Corry Sparta merger letters show town pride and conflict
A flood of letters to the editor from Corry Area High School students and Corry and Sparta residents defend their schools after a Board of Education decision to merge. Writers praise CAHS, defend teachers, address road concerns, and urge cooperation over bitterness, urging nonviolence and unity as students adapt to Sparta students and new joint programs.
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Spartansburg
Board of Education
Corry
Sparta
Corry Journal
Pennsylvania
Corry Area High School
Sparty
Sparta Farmers
Brenda Hazeltine
CAHS
Miss Hazeltine
Titusville
Corry Beavers
Corry High
Corry-Sparta
C.A.H.S
Corry Area
Faden
Spring Creek
Lisa Toy
Janet Griebel
Nancy Weis
Kathy Smeal
Dosers
Disciples of Jesus
Randy Huffman
Funeral services held for Bernice D Lewis at Elgin church
Bernice D. Lewis funeral services set for Elgin United Methodist Church Sunday at 2 pm with Rev Harry Winkleman officiating. Friends may call Bracken Funeral Home Friday 7 40 9 pm and Saturday 2 4 pm and 7 9 pm. Burial in Beaverdam Cemetery. Ehrling to Juilliard head of orchestral dept in October.
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Ehrling
Julliard
New York
Sixten Ehrling
Juilliard School
Detroit Symphony
Pioneer 11 Near Moon Orbit Starts Data Run Toward Jupiter
Pioneer 11 begins data collection near Earth after passing the moon, measuring the Van Allen radiation belt as NASA follows the craft toward Jupiter. The 570-pound probe, launched from Cape Kennedy, reports everything normal despite a stuck nuclear generator that was corrected with thruster firings.
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Pasadena
Calif
Jupiter
Earth
Pioneer
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Cape Kennedy
Fla
NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratories
Saturn
Moon
Meat Boycott Halts Plant Operations Across States
Massachusetts New Hampshire and Maine urged reduced meat purchases for April and a second week long boycott in May. Farmland beef plant in Garden City announced it would cease operations and stay closed next week, blamed on the boycott. Western Kansas packers also closed amid market disruption, while Idaho and Chicago plants reported layoffs or shorter weeks. Cattle trading remained light at Kansas City and Wichita as farmers eyed possible stock boycott.
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Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Maine
Woburn
Mass
Barbara Shuttleworth
Vernon
Western Kansas Packer
National Beef Packing Co
Liberal
Meat Cutters Union
Boise
Idaho
Chicago
Kansas City
Wichita
Experimentation Halted In Prisons
Harrisburg AP reports the state Justice Department will halt all human experimentation in state and county prisons with a one week deadline. Public hearings begin June 18 to set permissible experiment types and guidelines. The move follows prior curtailment in state prisons, with county jails still participating and inmates paid to join studies.
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Harrisburg
State Justice Department
Theodore Adler
Bureau of Corrections
Thieu Leaves Washington Believing U S Aid Likely
South Vietnam's Nguyen Van Thieu departs Washington after six days of talks convinced the United States will provide short term economic support and likely military aid if needed. He heads to Austin for a lunch with Mrs Johnson, then Rome to meet Pope Paul VI, and later London. He emphasized continued US economic backing but said he would not seek a return of ground troops.
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Washington
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thien
U.S
U.S. Air Force
Austin
Tex
Lyndon B. Johnson
Rome
Paul VI
Thieu
National Press Club
Congress
North Vietnam
China
Soviet Union
Hanoi
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
London
Paragrap' Notice List and Local Police Briefs
A black male poodle at the city pound seeks a home. City police cite three drivers for motor code violations and arrest Chester C. Chase on a warrant. Ford salesmen earn a club honor. Alfred W. Stone nominated to Crawford County Board of Assistance. A two car collision caused $400 damage. Property transfers and divorces listed. A spent bullet found in Warren home prompts crime lab analysis.
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Grant L. Brown
Clarendon
Patricia G. Leslie
South Center Street
Ross C. Love
R.D. 1
Pittsfield
Alfred W. Stone
Meadville
Crawford County Board of Assistance
Shapp
Senate
Stone
Donald W. Davenport
Dorothy A. Boylan
West Smith Street
Doris Chapman
Spring Creek
Kelley Johnson
Warren
James Leichtenberger
State Crime Lab
Erie
Leichtenberger
Rock Singer Baez Refuses Part of Taxes Again
Joan Baez plans to withhold the portion of her federal income tax that reflects military spending as a protest. Her business manager Roy Kepler says she has taken this stand for eight years, with IRS collecting the amount through bank attachments in prior years while she tours Europe.
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Sacramento
Calif
Joan Baez
Vietnam
Roy Kepler
Menlo Park
Miss Baez
Internal Revenue Service
TRS
Kepler Sai
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Cyndee
Robin Morris
Donna Craker
Toni Morris
Candy Morris
D&t TruCk Shop
East Main St. Corry, Pa
Ripples
San Francisco
Barcadero Center
Roberts
Columbus
Chester C. Chase
Porter Auer
Auer
MLL
Williams
Doug Mitchell
Clif Buesink Ford, Inc
Ford
Erie County
Paul E. Satterlee
Walter J. Kornikoski
Third Ward
Warren County
Terri S. Harned
Kenneth Harned
Sherron M. Jones
Thomas W. Jones
Anna M. Miller
Arthur J. Miller
Saxton
Baez
Moth Center
Amer
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