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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1978
Page
2
Mayor Dennis Kucinich appeals to a wary City Council to approve a 1.5 percent city income tax. Without the hike, Cleveland faces default on 15.5 million short term notes and major layoffs in police, fire, and street departments. A special referendum and sale of the Municipal Light Plant are debated as conditions.
Governor Milton Shapp states the Pennsylvania State Police cleared former Attorney General Robert Kane and Liquor Control Board official Paul Landau in a cover-up probe. He says no evidence of wrongdoing was found and the investigation is largely finished, though some loose ends remained.
Patronage chief Sam Begler and executive aide David Brown announce resignations effective Dec 29, just before Pennsylvania's new ethics code takes effect. The code requires disclosure of holdings and bars lobbying for one year post office. Begler denies fleeing ethics rules, though sources say the move keeps them exempt.
From United Press International a sniper firing from a car struck a truck hauling aluminum on Interstate 70 in Pennsylvania early today. The driver, Frederick A. Harvey 25 Reynoldsburg Ohio, had minor injuries from glass and refused treatment. The Fraternal Association of Steel Haulers began the strike Nov 10 and has cost major haulers $30,000 to $50,000 daily. Small users report few problems with steel supply or shipping finished products. FASH President Bill Hill warned of potential layoffs. Ohio Manufacturers Association spokesman said no member reported trouble.
Qatar's oil minister Sheikh Abdel Aziz Bin Khalifa Al Thani said OPEC will increase oil prices in 1979 and will keep the U.S. dollar as the pricing yardstick. He noted the rise is unavoidable but may be gradual to help industrial nations adjust, praising President Carter's measures.
President Carter weighs a Pentagon blueprint to retain but cut the 20 year pension as part of a broader reform. Defense Secretary Brown proposes keeping 20 year pensions but trimming them by 25 percent, with potential savings of about 2 billion yearly in current dollars by end of the century.
UPI reports 101 soldiers arrested by U S military police and 17 civilians detained by West German police in a major drug crackdown. Seizures total about 1.3 million dollars of heroin hashish amphetamines LSD barbiturates marijuana and Mandrax. Three soldiers convicted so far.
Aeromech Airlines will discontinue its Wheeling to Pittsburgh route on December 31 after 13 months of operation averaging fewer than one passenger per flight. The carrier had extended a 60 day notice prior to attempting a ground transport option to salvage the market.
Grove City Pennsylvania reports a fatal auto crash on a secondary road outside Grove City. George Hancox RD 1 Grove City lost control, collided head on with a pickup driven by John Edwards RD 4 Slippery Rock. Hancox was pinned an hour, declared dead at the scene by A D Donnelson assistant Mercer County coroner. Edwards was not injured.
Senate leaders and House members filed a friend of the court brief accusing President Carter of abusing power by setting wage and price guidelines without legislative authorization. The Portland case, supported by Rep Kemp and Rep Brown, seeks to block the guidelines as voluntary but backed by threats to federal contracts. Oral arguments set for Friday. In Erie, federal agents seized counterfeit money and a printing press from a Harborcreek warehouse, arresting an unidentified man. $100,000 in fake bills found, none circulated.
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