Three cigarette smugglers convicted in federal trial
In Philadelphia, former state tax officials John Re Sills and two aides were found guilty on multiple counts including racketeering and tax fraud in a two week federal case. The trio previously cleared in state court faced prison terms up to 70 years and fines up to 40 thousand dollars. Key witness Harold Sharp testified under immunity about distributing the contraband cigarettes from a warehouse after fake stamps were affixed.
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Moi
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Ware Andrew Milhouse
Hora Frumenta
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Millhouse
Framento
Tiree
Ov Mntuity
Paupasionis Common Pleas
Vilo N Piseiotta
Gaetano Colannese
Pisciotta
Colounese
Frumenlo
Scranton takes U N post amid new world duties
President Ford swears in William Scranton as United Nations ambassador, succeeding Daniel Moynihan. Scranton pledges to defend the United States against narrow interests while urging multilateralism during a period of interdependence and shifts in global policy as he faces the daunting diplomacy ahead.
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United Nation
Wilam Scranton
America
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East Room
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Moynihan
United Nations
Harvard
Scranton Group Delivers Rowdy White House Visit
Wily Scranton, former governor and ambassador to the United Nations, told President Ford that two thirds of the White House crowd appeared from Lackawanna County Pennsylvania. He recalled coal region pride and a past traveling delegation to encourage Americans to buy coal, recounting a tale of Silent Cal Coolidge observing the visitors.
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Pennsylvania
U.S
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White House
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Seronson
Henry Kissinger
UPI
Washington
Wileam Scranton
Hedin
Lackawanna
Calvin Coolidge
Lackawanna Resients
Lackawanba
Beirut upheaval as Syrian pressure halts rebel push
Beirut chaos deepens amid clashes between Muslim and Christian factions. 43 killed, about 100 injured in 24 hours as gunmen storm Beirut jail freeing about 700 prisoners. Antione Afallah, a UPS telex operator, was killed. President Franjieh refuses to resign while diplomacy seeks a path to calm.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Revel Mostem
Suleiman Franjich
United Press International
UPS
Antoine Afallah
Hama Street
Tebels
Pranjieh
Easter Seals radiothon clears ten thousand goal in county
Easter Seals Society of Lawrence County raised over 12 600 at WEST 24 hour radiothon last weekend exceeding a 10 000 goal by up to 4 000. Donations came mainly in 1 to 5 pledges with checks directed to the Easter Seal Society 2719 Edwood Road. More than 50 dignitaries and volunteers from Northminster United Presbyterian Castle Paws and Tavs Kiwanis Rotary and other groups aided hosts and tallyers with entertainers Joyful Sound Dan Spiker country acts and local choirs performing while the National Guard and police supported operations.
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Cawrence County
Easter Seal Society
West
Edwood Road
Dave Weinfeld
John Nuzzo
Barbara Silverroan
Bot Palmer
Jin Douglas
Bred Baker
Joyce Maize
Joyful Sound
Dan Spiker
Country Three
Peg Crum
Marlin Sisters
New Castle Country Five
Harvest
Brian Perone
The
Donali Music Company
National Guard
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New Castle
Visiting Restrictions Persist at Local Hospitals
Visiting restrictions remain in effect at Janessa Memorial Hospital Lawrence County Home and St. Francis Hospital. Limit is 10 immediate family members until further notice due to ongoing health precautions. Anyone with cold symptoms should refrain from visiting to protect patients and others.
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Janessa Memorial Hospital
Lawrence County
St. Francis Hospital
Guardrail Work Planned on U S 422 East
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation warns drivers on US 422 East to slow and proceed with caution as new guardrails are erected from the bypass to the Butler County line. Workmen will operate daily with signs guiding motorists as 24 009 feet of guardrail are replaced under the Clear Roadside Program.
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Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
Butler County
Britain's Wilson to quit position amid money slump
Prime Minister Wilson, 60, announced he will resign as soon as Labour selects a new leader. He said the decision is irrevocable, hoping for a quick replacement and avoiding an election. The pound fell on foreign exchanges as speculation rose about successors, with Callaghan and Healey named as possibilities.
