Bodies of two young women found in separate Pennsylvania areas
Unidentified women in their 20s were found dead within 24 hours in Lycoming and Luzerne Counties. Both wore blue jeans and bracelets, one bracelet bore the name Gloria. Police pursue links as autopsies are conducted at Wilkes-Barre Hospital and a possible connection is investigated.
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Hazelton
UPI
Lycoming County
Pennsylvania
Donald Ruddy
Dennison Two
Whitehaven
Gloria
Buck Two
Luzerene County
Route 115
Wilkes-Barre Hospital
Two die in Greene County accidents
Greene County residents die in separate Friday incidents. Michael Anthony Marino, 4, of Clarksville, drowned in Ten Mile Creek while swimming with relatives. William Curtis Kennedy, 21, of Pinebank, was killed when a tractor-pulled mower ran over him on State Game Lands Net tle Hill. Police say Kennedy dismounted as the mower moved. Kennedy’s body found later by his foreman.
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Greene County
Michael Anthony Marino
Clarksville
Ten Mile Creek
Pine Bank
William Curtis Kennedy
Deemston Borough
Washington County
Brownsville
Kennedy
Pinebank
Dunkard
Nettle Hill
Pennsylvania
Mt. Morris Man Named Bank's Proxy President
Russell McKee of Mt. Morris Pa was elected president of Rice's Landing National Bank. He rose from Mt. Morris branch manager in 1962 after serving as director since 1945 and later as vice president. The bank runs a main office in Rice's Landing a Dry Tavern drive in and a Mt. Morris branch.
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Rice’s Landing
Russell McKee
Mt. Morris
Rice’s Landing National Bank
McKee
Dry Tavern
Jury recommends charges in miner’s death at Montour mine
A Washington County coroner’s jury urged involuntary manslaughter charges against Henry Powaser, superintendent of Consolidation Coal Co.’s Montour No. 4 mine, after the May 25 death of Wayne Cerar, 23, of Jefferson. The verdict cites failure to post warning signs and signals as a key factor in Cerar being crushed between tracks by runaway coal cars.
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Washington, Pa
UPI
Washington County
Henry Powaser
Consolidation Coal Co
Montour No
District Attorney’s
Wayne Cerar
Jefferson
Powaser
Cerar
Secret six shape $5 billion Pennsylvania budget
Harrisburg report notes six lawmakers met in secret to decide this year’s state budget. The piece contrasts open Sunshine Law ideals with closed conference meetings, urging voters to demand public budget deliberations and accountability from Philadelphia and state leaders.
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David A. Milne
Harrisburg
UPI
Capitol Building
Senate
Philadelphia
Capital Building
Department of Environmental Resources
House
Appropriations Committees
James Manderino
D-Westmoreland
Manderino
Conference Committee
Henry J. Cianfiani
Pennsylvania
Route 26008 safer for buses under mine fire abatement
Harrisburg reports a safer segment of Legislative Route 26008 in German Township Fayette County after an underground fire abatement program. Dragan and Son of Belle Vernon drilled 50 surface holes and hydraulically filled mine voids with about 1275 tons of fly ash slurry at a cost of 56000 dollars begun last April by Clifford H. McConnell of the Resources management section. The same release notes Elias Casteel Foundry must submit air pollution control plans for a non incinerating core oven at Oliver Road plant near Uniontown by year end and install the device by November 30 1978.
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Harrisburg
German Township
Fayette County
Clifford H. McConnell
Department of Environmental Resources Resource Management
Dragan
State Department
Elias Casteel Foundry
Oliver Road
Uniontown
Pennsylvania
Casteel Foundry
Women lawyers see greater hiring at large firms
Albert Turnbull of the University of Virginia Law School told about 500 Virginia lawyers that large urban law firms show less discrimination against women attorneys in hiring and promotion than rural firms. He noted the problem has largely ceased to exist in major firms, with about 26 percent of the audience being women.
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White Sulphur Springs
W.va
UPI
Virginia Bar Association
Albert Turnbull
University of Virginia Law School
Turnbull
Virginia
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