Cities and county face revenue sharing shifts under Carter plan
Lawrence County would lose money under Carter’s proposed revenue sharing formula with the county government down about $39,000 while New Castle would gain about $200,000. The plan, backed by President Carter, shifts funds toward urban areas with higher tax effort and awaits House committee review amid a Senate move to restore $700 million of state shares.
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Lawrence County
Carter
Boroughs
City of
New Castle
U.S
Doug Walgren
Pittsburgh
U.S. Treasury Department
Walgren
Philadelphia
Senate
House
House-Senate
Pennsylvania
Secretaries of three magistrates plan quits over pay and help
Secretaries Norma Hammers Kathryn Sturdevant Lillian Navarra and Sandra Boyle will quit their jobs at day end Friday unless the county commissioners provide more funding and extra help. They cited higher workloads after a state change in bookkeeping and inadequate pay compared with Beaver Butler and Mercer counties. Judge Glenn McCracken has not responded, prompting the voluntary resignations. Court staff with Local 964 report working without a contract since January 1979.
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Norma Hammers
Kathryn Sturdevant
Betty Lou Kradel
Lillian Navarra
Howard Hanna
Sandra Boyle
Ruth French
Hammers
Beaver
Butler
Mercer
Lawrence County
Butler County
Mercer County
Beaver County
Glenn McCracken
McCracken
Cuba Expresses Regrets Over Bahamian Patrol Boat Sinking
Cuba offers sincere regrets for the Bahamas about the sinking of a Bahamian patrol boat by MiG planes. Four Bahamian sailors were killed. Eight Cuban fishermen face arraignment delays in Nassau amid claims the seized vessels were undercover Cuban missions. Prime Minister Pindling returns from London to handle the crisis.
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Bahamas
UPI
Cuba
Bahamian Defense Forces
Lyndon O Pindling
London
Fundamentalists win Iran election and hostages fate
Islamic fundamentalists who favor spy trials for the American hostages won control of Iran's 360 member Mejlis. The result, announced amid warnings of quarantines, positions the Islamic Republican Party to appoint a premier with Khomeini's backing and set the stage for hostage policy as the new government forms.
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Iran
UPI
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Beirut
Lebanon
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
An Nahar
Islamic Republican Party
Abolhassan Bani Sadr
Husband shot in Slippery Rock. wife charged with homicide
Donald Rally, 39, of Monroe, Michigan, died from gunshot wounds allegedly inflicted by his wife Nancy Jean Rally, 27, in front of her parents’ home in Slippery Rock. Nancy Rally is charged with criminal homicide and is held in Butler County Jail on a $50,000 bond.
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Slippery Rock
UPI
Donald Rally
Monroe
Mich
Butler County
Rally
Nancy Jean
Lottery Saturday May 12 1980 and weather update
Lottery numbers list and resident ages, with a Western Pennsylvania forecast of a flash flood watch, warm unsettled conditions, and 80 percent rain chance through Tuesday. Includes Shenango River stage, Moraine Park readings, and a quiz teaser from New Castle News.
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Western
Pennsylvania
UPI
Shenango River
Lightning strikes First National Bank Building in city morning blast
A lightning bolt hit the First National Bank Building on East Washington Street splitting a stone slab, damaging an awning and forcing sidewalk closures. Fire crews lowered the hanging slab to the adjoining roof and secured a second loose piece. No injuries were reported. power outages and minor street debris followed as crews assess cleanup.
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Don Nakles
First National Bank
East Washington Street
James Antonio
Sue Allegro
S.R. Snodgrass and Co
Joseph Cook
City Public Works
Butler Avenue
Frew Mill Road
Countyline Street
Sutton Street
Sampson Street
Bell Avenue
David Dobish
The
Pennsylvania Power Co
WKST
Herb Morgan
Clif Page
Legionnaires’ bacteria evade body defenses in cells
Rockefeller University researcher Marcus A. Horwitz announced that Legionnaires bacteria invade white blood cells and flourish inside them, using defensive cells as shelters. He warned the disease, first identified after the Philadelphia outbreak, is a major worldwide cause of pneumonia, especially among the elderly and ill.
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Washington
UPI
Philadelphia
New York
Rockefeller University
Marcus A. Horwitz
United States
Horwitz
American Society For Clinical Investigation
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