House Committee Blocks Auto Registration Hikes
Harrisburg AP report notes Appropriations Committee approved a two cent gasoline tax increase to 11 cents per gallon, highest in the nation, and blocked a proposed auto registration fee hike. The plan would cost typical drivers more, with truckers facing smaller net changes due to a trailer registration loophole. A separate theft case at Vern Davis Garage resulted in charges against Martin Halfast and Clifford Lindenberger, with recovered wheels and tires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
House
Appropriations
Ull House
Senate
Department of Transportation
Appropriations Committee
Vern Davis
West Washington Street
Clifford B. Lindenberger
West Main Street
John Kelsey
Elsey
John Hope Anderson
York
Consumers See Mixed Price Moves in September Market Basket
An Associated Press survey of 15 common items across 13 cities shows September brought higher costs for coffee, butter, eggs, and pork while beef and sugar eased some. Overall the October basket rose 0.3 percent from September, with varied month to month shifts influenced by farm and wholesale dynamics. Coffee prices rose in eight cities averaging 13 percent, led by Providence where a pound moved from 1.28 to 1.59. Sugar fell an average 10 percent in one city, offsetting other price pressures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Providence
R.I
Teacher Pension Proposal Pay Bill Could Cost $500 Million
Harrisburg AP reports a Pennsylvania Senate bill would raise pensions for current and future teachers, with costs exceeding 500 million over 20 years. House approved 185-4 after lobbying by PSEA and PFT, sending it back to the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
State Senate
House
Senate
Medicare to raise first day cost for hospital stays
Washington reports Medicare will require beneficiaries to pay at least 104 dollars of medical bills next year up from 92. The Social Security Administration says rising hospital costs drive the higher rates effective January 1, 1967. The average stay costs about 1,400 dollars with stays averaging 13.5 days. Extended stay charges rise to 3 dollars daily, nursing home daily rate up to 1.50, and daily hospital charges after 50 days rise to 26 for days 61–90. After initial charges, Medicare pays for the first 60 hospital days and 20 skilled nursing home days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Social Security Administration
Social Security
James B. Cardwell
Medicare
Girl, 5, Critical After Barn Fall
A five-year-old Corry area girl was hospitalized with severe head injuries after a hayloft fall in a barn. Vicki Wilshire, daughter of Mr and Mrs Michael Wilshire of Corry, is listed in critical condition at Hamot Medical Center after transfer from Corry Memorial Hospital.
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Corry Area
Hamot Medical Center
Vicki Wilshire
Michael Wilshire
A.D. 2
Corry
Hamot
Corry Memorial Hospital
Ford Aims to Visit All 50 States Amid Security Tightening
Ford works the Midwest swing meeting about 30 Illinois Indiana Michigan and Wisconsin mayors before a White House policy conference in Omaha. He says he plans to visit all 50 states by year end though aides say he already visited 39 and two more states will be added to the list. Police tighten security after gun incidents near the Conrad Hilton Hotel with metal detectors and a suspect arrested for carrying a pistol.
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Skokie
Ill
Ford
Chicago
Illinois
Michigan
Indiana
Wisconsin
Omaha
Neb
California
Conrad Hilton
Carmen Teresa Pulido
White House
Elisins
W.va
Newark
N.J
Alabama
Delaware
Hawati
Idaho
Massachusetts
New Mexico
North Dakota
Tennessee
Wyoming
Knoxville
Tenn
Court eases paternity proof in Pennsylvania case
In a 1969 case, the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled a married woman may prove paternity and secure child support from a man not her husband without proving lack of access or using her own or her husband’s testimony. Judge J Sydney Holman criticized the prior rule as lacking good sense and public policy.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Superior Court
J. Sydney Holman
Valenina Savruk
Derby
Hoffman
Sayruk
Overnight Snow Plowing to Continue Despite Cuts
Harrisburg AP Transporta tion Secretary Jacob Kassab assured lawmakers that overnight road plowing will occur this winter despite a 45 million cutback. He said the reductions will curb work between 9 p.m. and 4 a.m. but not halt it, countering senators who heard reports that no overnight plowing would happen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Jacob Kassab
Kassab
Senate
Spartansburg Fair Receives 7200 State Fair Grant
State Sen. R Budd Dwyer presented Spartansburg Fair Association a 7200 check from the Department of Agriculture fair fund to cover costs and premiums for the annual exposition. The grant supports agriculture animal husbandry agronomy home economics and youth programs with 4 H and the Future Farmers of America. The funds help fairs avoid borrowing while awaiting audits and come from pari mutuel betting taxes at harness tracks.
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R. Budd Dwyer
Meadville
James McHale
Spartansburg Fair Association
Fair Fund
Department of Agriculture
Future Farmers of America
Dwyer
Pennsylvania
Spartansburg
Pennsylvania State University
Florence Burlingame
McHale
Quiz Young Trio In Coin Caper
Investigation of Union City juveniles continues after three youths attempted to cash in 76 foreign coins at Union Bank and Trust Company. Officers Proper and Hanby detained the trio, unable to explain possession of the currencies. Police, with state aid, pursue further leads. callers with lost foreign currency urged to contact the department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union City
Woo
Union Bank and Trust Company
Union City Police Department
Merlin Proper
Norman Hanby
Aean
Proper and
Hanley
Corry
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Pine Grove Cemetery
Journal
McEldowney
House Committee
Anderson
Farm Vehicles House Appropriations
Stephen Wojdak
Penndot
James Voyakes
Yoyakes
Brazil
Ivan Itkin
D-Allegheny
Itkin
Pennsylvania State Education Association
The
Pennsylvania Federation of Teachers
Phyllis Kernick
Emil Mrkonic
Allegheny County
Faith Whittlesey
Delaware County
Joseph Zeller
D-Lehigh
PSEA
Zeller
Gov
Shapp
U.S. States
John Eseck
Sparta
Quiz Young Trio
Coin
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