Thornburgh May Bend to Sign $10.9 Billion Pennsylvania Budget
Governor Thornburgh said he may bend to sign the $10.9 billion 1979-80 Pennsylvania budget by July 1 as 23 days remain. He warned lawmakers that failure to pass a budget could hurt Pennsylvania’s prestige and cited a plan for a 6 percent gas tax to fund highway and bridge maintenance. He criticized House Democrats for partisanship over PennDOT spending and noted plans to meet with GOP leaders on patronage concerns while delaying a PUC nomination until the Senate acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Grotevant
Harrisburg
UPL
Dick Thornburgh
Pennsylvania
Thornburgh
House Democrats
Penndot
House
James Manderino
Dwestmoreland
Manderino
General Assembly
Thornburgh Vv
Harold Haabestad
Senate
PUC
Robert Bloom
Doctors reattach hand of young music student
In New York a 17 year old music student named Renee Katz had her right hand severed when pushed in front of a subway train. Surgeons at Bellevue Hospital reattached the hand using tissue from her foot to restore circulation. The team hopes for function and sensation return in four to six months while police traced seven youths connected to the attack.
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Renee Katz
Flushing
N.Y
Miss Katz
High School of Music and Art
Bellevue Hospital
New York
UPI
Daniel Baker
Midtown Manhattan
Baker
Three Mile Island faces large radioactive water disposal challenge
A GPU consultant warns of unprecedented volumes of highly radioactive water at Three Mile Island. About 915,000 to 965,000 gallons reside in the plant across four areas, with 450,000 to 500,000 in containment, 365,000 in backups, and 100,000 in cooling. Two treatment options, demineralization and evaporation, are under review as NRC studies conclude.
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Scott Macleod
Middletown. Pa
UPI
Three Mile Island
Ron Williams
General Public Utilities Service Corp
General Public Utilities Corp
Williams
Susquehanna River
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Independent Advisory Committee
GPU
J L Promises Cleanup of Air Pollution at Aliquippa Works
J&L Steel signs a consent agreement to desulfurize coke oven gases by June 30 1981 and close A-1 coke oven battery and sinter plant at Aliquippa. The pact aims to curb sulfur oxide pollution harming health and streams with penalties up to 1 million dollars plus daily fines for further noncompliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
API
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
Aliquippa
Clifford L. Jones
State Department of Environmental Resources
Jones
Ohio River
J&l
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Mother held for shooting son to death
In Garden City Kansas Elizabeth Jo Locklear 29 was bound over for arraignment July 13 on first degree murder charges after a preliminary hearing. She allegedly lined her four children against a wall and shot 9 year old Lloyd Mitchell Locklear in the family apartment on March 21. A family friend said she wished the children dead when faced with divorce demands from her husband.
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Garden City
Kan
UPI
Elizabeth Jo Locklear
Finney County
Raccoon Rabid Assault Near Macon Leaves Grandson Safe
In Macon Georgia H D Carden fought off a rabid raccoon that chased him and his six year old grandson Chad to their home. The animal bit Carden on his wooden leg as his son arrived to dispatch it. In Harrisburg Pennsylvania the Public Utility Commission approved a contract letting Pennsylvania Power and Light sell power to Three Mile Island utilities at a monthly savings of about 300000 dollars while GPU would cut annual purchase costs by around 3 million dollars.
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Macon
UPI
H.D. Carden
Carden
Chad
Harrisburg
Public Utility Commission
Pennsylvania Power & Light Co
Allentown
Three Mile Island
General Public Utilities Corp
Federal Energy Regulation Commission
Pp&l
PUC
GPU
Martin's Creek
Jury selection continues in Surratt murder trial in Florence
Eleventh Circuit Solicitor Donnie V. Myers says no jurors by court end today could push to a Saturday session. Two more jurors were chosen bringing the pool to 10 of a 12 member panel with two alternates. Edward A Surratt, 37, of Aliquippa Pa, faces the June 1 1978 beating death of Luther Langford 66 of West Columbia. Langford's wife Nell 58 was assaulted. The trial moved from Lexington County after a defense motion. Surratt serves life in Florida for rape and is charged in an Ohio murder and is a suspect in 14 other slayings in Ohio and West Virginia.
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Florence, SC
UPI
Eleventh Circuit
Donnie V. Myers
Edward A Surratt
Surratt
Aliquippa
Luther Langford
West Columbia
Langford
Nell
Florence County
Lexington County
Florida
Ohio
West Virginia
Pennsylvania Jobless Rate Rises to 6.6 Percent in May
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports Pennsylvania unemployment increasing from 6.3 percent in April to 6.6 percent in May. About 348,000 Pennsylvanians were unemployed in May, up from 330,000 in April, with last May at 352,000 unemployed and a 6.8 percent rate. The rate comes from a survey of roughly 3,100 households.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Pennsylvania
Bureau
Wecht to hand over morgue records to county controller
Coroner Cyril Wecht will turn over subpoenaed morgue records to Allegheny County Controller John Lynch on Friday. Wecht's attorney John Feeney said the records will be complete as listed, while higher courts stalled efforts to overturn the county court order backing the subpoena.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Allegheny County
Cyril Wecht
Wecht
John Feeney
John Lynch
Pennsylvania Gasoline Prices Report Slow National Gain
Harrisburg reports Pennsylvania gasoline prices remain below the national average with full service regular 83.5 cents unleaded 87.7 premium 89.4 and self service regular 82.1 unleaded 87 premium 88.6. Across the state 5 percent of stations are 24 hour, 34 percent open after 8 p.m. on weekdays, 46 percent after 6 p.m. on Saturdays, and only 19 percent open Sundays.
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Harrisburg
API
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Aaa Federation
Federation
Antidraft groups push calls to block Senate registration plan
Washington leaders of the anti draft movement plan to flood the Senate with telephone calls and telegrams to thwart surprise efforts to renew youth registration for military service. The Senate subcommittee approved registration legislation 4 3 in private, sending it to the full Armed Services Committee. The measure would start registering males 18 to 26 on January 2 1980 and classify them for service in March 1981. Critics call the private vote outrageous and deceptive. The House bill would begin in 1981 but not provide for classification. The Senate vote is set for Monday. critics say time to organize opposition will be limited. Reverend Barry Lynn denounces the move as cowardly and deceptive.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Senate Military Manpower Subcommittee
Senate Armed Services Committee
House
Duane Shank
Committee Against Registration and
Barry Lynn
United Church of Christ
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Mandelino
Transit Authority
Epicore II
Richard Vollmer
NRC
Beaver County
Sistently
Commonwealth Court
Sinai Hospital
Baltimore
PAC
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