Tax shifts eyed in Pennsylvania to lift revenue and cut tax
State Secretary Daniel S. Buser Jr. urges Governor elect Milton Shapp to pursue two tax moves a Sunday alcohol sales expansion and a cut from 12 to 10 percent in the business tax. He argues Sunday sales would add about 40 million annually, ease convention spillovers to Erie Scranton and other cities, and promote tourism. The other proposal reduces the business tax to attract new industry, potentially offsetting cuts already proposed by Shapp and advisers. The piece calls for cutting fiscal waste to help balance the state deficit.
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State Secretary of Commerce
Daniel S. Buser Jr
Milton Shapp
Buser
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Erie
Scranton
Pennsylvania
Shapp
Shaky Penn Central reshuffle tops tie up schemes
A wry, unnamed column recounts Penn Central’s upheaval with Virgil Stoppage named VP in charge of tie ups and consulting with Erie Lackawanna’s Reginald Crossingblocker. It details schemes to disrupt crossings in Corry Pennsylvania and notes a jailhouse level plot involving Hanoi leaders and prisoner rescues. The piece also references Nixon era backroom debates on unconventional retaliation against North Vietnam.
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Penn Central
Erie Lackawanna
Virgil Stoppage
Virgil
Som Eeqdy
Reginald Crossingblocker
American Airlines
Crossingblocker
Corry
Pennsylvania
Raymond Division
Reggie
Eaton
Corry Evening Journal
Loblaws
Route 6
Washington
Mel Laird
U.S
Vietnam
White House
Ron Ziegler
Hanoi
Rescue delays and guard worries stain Vietnam raid talk
Analysts note prisoners could be moved often for security and fear guards may kill inmates as raiders near. Footnotes cite Son Tay intelligence suggesting captives may have been close to rescue. past South Vietnam events show earlier mishaps and accidental finds by local units without release.
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Laird
Son Tay
South Vietnam
U.S
How to bug Santa
A collector of cheeky store Santa quips spans quotes about being real, writing down wishes, beard pulling, smoking jokes, and family jabs. The Corry Evening Journal notes a mix of sharp humor and childlike questions from shoppers and staff, amid a dated police-like credit and publication details.
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New York
Santa Claus
Geezer
Danny
Mildred
Dinner Talk of Surgeons and a Grim Parable
A long, darkly comic reminiscence details doctors Dr. Jack Mickley Dr. Paul Maas and Dr. Lester Keiser at dinner. It blends macabre humor with vivid cases including a mortuary newborn, a Maryland pathologist tale, and a famed executional morphine twist, ending with Jean Maas laughing at a tall tale of a girl in a miniskirt.
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Jack Mickley
Prince of Pathologists
Paul Maas
Lester Keiser
Jean Maas
Esther Mickley
Evelyn Keiser
Mickley
Maryland
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Nixon
Weigh
North
By Jack Anderson
Grand Jury
United Mine Workers
Hubert Humphrey
Labor
League
Justice Department
Humphrey
James Kmetz
Robert Howe
Anna Love Rothwell
The
Internal Revenue Service
Union
Tony Boyle
Howe
UMW
IRS
FBI
American Medical Association
Neil Soloman
Maryland Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
AMA
Santa
North Pole
South Street
Corry Eventing Journal
George R. Sample
William Eaton
John McLaughlin
Associated Press
AP News
Mall
Surgical Shop
Bismarck
Gettysburg
Maas
Keiser
Evelyn
Edgar Allan Poe
Dr. Mickley
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