Election Preview No 1 Weak Voting Feared Most Damaging Factor
Election preview discusses low anticipated turnout of 30 to 40 percent for the November general election, with incumbents at risk and national backlash from Watergate. Local races include Corry’s Home Rule Commission, Rep Forest Hopkins seeking state House, and Sen R Budd Dwyer facing Richard Shuster. Both candidates respond to Common Cause surveys on campaign finance, ethics, lobby reform, and legislative openness. Hopkins and Shuster favor public and private financing, disclosure, ethics commission, open hearings, and broader legislative reforms.
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Bill Eaton
House
Senate
Watergate
Corry
Home Rule Study Commission
Forest Hopkins
State House
Sen
R. Budd Dwyer
State Senate
Hopkins
Assembly
Richard Shuster
Union
Harrisburg
Shuster
Common Cause
Ding
Ing
Executive Branch
Schuster
Ethics Commission
Gleason Committee
Bridge Start On Sciota Street Project In Corry
Workmen began piling for a new wood bridge over Hare Creek on Sciota street. The 52 foot span will replace a narrow one lane bridge and widen Sciota street to provide an extra thoroughfare. Built by Corry Bridge and Supply Company, the structure uses creosoted timber and poles with wooden walks on both sides. Construction is expected to take about four weeks.
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Corry Bridge and Supply Company
Hare Creek
Journal
McEldowney
Copter Crash Kills Five Near Trevorton Pa
Five men died when a Royal Canadian Air Force helicopter apparently caught fire in flight and plunged into rugged terrain near Trevorton Pennsylvania. State police said two bodies were found in the cabin, one under the wreckage and two on the ground nearby, with searches continuing for remaining victims. An eyewitness reported flames and a rotor loss as the craft fell while en route to Ottawa from Harrisburg overhaul depot.
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Trevorton
Royal Canadian Air Force
Pennsylvania
Glen Laing
Laing
Ottawa
Canada
New Cumberland Army Depot
Harrisburg
PSP Arrest Youth On Drug Charges
Corry state police arrested 18 year old Lawrence Miller of Hydetown on possession of pills, a schedule four drug under the new state crimes code, after a home search. He had been charged previously by Titusville city police.
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Corry
Titusville
Lawrence Miller
Hydetown
Miller
Drug theft probe at Eckerds drugs burglary
Police investigate a burglary at Eckerd Drugs in Corry Plaza. burglars cut through the roof and absconded with about 200 dollars worth of drugs including uppers and downers. The damage to the roof and store totals around 700 dollars. Detectives continue the probe for further losses.
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Eckerd Drugs
Corry Plaza
James Hurlbut
Charles Rhodes
William Mancino
Deans Testimony Details White House Blackmail in Watergate
John W. Dean III testified the hardest part of maintaining the Watergate cover up was raising funds to pay burglars. He said the White House was being blackmailed as prosecutors noted about $800,000 went to seven defendants.
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Washington
John W. Dean III
White House
Nixon
Herbert W. Kalmbach
Dean
Kalmbach
Frederick C. LaRue
LaRue
H.R. Haldeman
House Judiciary Committee
Wei
Watergate
Ford Campaign Swing Aims to Boost Senate GOP Support
President Ford launched a six-stop Barnstorming tour through the Carolinas and Kentucky to rally votes for Republican candidates. He spoke at Greenville Spartanburg Jetport urging voters to back Congress members who will cut red tape and costs, joined by Sen. Strom Thurmond. The trip included Anderson Rock Hill Greensboro Louisville and Louisville with Air Force One lifting from Andrews at 7:58 a.m. EDT for a 16 hour campaign swing.
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Greenville
S.C
Ford
Carolinas
Kentucky
Greenville-Spartanburg
Congress
Strom Thurmond
R-S.c
Anderson
South Carolina
Rock Hill
D.C
Greensboro
N.C
Louisville
Washington
Andrews Air Force Base
Air Force One
City Considers Dropping PC Rail Line
City Council plans to discuss abandoning a Penn Central line into the city at its next regular session. A letter from the United States Railway Association says a 24.9 mile stretch between Titusville and Corry on the Chautauqua Branch would be abandoned due to poor condition and required extensive restoration to continue service.
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Penn Central
United States Railway Association
Titusville
Corry
Chautauqua
Meat sent to Fifi victims by White House order
The White House instructed the Agriculture Department to route meat from 1000 Wisconsin calves to hurricane Fifi victims in Honduras rather than allow farmers to kill and bury cattle in protest over low prices. An AID spokesman said shipment would be handled by the agency. Previously 636 calves were slaughtered and buried in Wisconsin for price protests, drawing criticism from cattlemen’s groups.
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Associated Press
White House
Agriculture Department
Wisconsin
Honduras
Agriculture
Agency For International Development
National Farm Organization
Rockefeller to Pay $903,718 in Back Taxes Revealed
Vice President design ate Nelson A Rockefeller discloses an additional $903,718 in federal taxes after IRS audits disallowed over $1.2 million in deductions. The figure, likely rising with interest, compounds controversy over his nomination. He says $820,718 is federal income tax and $83,000 is gift tax, with penalties avoided but interest accruing. Options for action by Congress remain uncertain as hearings delay into next year.
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Washington
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Internal Revenue Service
New York
Laurance
Paign
Arthur J. Goldberg
Howard W. Cannon
D-Nev
Peter W Rodine Jr
D-N.j
Senate Rules
House Judiciary
Senate
House
Congress
Richard M. Nixon
TRS
IRS
Latin America
Nixon
Senate Committee
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E. Howard Hunt Jr
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G. Gordon Liddy
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Oil Creek Township
Rome Township
Sparta Township
Spartansburg
Centerville
Wayne Township
Concord Township
County Redevelopment Authority
USRA
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