State Supreme Chief Justice decries old laws burdening courts
Harrisburg AP Chief Justice Benjamin Jones told a joint legislature session that antiquated laws hamper Pennsylvania courts and fuel case backlogs. He cited the 1830s statutes and a need for a modern judicial code while noting declining public confidence in the justice system and concerns over lawyer and judge integrity.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Benjamin Jones
State Supreme Court
Jones
Nicholas More
Edward Shippen
General Assembly
Commonwealth
Casey Orders Probe of NYC Tours Firm
Harrisburg AP Auditor General Robert Casey seeks Justice Department probe into 747 Tours of New York City over alleged interstate fraud. A Dunmore woman says she and her daughter paid $1,178 for a Russia trip, with departure set for April 13 and later a $1778 add on. refund request ignored. Casey cites reports from 14 states and cites a separate France tour cancellation affecting about 40 students who paid $437 each and were not reimbursed after Air France allegedly pulled out.
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Harrisburg
Robert Casey
State Justice Department
Casey
Dunmore
New York City
Russia
New York
Justice Department
Mid-Valley
Valley View
Lakeland
Lackawanna County
France
Air France
U S Actress Shirley Maclaine Meets Chinese Leaders
Shirley Maclaine, leading a group of 11 women, met Mrs. Teng Ying-chao wife of Premier Chou En-lai and Wang Hai-jung Mao’s niece in Peking during a three week China tour that began April 20. The meetings occurred Tuesday at Chungshan Park amid May Day celebrations as part of the official visit reported by Xinhua News Agency.
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Mao
Chungshan Park
13 Year Old Driver Faces Manslaughter Charges
Pittsburgh authorities say a 13 year old was the car’s driver in a double highway fatality. The woman who allegedly allowed the teenager to drive has been held on voluntary manslaughter charges. Allegheny County officials ordered further action.
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Pittsburgh
Allegheny County
Bernard McGowan
UN Delegate Gets Newsman Honors at Boston University
John Scali, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations since February, will receive the Alumni Award for Journalism from Boston University on May 11. Scali previously spent 29 years as an international affairs reporter before his UN post. In other items, testimony in a juvenile case and a highway crash are noted, followed by a report that Glacier National Park set a 1972 attendance record of 1,392,145 visitors, up 90,000 from 1971.
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Boston
John Scali
U.S
United Nations
Boston University
Scali
School of Public Communications
Lethbridge
Alta
Glacier National Park
Alberta
Montana
Winter memorial wreaths removal and May 7 cleanup at Holland Cemetery
Notices urge removal of winter memorial wreaths from Holland Cemetery lots by May 7 and announce a cleanup day at 6 30 p m on May 7 with volunteer help sought. The item notes Gertrude Gravin and mentions various local social and church activities alongside multiple family visitations and travel updates.
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Gertrude Gravin
Holland Cemetery
Kelvin Kronemeyer
Albany
Montreal
Dennis Green
Howard Cornell
Fragmented Entry Reads Incomprehensible Note
An unclear OCR fragment references names and dates but remains unreadable, with missing context and likely garbled place names and actions. No coherent event or attribution can be determined from the readable fragment, leaving only scattered letters and fragments.
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