Senate Rejects Private Handgun Ban and Licensing
The Senate rejected efforts to outlaw private ownership of handguns and to require registration of all firearms and licensing of gun owners by a 70 to 27 vote. Amendments passed criminalizing murder or attempted murder of law officers as a federal offense and prioritizing related trials. An amendment to permit dealers to sell existing handgun stocks was also defeated.
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Senate
Sen
Roman L. Hruska
F-Neb
Secretary of the Treasury
Pa Flood Wrangle Shapes Federal Response
A chaotic scene from the Pennsylvania flood crisis features angry residents challenging HUD secretary and demanding action. Romney plans to brief the president on the Wyoming Valley situation as HUD approves over 15,000 emergency housing applications with about 2,700 families occupying mobile homes or campers.
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Ares Sant Fing
Sensmes
HUD
Notts
Sesqueamma River
City braces for big pumper price rise in 1973
Fire Chief Thomas Lathrop reported the 1965 pumper cost 25000 and the planned 1973 model would be about 44000. The city will cushion costs with a capital fund and a vehicle replacement plan. Corry Foam will cover 200 for a foam plant modification. July fire losses totaled 360 from 13 minor alarms. outside city, Corry volunteers answered 10 alarms with barn fires prominent. Firemen seek capital funds for new gear including radios, monitor receivers, a scanner, handie talkie, foam units.
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Thomas Lathrop
Halfast
Foam Company
Corry Foam
Lathrop
Corry
Capital Improvement Fund
Marines Press Southern Quang Tri Advance In Heavy Fighting
South Vietnamese marines cleared the southern sector of Quang Tri City as North Vietnamese forces held the Citadel in the north. Reports say 14 tanks were knocked out by bombers and four supply trucks destroyed, with 273 enemy killed cited by Hue officials and civilian casualties in Hue.
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Saigon
Quang Tri City
Hue
Soichiro Morita
Quang Tri
Morita
Thach Han River
U.S
Checkmate
Que Son
da Nang
Demilitarized Zone
South China Sea
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Saigon-Phnom Penh
Linda Olson to Crown Queen at New Hope Auto Show
Miss Linda Olson enters Mechanicsville Pennsylvania to crown the New Hope Automobile Show queen during a two day judging event. Olson plans to appear between Miss America rehearsal periods in September.
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Corry
Linda Olson
Pennsylvania
Mechanicsville
New Hope
Linda
Spartansburg Faces Waste Disposal Choices in County Plan
At Centerville fire hall District 5 of Crawford County Solid Waste met to review plans for a county landfill in Hayfield Township. Spartansburg Borough, with compulsory $2.20 monthly pickup run by Aardvaark Disposal, credits forward planning and expects Hayfield as final site. Attendees included leaders from Sparta Bloomfield Athens Rome Steuben Townships and Townville plus two county commissioners and 28 residents. Sconten dr. was tentatively named Spartansburg’s representative to the county solid waste authority.
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Centerville
Crawford County Solid Waste Committee
Roland Putnam
The
Journal Today
Crawford
Hayfield Township
Meadville
Spartansburg
Aardvaark Disposal Company
Hayfield
Sparta
Bloomfield
Athens
Rome
Steuben
Townville
Sconten Dr
County Solid Waste Authority
Route 277 detour tied to Corry relocation project
Construction will close a block of West Main Street in Corry from Gates Street to South Center Street. A red arrow detour will direct through traffic via West Washington and North Center streets. The project aims to realign Route 277 into a wide curve from Union Street to West Main ending at West Main and First Avenue, with completion planned in August 1973. Detour signals and urban renewal context noted. In Berlin East Germany detergent production lags amid a 40 percent rise order.
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Fourth Ward
Union Street
West Main
First Avenue
Bloody Violence Rocks Armagh Amid Protest Turmoil
AP reports bombs and gunfire shook Armagh, religious capital of Ireland, after a Catholic mass protest. Two bombs damaged central areas, 15 shots were fired at troop patrols, with no casualties though a bullet lodged in a soldier's flak jacket. The violence hits the city hosting archbishops.
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Belfast
Armagh
All Ireland
Northern Ireland
Ireland
UC Woman Injured In Accident
An area woman, Violet Kuligowski age 30 of Union City, is in the ICU at St Vincent’s Hospital Erie after a Route 8 car truck crash yesterday. Her car left the road and struck an unoccupied drum truck, causing $600 damage to the truck and totaling the car.
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St. Vincents Hospital
Erie
Union City
Violet Kuligowski
R.D. 4
Union City Memorial Hospital
St. Vincents
Corry
Kuligowsk
Carl D. Irwin
R.D. 1
Kuligowski
Corry Memorial Hospital
Cora Stufflebeam
Gilbert Peterson
Stufflebeam
Peterson
Corry GenTel Aides Voting On Strike
Nonmanagement GenTel workers in Erie vote on a 2000 employee strike across Erie Oil City and Johnstown. Corry locals 20 represented by IBEW vote as contract expired June 24 after 1.5 months without an agreement. Wages seen as major issue. strike possible after mandate.
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General Telephone Company
Erie
Oil City
Johnstown
GenTel
Corry
the. International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
The
Journal
Pennsylvania
Burglars Net $750 From Hit At Union City Country Club
Police report burglars broke into the Union City Country Club and Pro Shop early yesterday and took $750 in coins and small bills. State Police are investigating as the spree expands to multiple sites including Centerville, Waterford, Mill Village, and Corry, with cases ongoing.
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Union City Country Club
Corry
Union City
Lewis H. Knight
R.D. 2
Centerville
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