First Hearings Start In Appeals On 1968 Reassessments
The Erie County Tax Assessment and Revision Board opened hearings on the new reassessments at the county courthouse. Municipalities including Erie Greene Township and North Eastborough balked, citing political and tax impacts. Vintners in North Eastboro worry tax rises will squeeze margins. Corry residents voice misunderstandings about the reassessment process. The three member board aims to finish by December 1 with an Oct 31 filing deadline, as assessments are 40 percent of market value from Allied Appraisal Co.
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Erie County
County Tax Assessment and Revision Board
Erie
City of
Greene Township
North Eastborough
Treane Township
North
Corry
Jack Jacober
Jacober
Ted Pournaras
Pournaras
Allied Appraisal Co
State
Swigert
America
Cunningham
Lo Ella
Brian
Kimberly
Cape Kenne
Nine Guilty Of Burning Draft Records In Baltimore
A Baltimore jury finds seven men and two women guilty of burning draft board records with homemade napalm. The verdict followed a one hour and twenty minute deliberation in U S District Court as a spectator shouted a religious taunt. Defendants include Rev Philip Berrigan and Rev Daniel Berrigan among six others.
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Baltimore, Md
U.S. District Court
Jesus Christ
Roszel C. Thomsen
Philip F. Berrigan
Baltimore
Daniel Berrigan
Cornell University
Thomas P. Lewis
David Darst
St. Louis
Noted Pittsburgh Justice Musmanno Taken to Hospital
AP dispatch reports State Supreme Court Justice Michael A Musmanno, 71, was found unconscious in his hotel room in Pittsburgh and moved to Moray Hospital ICU with a suspected stroke. A guard at Point Park College dormitory, former Keystone Hotel, found him after he failed to appear at a 9 am Supreme Court conference.
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Pittsburgh
Supreme Court
Michael A Musmanno
Moray Hospital
Musmanno
Point Park College
Keystone
Apollo 7 Launch Opens 11 Day Flight Test Into Orbit
Space veteran Walter Schirra Jr and rookies Donn F. Eisle and Walter Cunningham ride the Saturn 1B booster aboard Apollo 7 in a planned 11 day, 40 million mile mission. Officials report an almost flawless lift off, with orbit insertion near target and crews preparing for rendezvous and subsequent lunar work.
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Cape Kennedy
Pla
America
Navy
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Air Force
Doun F. Biscle
Walter Cunningham
Space
Atlantic
U.S
Three Auto Accidents Reported Near Waterford Area
Three accidents in the Corry State Police area included a hit and run near Mill Village and a two vehicle crash west of Union City. Shirley Pless reported a parked car damaged $150 in Lakeview Tavern lot. William Sanko and Joseph Harrington were involved with Sanko injured but not hospitalized. total damage $275.
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Corry
Mill Village
Shirley Pless
White Street
Lakeview Tavern
Waterford
Norbert
Terence Haskins
Joseph Harrington
State College
William Sanko
Erie
Sanko
Union City
Union City Memorial Hospital
Battles Near Saigon Narrow Enemy Escape In Net
American infantry halted a northwest invasion corridor to Saigon as about 300 enemy troops slipped away after a heavy bombardment by jets, helicopters, and artillery. U S casualties reached six dead and 16 wounded, with 26 enemies killed in a fight 27 miles northwest of Saigon near Trang Bang as reinforcements moved in. The clash involved the 101st Regiment and Cu Chi Viet Cong units, continuing through rice paddies and hedgerows.
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Saigon
U.S
101St
Trang Bang
Ex serviceman breaks bank windows. police subdue him
A 2 year old Columbus ex serviceman, described as mentally disturbed with service problems, broke two windows at the Citi zens Corry Office of the Marine Bank on West Main Street. He fled to the Lorraine Hotel, where officers found him with a bleeding forearm. He denied going to hospital, but police forced him into a cruiser. Both he and Officer Robertson were treated. the man admitted to the vandalism and said he had recent service discharge. He had been hospitalized twice for mental health issues.
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Columbus
Corry Memorial Hospital
Citizens Corry
The
Marine Bank
Lorraine Hotel
West Main Street
Lorraine
Hosital
E. R
Pete) Robertson
Strongest Gun Bill Yet Awaits LBJ's Signature
Washington reports the strongest gun control bill yet to pass Congress awaits President Johnson's signature. The compromise bill bans mail order sales of rifles shotguns and ammunition and prohibits pistol sales to under 21 and rifle shotgun sales to under 18. It bars gun and ammunition sales to juveniles fugitives mentally incompetent drug addicts and those indicted, with age limits similar for ammunition.
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LBJ
Washington
Congress
Johnson
House-Senate
Martin Luther Gnger
Robert F. Kennedy
House
Clark MacGregor
R- Minn
Boys Invade Local Home
Three boys aged 15 and 16, playing hockey from a school, entered a private East South street home and stayed for hours. The owner, who later entered through the rear door, identified the trio as they fled. Chief Frank Carnegie traced two of the youths and notified police.
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East South Street
Frank Carnegie
Johnson Slashes Out At Nixon In Opening Political Speech
President Johnson opened his campaign speech on NBC radio sponsored by the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union. He claimed Democrats foster prosperity and warned that gains would not be expanded by Republicans. Nixon countered that Democrats caused inflation and attacked the administration's handling of labor and the Vietnam war.
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Johnson
Nixon
Associated Press
Richard M. Nixon
NBC
International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union
Senate
Everett Divesen
George C. Wallace
America
Republican Party
Alcon
Ohio
Wallace
Tim
Curtis E. LeMay
Vietnam
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