City To Move Into The Seventies Budget Push and New Fed Funds Post
City Council plans for 1974 budgeting with higher services and possible tax rise. Finance Director Calderone warns salaries will boost costs and a millage increase may be needed. City Engineer Johnson supports creating a new administrator to secure state and federal funds, reorganizing staff for broader funding work.
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Benjamin Calderone
Corryites
Calderone
David Johnson
Council
Corry
Johnson
Water Department
Middle East War Intensifies With Israeli Air Strikes Across Damascus
Israel escalates as Phantom jets hit Damascus and other Syrian targets while ground clashes rage along the Suez Canal and Golan Heights. Egypt reports Sinai gains. Lebanon says Israeli armor enters Beirut area. A Norwegian UN observer and his family are killed. Brezhnev sends a message to Boumedienne amid oil nation mobilizations.
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Associated Press
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Suez Canal
Golan Heights
Barouk Mountain
Beirut
Lebanon
Egypt
Cairo
Sinai
Israel
Homs
United Nations
Jerusalem
U.N
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Syria
Elias Antar
Defense Ministry
Antar
Kuwait
Persian Gulf
Abdul Rahman Salem el-Atiki
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Houari Boumedienne
Corry School Boards Begin Search for New Superintendent
Corry school directors started steps to replace retiring Superintendent Ray E. Elsea, who leaves June 30, 1974. Assistant IU official Earl Stubbe advised defining the candidate profile and beginning interviews, with IU V offering help and possibly interviewing. Staff members Bertrand Hover Elmer C. Myers Jr. Russell Brant and LeRoy Rieck may seek certification to apply.
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Corry
Ray E. Elsea
Elsen
Earl C. Stubbe
Northwest Tri County Intermediate Unit
Board of Education
Stubbe
Pennsylvania
Bertrand Hover
Elmer C. Myers Jr
Russell Brant
LeRoy Rieck
Parents-Watch Those Youngsters Leaf Piles Warning
Councilman Robert Grice warned parents to keep children away from leaf piles as city pickup machines sweep through wards in order. He cited reduced visibility for drivers and youngsters near curbs while crews rake and load leaves. The annual leaf raking program will begin, and pickup crews will remove the piles.
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Robert Grice
Grice
Black Colleges Help To Break Poverty
Dr Herman H Long head of the United Negro College Fund says the nations predominantly black colleges help break the cycles of poverty that many poor black families have been bound to all their lives. Long, president of Talladega College in Alabama, notes students come from families earning about six thousand dollars a year and eight in ten need financial aid to stay in college.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Herman H. Long
United Negro College Fund
Long
Talladega College
Alabama
Hassles Police But Land In Jail
A Corry man and two Wattsburg residents face arraignment on multiple charges after an incident at East Main Street. The trio were arrested after a dispute at the police station following a report of a car being “lassoed.” Charged: Carl Hillstrom with public drunkenness and resisting arrest. Mark Johns and Thomas A Minor with resisting arrest and obstructing officers. Additional charges may follow. a deadly weapon count was dropped.
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Wattspurg
Fist Main Street
Joel Steele
Fred Corbett
East Main Street
Steele
Kenneth Nichols
Nichols
Carl Hillstrom
East Smith Street
Mark Johns
R.D
Wattsburg
Thomas A. Minor
Alsa
Journal Press Time
Corry District Approves Reading Focused In Service
The Corry Area School District Board of Education approved an innovative in service program aimed at reading needs for elementary and secondary teachers. Superintendent Ray E. Elsen said the plan includes an intensive elementary reading workshop led by Dr. John Gates and Dr. James Cook from Edinboro State College and a thorough revision of the secondary curriculum. The district anticipated state aid under Right to Read but will proceed with curriculum improvements funded in the budget.
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Corry Area
Ray E. Elsen
Elsen
Corry
Corry* Area
Board Rejects PSEA Appeal In Union Move
Corry Area School District's board rejected a PSEA invitation to join in a petition to form a bargaining unit for nonteaching staff. The district cites PLRB lack of ruling on cafeteria inclusion and no demonstrated majority of employees signed for the election.
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PSEA
Corry Area Schiol
PLRB
Frank McKnight
McKnight
Suit Against School Seeks 380 Dollar Damages
The Corry Area School District faces a $380 damages suit from Larry Carter and wife June Carter of Spartansburg over a February 1972 crash involving an empty school bus. Alvin Brenner, the bus driver, is also named in the action. Directors authorized Solicitor Frank McKnight to file an answer and await a hearing, indicating several possible outcomes.
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Corry Area
Larry Carter
Spartansburg
Alvin Brenner
Carter
Frank McKnight
McKnight
Burglar Alarm System Gains Council Support in Corry
City officials after a Warren tour recommend installing a Dictograph burglar alarm system at the police station to enable 24 hour dispatching. Subscribers would fund the system, paying the city a fixed fee, with city council approving immediate purchase and installation.
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Kenneth Nichols
Warren
William Halfast
David Johnson
Thomas Lathrop
Halfast
Corry
Dictograph
Howard Resignation Accepted By Board
The Corry Area School District directors accepted the resignation of school director James Howard, and the board did not name a replacement. Board President William Kafferlin said they would address a successor at another meeting. Howard left due to increased responsibilities at Marine National Bank where he is employed.
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James Howard
Board of Education
Corry Area
William Kafferlin
Howard
Marine National Bank
Wilkes-Barre Fire Kills Two Children
Two children died and five other family members were hospitalized after a fire swept a north Wilkes-Barre home early Tuesday. Mary Ellen Burke nine and Susan Burke six were named as victims. Authorities have not yet determined a cause as a two alarm fire was reported at 12:34 am.
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Wilkes-Barre, Pa
North Wilkes-Barre
Mary Ellen Burke
Susan
John Burke
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