Shapp aids Thornburgh staff in transition in Harrisburg
In Harrisburg UPI reported Gov. elect Thornburgh’s transition team led by Rick Stafford received a six pound government transition report from Gov. Milton Shapp. The document details issues across 61 agencies including PennDOT funding and road repairs, welfare costs, education funding, and state law enforcement capacity as the incoming administration prepares reforms.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Rick Stafford
Dick Thornburgh
Pennsylvania
Milton Shapp
Shapp
Stafford
Thornburgh
Carnegie-Mellon University
Capitol
Michael McLaughlin
Transportation Department
Penndot
Gas firm to open service center near New Castle
Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania will relocate all supervisory plant and service staff to a new center at the junction of US 224 and Mathews Road in Union Township serving New Castle and Ellwood City areas. The facility will host offices for the area manager foremen and a customer contact clerk with warehousing weld shop and meter storage. A large back lot will store pipes and parking will be available for employees and visitors.
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Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania Inc
New Castle
Ellwood
Gas Company
Art Towne
Columbia
US 224
Mathews Road
Union Township
Towne
WESAC seeks delegate agency status with LCCCC
The West Side Community Action Center asked to become a delegate agency of the Lawrence County Council of Community Centers. Howard Gaston explained funding matches and contract terms. Horace Bradley and James Denny discussed coordination, avoiding duplication, and the potential for harmony without drastic changes. Bradley defended the move as a step to reduce confusion and aid disadvantaged residents, while Denny urged a one year reconsideration.
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West Side Community Action Center
Lawrence County Council of Community Centers
Howard Gaston
Community Services Administration
WESAC
LCCCC
Gaston
Horace Bradley
Bradley
Harmony
James Denny
Denny
West Side
Eight honored posthumously twelve awarded hero commission
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission awarded 12 people in seven states bronze medals and 9,500 in awards for acts of heroism. Eight honored posthumously include Pennsylvanians James R. Abraham, Anthony James Borgia and Patrick M. Pryor Jr. Abraham and Donald Brannan drowned while trying to save a friend at Bavington Dam Lake. Borgia saved multiple people in Scranton from a crashing tractor trailer. Pryor saved two girls in Wilkes Barre from a runaway vehicle.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
New Jersey
New York
Vermont
Virginia
James
Abraham
James Abraham
Borgia
Scranton
Pryor
Donna
Susan Wardle
Wilkes-Barre
Susan
Centers council in new location
The Lawrence County Council of Community Centers met in its new Haney Building location for the first time last night. Exec committee actions included resignations of Marie Gray and Beverly Sue Baker, appointment of Rev. Myles Bradley to replace Baker, and moving Betty Baker to program coordinator at the East Side Center as the full board awaits confirmation on a quorum.
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Lawrence County Council of Community Centers
Haney
Ron McKenna
LCCCC
Columbia Gas
McKenna
Marie Gray
Beverly Sue Baker
East Side Center
Myles Bradley
Baker
East Side
Betty Baker
Daily Number breaks sales records in Pennsylvania week
Harrisburg reports Pennsylvania Lottery Daily Number posts its best weekly sales with $5.1 million for December 4 through 11, surpassing $4.8 million prior peak. A Dec 8 daily high of $925,06 in tickets contrasts with a $929,530 payout on number 219. Fiscal year sales exceed $100 million.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Bureau of State Lotteries
Gatski loses bid to quash Luzerne County election challenge
State Rep. Ronald Gatski of Hazleton failed to block a Luzerne County three-judge panel from reviewing a challenge to his Nov. 7 re election victory over Republican James Schneider by 97 votes. A petition by 20 district residents seeks recheck of four voting machines amid alleged sealing flaws and tally miscalculations that could void the votes or trigger a new election. The action could delay Gatski's certification.
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Wilkes-Barre
UPI
Ronald Gatski
D-Hazleton
Luzerne County
Gatski
James Schneider
Hazleton
Schneider
Telephone tax cut to 3 percent in Pennsylvania
Erie based General Telephone Co of Pennsylvania will cut the federal excise tax on local and long distance service from 4 percent to 3 percent effective January 1, 1979. The cut marks the seventh reduction of a wartime tax, with total Pennsylvania customer savings estimated at about 1.14 million dollars. The tax will drop 1 percent annually until it ends January 1, 1982.
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Erie, Pa
UPI
General Telephone Co
Pennsylvania
GTE
Thieves take $25,000 in furs in Pa. burglary
Police search for two men after they tied up Roy Fulmer and his wife Dorothy and escaped with furs from 300 foxes 300 raccoons 150 possums and 70 muskrats valued at about 25000 dollars in Shelocta Indiana County. The intruders were described as one about six feet tall 185 pounds with a beard and another five foot five 125 pounds in blue jeans and tennis shoes. Earlier in the week another burglary in Montgomery Township stole about 2500 dollars in furs.
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Shelocta
UPI
Indiana County
Roy Fulmer
Indiana RD 5
Fulmer
Dorothy
Fulmers
Montgomery Township
Blind DJ wins five year reprieve from eviction
In New City New York a blind disc jockey Steve Possell his wife Patti and newborn girl secured a five year reprieve from eviction after a one hour conference with landlord Angelo Cassetta and judge Harry Edelstein The case stemmed from a couples with children ban at a Stony Point trailer park and the trio sought more time to relocate while Possell earns 195 weekly.
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New City
N.Y
UPI
Steve Possell
Angelo Cassetta
Rockland County
Harry Edelstein
Cassetta
Possell
Patti
McDonnell Douglas DC-10 Sets Long Beach Belgrade Record Flight
McDonnell Douglas today claimed a record for its DC-10 non stop flight from Long Beach California to Belgrade Yugoslavia. The long range jumbo completed the 7231 mile route in 11 hours 20 minutes at an average speed of 638 mph. Capt Slobodan Tanaskovic chief pilot of JAT received the aircraft Monday.
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Long Beach
Calif
UPI
McDonnell Douglas Corp
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Slobodan Tanaskovic
JAT
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Gordon Collier
Columbia Gas Check Alteration Plans
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