Custody Battle Heads to Senate Over Urgent Case
Albany AP The Child Care Committee approved an expedited court bill by 8-6 to move Veronica O Rourke’s bid for custody of 62 year old Stephanie Petzold to a full Senate vote. The Senate version differs from an Assembly bill granting immediate custody to the Long Island widow while adoption proceeds. O’Rourke had raised Stephanie since infancy but lost custody last year under Suffolk County social services insistence.
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Albany
Senate
Veronica O'Rourke
Stephanie Petzold
Assembly
Long Island
Emery opens Syracuse office for state legislative use
State Assembly Minority Leader James Emery, candidate for governor, quietly opens a Syracuse State Office Building field office to handle legislative business. The space, arranged last June, will be staffed soon and used by other assembly members as well as Emery's staff, with plans for a New York City campaign office in the near future.
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Kenn Peters
Albany
State Assembly
James Emery
Syracuse
Emery
Assembly
Stanley Fink
Michael Knapp
Office of General Services
Knapp
Onondaga County
Hy Miller
Fayetteville
Bill Bush
Camillus
Miller
Bush
OGS
Republican Minority Program Committee
New York City
GOP
Japanese win contract for NYC subway cars
New York AP Kawasaki, a Japanese manufacturer, won what MTA Chairman Richard Ravitch calls the largest subway car contract ever. The firm will build 325 air conditioned graffiti proof stainless steel cars for the IRT, delivering all cars by June 1985 with favorable financing terms. The Budd Co. bid lower but lost.
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New York
Kawasaki
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
MTA
Richard Ravitch
Budd Co
Ravitch
Tax urged for video pinball machines in New York
Albany reports a plan to levy a 50 dollar tax on every pinball and video game machine in the state to raise up to 1 million dollars for education. The proposal targets licensed and illegal machines across shopping plazas arcades pizza parlors laundries and stores. It would license distributors install a continuing fee per machine and fund teachers and truants through a broader education aid pot. Governor Carey earlier floated expanding the state lottery as a funding source for education. The measure notes vast numbers of unlicensed machines and cites day care and senior centers with machines as the trend grows by year end.
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Kenn Peters
Albany
New York
City of
Stavisky
Schdal Aid
Hugh L. Carey
State
Moon loses bid for non jury trial in tax case
New York AP Sun Myung Moon a Korean businessman and Unification Church leader fails to secure a non jury trial in his tax fraud case. Judge Goettel orders jury selection to begin next Monday in Manhattan though he may still grant a non jury trial if impartial jurors cannot be found. Moon is charged with failing to report over 150000 dollars of income from 1973 to 1975 amid defense claims funds were church money not taxable.
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New York
Sun Myung Moon
Gerard L. Goettel
U.S. District Court
Manhattan
Moon
Unification Church
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