Yes Group Launches Home Rule Campaign in Erie County
Erie County insiders clash as the Vote Yes Committee forms around C Francis Hagerty Dr Mary Ann Kibler and Erie Mayor Harold G Reslink to back a home rule charter while two ex-commissioners James Casey and Raymond Walczak deny motives. They signed with reservations citing flaws including executive power and districting.
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Erle
Judith Lynch
Erie County Government Study Commission
Commission
Erie County
C. Francis Hagerty
Mary Ann Kibler
Corry
Harold G. Reslink
Vote Yes
Ian
James Casey
Raymond Walczak
State Lottery Commission
Walczak
Casey
Price Brand Name Still Top Priority
Americans still focus on price and brand name when shopping for food, even as attention to nutritional value grows. A FDA consumer studies report covering 1973 and 1975 shows price remains the primary concern, with brand name second but waning, and a big shift toward noticing package dates.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
Consumer Studies Division
Food and Drug Administration
Nutritional labeling interest rises in 1975 survey
The 1975 survey shows 41 percent paying attention to nutrition, up from 27 percent in 1973. Ingredient lists attention rose to 47 percent, and concern about major ingredient proportions increased eight points to 26 percent. The FDA debates labeling scope as Greenbelt ARS builds a Nutrient Composition Lab under Dr. Walter Mertz.
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FDA
Agricultural Research Center
Greenbelt
Nutrition Institute
Walter Mertz
Carter Stumps East In Presidential Campaign Push
Democratic nominee Jimmy Carter conducts a five day early campaign sweep from New York to Connecticut and Philadelphia while President Ford remains at the White House handling business including tax reform fights and disaster aid signing ceremonies. Carter attacks Ford as a Hooverian figure and blames Republicans for economic woes while Mondale camps at labor rallies in Ohio and California. Dole and Ford surrogates carry the campaign for the incumbent as Carter accuses Washington leadership of cowardice and special interest ties.
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Associated Press
Jimmy Carter
East
Ford
White House
Carter
Herbert Hoover
Congress
New York
Connecticut
Philadelphia
Teton Dam
Idaho
Bob Dole
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Little
Warm Springs
Dole
Darlington
S.C
Walter F. Mondale
Ohio
California
Barberton
Nixon
Norfolk
Washington
Mother Charged After Baby Killed by Dog
NEW YORK A mother left five day old Cara alone with a starving German Shepherd in a Sixth Avenue walkup. She returned to find the infant dead and partially eaten. Joanne Bashold 24 was jailed and charged with negligent homicide. The dog was destroyed for exam of its stomach contents. Neighbors said Bashold recently moved from Ohio and had welfare support. Police said the dog had not eaten for six days before the attack.
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New York
Joanne Bashold
Spanish Harlem
Miss Bashold
Ohio
Manhattan
Carla
Corry Area student killed in motorcycle collision near Union City
A Corry Area High School student, David Gregory, 17, died when his motorcycle struck a ConRail locomotive at a farm crossing three miles east of Union City. He was pronounced dead at the scene, with head injuries listed as the cause. Funeral services were held at Wesleyan United Methodist Church in Wesleyville. Surviving family includes his parents, two sisters, a brother, and maternal grandparents. Additional weekend crashes near Union City, Spartansburg, Titusville, and Centerville involved multiple drivers with property damage and injuries. no other deaths were reported.
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Corry Area
ConRail
Corry
David Gregory
Grant Gregory
R.D
Union City
Gregory
Mark Glenn
O'Neil
Erie Lackawanna
Wesleyan United Methodist Church
Westeyville
Wintergreen Gorge
Erie
Darcia
Diane
Douglas
Clark Williams
Wesleyville
Legionnaires Disease Declared Over At Bellevue Hotel
The CDC in Atlanta says legionnaires disease is finished but the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel on Broad Street remains plagued by fear syndrome. Occupancy has plunged from 82 to 12 percent as red-jacketed bellhops outnumber guests and the dining room hosts only waiters amid a funeral atmosphere. The hotel previously hosted the National American Legion convention, drawing about 3,000 members who checked in July 21 and left in a week with a dozen deaths attributed to the mysterious illness.
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Philadelphia
Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
Broad Street
Bellevue-Stratford
Bellevue
Pennsylvania American Legion
Federal CD Funds Stricter for Disasters and Attacks
Washington AP The government orders states to limit federal civil defense funds to nuclear attack prep, not natural disasters. Matching funds will be restricted from May 1, shifting emphasis from dual disaster and attack planning to attack readiness, though overall federal money remains near prior levels as Congress funded 625 million dollars.
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Washington
Defense
Melvin Laird
Ford Administration
Congress
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Ruth Webb
Hakodate City
Japan
Tokyo
United States
Russia
Etigerator
al Dwyer
Isylvania
East Main Street
James H. Munn
R.D. 3
Munn
Maloney
Elgin, Erie
Oil Creek Township
Howard Matteson
R.D. 1
Centerville
Lloyd Shontz
Titusville
Matteson
Shontz
Sparta Township
Spartansburg
Benjamin Titeh
Gary A. Sickler
Spring Creek
Richard C Szewenuk
RD. 2
Water Street
Szewczuk
Titusville Hospital
Robert Rennacker
William Delevin
Matthew
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