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Newspaper
Delaware County Daily Times
Location
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1977
Page
13
Partly sunny and warm today with a 20 percent rain chance and highs near 80. In New York Alex Haley recalls selling Roots and a Pulitzer prize beside sardines. In Washington the EPA weighs noise labels for appliances including vacuums and dishwashers.
Daily Times notes the appointment of Dominic Scamuffa as the new football coach at Interboro High School, succeeding Ray Spafford. The brief appears among page listings and sports updates in the edition.
A 50 year old Chester woman Alma Carter Beavley was arrested after a Daily Times probe linked a 1966 aborted case and a 1976 extradition matter to the May 18 death in Chester of Clara Wilson. Beavley, at 217 Broomall St, was detained at Sacred Heart Hospital and then jailed in Delaware County Prison pending extradition hearings.
County Council Chairman Faith R. Whittlesey announced Thomas Lane of Morgan Lewis and Backus in Harrisburg will lead labor talks with Teamsters representing Fair Acres Delaware County Prison and the three incinerators, and with CDPEA representing about 750 courthouse workers. Lane, a top labor negotiator, has worked on governmental contracts and various labor law roles, earning the going rate of 60 dollars per hour.
More than 5,000 children signed a petition to restore the former Highland Avenue School playground at a borough council meeting. David DeLia delivered the petition to Council President C William Miller while Robert Hopkins spoke for the cause noting the playground vanished with a May bulldozer and children now cross heavy traffic to reach other play areas. The Highland LaCrosse avenue site, bought from William Penn School District for a municipal services building, is being demolished.
Lansdale Pennsylvania AP reports State Education Secretary Daryl Kline urges abandoning property taxes as a school funding source and pushing a full subsidy reform at a Thursday press conference. In Washington AP notes Spiro Agnew, who resigned in 1973 over income tax evasion, failed to declare nearly 27000 in income on the following year’s return per IRS.
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