Erie Students, Teachers Tangle Over School Boycott
In Erie Pennsylvania students plan to continue a boycott protesting stalled teacher contracts. Superintendent Helinski warns absences will be recorded, while teachers represented by the Erie Education Association press non economic issues and await a mediator. Parent Teachers Council and students hold separate meetings as about half of 18,000 students were absent.
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Erie
Richard Helinski
Helinski
Erie Education Association
EEA
Edward Christy
Christy
Parent Teachers Association Council
County Plans Tax Claim Bureau In 775 Units
County officials unveil a new tax claim bureau to collect delinquent taxes, effectively dissolving the county owned properties department. The unit, created under a state law, must operate by Jan 1 1976 and will be run independently from the treasurer’s office though coordinated with it. Commissioner Hill says the shift aims for efficiency and cost savings, with Deputy Treasurer Inley Mitchell proposed to lead the bureau. Howard Essick, currently head of the properties department, would move to the new bureau.
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William C. Hill, Jr
Hill
Commonwealth
Neil McLaughlin
Herb Kern
Gray, Weber, Kern and MacKrell
Crossbow Deer Killing Charge Near Tionesta
Gale M. Ruth and Ray C. Miller were charged after a Forest County incident witnessed by a game protector. Ruth fired at a deer with a crossbow while a light spotlighted the animal. Each faced 100 fine plus costs. both light and crossbow were confiscated.
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Tionesta
Pennsylvania Game Commission
Gale M. Ruth
Titusville
Ray C. Miller
North Babylon
Justice of the Peace
Arthur Sager
Forest County
Ernest Taylor
Ruth
Downtown Corry Photo Shows West Main Street Recollection
A reader submits an old Corry photo from an unknown date, depicting West Main Street looking west. The left side shows the building that later housed Marine National Bank, while the right side features a line of trees now replaced by parking meters. Photo furnished by Mrs. Joseph Guignon.
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Journal
Corry
West Main Street
Marine National Bank
Joseph Guignon
Dairy farmers seek change in federal milk price system
Harrisburg AP reports dairy farmers urge a revision of the federal milk order to stabilize prices amid a yo yo market. A 10 member committee from the National Milk Producers Federation favors two factors in the formula: feed costs and a production item price index.
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Harrisburg
National Milk Producers Federation
Dairylea Cooperative Inc
New York
Paul Hand
Interstate Milk Producers Cooperative of Philadelphia
Federation Committee
Cost of Living Council
Hand
Ford Future Clouded By Wife's Woes
Washington AP reports Betty Ford's cancer surgery casts doubt on President Ford's near and long term plans. He curtailed public events for a week and delegated duties to Nelson Rockefeller as Ford's campaign schedule faces further cuts. Recovery pace will drive any future outlays of travel and speeches.
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Washington
Betty Ford
Ford
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Utah
California
Bethesda Naval Medical Center
White House
Mrs. Ford
Tough Dealing With Pay Draft Resistors
HARRISBURG AP Don Croushore the acting state director of the Selective Service System faces a tough job handling draft evaders and deserters amid the Presidents Reconciliation Service Program. He notes few inquiries so far and estimates Pennsylvania evaders may total around 200. He expects to offer alternate service jobs through hospitals state institutions nursing homes and similar employers to fill labor needs while handling deserters who return from abroad with possible clemency or undesirable discharges.
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Harrisburg
Don Croushore
Croushore
Selective Service System
Ford
Cronshore
Wellsboro
California
Pennsylvania
Canada
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