Transit Strike Threatens Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Papers
Talks stretched to a deadline as SEPTA faces a zero funds position to grant a raise while the Pittsburgh Press Co. Local 211 plans a Sunday strike affecting the Pittsburgh Press Morning Post Gazette and related publications. If halted, 900,000 SEPTA riders would bear the impact and rail lines face contingency plans.
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UPI
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Transportation Workers Union
SEPTA
Pittsburgh
Teamsters Union Local 211
Pittsburgh Press Co
Pittsburgh Press
Scripps-Howard
Morning Post- Gazette
Post-Gazette
Penn Central
Reading
Pittsburgh Presbytery backs legalized abortion
The Pittsburgh Presbytery representing 123,000 United Presbyterians approved a resolution on Thursday stating no woman should be forced to bear a child or undergo abortion against her wishes. The group previously held abortion permissible only in specific cases.
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Pittsburgh
API
Two Die in Rain Slicked Rt. 151 Collision Near Selinsgrove
In Selinsgrove Pennsylvania two drivers Terry Chapel 22 of Williamsport RD 2 and Mark Homlenback 60 of Sunbury died in a head on crash on Rt 151 four miles south of town. Passenger Paul Simcox of Williamsport is in critical condition at Selinsgrove Hospital.
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Selinsgrove, Pa
UPI
Pennsylvania
Here
Terry Chapel
Wiliamsport
RD 2
Mark Homlenback
Sunbury
Chapel’s Auto
Paul Simcox
Williamsport
Selinsgrove Hospital
Fraud Uncovered in Public Aid Checks Scheme
State Auditor General Robert P. Casey disclosed details of a wholesale fraud in cashing public assistance checks and the unregulated warehousing of benefits, signaling a major investigation into misuse of welfare resources. The report, issued in Harrisburg, outlines how checks were processed outside proper channels, raising concerns about oversight and potential losses.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Robert P. Casey
Indiana University of Pennsylvania to admit student representatives
The University Senate voted to add student representatives to its policy making body. Next September the elective senate will have 70 faculty members 35 students and 23 university administration members amid about 10 000 students. The other item reports a Pittsburgh police reorganization transferring 105 officers to Mount Washington and North Side and moving 63 officers to street duty to boost neighborhood safety. Casey described a welfare fraud case involving a Philadelphia man and a landlady with power of attorney to cash benefits totaling a large sum.
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Indiana, Pa
UPI
University Senate
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Robert Colville
Bureau of Police
Colville
Mount Washington
North Side
Public Safety
John H. Bingler Jr
Pittsburgh Man Identified in River Find
The body of 73 year old Thomas F Joyce of Hazelwood Pittsburgh was recovered from the Monongahela River Friday. Police said the body had been in the river a day or two and his wrist watch was still running.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Thomas F. Joyce
Hazelwood
Monongahela
Unions to vote on contract bid in two locals
Pittsburgh unions will vote Sunday on new contract offers from Equitable Gas Co. Local 12050 District 50 Allied and Technical Workers and Local 1956 IBEW received Friday night terms. Officials say they will not recommend acceptance or rejection. A separate London inquiry blamed a crossing guard who paused for tea before closing a gate for a fatal truck train collision.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Equitable Gas Co
District
Allied and Technical Workers
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
London
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