Park and loop mail delivery shifts loom in Corry
The United States Postal Service adopts right hand drive Jeeps for park and loop routes in Corry to speed deliveries amid fuel shortages and a UPS dispute. Three Jeeps start, with six planned, driving to blocks then delivering on foot. Postal manager Stanley Dombrowski says it treats the service as a business, while gas rationing worries grow with Rep. Joseph Vigorito warning rationing could start in 1974 and voluntary controls likely fail.
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Joseph Vigorito
Journal
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Postal Service
Erie
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Official Erie County election count underway at courthouse
The Erie County Board of Elections conducts the official vote tally in Erie. Incumbent Benjamin Calderone leads challenger Laurance Barton by two votes after unofficial returns, with 790 to 788, amid questions over absentee totals and potential recount. Officials say totals will be reread from voting machines at a cost of 80 per machine for the reread. There are seven machines in Corry.
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Erie
Erie County Board of Elections
Benjamin Calderone
Laurance Barton
Calderone
Barton
Board of Elections
Corry
Corry Area
Republican Party
Edward Salaum
50 MPH Limit Set On State Turnpike
Harrisburg AP reports a 50 mph speed limit went into effect on the Pennsylvania Turnpike as the Shapp administration seeks to curb winter fuel shortages. The Turnpike Commission ordered the change, with voluntary compliance until signs are updated, while other directives cap thermostats and apply similar limits to state vehicles.
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Turnpike Commission
Shapp
Franklin Summers
Summers
Pennsylvania
Nixon
Ed Mitchell
Corry Grads Get Chance To Be Authors Pageant
Corry High School Alumni Association plans its 100th consecutive meeting next summer with a gala and a commemorative pageant produced by the Rogers Company of Fostoria Ohio. Former students may submit humorous authentic school stories for the script, judged by Rogers Company. contact Frank Grice or John Rossbacher to contribute.
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Rogers Company
Fostoria
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Corry High School
Frank Grice
John Rossbacher
Energy adviser predicts gas rationing by spring
Washington AP President Nixon's energy adviser John A. Love says nationwide gasoline rationing is probably by next spring though no decision has been made. He notes a local rationing board and coupons could start by March or April if implemented, with a Dec or Jan decision and about 60 days to set up.
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John A. Love
Energy Policy Office
White House
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Senate
Middle East
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Auer Invites Council To Check Records
City Council members urged full JD office reports beyond motor vehicle and city ordinance violations. They want disposition of cases, including dismissed ones, in the JD’s activity summary. Auer sent The Journal item to Richard D. Agresti, county district magistrate head, who replied that fines collected under city ordinances must be reported.
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Auer
Journal
Richard D. Agresti
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Corry Journal
Egypt Israel Agree To Negotiate On Six Point Plan
Associated Press reports Egypt and Israel have a six point framework to open permanent Middle East talks. The plan calls for observing the U.N. cease flame immediate disengagement talks food water and medicine into Suez access to the east bank non military supplies, UN checkpoint control and soon prisoner exchanges.
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Egypt
Middle East
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Golda Meir
Henry A. Kissinger
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Kissinger
Kurt Waldheim
White House
Washington
Suez
East Bank
Suez Canal
Watergate Conspirator Hunt Given 24 Years in Prison
E Howard Hunt received a minimum 24 year term and a $10000 fine in the Watergate case. Five others were given lighter sentences. The government urged leniency for James W McCord Jr and four Miami men who joined the break in under misguided patriotism. McCord faced one to five years and no fine while awaiting continued appeal.
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Washington
E. Howard Hunt
James W. McCord Jr
McCord
U.S. District Court
Sirica
Buck Page
Suspected Murderers Give Up Police Probe Possible Other Killings
Two fugitives surrendered to police and were jailed in Stockton on nine counts of murder connected to a mass slaying at a Victor grocery owner home. Authorities check reports of possible other victims in Denver and New York. Street witnesses describe Gretzler and Steelman being captured in Sacramento after a hotel tip and a tear gas exit.
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Arizona
Denver
New York
Willie Luther Steelman
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Douglas Gretzler
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Stockton Municipal Court
Victor
Steelman
Gretaler
Sacramento
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