1. 50 cents Tuesday, August 4, 2009
MONACA
Bar patron
injures
owner, 70,
cops say
Bill Vidonic
54% Times Staff
MONACA — The owner of a
Monaca bar was severely
17% injured when a bar patron
attacked him early Satur-
day, according to borough
police.
Tony Celeste, 70, owner of
Celeste Tavern, 1426 Penn-
sylvania Ave., was flown to a
-14 Pittsburgh hospital follow-
ing the 12:20 a.m. Saturday
-27 -22
attack. His condition wasn’t
k n o w n
Change in federal tax receipts/fiscal years Monday;
p o l i c e
Data from 2009 is through June; this fiscal year ends in September -57 reported
he had
been flown
to UPMC
Presbyter-
ian for
treatment
FEDERAL TAX REVENUES TAKE A HIT: Tax receipts, driven by big drops in individual income of severe LETTA
h e a d
and corporate taxes, are on pace to post their biggest single-year decline since the Great Depression. injuries. A
hospital employee there
Individual Corporate said Monday that Celeste
wasn’t listed as a patient.
Bruce D. Letta Jr., 30, of
DEPRESSING PICTURE
PHOTO: Three
unemployed men 159 London Derry Drive,
Daugherty Township, was
start a fire for jailed on charges including
cooking in this aggravated assault, simple
vacant lot in New assault, harassment, disor-
York City, where derly conduct and drunken
they lived in 1932. driving.
Tax revenue suffers worst drop since 1932 AP file photo
STATISTICS:
Letta remained in the
Beaver County Jail Monday,
unable to post $25,000 bond
set by District Judge Joseph
Numbers from
Stephen Ohlemacher ● Associated Press Writer Schafer.
the Office of According to a report by
Management and
T
he recession is starving the government of tax revenue, just as the president and Congress Monaca police officer
Budget, Treasury Ronald Hogue Jr., Letta was
are piling a major expansion of health care and other programs on the nation’s plate and Department. in Celeste’s bar Saturday
AP graphic morning and was causing a
struggling to find money to pay the tab. The numbers could hardly be more stark: Tax disturbance, slamming his
drink on the bar.
receipts are on pace to drop 18 percent this year, the biggest single-year decline since the Great
Times illustration by
Depression, while the federal deficit balloons to a record $1.8 trillion. See REVENUE, Page A7 CHRISTOPHER REAM See BAR, Page A6
85° SNAIL MAIL GIVING DAD A HAND
BEAVER FALLS
Afternoon
thunderstorm. Neville Twp.
TEN-YEAR-OLD
CASSIE
Man accused
A3 BOOHER, right,
of firing shots
W H AT ’ S
post office keeps cool Monday
afternoon while
outside bar
INSIDE could be on washing her dad’s
pickup in their
driveway in Monaca. to stand trial
Classified B11-14
Crossword B8
chopping block Paige Vaccarelli, 8,
tries to stay out of Bill Vidonic
the water spray. Times Staff
Dear Abby B10 Randolph E. Schmid Times photo by LUCY SCHALY
Funnies B8 Associated Press Writer BEAVER — The most serious
of the charges have been
Lottery A3 WASHINGTON — Facing staggering dropped against a
Movies B10 financial losses, the Postal Service Rochester man accused of
is looking at closing or consolidat- firing shots at two people in
Obituaries A4 ing nearly 1,000 offices across the Beaver Falls last month.
Opinion A12 country, including one in Neville Prince C. Watts, 42, of 501
Township. Virginia Ave., was ordered
Sports B1-6 The post office has been strug- to stand trial Thursday by
gling with a sharp decline in mail District Judge Ed Howe on
volume as people and businesses charges of reckless endan-
switch to e-mail both for personal germent and illegal
contact and bill paying. The agency firearms possession.
is facing a nearly $7 billion poten- Charges of attempted homi-
tial loss this fiscal year despite a 2- cide, aggravated assault and
50 cents cent increase in the price of stamps simple assault were dis-
in May, cuts in staff and removal of missed.
© 2009 collection boxes. According to a report
Beaver
Newspapers Inc. See MAIL, Page A7 See SHOTS, Page A6