Flames Level Barn At Columbus
Flames leveled a basement type barn on the Ted Davis farm near Columbus. Mrs. Davis found the fire at 6 50 p m and her husband could not save tools. Firemen said the blaze began in the hay upper area and the Corry unit aided Columbus. Davis had owned the property six months and the loss was partially insured. A prisoner in Greensburg jailed for rape assault with intent to kill hanged himself with his belt in Westmoreland County Jail yesterday.
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Ted Davis
Columbus
Davis
Corry
Davis Farm
Greensburg
Westmoreland County
John Fardella
Philadelphia
Ben
Local Police Push Petitions for Court Reform Across Nation
Corry and other cities join the National Fraternal Order of Police in circulating petitions aimed at collecting 50 million signatures to pressure President Johnson Congress and the Supreme Court for constitutional changes they say will curb crime friendly court rulings. The drive starts with the mayor and moves through police, press, business and civic groups to a final nationwide submission. A separate note reports the recovery of Clarence D. McEwen 37 of Garfield from the Allegheny River after he was last seen Friday with a fishing witness under the Seventh Street Bridge.
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Corry
Supreme Court
National Fraternal Order of Police
FOP
Congress
Lyndon B. Johnson
United States
U.S. Supreme Court
Pittsburgh
Allegheny River
Clarence D. McEwen
Garfield
Seventh Street
Hot Tar Burns Area Worker On UC Roof
Gerald Scouten Jr. 22 of Centerville is hospitalized in Union City Memorial Hospital with second and third degree burns after a tar bucket spilled on him while tarring a garage roof in Union City yesterday. A Motel garage spokesperson said the slip caused the spill as a coworker tried to move the bucket away. Scouten is in fair condition today with burns to arms back and abdomen.
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Centerville
Union City Memorial Hospital
Union City
Gerald Scouten Jr
Marty
Scouten
Dem Plea For Harmony Marred By Discord Over Vietnam War
Democratic Platform Committee opened hearings with Rep. Hale Boggs urging harmony as discord grows over a Vietnam plank. Vice President Humphrey compromised toward a halt to bombing North Vietnam but balked at including the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front in a South Vietnamese coalition. If unresolved, a floor fight looms at the Chicago convention.
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Dem
Washington
Democratic Platform Committee
Hale Boggs
Louisiana
Vietnam
Hubert H. Humphrey
U.S
North Vietnam
Eugene J. McCarthy
McCarthy
National Liberation Front
Chicago
Rep. Boggs
Associated Press
Richard M. Nixon
Big City
George C. Wallace
South Vietnam
Humphrey
United States
Hanoi
Cong Slip Away From U S Troops
North Vietnamese forces slipped from Tay Ninh after heavy fighting with allied troops. An American armored column and South Vietnamese units reported no resistance in the city. The four day battle stretched from the Mekong Delta to Da Nang and near Tay Ninh, with about 200 to 500 enemy casualties reported and a warning of potential broader offensives.
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Saigun
Tay Ninh
Columst
Mekong
da Nang
U.S
Saigon
North Vietnam
Nhan Dan
Dien Bien Phu
Husband Leaps From Car In Fatal Route 8 incident
James Young, 37, of Hyde Town died after reportedly leaping from a car driven by his wife on Route 8 near Centerville Five Corners. He suffered massive head injuries and died en route to Titusville Hospital. Police indicated no report had been filed yet and the state police had not been informed.
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James Young
Hydetown
Crawford County
C. M. Sonne
Young
Centerville
Five Corners
Sonne
Titusville Hospital
Garrett Ambulance Service
Jane Young
Corry
Shot In Own Front Yard Leaves Meadville Woman Critical
Mrs. Clifford Graham, 51, of Meadville R D 4, is in critical condition at City Hospital after being struck by a bullet in her front yard Friday evening. Trooper Ronald Swartwood said the shot occurred about 8 30 p m with the bullet lodging in the pelvic cavity and probably fired from a 30 30 caliber weapon. The wound followed another passerby and required a three hour operation.
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Meadville
Clifford Graham
City Hospital
Ronald Swartwood
Swartwood
Eisenhower Heart Condition Worsens Pacemaker Removed
Washington AP Dwight D. Eisenhower remains in extremely critical condition with recurrent ventricular irregularities since Sunday night. Walter Reed doctors reported the electrical pacemaker was removed after failing to stop spasms, with ongoing episodes of ventricular fibrillation cited as a constant hazard to survival.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Army
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Eisenhower
Gordon Moore
Col
John Eisenhower
Walter Reed
Shafer Skeptical Of Public Employees Strike Rights
Harrisburg AP report shows Gov. Shafer cool to a limited right for public employees to strike in wage or contract disputes. A panel proposed a law with strict guarantees including tenure protection and no three year pay raises, while courts would assess any public risk. Shafer aides say the governor is examining potential issues from a limited strike provision amid recent teacher protests in Pittsburgh and Scranton.
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Harrisburg
Arges
Shafer
Cal
Pittsburgh
Scranton
Phila
Young sniper opens fire on train in New York killing man
A 16 year old sniper fired a single shot at a moving Long Island Rail Road train early Sunday, killing one passenger and wounding another. Police acted within a half hour after the shooting as investigations began.
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New York
Long Island
Headon Crash Kills Girl in New Jersey Collision
Priscilla Barber, 19, of Bethlehem Pa died when two autos collided head on on Route 72 in Manahawkin N J Kathleen Gibbons of Bethlehem Pa was hospitalized in critical condition Norman Rackison 48 of Trenton escaped serious injury and 16 year old John Whitmore of Long Island City Queens was charged with homicide after a stray shot from a sawn off rifle killed two men on a departing train near Pennsylvania Station
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Manahawkin
N. J
Priscilla Barber
Bethlehem
Kathleen Gibbons
Miss Barber
Community Memorial Hospital
Toms River
Norman Rackison
Trenton
John Whitmore
Long Island City
Queens
LIRR
Vincent Maher
Gabriel Jansen
Pennsylvania Station
Manhattan
Maher
Jansen
Jones Beach
St. Vincent's Hospital
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Horse Injures Area Woman in Near-Miss Incident
A Spartansburg mother, Mrs. Robert Fink, 29, is in Corry Memorial Hospital in satisfactory condition after a horse trod on her left ear. The accident occurred at the Wade home on West Columbus Avenue extension as she tried to lead three horses across the road to a pasture. Her condition is described as a severe laceration with no serious injuries reported.
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Spartansburg
Corry Memorial Hospital
Robert Fink
A. D
Merrill Wade
Fink
Wade
West Columbus Avenue
Democrats Ready For Convention and Nixon Bid in Cities
Democrats begin preconvention work while Nixon targets big city votes and Wallace assails urban crowds. Humphrey disputes McCarthy Vietnam plank claims, debating coalition government and bombing halt terms as platform hearings start in Washington.
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