Black Panther Leader Seeks Return From Exile
Eldridge Cleaver sought a passport from U.S. officials in Algiers to return to America where he is wanted on a fugitive warrant. He was told a certificate of identity might let him travel. Panthers face police pressure after raids left wounded officers and militants, with key leaders in jail or dead.
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Washington
Eldridge Cleaver
United States
Evolutionary Party
Chicago
Cleaver
U.S
Algiers
America
Panther
Los Angeles
Huey P. Newton
Bobby Seale
Stokeley Carmichael
Dave Hilliard
Nixon
California
Panthers
Justice Department
Bills Aimed At Crossings Prompted By Train Tragedies
State Rep. R Budd Dwyer and Rep Forest Hopkins sponsor two crossing safety bills in the House. HB 1770 would require railroads to clear brush within 200 feet of crossings to improve visibility. HB 1805 would bar parking of cars or engines within 100 feet of crossings unless warning lights or a flagman are present. Both bills referred to the House Consumer Protection Committee.
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Scotts Crossing
Cambridge Springs
R. Budd Dwyer
Crawford County
Forest Hopkins
North Hast
Public
Public Utility Commission
PUC
House Committee On’ Consumer Protection
Four Injured In Area Auto Crashes
Two car crash north of Lowville injures Waterford youth 16 and passenger 15 with 57 year old man. Leczner cited for failure to yield after head on collision. all treated at Corry Memorial Hospital. A second single vehicle crash near Union City sends 21 year old driver to Union City Hospital.
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Lowville
Atc
Waterford
Corry Memorial Hospital
David Leczner
Pasquale Renzi
East South Street
Leczner
Charles Allen
Renzi
Allen
Lawrence Park
Gerald Szul
Agnew Attacks Senate Tax Tinkering in Arkansas Speech
Vice President Spiro Agnew denounced Senate tinkering with the tax reform bill as jeopardizing inflation controls andTurning tax reform into a Rube Goldberg toy. He praised Mills' work while accusing Senate leaders of grandstanding to aid re election prospects in 1970 and referenced amendments including Albert Gore Jr.'s exemption hike.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Spiro T. Ignew
Nixon
Senate
Republican Governors Association
Agnew
United States
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
House
Ways and Means Committee
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
Gore
Apps Nominated as Fire Chief by Stanford Hose Co
Members of the Stanford Hose Company voted to recommend Alfred Apps to City Council as the new fire chief. The council’s ratification would fill the vacancy created by Jerome Davis’s resignation after 10 years. Davis recently became city controller, while Apps previously served as first assistant chief.
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Stanford Hose Company
Alfred Apps
Jerome Davis
Davis
Apps
Hase Company
William Halfast
Thomas Lathrop
Doomed Tax Reform Survives Senate Test
The Senate approved a veto threatened tax reform bill 69 to 22 sending it to a conference committee. The measure boosts Social Security by 15 percent and raises personal exemptions to 800 dollars, while House plans differ. Nixon warned he would veto unchanged.
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Washington
Senate
House
Nixon
Conference Committee
Renovation of Public Library Under Way
The Corry Public Library renovation moves forward with buying a charging out desk, book stacks, and card record files. A lounge area will be added, with a donated couch, two dozen new chairs, upstairs carpeting to be installed next month, and bids to be solicited for carpeting. Mrs Knipp named librarian, National Library Week planned, and October November activity shows 250 new books, 179 readers registered, and 6,560 books issued.
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Corry
Paul Spiesman
Knipp
Tonya Lathrop
M.O. Baldwin
Charles Williams
Robert Ott, Jr
George Gould
Frank McKnight
Epsilon Phi
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Corry Area
PSEA Delegates March on Capitol
About 1200 teachers marching from the state education building to the Capitol in Harrisburg to urge immediate action on a public employee bargaining law. Delegates from the 117th PSEA convention hear from Dr David H Kurtzman and await Friday’s NEA president elect address. Committees push higher subsidies, higher teacher salaries, and enactment of a public employee law with agency shop and limited strike provisions.
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Harrisburg
Senate
Pennsylvania State Education Association
PSEA
Capitol
Helen D. Wise
House
Senate State Government Committee
David H. Kurtzman
National Education Association
Helen P. Bain
Wise
Robert F. Ward
Mt. Lebanon
Fred A. McKillop
Meadville
James McBride
Yeadon
Psea Retirement Board of
U S forces report heavy Viet Cong losses near Mekong Delta outpost
In multi-attack operations around Vinh Long province and near Saigon, U S aircraft and artillery claimed 111 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong dead with 88 more confirmed by South Vietnamese forces. Observers counted 70 enemy bodies after three artillery and air assaults. additional clashes yielded 64 more enemy fatalities and nine South Vietnamese paratroopers killed.
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Saigon
U.S
Cambodian
Cambodia
S. Mir Cavalry Division
Mekong
Delta
U Minh Forest
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Ritz
Center Street
George A. Christensen
Clymer
Larry R. Thomas
Union City
Water Works
Sciota
Journal
Endsley
Spiro
U. S. Senate
Rage Four
Oon
Gordon Allott
Rcolo
Mekong Delta
Vinh
Long Province
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