16 Mar 1977
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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1977
Page
1
New Castle may be chosen as one of five Pennsylvania sites for a solar energy demonstration project. NASA involved, with a two year monitoring plan and costs shared by the federal government.
A New Castle Energy Council member questioned Tim Laslavic of the Public Utility Commission about publications on converting to alternate fuels at City Hall. Laslavic said the matter is not politics but a fusion of issues while Sidney Shenhan called it politics.
An Italian hijacker detained 22 hostages unhurt after a shootout with Swiss officers disguised as pilots. Luciano Porcari, 37, had forced a Iberia Boeing 727 from Warsaw to Turin and Abidjan before landing in Zurich. Porcari sought to reach his two young daughters, Consuelo and Margarita.
About 1,000 demonstrators, led by F J Frahlich, gathered at the Education Building in Harrisburg to demand an accounting of Senate expenditures. Gov. Milton Shapp and Senate Majority Leader Thomas Nolan pledged reforms including property tax relief and bridge improvements amid boos from Concerned Taxpayers of Allegheny, Beaver and Washington counties and the AARP. Protesters remained dissatisfied citing unresolved issues and high taxes.
Unidentified gunmen killed Kamal Jumblatt the 59 year old Druze leader as he traveled toward Moukhtara. The ambush occurred near Kfarhim about 14 miles southeast of Beirut. The assassination follows heavy fighting in the Marjayoun Front between Palestinian leftist and rightist forces with Israeli support.
Bell Telephone Co. pays 12 cents postage per monthly bill due to a USPS pre sort discount. District manager Donald Smith Jr. says pre sorting by ZIP code saves about $90,000 yearly in Western Pennsylvania. The complex ruling allows one cent off per piece for groups sorted to the same ZIP Code, or to the same 3 digit prefix, when mailed as a single lot of at least 500 identical pieces.
Senate Finance Committee mulls how the Internal Revenue Code affects marriage as it drafts stimulus measures. The discussion centers on two singles living together versus married couples claiming the standard deduction and the resulting penalty, with proposed changes from Carter and House plans and a plan by Committee Chairman Russell Long to ease the gap.
News digest notes Union advances in playoffs as season boundaries tighten. Mentions a two year crash and cookie time motif amid sport and local events. Details are fragmented but emphasize upcoming Black Lung back-off and regional progress.
Weather outlook shows snow in central Rockies rain in central Plains and lower Florida with generally fair conditions elsewhere. US temperature forecasts include reads from Atlanta to Seattle with varied highs and lows. Obituaries note Mrs Charles A Britton aged 86, Fredrick F Brandert Sr aged 98, and Ralph Castagliola aged 72.
County Commissioner Frank A. Vitril promised a public meeting within weeks to discuss replacing the property tax with an income or wage tax. The plan, aiming to abolish the property tax, was delayed as officials compile revenue data while asserting state law may not bar the change.
Harrisburg UPI The Pennsylvania Health Department has isolated a bacterium that may have caused Legionnaires Disease State Health Secretary Dr Leonard Bachman said Tuesday night the bacterium appears identical to the one isolated January 18 by the national Center for Disease Control in Atlanta.
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