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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1975
Page
1
The fragmented text shows a Senate hearing scene with references to defense, toxins, and research. It mentions Lt. Col. or Dr. Schwartz and Smothers, plus discussion of files, grants, and testimony. The garbled OCR obscures clear facts but indicates questions about biodefense and a shellfish research angle.
Washington reports consumer prices rose two-tenths of a percent in August the slowest monthly inflation in three years. The CPI stood at 162.8 up 8.6 percent from a year earlier as food costs fell slightly yet remained 94 percent higher than the prior year.
In San Francisco Patricia Hearst and three SLA radicals were captured after a 19 month manhunt. Hearst, held on bank robbery charges, was taken from a middle class San Francisco home with two FBI and local officers nearby. She smiled at the courthouse as she left, and her parents voiced relief and readiness to welcome her home.
A federal prosecutor said the arrest in San Francisco of Patricia Hearst and three Symbionese Liberation Army members will not halt the harboring investigation in Pennsylvania. U.S. Attorney John Cottone voiced that the probe into the alleged harboring last year in South Canaan, Pa. continues, despite the arrests. Witnesses Micki McGee Scott and Martin Miller refused to testify before a grand jury and face a hearing set for Oct. 1. Mrs. Scott and Miller cited immunity but did not cooperate. The Scotts reportedly rented the farmhouse where Hearst and companions stayed last summer.
Carl Hillstrom and Henry H. Keppel, both of Corry, were sentenced in Ft. Lauderdale to four-year prison terms for their roles in smuggling 5200 pounds of marijuana into Miami last March. They receive two years probation after imprisonment and are to surrender October 8.
AP reports six hurt at Capitol Hill Safeway as a caller claimed the blast acted in retaliation for Patty Hearst's arrest in San Francisco. A police spokesman described the store as looking like a hurricane aftermath. One man, Ralph Ford, 23, died earlier in a related attempted bombing. FBI and police seek links to the George Jackson Brigade and previous incidents tied to the Soledad Brothers legend. Harborview noted two people treated and released.
A Columbus man Milton C. Swanson, 36, was arrested at his home on a charge of attempted murder in a case tied to the January assault of Luther J. James Mason of Clymer on a rural road near Clymer. Swanson is jailed in Warren County on $10,000 bail awaiting extradition proceedings by New York authorities. Also involved were Ernest M. Proctor, 37, of Columbus, and William R. Milburn, 22, of Clymer, who waived extradition and pleaded guilty to a reduced assault charge. Proctor received probation, Milburn serves a 12 month term in Chautauqua County jail.
Corry Area High School students will publish a weekly Youth Community Page in The Journal starting September 2nd. The student run page invites articles interviews editorials art photos and community comments to improve school community relations.
The House committee approved a tax revision that tightens the minimum tax to curb wealthy tax avoidance. The plan would raise the rate to 14 percent and lift the exemption to 20,000, with further phaseouts. It would add itemized deductions above 70 percent of adjusted gross income to tax preference items, boosting revenue to about 700 million from roughly 80,000 people next year.
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