Environmental board moves to relax pollution rules in six areas
Harrisburg based Environmental Quality Board plans relaxations allowing 80 percent of federal safety limits in six regions including Johnstown Harrisburg York Lancaster Scranton Wilkes-Barre and Erie to save industries nearly 6 million annually. Reading and Allentown Bethlehem-Easton would face stricter standards. Public hearings set for next year with streams reclassification list also unveiled.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Environmental Quality Board
Johnstown
York
Lancaster
Scrantown- Wilkes-Barre
Erie
DEA
Reading
Allentown - Bethlehem-Easton
Pennsylvania
The
DER
Gary Triplett
Division of Air Resource Management and Research
Allentown
Bethlemen-Easton
Allentown Air Basin
Maurice Goddard
Pittsburgh
Norristown
Halter Creek
Blair County
Appleton Paper Co
Crash survivors cope with deadly Colorado storm
An 8 month old boy and 21 others survived a Steamboat Springs to Denver flight that iced wings, struck a high voltage line, and crashed in snow. Rescue teams reached the wreck after 15 hours. one passenger, Marjorie Kotts, died of a skull fracture.
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Vivors
Steamboat Springs
Denver
Garbina
Bloomington
Minn
Peter King
Nancy Kay Hardin
Mathew Kotts
Marjorie Kotts
Supreme Court splits over car passenger search ruling
Four dissenters warn the decision invites police to abuse car stop searches. Justice White calls the ruling an open season on automobiles and would broaden litigation by expanding who can challenge illegally seized evidence. The majority limits standing to those with a personal privacy expectation or possessory interest in the vehicle.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Byron White
Illinois
Melbourne Noel, Jr
White
William Rehnquist
Rehnquist
Halverson election contested in Somerset County
Somerset County Common Pleas Judge Charles Coffroth said he would rule by next week on a request to invalidate the legislative election won by incumbent Republican Rep. Kenneth Halverson. Halverson took the seat by 21 votes after a Nov 7 recount, expanding GOP to 102 seats in the 203 member House. Democrat William Lloyd seeks to overturn the result, joining a GOP petition that had been prepared to be dropped.
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Somerset
UPI
Somerset County
Coffroth
Lloyd
GOP
Halverson
Fly ash facility breaks ground in Indiana Pa
Groundbreaking Tuesday marked a test and grade fly ash facility by National Minerals Corp of Fargo North Dakota. The plant aims to convert coal byproduct fly ash into partial cement for highways and housing, employing up to 200 people amid rising coal use.
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Indiana, Pa
Legionnaire's disease traced to Norwalk Hospital cooling system
In Norwalk Connecticut federal investigators say the hospital's air conditioning system harbored the Legionella bacteria. The hospital reported three deaths this year from Legionnaires disease with 14 confirmed and nine suspected pneumonia cases. Cooling lines were shut last November and extra chlorine is used to prevent further danger. Federal and state officials cite at least four Connecticut deaths and dozens of cases linked to Legionnaires disease.
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Norwalk, Conn
UPI
Norwalk Hospital
State Department of Health
Connecticut
Mail carrier suspended in Mace incident in Albuquerque
Hilario C. Gutierrez a 22 year postal worker is placed on non pay status while the U S Postal Service seeks his removal after allegedly spraying Mace in the face of 3 year old Edward Sanchez on November 24 The boy received hospital treatment and was released The service offered to cover medical expenses for the Sanchez family as well The action was announced by Jim Taylor director of employee labor relations
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Albuquerque, N.M
UPI
U.S. Postal Service
Jim Taylor
Postal Service
Hilario C. Gutierrez
Gutierrez
Edward Sanchez
Taylor
Sanchez
Inmates Hunger Strike Over Rhode Island Prison Conditions
Three Death Row inmates Sidney A. Clark 27 Robert Cline 26 and William H. Anthony 25 began a hunger strike after requesting execution to protest prison conditions at the Adult Correctional Institutions Cranston Rhode Island UPI reports that Judge Anthony J Giannini cannot order the death penalty until the Rhode Island Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the state capital punishment law.
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Cranston
R.I
UPI
Rhode Island
Rhode Island State Prison
Sidney A. Clark
Robert Cline
William H. Anthony
Superior Court
Anthony J. Giannini
State Supreme Court
Midmorning quake shakes San Salvador hotel
A strong earthquake struck San Salvador at 6 a.m. lasting several seconds and caused the Camino Real Hotel to shake violently. Residents fled their homes while electricity remained on, and early damage reports were not yet available.
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San Salvador
el Salvador
UPI
Camino Real
Yatron seeks freezing of People's Temple assets
Rep. Gus Yatron met with Attorney Griffin Bell Secretary Cyrus Vance and Treasury chief W. Michael Blumenthal to press freezing the cult’s reported assets to cover U S costs of returning and burying 911 Jonestown victims. He cited estimated disposal costs near 9 million dollars and reports of 10 million in foreign accounts.
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Reading
UPI
Gus Yatron
D-Pa
People’s Temple
United States
Jonestown
Guyana
Yatron
House
U.S
Griffin Bell
Cyrus R. Vance
Treasury
W. Michael Blumenthal
Washington
Jim Jones
Bucci to head heart fund drive in Lawrence County
Edward Bucci named chairman of the 1979 Heart Fund Drive in Lawrence County by Cornelia Dattilo. He will lead volunteers in February to distribute heart saving materials and raise funds for research education and community service programs.
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Edward Bucci
Lawrence County
Cornelia Dattilo
Lawrence County Heart Association
Bucci
McIntyre & Clark Inc
Westminster College
Order of the Eagles
National Office of Products Association
Skaneateles
New York
America
Frances Sowersby
al Melchiorre
Michael Bucci
John Kline
Shawn McGonigle
Lou Nocera
Shumaker pushes commissioners into union talks
County Commissioner Thomas A. Shumaker urged fellow officials to join all negotiation sessions with county employees. He said no real bargaining occurred last week and that the three commissioners must participate and be ready to present a counterproposal to Local 964 and AFSCME. Commissioner Frank A. Vitril opposed joining negotiations, blaming the lack of progress on the commissioners. The motion to involve the group failed for lack of a second, while Meehan preferred consulting Audino first. Shumaker plans to attend all sessions regardless of group decision.
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Thomas A. Shumaker
Shumaker
Frank A. Vitril
Richard Audino
Vitril
Vitril Said. “It’s Not Worth A Damn Unless You Feed It Something.”’ Shumaker
Local 964
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
Afscme
John A. Meehan
Audino
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