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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1974
Page
3
The Nepal Foreign Ministry announced that the leader of the French Everest expedition and five Sherpa guides were buried alive when an avalanche swept away two camps. The team abandoned its attempt after pitching a third major camp at 22,632 feet two days earlier, near the 29,028-foot summit.
A Superior Court jury found Marcus Wayne Chenault guilty of the June murders of Mrs. King and a church deacon. Chenault, 23, a Dayton, Ohio student, showed calm as jurors were polled. His defense seeks mercy before the death-penalty deliberations begin. the state seeks the death sentence.
Harrisburg AP A House Select Committee on State Contract Practices ordered Gov. Shapp to comply with a subpoena for his income tax records from the last four years by next Monday after rejecting an intermediary handling plan. Israel Packel says a modified savings account using checks is allowed under state law. Judge Rolf Larsen jails men for missed child support payments in Allegheny County with sanctions up to four months.
Harrisburg AP reports Pennsylvania State Police switched to hollow point S8 bullets with higher stopping power and retained within a body. Officials cite reduced ricocheting and stronger impact, though critics call for federal bans. Gov. Shapp seeks a report. Local departments reportedly not using the rounds.
Erie County commissioners consider reviving the Erie County Parks and Recreation Authority if the Union City Dam project gains voter approval this fall. A debt question of 2,296,250 dollars will appear on the November ballot.
A House sub committee plans to cut the $850,000 Nixon transition request for private life. Chairman Tom Steed, D-Okla., said the amount will be pared substantially as the executive offices appropriations subcommittee takes up the matter, with many lawmakers expressing skepticism.
Wilkes-Barre businessman Walter S. Robbins denies lending $15,000 to Property and Supplies Secretary Frank Hilton or his wife to pay a $15,710 Keystone Bank debt in Westmoreland County. The denial contradicts Hilton’s July 2 statement about the loan and follows investigations by U.S. Attorney Richard Thornburgh into the 1972 repayment. Hilton, a Meadville resident, has faced questions about the loan as authorities review related finances and statements.
In Addis Ababa military reformers ousted Emperor Haile Selassie after detaining him and moving him from the Jubilee Palace to the 4th Army Division HQ. The coup curfew and detentions of royal family members followed accusations of embezzlement and corruption amid drought deaths.
The Pathet Lao told neutral diplomats it will release pilot Eramet J. Kay of Hawaii, the last U.S. prisoner of war in Indochina. Diplomatic sources said the group would free Kay on Thursday as part of a general prisoner exchange. Kay, 47, flew for Continental Air Services and was captured May 7, 1973 after his small plane was forced down in communist territory.
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