College Students Teens Patrol Flood Dikes
Volunteers patrolled dikes through the night in Sioux City Iowa as the Big Sioux River swelled, with more than 1,000 teenagers and college students joined by 200 adults to aid in flood defense. Residents evacuated as levee pressure threatened breaches while parts of North Sioux City and Cherokee faced rising waters and delayed returns.
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Associated Press
Sioux City
Towa
Big Sioux
Iowa
Missouri River
South Dakota
Sioux Falls
Little Sioux
Burkhart
North
Shafer Tax Plan Faces Hostile Erie Reception
Gov. Raymond P. Shafer drew strong opposition in Erie to his proposed state income tax during a town meeting at the Shrine Club. About 1,000 residents urged alternatives such as higher corporate taxes or a state lottery as he pressed a 2.5 billion budget. Shafer planned to press the plan in Philadelphia next, arguing it funds social needs with modest contributions. In Erie, protesters lined the arrival with roughly 30 pickets. he challenged detractors by saying he seeks ten cents a day for taxpayers like them. Also from Johnstown, Ramon Cooper, 61, longtime municipal affairs reporter for the Tribune-Democrat since 1938, died of a heart attack at home.
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Erie
Raymond P. Shafer
Philadelphia
Shafer
Pennsylvania
A. Shafer
Harrisburg
Johnstown
Ramon ‘Cooper
Johnstown Tribune Democrat
Goring Fire Ruled Accidental By State Trooper
State Police fire marshal Trooper Albert Vota investigated the Goring house blaze on South Center street. He found no evidence of arson, ruling the first fire accidental and the rekindling second alarm typical. The fire destroyed the home, with $5,500 damage to the Goring house and $500 to each adjacent house.
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Goring
South Center Street
Albert Vota
3 Vota
Vota
Troop E
Name Herberg President of Stanford Hose
Members of Stanford Hose Company met last evening for the election of officers for the coming year naming David Herberg president. Others elected were David Turner vice president William Halfast secretary Jon Miller treasurer Thomas Lathrop captain Charles Weston first lieutenant and Emory Benson second lieutenant. Named to the board of trustees were Victor Dempsey Richard Blount and Joseph Slike. The finance committee incudes Harry Bount Marinus Christensen Jr. and Lyle Hotchkiss. Three members placed on the relief association were Rex Apps Victor Dempsey and David Nichols.
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Stanford Hose Company
David Herberg
David Turner
William Halfast
Jon Miller
Thomas Lathrop
Charles Weston
Emory Benson
Victor Dempsey
Richard Blount
Joseph Slike
Harry Bount
Marinus Christensen Jr
Lyle Hotchkiss
Relief Association
Rex Apps
David Nichols
Questioning 1967 drug raids shifts focus to education
Acting Health Secretary Thomas W. Georges Jr. says he questioned planned narcotics raids in 1967 as they targeted users not pushers and were halted in five eastern Pennsylvania cities. Testimony shows Georges ordered no arrests for mere possession of marijuana, a claim he denies while noting concerns about disproportionate targeting of suppliers.
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Hannissong
Thomas W. Georges Jr
Pennsylvania
John A. Dattoli
Department
Division of Drug Control
Georges
Shafer
Health Department
Name Tree Planting To Top Priority
The City Beautification Committee of the Chamber of Commerce placed a tree planting project on top priority at this week’s regular meeting amid many potential projects. It outlined aims to boost community pride and called for photos to accompany reports. Ward assignments were handed out for the year, naming Edward Zarger and Narcy Yen as participants.
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Chamber of Commerce
Elmers
North Center Street
Edward Zarger
Narcy Yen
Open House Tour Set For CMH May Fourth
May 4 open house at CMH runs 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Visitors tour through the old hospital lower level and up to the main floor with continued coverage on page three.
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Cmh
Renew Spring Offensive Heavy Viet Cong Attacks
Saigon reports the Viet Cong unleashed the heaviest shelling in three weeks striking more than 45 towns and bases during the night. Provincial capitals Tay Ninh and Vinh Long faced the fiercest strikes with at least 21 killed and 200 wounded, while 80 others were reported missing. Some Americans among the wounded. no American deaths announced. South Vietnamese officials cited targets across six capitals and districts, with about a third of assaults in the Mekong Delta region.
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Saigon
Tay Ninh
Vinh Long
Mekong
U.S
U. S. Command
Mekong Delta
Market Place
Delta City
Harvard Students Vote Strike At End Of Campus Sit In
About 1 200 Harvard University students voted to strike for three days to protest police tactics used to end a campus sit in. Some professors canceled classes while unrest echoed at other campuses as police clashed with demonstrators leaving injuries and arrests.
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Harvard
Associated Press
Harvard University
Memorial Church
Harvard Yard
Cambridge
Mass
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Students For A Democratic Society
Stanford
Calif
Stanford University
Applied — Electronics Laboratory
Dartmouth
Southeastern Massachusetts ‘Technological Institute
Newark, N.J
Rutgers University
Two-Car Crash at North Center and Washington
A two car collision at North Center and Washington streets at 6 30 a m caused 300 in total damage with no injuries. Police note both drivers claimed the other ran a red light. Joseph D Glaviano 42 of 37 He said Earl T Brooks 65 of RD 3 Union City driving east on Washington ran the red light and was struck by Glaviano. Brooks countered he had a green light and was hit by Glaviano.
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North Center
Washington Streets
Joseph D. Glaviano
Earl T. Brooks
R.D. 3
Union City
Washington
Glaviano
Brooks
$214,800 Contract Awarded for Firestone Plant Work
The Corry Area Industrial Development Corp acting for Firestone Tire and Rubber Company awarded Scobell Company of Erie a $214,800 contract for mechanical, plumbing, heating, ventilating and air conditioning work on the $1,800,000 Firestone plant under construction off Shady Avenue in the east end of the city.
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Corry Area Industrial Development Corp
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Scobell Company of
Erie
Firestone
Shady Avenue
Flight perks for CAB officials and guests draw scrutiny
Two top Civil Aeronautics Board leaders Charles Kiefer and Joseph Goldman, with their wives, flew free to Leningrad on a Soviet vacation tour as the CAB granted a special permit waiving passenger charges on inaugural flights. Other CAB officials joined a week-long South Africa trip at no cost, while paying passengers on the South Africa flight faced a $1577 price tag for the inaugural Boston Bermuda run.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Leningrad
CAB
Tte
South Africa
South African National Airways
New York
Charles Kiefer
Joseph Goldman
Keifer
Eastern Airlines
Miami
Bahamas
Thomas L. Wrenn
Allan Craig
Bureau of Accounts and Statistics
Samuel N. Friedel
Dmd
House Transportation and Aeronautics
Northeast Air Lines
Bermuda
Robert T. Murphy
Rees
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Samuel Antrim
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Kenneth §. Pitzer
Aeronautics Board
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