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UPI
Hard Wilson
Lie Nation
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Pany
Wilson
Queen Elizabeth
Brita
Thom
Witon
Parliamentary
Labor Party
Dares Callaghan
Denis Healey
Wilton
Daling
Pennsylvania state banks post 8.55% asset rise in 1976
Banking Secretary Carl Dellmatin said state-chartered banks saw resources jump 8.55 percent in 1976 while net operating earnings fell 4.68 percent to 186 million. The department notes earnings on record resources of 26.8 billion were influenced by loans performing slower or refinancing.
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UPI
Carl Dellmatin
Pennsylvania
Melimuth
Philadelphia tax package gains final vote and tolls planned
In Harrisburg Sen Henry J Ciantrant says he has secured enough votes to pass a three bill Philadelphia tax package giving City Council power to raise taxes including a 29 percent boost to erase an 89 million deficit. He will toll it tomorrow. In Philadelphia Donald Bennett wins 1 million in Pennsylvanias instant dollar contest plans retirement in Florida with 4 000 weekly pay and 1 million minimum. The second prize 25 000 goes to Walter Majewski Jr. In Pittsburgh Antonia Ripepi, a reputed crime boss, testifies and repeatedly invokes the Fifth Amendment in a corruption trial.
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UPI
Henry J. Ciantrant
Philadelphia
Pimladelphia
Donald Bennett
Easton
Pennsylvania
Florida
Bennett
Wrhl-Tv
Tennett
Walter Majeuski Jr
Pittsburgh
UPJ
Antonia Ripepi
Ld Meno Ganabung
Hipepi
Whitehall
John Bazzans
Ripepi
Joseph G
Police hunt murder link across Langhorne case
Police investigate a double murder in Langhorne Pennsylvania where a stun gun was reportedly used. Victims Edward and Margarita Vogenberger, both 77, were found shot in their Bucks County farmhouse. Autopsy pending to confirm cause of death.
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UPL
Philadelphia
Edward
Margarita Vogenberger
Langhore County Club
Bucks County
Pittsburgh School Board to Appeal Ruling on Easter Middle Grade Center
Pittsburgh voters and officials engage in a legal clash as the school board votes 54 to appeal a judge order to close Easter Middle Grade Center by June 30. Judge Flaherty ruled the all-black program violated integration aims and urged distributing students to nearby schools, praising the new Reizenstein Middle School as superior.
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WPT
Easter
Common Pleas
John P. Flaherty
Flaherty
Raster
Reizenstein
Shenango principal Susko to be feted at dinner dance
Joni J Susko Shenango Area High School principal will retire this summer and be guest of honor at the Shenango Area Teachers Association Spring Dinner Dance Saturday at 6 30 p m in the Holiday Inn Sampson Street Extension. Susko a former business teacher and football coach served 1946 1984 and held leadership roles in the teachers union and Lawrence County Teachers Association. He became high school assistant principal in 1968 and principal later, with a wife Eleanor a vocational coordinator and three children.
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Shenango Area
Teachers’ Association
Holiday Inn
Sampson Street
Susko
Shenango
Teachers’ Union
Legal Association
Lawrence County Teachers’ Association
Daniel Ryder
F. Ridgewood Court
Eleanor
Lawrence County Area Vocational-Technical School
Struthers High School
Westminster College
Temple University
Suskes
Prand
Mohawk approves check up for Hillsville fourth graders
Mohawk Area School Board approved permission for the Hillsville Parents' Organization to fund and arrange heart screenings by the Lawrence County Heart Association for Hillsville 4th graders with parental consent.
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Hillsville
Mohawk Area School Board
Lawrence County Heart Association
Childen
Ostwald
Staten Island
Lawrence Giuliano
Fred Blarkhurst
Juan Peduccia
Grace Frasso
Union High School Scotties
WPIAM
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