Tax bite drives up per capita burden in Pa and nation
Pennsylvania residents paid an average $770 in state and local taxes last year, up $86 from 1976, with national per capita taxes at $813. Alaska led at $2,296 while New York and California followed. Amid red ink, Cleveland faces major cuts. Pennsylvanians paid $9.1 billion, and Thornburgh plans trims as Shapp calls for higher fuel taxes to fund highways.
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Billionaires Club
California
New York
Richard Thornburgh
Milton J. Shapp
New Castle
Mexico oil and talks push US Mexico ties toward energy role
A National Security Council draft study urges elevating Mexico as a world-scale energy partner for the United States. It says Mexico could meet up to 30 percent of US imports by the mid 1980s and could influence talks in Mexico City with President Portillo, while flagging immigration and trade concessions as bargaining chips.
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National Security Council
Mexico
United States
OPEC
U.S
Mexico City
Jose Lopez Portillo
Carter
New Castle News Rate Card and Staff List
The New Castle News lists home delivery at 1.05 weekly and single copy price 20 cents. Rates for Lawrence County are 3.75 monthly, 21 for six months, 39 annually, while other U.S. areas are 4.75 monthly, 27 for six months, 51 annually. Executive Editor is Jack W. Bartholli. Leonard T Kolasinski is noted for mail subscriptions.
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Leonard T Kolasinski
Jack W. Bartholli
Entre
Bell Telephone
Private Exchange
Lawrence County
U.S.A
Little Switzerland in Iowa Featured in Atlas
The northeastern Iowa area near Marquette is described as Little Switzerland with limestone buttes and cliffs up to about 30 stories high. The note appears in the National Geographic Society's new children's atlas Our Fifty States.
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Iowa
Marquette
Little
Switzerland
National Geographic Society
States
Paper tiger or dragon Carter shifts on China policy
John P Roche critiques President Carter's China policy as a "realpolitik" surrender to Beijing. He argues the United States abandons Taiwan, disbands human rights efforts, and risks eroding an American ally while praising Taiwan's economic gains and civil rights contrast. He warns of further concessions and broader diplomatic shocks.
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Mexico
Teng Hsiao-ping
Hua
Carter
Peking
United States
China
Teng
Pat Derian
Rangers
State Department
People’s Republic of China
Taiwan
Republic of China
Taipei
Concord
Mass
Freedom House
Raymond D. Gastil
People's Republic
Chiang Kai-shek
People’s Liberation Army
Saigon
Mongolian People’s Republic
Soviet Far East
John P. Roche
Zambelli starts the New Year with fireworks
In New Castle a local fireworks firm plans New Year displays from Las Vegas to Baltimore and San Juan with lasers, a 100-foot Niagara Falls, and a digital countdown. The piece notes public relations and pride in Zambelli Fireworks and includes safety reminders for New Year travel and a late mention of Luciano’s notorious Lincoln auction car.
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NEW Castle News
Zambelli
Union Plaza
Las Vegas
Times Square
Las Vegas Valley
Father Time
Baltimore
San Francisco
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Carol Channing
Zambelli Fireworks
New Castle
Washington Post
New York Times
Chuck Tanner
Underworld
Charles
Lucky) Luciano
Scottsdale
Ariz
Luciano
Shakespeare Fiction Over Facts In Soliloquy Truths
The author argues Shakespeare prioritizes imaginative effect over factual accuracy. He notes Hamlet's undiscovered country and other anachronisms, compares witches to Freud’s unconscious, and quotes Aristotle on poets’ truth, while historians record dates and facts.
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Hamlet
Shakespeare
Bohemia
Rome
America
Freud
Macbeth
Richard Nixon
Aristotle
Plato
Mohawk trip ban debated by Mohawk School Board
A Mohawk School Board denied the Mexico trip for spring citing charter rules and active fundraising by the Mohawk Travel Club. The letter argues communications gaps avoid misreadings and praises the board’s support and future Germany 1980 trip.
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Mexico
Mohawk School Board
New Castle News
Mohawk Travel Club
Parents of Travel Club
Germany
Parents Without Partners aid for divorc es in search of new life
Fred E. Luchs Interim Pastor of Third U.P. Church urges divorced and widowed individuals to join Parents Without Partners PWPs in Washington DC area to share experiences, forget past hurts, and rebuild normal life. PWPs offers support beyond seeking a new mate and provides growth and perspective.
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the News
Yorick
Pwps
Woodmont
Washington, D.C
Fred E. Luchs
U.P
Lest We Forget A Christmas Spirit Observation
Chris Acierno of New Castle reflects on Christmas traditions beyond presents, warning some focus on profit over the holiday’s origins and the birthday of Christ, urging readers to recall the enduring spirit of the season.
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the News
Christ
Chris Acierno
New Castle
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