Crime Victims May Get Compensation Bill Advances
Harrisburg AP A House Law and Justice committee began work on a bill to create a three member full time Crime Victims Compensation Board. Initial funding of 500000 dollars a year would pay claims up to 15000 dollars per crime. The bill aims to aid victims with income maintenance and medical payments and weighs amendments from the attorney general.
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Harrisburg
House Committee On Law and Justice
Milton Berkes
D-Bucks
Joseph V. Zord Jr
Allegheny
Berkes
Zord
Israel Packel
Packel
Common Pleas Court
Commonwealth Court
Shapp Chooses Energy Task Force Without Pressure Groups
Gov Shapp names seven member energy task force with six cabinet level appointees and Charles G Simpson as chairman, a choice aimed at unified winter fuel rationing. The panel blends environmental and industrial credentials to avoid inter group fighting seen in prior Pay Board experiences. The move follows a Republican majority House stance in state politics.
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Harrusburg
Shapp
Charles G. Simpson
Philadelphia Gas Works
Delaware Valley Council For Clean Air
Nixon
Old Pay Board
House
Chamber
Senate
W. William Wilt
R Blair
Curtin Winsor
Pennsylvania Environmental Council
Winsor
Commerce
Walter G. Arader
Maurice Goddard
Simpson
George Bloom
Public Utility Commission
Transportation
Jacob Kassab
A. Edward Simon
Office of State Planning and Development
William Wilcox
Bloom
FBI arrests two men in Hanafi slayings case
John Wesley Griffin and William Christian, both 28 and 29, were arrested in a Jacksonville apartment and jailed on $500,000 bond each. Indicted with five others for the January 18 mass murder of seven Hanafi Moslems in a Washington, D.C. home owned by Kareem Abdul Jabbar. The suspects, formerly of Philadelphia, had lived in Jacksonville since August and were found with a pistol. The case ties to Hanafi sect violence amid Black Muslim tensions. four Philadelphia suspects remain in custody.
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Jacksonville, Fla
Washington, D.C
Jacksonville
FBI
John Wesley Griffin
William Christian
Griffin
Christian
Washington
Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Philadelphia
U.S
Elijah Muhammed
Reginal Hawkins
North Carolina
Jerome Sinclair
James Henry Price
Theodore Moody
John Willie Clark
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Desmond’s Electrical Contractors
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Serta
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South Center Street
Corry
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