Boating Safety Week Highlights Harrisburg Proclamation
Governor Shapp has declared July 17 as Pennsylvania Safe Boating Week to curb rising fatalities linked to Hurricane Agnes floods. The Fish Commission cites 1972 records of 111 accidents with 53 deaths and 58 injuries, urging capsizing caution, shoreward retreat at bad weather, proper loading, bow anchoring, vigilant lookout, and life jacket use.
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Lake Arthur
Moraine State Park
Milton J. Shapp
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Fish Commission
Commission
Politician rhetoric and taxpayer burden echoed nationwide
In Northome Minnesota and Geneseo Illinois readers quote verses on taxation and public finance. The Record and Mizpah Message contrast the worries of wealthy residents about preserving wealth with the concerns of the less well off about monthly payments and education for their children.
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Geneseo, II
Republic
People Write and staff details at The New Castle News
Readers are invited to comment on editorial material with letters to The People Write. The notice lists personnel and contact details including Richard E. Rentz as, president and publisher Jessie Treadwell Anderson, vice president Fo WORTE 1554, secretary Eleanor Treadwell Payson, managing editor Jack W. Bartholli, and advertising manager Bell Telephone. Subscriptions and mail rates are provided for Lawrence County and other regions, with various price options.
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The
New Castle News
Richard E. Rentz
Jessie Treadwell Anderson
Fo Worte
Cededisperry
Eleanor Treadwell Payson
Leonard T. Kolasinski
Cscesceees
Jack W. Bartholli
Bell Telephone (Private Exchange
Lawrence County
U.S.A
Watergate aside Pennsylvanian critic targets welfare policies
A letter criticizes state officials and MHMR boards for policies at Norristown State Hospital and mental health care, accusing authorities of returning knives to the insane and exploiting the mentally retarded in the name of humanism, while denouncing tactics used against public opinion and families.
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Pennsylvania
Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
MHMR
Commonwealth
Norristown State Hospital
Philadelphia
Charity
Letters Attack Humanism In Mental Retardation Policy
A reader denounces liberal welfare policies for the mentally retarded, attacking Sweden and Denmark programs and accusing advocates of promoting sexuality and drugs. The letter cites rehabilitative doubt, public assistance, housing, and questionable care in Carlisle’s McCrea House, and references related local controversy over a stub canal project backed by Youngstown interests.
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Sweden
Denmark
Helene Wohlgemuth
McCrea House
Carlisle
Challenge
Welfare Department
Stub Canal Opposed by Rail Workers in Lawrence County
A railroad employee argues against the Stub Canal Committee’s plan urging costly rights of way, utilities relocation, and bridge changes. He contends the canal false promises prosperity and would shift traffic from free enterprise railroads to taxpayer funded facilities, risking local railroad jobs.
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Ohio
Mississippi
Free Enterprise Railroads
Lawrence County
Stub Canal Committee
Youngstown
Civic Pride Actions: Carry Gum Wrapper to Trash Receptacle
Civic pride is portrayed as a simple act of responsibility. The phrase urges individuals to dispose of a gum wrapper properly by using a sidewalk waste receptacle.
The Teaching Game: Where Pennsylvania Teachers Went
The State Department of Education shows 20 295 teachers graduated in 1971 72 from Pennsylvania colleges with 8 279 elementary 10 249 secondary and 1 749 ungraded. The analysis asks where these graduates went and whether they entered teaching.
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State Department of Education
Pennsylvania Institutions of Higher Learning
Columnists Notebook Reveals Teaching Trends And Slips
The column notes 50.9 percent or 10,336 did not enter teaching, 7,932 or 39.1 percent taught within the state, and 2,027 or 10 percent taught out of state. Social studies topped degrees yet 72.8 percent not teaching, distributive education 86.7 percent not teaching. It also covers typographical slips in a governor’s speech and banking totals of Pennsylvania chartered institutions at $23.83 billion with breakdowns. July 5 is set as the deadline to petition for a primary election audit.
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Pennsylvania
Coast Guard
Lake Arthur
Arline Lotman
Pennsylvania Commission On the Status of Women
Arline
Lotman
Carl K. Dellmuth
Court of Quarter Sessions
Remembering Ben Marden and his Riviera on the Pompton Turnpike
A memorial note recalls Ben Marden whose obituary echoed a legendary New Jersey club. The piece conjures radio era glamour with Isham Jones Gus Arnheim Glen Gray and the promise of late night dance music at Ben Marden's Riviera along the Pompton Turnpike.
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Ben Marden
Marden
Riviera
Pompton Turnpike
New Jersey
Isham Jones
Gus Arnheim
Glen Gray
Casa Loma
Radio dreams and the glamour that never was
Sydney J. Harris reflects on growing up with radio fantasies of glittering roadhouses and mob owned clubs. He recalls disillusionment with real venues, notes the mob connections, and ends with nostalgia for Ben Marden's death and a personal reverence for a Riviera on the Pompton Turnpike.
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Edward G. Robinson
Una Merkle
Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers
Ben Marden
Riviera
Pompton Turnpike
Sydney J. Harris
Parents back Humanizing Education at West Pittsburg
In a letter responding to Grace Skoog the writer defends the West Pittsburg Elementary program, praising its focus on self worth and discipline. They cite calmer homes, better homework completion, broader friendship circles, and fewer worries, arguing the program helps all students feel valued and less prone to disruptions.
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the News
Grace Skoog
West Pittsburg
Humorous Candidate Promises Scattered Ambitions and Hot Dogs
A comic candidate in New Castle previews a shameless mix of self interest and public office bids. He jokes about vacations at taxpayers expense and junkets abroad while confessing little real policy. He mocks himself as a hot dog salesman and relies on friends for support.
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New Castle
Congress
Bahamas
Hawaii
Europe
Far East
Tahiti
Erie
Poconos
Titusville
South Philadelphia
Shenango
Beaver Valleys
Louie
Sammy
City Hall
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Northome
Minn
News Company
North Mercer Street
Simpson
Evelyn D. Marburger
Herman L. Feldman
Dom Faraoni
Jerry G. Cartwright
Ellwood City
Beaver Falls
Lawrence
Beaver Counties
Stub Canal
Shapp
Interstate Association of the Commissions On the Status of Women
Capitol Hill
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