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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1976
Page
3
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Disjointed OCR text references October activity at field offices and education agencies, noting impressions of murders and boasting by a person about seizures and money. Mentions elderly individuals and local informants, with hints of an education agency, but details are unclear and unreliable.
Finance Director Benjamin Calderone said budget talks are underway with non uniformed city salaries already discussed and a Wednesday 7 p.m. meeting planned. The pension funds need improvement but are not in immediate danger. Douglas Rozelle asked for and received council permission to advertise for quit claim deed bids for the York and Duane streets property to clear back taxes dating to 1988, starting at 3400 dollars.
Four persons were killed when a single engine plane nosedived into a wooded mountain north of Harrisburg. Victims include pilot Guy Klisher, Ellsworth and Marian Schulte, and their son Dennis Lanier Walter, all residents of nearby Catawissa. The crash site was about one mile southeast of Elizabethville, and the cause remains unknown. The aircraft departed from Harrisburg International Airport around midnight en route to Elysburg.
In Nassau Bahamas AP report Michaiah Shobek alias a Milwaukee handyman and would be songwriter was hanged at Fox Head Prison after confessing to three murders including two other tourists. Police barred foreigners from the prison area as crowds watched a somber execution amid capital punishment protests at the cemetery burial site.
Associated Press reports widespread frustration as 17,000 UPS drivers strike disrupts deliveries. Pennsylvania businesses and postal workers criticize parcel post delays, curbside service gaps, and increased burdens on shippers. Harrisburg, Pittsburgh offices push overtime and hires to clear backlogs.
Okey Boggs testified in his own defense recounting a violent confrontation with Orville Huff on April 27. He dramatised the alleged attack in court, provoking emotional reactions from Huff's wife Sandra and Boggs’ wife Mary. The Edinboro man, 40, claimed self defense amid a family feud linked to his daughter’s pregnancy and a long dispute with the Huff family.
A 12 year old boy denied exit from a bus for being five cents short of fare won 5000 dollars in punitive damages from a three member arbitration panel in Allegheny County. The Port Authority Transit appeals, and the case moves toward a regular jury trial.
Grampa Stroehmann drew miners from miles around to the busy spot where his bread sold, hailed as good as gold by thirsty and hungry workers.
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