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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1972
Page
3
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Former Sacramento Housing Authority executive director Harry Zollinger, after pleading guilty to embezzling about 2000 dollars, was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Irving Perluss to one to ten years. Despite praise for expanding public housing, the judge condemned the theft and ordered imprisonment at Vacaville.
A Pennsylvania legislative committee opened hearings in Scranton into deaths at a private Wayne County home for mentally retarded children. Testimony was expected from the owner’s wife, Mrs. John J. Reilly, and from Elliot Knauer, deputy welfare secretary, plus two funeral directors. Investigators linked a previous Scranton home run by Reilly to 13 deaths over four years and noted most deaths were due to respiratory ailments. Coroner charges and a 1971 murder/manslaughter indictment against Reilly link to earlier cases.
The Allegheny County Port Authority Transit's 228 million Early Action Program including Skybus faces a state Supreme Court decision. The court took the case on jurisdiction, set a hearing for Nov. 29, and ordered objections filed to position for arguments in Philadelphia. The Skybus pause began Aug. 6 with a permanent injunction by Judge Anne X. Alpern, amid local political leadership including Mayor Peter Flaherty and Commissioner William Hunt.
A massive dragnet by the FBI, 30 state troopers, and Philadelphia homicide experts seeks the killer of Kennett Square patrolmen William Davis and Richard Posey who were found shot in a parking lot. Three suspects interrogated, two given lie tests. no arrests. The attack, described as deliberate, shocked the mushroom capital of 4876 residents. Posey leaves a wife and four children. Davis was a bachelor from a policing family.
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