Shopping Complex to Include A P Eckerd Drugs Approved
City Planning Commission approved Buyers Mall Inc proposal for a 4.5 acre plaza on the Fogle Lumber site between West Smith and Franklin streets. The project includes a reconfigured A P supermarket moving from West Washington to the new plaza and a Eckerd Drugs outlet with space for future tenants. construction to begin in spring as permits are issued. The Buyers Fair store will triple floor space to about 20 000 square feet. A P will expand to about 11 000 square feet. A zoning board approval was also granted and the city council will vote at a special meeting next Tuesday.
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City Planning Commission
Buyers Mall, Inc
Fogle Lumber Co
West Smith
Franklin Streets
Buyers Mail
A&p
West Washington Street
Bekerd
Planning Commission
Zoning Board of Appeals
Larry Lechtner
Buyers Fair
Commission
Exkki Rainesalo
Buyers Pair
Jack VanNortwick
National
VanNortwick
Social Security Bill Nears Final Congressional Approval
Washington AP reports a historic Social Security bill that hikes benefits and taxes but remains short of Johnson proposals. Senate House conferees reached a final agreement after a marathon session, with sponsors confident it will reach the president next week. The plan boosts basic benefits at least 13 percent for 24 million beneficiaries, with a 25 percent lift for those at the bottom, raising the minimum from 44 to 55 dollars, and increases the taxable base to 7,800 next year.
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Washington
Senate House
Congress
President Johnson
House
Johnson
Senate
Navy Free 30,000 Enlisted for Vietnam Duty Shift
The Navy will discharge more than 30,000 enlisted men early and tie up 49 ships to free personnel for Vietnam service. About 6,200 petty officers and others will be reassigned to Southeast Asia and to man ships like the New Jersey and the Puget Sound. The move aims to save roughly $18 million and is part of a Defense Department cost-cutting drive.
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Washington
Navy
Defense Department
Congress
Atlantic
Pacific
Southeast Asia
New Jersey
Puget Sound
Caribbean
Mediterranean
Far East
Delay Hearing For UC Wife Asks Tests
Union City in Bloomfield Township Justice of the Peace Olen Seidler granted an indefinite postponement in the preliminary hearing for Mrs. Thelma Romesberg on a charge of assault with intent to kill. She sought time to voluntarily undergo psychiatric testing and was given 90 days to arrange the examination while free on a 5000 dollar bond. The incident occurred at the couple’s home, leaving her husband Gerald wounded.
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Union City
Bloomfield Township
Olen Seidler
Thelma Romesberg
Gerald
Romesberg
Seidler
Romesbergs
Union City Memorial Hospital
Heaviest Fighting Reported Along Binh Dinh Coast
American air cavalry guns chased a 600 strong North Vietnamese battalion across Binh Dinh Province while 159 enemy dead were tallied in the latest clashes. South Korean troops also reported 61 Reds killed as U S and South Vietnamese forces pressed the coastal pursuit and containment. Additional battles near Bo Duc and Mo Cay produced further casualties and intensified shelling across the region.
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Saigon
Binh Dinh
1St Air Cavalry Division
Con Thien
Mekong
Bo Duc
22Nd
U.S
Bo Due
Delta
Letters To Cost 6 Cents As Postal Hike Gets OK
Washington AP report outlines a bill ticketed for Congress next week with higher postal rates for letters and cards and pay raises for federal workers totaling 2.7 billion annually. It also creates a pay commission for top officials and bars officials from hiring relatives, while noting a pension provision for former Texas congressman Judge Paul Kilday. Also reports the death of Corine Hamann, 66, from car crash injuries in Leet Township.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Texas
Johnson
Paul Kilday
U.S. Military Court of Appeals
Kilday
Heart transplant patient speaks on radio visits wife
Cape Town AP report details Mrs Louis Washkansky visiting her husband in Groote Schuur Hospital after his heart transplant. Washkansky, 55, says he feels fine and shows cheerful, strong progress as Dr Christian Barnard leads the historic operation replacing his damaged heart with that of a young woman killed in a car crash.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Louis Washkansky
Washikansky
Groote Schuur Hospital
Washkansky
Darling
Mr. Washkansky
Bertie Bosman
Christian Barnard
Higher Labor and Steel Costs Push Auto Prices Up
Detroit auto makers face a second price rise for 1968 models as labor costs and cold rolled carbon steel prices climb. Ford and Chrysler have new labor deals adding about one dollar per man hour over three years, with GM still bargaining. Economic adviser Gardner Ackley estimates annual labor-cost gains of 5.75 to 6.25 percent.
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Detroit
Ford
Chrysler
United Auto Workers
General Motors
UAW
Gardner Ackley
President's Council of Economic Advisors
Unions Rebuke Johnson Plea For Wage Restraint
AFL-CIO leaders across steel, telephone and aerospace sectors deride President Johnson’s appeal to hold wage gains. They claim they will press for increases as 1968 bargaining nears, citing desire for a share of economic gains and ongoing inflation concerns. Reacting, officials call the plea pious nonsense while outlining their intent to negotiate for 400,000 to 450,000 workers ahead of the election cycle.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Afl-Cio
Johnson
Jerry Wurl
State
County and Municipal Workers Union
Washington
I. W. Abel
United Steelworkers Union
White House
Wurf
Joseph A. Beirne
Communications Workers Union
Beirne
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A&p, Eckerd Drugs
Fogle
Lechtner
LBJ
Clifford Buesink
Corry
Pittsburgh
Corine Ham- Mann
R.D
Sewickley
Leet Township
Chais
United Fund of the
American Red Cross
Corry Memorial Hospital
Mead Park Association
Salvation Army
Valparaiso
Ind
Liberty Township
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