Committee Recommends Police Off Crime Commission Role
Harrisburg report from House Administration of Justice committee urges immediate termination of Pennsylvania State Police use by the Crime Commission and calls for banning electronic eavesdropping devices in state law while probing wiretap cases from 1972 King of Prussia affair and Kapleau inquiry. It highlights leadership, jurisdiction, and personnel issues across agencies.
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Harrisburg
UPL
House
Crime Commission
Administration of Justice
Varmnitee
Philadelphia
H. Josephy Hepford
Dauphin
King of Prussia
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Crime Commission
Milk Marketing Board
Harry Kapleau
Kapleau
Murder sparks walkout in Pennsylvania prison
About 75 percent of the 250 guards and clerks at GRATURFORD State Correctional Institution continued a work stoppage after a back-to-work order. The walkout followed a stabbing death of a kitchen steward and stemmed from demands to change security measures and limited inmate privileges. State police covered shifts as Parker pressed for security changes while Johnson and officials faced a dismissal demand.
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Graturford
State Correctional Institution
Israel Packel
Montgomery County
Robert Johnson
Johnson
Parker
Hegun
American Federation of State
Milton Sapp
Packer
Concorde Lands at Dallas Fort Worth Airport in U S debut
Concorde made its first U S landing at Dallas Fort Worth Airport amid minor disruptions from a wandering plane during a low level flyover. The Franco British SST covered Caracas to Dallas in 2 hours 22 minutes at Mach 2 twice speed of sound reached 87 000 feet and 1 360 mph top speed.
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Grapevine
Tex
UPI
Dallas- Fort Worth
United States
Caracas
Venezuela
Woman Finds Police Digging Yard In Missing Person Case
Chicago police dug up the back yard of 48 year old laboratory technician Mrs Mattie Jones after a man in custody alleged the missing woman Shirley Scott might be buried there. Officers would not confirm details and said the search followed sketchy information related to a robbery unit inquiry.
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Chicago
UPI
Mattie Jones
Billings Hospital
South Side
Jones
Ani
Shirley Scott
Luvin
Miss Scott
Physiatrist to be cited for handicapped work in Harrisburg
Dr. Thomas E. Strax of Elkins Park will be named Handicapped Pennsylvania of the Year by the Governor's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. He is a Moss Rehabilitation Hospital physiatrist recognized for achievements despite cerebral palsy. Dr. David W. Bishop and Craft Associates also receive honors.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Thomas E. Strax
Elkins Park
Strax
Moss Rehabilitation Hospital
Philadelphia
David W. Bishop
Abzoona
Penn Central Railroad
Blair County
Craft Associates of
Wilkes - Barre
Sextuplets mother recalls drug that might have helped
Edna Stanek of Denver, mother of sextuplets who lost one infant to lung disease, says a small drug might have altered outcomes and that she would consider another pregnancy only with caveats. Physicians report improvement in the remaining babies Catherine Nathan Stephen, while Jeffrey and John show no hyaline membrane disease effect. The Staneks, with a 4 year old, live in a Denver home as doctors note the day’s best progress.
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Denver
Edna Stanek
Sestajnlets
University of (Alorade Medical Center
Fiucia
Catherine
Nathan
Stephen
Jeffrey
John
King Riggs Match Draws 48 Million Viewers Across Nation
ABC estimates an average 48 million Americans watched the Billie Jean King Bobby Riggs tennis match with a 52.4 percent audience share in the 8 to 9 p.m. EDT hour as the 24 hour event played out. The Trendex survey ranked The Waltons at 22.1 percent on CBS and The Flip Wilson Show at 18.4 percent on NBC.
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New York
UPI
American Broadcasting Co
Bobby Riggs
ABC
Trendex
Waltons
CBS
Flip Wilson
NBC
Chrysler workers approve UAW pact in four Canadian plants
Chrysler Corp. workers in Windsor Ontario and Int about 9,000 members of Local 444 ratified the new UAW contract. The Windsor Int plant ratified, bringing signed units to 17 of 69 bargaining groups. Most remaining locals vote Saturday and Sunday. union urges return to work Monday if ratified Sunday.
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Detroit
UPI
Chrysler Corp
United Auto Workers
Windsor
Int
Local 444
Guerrilla Chief Captured in Chile After Junta Takeover
The Defense Ministry said army troops captured guerrilla leader Jose Gregorio Liendo known as Commander Pepe and 16 associates in Panguipulli Valdivia without resistance. The arrest targets the leftist opposition to the military junta that toppled Marxist President Salvador Allende.
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Sanliago
UPI
Salvador Allende
Defense Ministry
Federico Willoughby
Jose Gregorio Liendo
Pepe
Willoughby
Panguipulli
Valdivia
Santiago
UPT
Augusto Pinochet
Chile
Pinochet
United States
Allende
Cambodian camp recaptured near Kompong Cham
Cambodian troops retook an engineering camp on Kompong Cham’s outskirts as part of a broader push to extend the government defense line around the besieged provincial capital. The military reported over 3,000 killed or wounded in August and September fighting, with about 2,000 Communist Jed insurgents killed in the August 17 to September 12 assault, leaving 225 bodies.
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Phnom Penh
UPI
Kompong Cham
Colleges warn of mass layoffs at 14 state colleges
A report by Pennsylvania state college directors says the 14 state owned colleges face massive layoffs and disruptions in 1978 74 without 8 million in new funding. The appeal targets the legislature which already appropriated 109 8 million last July. The bid comes during a Clarion State College meeting. Separate: singer Jim Croce and five others die in a light plane crash near Natchitoches Louisiana after takeoff.
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Clarion, Pa
UPI
Pennsylvania
Board of State College and University Directors
Agull
James Gemmell
Clarion State
William Hassler
Indiana State
Br. James McCormick
Bloomsburg State Colleges
Clarion State College
Natchitoches
Jim Croce
Jim
Leroy Brown
Sheriff's Office
Croce
Walter Braxton
Bond set at 250000 for two Yablonski killers
UPI reports bond of 250000 each for Silous Huddleston and Annette Gilly in the Yablonski murder case. Judge Charles Sweet warned freeing them on bond would endanger their lives. Prosecutor Richard Sprague sought 300000 bonds and opposed pretrial release.
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Washington, Pa
UPI
Yablonski
Charles Sweet
Washington County Court
Silous Huddleston
LaPollette
Tenn
Annette Gilly
Cleveland
Sweet
Richard Sprague
Sprague
Mudulesten
United Mine Workers
UMW
Joseph “Jock” Yablonski
Clarksville Pa
Wo A
Tony Boyle
Boyle
Aubran W
Buddy” Martin
Standoffs in schools continue across states
United Press International reports half a million children stayed home as teacher and school board standoffs persisted. Highland Park Michigan parents blocked the Board of Education office pressuring a contract settlement while other districts in Kenosha Newburgh Greenburgh Harrison Yorktown and Youngstown faced injunctions strikes and tentative talks.
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United Press International
Highland Park
Mich
Board of Education
Teobert Jones
Highland Park High School
Kenoshi
Wis
Stork
New York
Newburgh
Brooklyn
Queens
Greenburgh
Harrison
Yorktown Heights
N.Y In
Youngstown
Ohio
Youngstown Teachers Association
Pennsylvania
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