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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1972
Page
1
A portion of a $1 million ransom paid last July for the release of Virginia Piper, wife of a Minneapolis investment executive, has appeared in several Minnesota cities. A bank teller’s description matches a prior suspect composite in the case.
Commissioners begin budget work as a pair swap roles on a package deal. Cones hosts Meadville tonight as the scene shifts to local government and community sports events.
Frontal system brings rain to the Pacific Northwest and snow east through the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes with clear to partly cloudy conditions elsewhere. Temperatures range from the single digits in the Midwest to near 80s in the Southwest with many cities in the 20s to 40s. In Western Pennsylvania snow flurries and Lake Erie squalls set tight highs around mid-20s, with tonight and Saturday turning colder and snow possible.
Mayor Francis J. Rogan presents a 3.4 million budget to City Council, higher than 1972 by 380,000, adding a centralized code enforcement program and a new recreation department. A mercantile tax cut is proposed to aid downtown businesses, with funds flowing from federal revenue sharing to support expanded services and capital improvements.
About 70 percent of the proposed $3,476,792 1973 city budget goes to salaries with most employees getting raises. Police and fire contracts are in place, while public works and clerical staff enter year two of their two year deals.
City Council members seek clearer authority over Redevelopment Authority activities and funding. They urge accountability, plan a meeting with the authority, and press for monthly briefings while worried over past noncompliance and spending. Page 31 continuing coverage.
KEY BISCAYNE Fla UPI George P. Shultz a charter member of the Nixon Cabinet will remain in the second administration as treasury secretary. Nixon was to announce the decision during a weekend visit to Shultz at his vacation home. Shultz has served in several roles since 1969 including dean of the Graduate School of Business at Chicago and head of the Office of Management and Budget since 1970.
A light Beech Bonanza plane crashed about five miles north of Scranton during a snowstorm. The dead pilot is Frank Gavin, a Cleveland attorney. Passenger Donald Chopychinski, 38, Amherst, Ohio, was in guarded condition at Scranton State General Hospital. The craft was en route to Cleveland from Martha's Vineyard, carrying lobsters.
Officials in Atlanta and at the federal level urge stronger fire safety rules after two high rise disasters. Nine people died and 41 injured in a Baptist Towers fire in Atlanta, while another blaze in New Orleans claimed several lives. Calls focus on automatic extinguishing systems and stricter codes for elderly housing, with Gov. Carter pledging code amendments to prevent recurrence.
In New Orleans the secretary of a lawyer in the 16 story Rault Center reported being warned to leave by 1 p.m. with the phrase it’s going to blow as fire investigators probe a blaze that killed four. The fire started on upper floors after an explosion and trapped diners and a beauty shop patron. three women leaped to their deaths and a man died in the flames. Police and fire officials said they take the secretary’s warning seriously while arson probes begin.
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