Financing Education in Pennsylvania Stirs Broad Disagreement
Pennsylvania lawmakers remain divided over how to fund education. The Senate budget omits a school subsidy increase, provoking Republican calls for more aid and Democratic concerns that tax hikes may be required. The debate features PSEA PSBA proposals, a non profit league warning against simple subsidy hikes, and Governor Shipp’s cautious stance on new taxes.
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Mason Denison
Harrisburg
Keystone
State
Senate
House of Representatives
Shipp
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State Education
PSEA
Pennsylvania School Boards Association
PSBA
Pennsylvania Economy League
Senate Republican Bloc
Senate Democrats
Commonwealth
Heaven and Hell Visit a Dying Irish Priest in Vision
In Jim Bishop's piece, Father Seamus O'Brien, aged 84, faces mortality in a North Waterford parish. He recalls his ministry and envisions Heaven and Hell, guided by Moses and Peter, who show him paradisal and infernal rooms where hunger and charity reveal the truth of eternal existence.
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Jim Bishop
Biretta
Eivenin
Seamus O'Brien
Waterford
Ireland
Dublin
Cork
O'Brien
Heaven
Hell
Lynch
Father O'Brien
Jesus
Angelus
Father O’brien
Moses
Dark Peter
Satan's
Peter
Satan's Palace
Father
Paradise
Beatrice Kirkpatrick Joins U.S. Marshals Team in Indiana
In 1927 Miss Beatrice Kirkpatrick of Indiana became the third woman deputy to be appointed by U.S. Marshal James C. McGregor. She says the work differs from her previous duties but she likes it. The feature notes her trailblazing role within the past year.
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Pittsburgh
Beatrice Kirkpatrick
Indiana
U.S. Marshall
James C. McGregor
Homer
Homer City
Herbert McAnulty
Harry Edwards
Indiana Kiwanians
CIA Ties Oswald to Dallas and Mexico City Shadows
Washington reports from the House Assassinations Committee allege Oswald had contact with anti Castro Cubans in Dallas and Mexico City as the CIA tracked tapes and photos. Witnesses describe a man named Morris Bishop guiding Oswald via Veciana and Veciana’s cousin Ruiz, amid a possible cover story to mislead investigations. The CIA disputes and notes surveillance gaps while the FBI questioned the Oswald identity.
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Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
House Assassination Committee
CIA
Dallas
John F. Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
Oswald
Alpha 66
Antonio Veviana
Morris Bishop
Veciana
Bishop
Sylvia Odio
Leon Oswald
Kennedy
House
Mexico City
Vedana
Guillamo Ruiez
Ruiez
U.S
Lee Oswald
Navy
Warren Commission
Lee Henry Oswald
FBI
Texas
White House
Mexico
FBT
Open Letter Critics Move to Drop Spanish at Apollo Ridge
Our Readers Write objects to the Apollo Ridge School District decision to end Spanish, arguing it reduces college readiness, harms education, and risks overcrowding in remaining languages. The letter urges residents to contact a board member to reconsider the move.
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Apollo Ridge
Econom
Energy Crisis Q and A With the Energy Man
A satirical interview by Art Buchwald with questions on oil supply, policy, and taxes. It mocks dinosaurlike fossil fuel arguments, Alaska oil promises, and a spoof IRS Energy Form 1218 Life in the piece includes a fictitious Government Spanking Bureau and a punitive excise tax for big car owners, delivered in sharp Washington wit.
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Art Buchwald
Alaska
Middle East
Japan
IRS
OPEC
Supreme Court
Carter
Department of Energy
Questions on Strip Mining in Protected Zones
A letter from an Indiana County citizen poses six questions about strip mining in protected zones around county parks. It asks who holds mineral rights, compensation for landowners, environmental and highway impacts, reclamation outcomes, and the balance of facts versus emotion in public debate, urging fair treatment for property owners and responsible civic discussion.
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Boy Scouts
Indiana County
Abortion Safety Study Reported Low Maternal Mortality
An April 28 1977 newspaper article discusses an abortion safety study focusing on low maternal mortality for women who have abortions. It omits infant mortality rates, noting all aborted babies die. The writer argues for recognizing unborn babies as valuable beings and urges attention to their fate.
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Awe
Mary Buevigross
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Joseph L. Donnel
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