. Abrams
Thies
Presidential Palace
Blisworth
Bunker
Paris
South Vietnam
Tax burden split shows 78 percent to federal level
A Corry Pennsylvania family earning 8000 with a 12000 property pays 975 in federal income tax and 277 in local combined taxes, leaving 78 percent to Washington and 22 percent to local governments. Local taxes include city income tax 80, occupational tax 10, property taxes 121.50 and 50.40, plus per capita tax 15. The article notes gasoline taxes and state levies not counted.
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Corry
Washington
Roundup Time TM Pursuit Ends as Crowd Chases Off Puma
A TM roundup story describes a chase along a busy street where six youths on foot and one on horseback pursued a puma. Two youths restrained the animal at street level, but the crowd could not contain it and the animal ultimately fled back toward the park where it had originally appeared.
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Call
Industry To Weigh School Costs In Corry Area Budget
The Industrial Division of the Corry area Chamber of Commerce signals support for a 258000 increase in the Corry Area Joint Schools budget for next year. Officials expect a 13 percent rise in overall expenditures with teacher salaries up about 13 percent and admin salaries rising eight to 26 percent. Six boards will meet in the High School library at 8 pm to review budgets and set the next year’s tax millage, with final approval due May 26.
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Chamber of Commerce
Corry Area
Jointure
Five Nabbed At Erie Sniffing Party In Field
Pennsylvania State Police and Millcreek officers halted a party in a field near Erie at 9 30 last evening and arrested five Erie residents. Pearl Graybowski 20 Everett McAninch 21 Francis Wisniewski 20 Harold Palmatier 18 and William Stablein were charged with solvent use and alcohol possession and consumption. They were arraigned before Justice of the Peace John Clark and, in default of $300 bond each, confined to Erie County jail pending further court action.
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Pennsylvania
Millcreek
Erie
Pearl Graybowski
Everett McAninch
Francis Wisniewski
Harold Palmatier
William Stablein
Release of Job Corps records sparks partisan clash
Senate challenger Sen. Alan Cranston urges Nixon to publish all Job Corps center records to end secrecy. Reports from the Office of Economic Opportunity cite narcotics at Kilmer, homosexuality at Poland Spring, and racial fights at Parks. Officials defend disclosures as improving centers despite leak concerns.
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Sen
Alan Cranston
Disc
Cranston
Senate
Nixon
Congress
Administration
Kilmer
Edison
N.J
Poland Spring Women’s Center
Lewiston
Maine
Parks Men’s Center
Office of Economic Opportunity
OEO
William A. Steiger
Rwis
Poland Springs
Labor Department
Poland Spring
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Butler County Memorial Hospital
Puma
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Robert Emond
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