Man held on tampering charge in Upper Darby
A 22 year old Drexel Hill man Patrick Gallagher faced a hearing for alleged tampering with electrical controls of a security lock system. Police say he pulled wires and stripped insulation in a bid to cause a short circuit at a Stonehurst Court Apartments box. Detectives report the arrest followed a maintenance man hearing ring inflaming suspicions.
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Upper Darby
Anthony Celia
Patrick Gallagher
Childs Avenue
Drexel Hill
Francis Rafferty
James Kern
Stonehurst Court
Walnut Street
Shelburne Avenue
Gallagher
Aston man charged in Parkside rape case
James Dunn, 26, of Aston, was arrested by State Police on four charges connected to the rape of a 16 year old girl last weekend. A second suspect is being sought. The victim was assaulted at a Parkside party, driven to Linwood and later to Chester Heights where a second rape occurred before she was released near Crozer Park. Bail was set at 25000, with a hearing scheduled for August 11.
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Aston
Parkside
James Dunn
Springhouse Road
Raymond Purcell
Dunn
Parkside Apartments
Linwood
Chester Heights
Chester
Crozer Park
Franklin Center Barracks
Middletown
George W. Paige
Crozer-Chester Medical Center
Pen pal invitation from Seoul students seeks U S partners
Miss An-Soon Kim, an English teacher at Seoul Junior and Senior High Schools with 3,500 pupils, invites American students to exchange pen pals. Write with name, address, age, sex and hobby to Miss An-seon Kim Central P O Box 8365 SEOUL KOREA. Korean students hope to meet you.
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An-Soon Kim
Seoul
United States
Korea
Land of the Morning Calm
Kim
An-seon Kim
Central P.O
Candidate Dodge announces bid for Fourth Ward commissioner
Aston resident ASTON Stuart D. Dodge declares candidacy for Fourth Ward commissioner. He lives in Woodbrook with wife Marjorie and four children for 12 years, active in Woodbrook Civic Association and township zoning hearing board, former chairman of the blue ribbon Financial Advisory Committee, and treasurer of the Aston Free Library.
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Aston
Stuart D. Dodge
Woodbrook
Marjorie
Thornburgh Fired Eight Registrars in 1979 Patronage Move
The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Governor Thornburgh illegally fired eight Delaware and Montgomery County registrars of vital statistics, all Democrats, in August 1979. The judges upheld a lower court ruling ordering the Democrats restored to their "work at home" patronage jobs as part of a broader strategy to push legislation abolishing the posts.
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Daily Times
Philadelphia
Dick Thornburgh
Delaware
Montgomery County
U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Uphheld
Distict Court
Louis O. Pollak
Thornburgh
U.S. Supreme Court
Patronage Jobs Voided Illegally in Pennsylvania
About 320 registrars statewide earn up to 20000 dollars yearly for issuing birth and death certificates and sending statistics to Harrisburg. The plan would centralize these jobs under full time Department of Health staff. Lawyers indicated possible court action to reinstate fired Democrats, while a bill to abolish registrar posts has been introduced.
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Harrisburg
Department of Health
Jack Gallagher
Pollak
Thornburgh
Lans
William J. Taylor
Philadelphia
Morgan, Lewis and Bockius
U.S. Supreme Court
Taylor
Governor's Office
George Seidel
School bookkeeper held for embezzling $45,000
Martin D. Zachary a 34 year old part time accountant at the Don Guanella School in Marple was arrested on charges of theft by failure to make required disposition of funds and forgery for allegedly embezzling more than 45 000 between November 1979 and November 1980. Prosecutor A Roy DeCaro said Zachary wrote checks to himself and altered cancelled checks, with auditor Leonard Santivasi testifying that checks on microfilm showed Zachary as the payee. The grand jury handed up the presentment and Zachary was arraigned before a district justice.
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Daily Times
Don Guanella
Martin D. Zachary
Camden
N.J
A. Roy DeCaro
Zachary
DeCaro
Delaware County
Grand Jury
Leonard Santivasi
Santivasi
Police mum on cause of fistfight in Upper Chichester
Three people were hospitalized after a Monday fistfight in Upper Chichester. Police released limited details, naming the victims only as three local residents treated at area hospitals.
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Upper
Chichester
Mum
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Lansdowne Avenue
School Lane
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
New York City
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Ed Fiscella
Harry Dietzler
Bert Hodge
Phillip Green
Front Fale
Norris Streets
Harold D. Ellis
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