Walk For Mankind Event Highlights Sponsor Power
The Jaycees Walk For Mankind showcases strong sponsor buying power supporting Project Concern clinics in Appalachia New Mexico Texas Mexico Hong Kong and Vietnam. A nickel per mile funds seven days of treatment for worm victims a 25 cent mile funds 17 days for fungus and 80 cent mile yields six months of care for a tuberculosis patient. Walker sponsorship at $2.50 per mile guarantees care for an entire Vietnamese village and aid for a medical assistant.
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Project Concern
Appalachia
New Mexico
Texas
Mexico
Hong Kong
Vietnam
Lance Pledger
Walk
Bisti
Tijuana
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Pledger
Shapp pledges no tax increases for remainder of term
Governor Milton J. Shapp told cheering Democrats at a $100 dinner that taxes will not be raised during the final two years of his term. He credited the state’s fiscal reforms and welfare purges for the pledge, while Sargent Shriver attacked the Nixon administration on issues from corruption to flood relief. The event drew about 4,000 attendees and aimed to erase the party’s debt.
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Harrisbing
Milton J. Shapp
Shapp
Sargent Shriver
Shriver
Nixon
Luzerne County
Pennsylvania
Richard Doran
Doran
State Welfare Department
Dennis E. Thiemann
Thiemann
No-Fault Insurance Q&A Reveals Key Provisions
Harrisburg AP outlines no fault car insurance questions and answers as a conference committee works on the bill. It covers accident payments up to 10,000 per person for injuries, medical costs, wage losses at 85 percent with a 175 weekly cap, funeral and dependent support limits, and how collision and no fault affect damage payments and lawsuits.
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Harrisburg
Ldie
Senate
House
NCI cites rat lung cancer from cigarette tar exposure
National Cancer Institute researchers report they induced the same lung cancer form seen in humans in rats by injecting cigarette tar into lungs and exposing them to tar from five cigarettes. The study compares tar-exposed rats with controls using beeswax, unsmoked tobacco, or ashes, noting higher cancer signs in the tar group.
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Washington
National Cancer Institute
NCI
Tobacco Institute
Pa. Push For Rule On Nonpublic Aid
Pennsylvania pursues legal appeal after a federal panel struck down a plan to reimburse parents of nearly 400000 nonpublic school students. The $75 elementary and $150 secondary payments, funded by cigarette tax revenue, faced Supreme Court review amid claims of equal protection and government church separation.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Supreme Court
High
U.S. Supreme Court
Atty
J. Shane Creamer
Ohio
Creamer
High Court
William B. Speers Jr
Speers
Bear Attacks in Titusville Side Road in Nighttime Visit
Charles Sankey reported a 300 pound bear visited his Titusville camp on the Titusville Enterprise road at about 10 30 pm. The bear knocked, entered a neighbor’s yard, broke into a chicken coop, and frightened a woman at another window after taking a jug of cider from the porch. The empty jug was found on a stump nearby.
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Titusville
Charles Sankey
Sankey
Titusville Enterprise Road
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