City orders full police and fire coverage for annexed area
Councilment Downey and Mayor Furst order the fire department and police to fully cover the Wayne Township area added to the city. If the township appeals to the State Superior Court within 45 days the annexation status may freeze, delaying capital expenditures and shifting costs to Corry. Route 426 patrols and local facilities will be checked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Downey
Fire Department
Wayne Township
Joseph Furst
Douglas Rozelle
Rozelle
Corry
Superior Court
Downey
Police Department
North Hills Municipal Golf Course
Erie County Plastics Corp
Sciota Lumber Co
Corry Water Supply Co
Lindley McClelland
Erie County
Sciota Street
Walker (Or Plastics
Council Ponders East Pleasant Street Parking Petition
City Council discussed a petition from four south side families and one north sider to end alternate side parking on East Pleasant Street from King to East and restrict parking to the north side. A rebuttal argued the issue mainly affects the south side and citywide child safety concerns exist. The matter was tabled for further study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Pleasant Street
King
East Streets
David Johnson
Southside
Johnson
Young Harlem heroin death marks city’s youngest drug victim
Walter Van dermeer, 12, died during a heroin injection in a Harlem tenement bathroom. Autopsy by Dr. Michael Baden found he lived with his mother and sister near West 117th Street, among peers who knew of his drug use. Baden warned that such youths risk death and remain antisocial even without heroin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Walter Vandermeer
Michael Baden
Walter
Baden
Harlem
West 117Th Street
Wealter
City Council Rejects High Janitorial Bid In 1970 Plan
Municipal budget pressures from higher service costs and a new police building led the City Council to stall bids on janitorial and window washing contracts for 1970. One bid more than doubling the current price, another only slightly higher, prompted tabling the lower White Cleaning Service bid for later action. The United States remained the top shoe importer as Britain sold 190 million pairs in 1967 valued at 10.5 million dollars to the U.S.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Council
East South Street
Corry
U.S
London
United States
Nixon Withdraws GIs Thieu Approves Troop Shift
In Saigon President Thieu approves Nixon plan for 50 000 more U S troops to withdraw by April 15 raising total pulled since last June to 110 000 and lowering the ceiling to 434 000 Official sources say by April 15 Americans in Vietnam should be 4 000 to 8 000 below that ceiling The Viet Cong explodes a printing plant in Saigon wounding six and prompting new battlefield engagements in the Mekong Delta with 83 enemy killed and civilians freed or captured by South Vietnamese forces.
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Saigon
Nguyen van Thien
Nixon
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Radio
Hanoi
Thieu
Republic of Vietnam
Vietnam
U.S
Creighton W. Abrams
Sen.Dang van Sung
Mekong
Power Failure Strands 5 000 in Somerset County
About 5,000 customers lost electricity for up to five hours in southern Somerset County due to a Monday night power failure. A Pennsylvania Electric Co spokesman cited heavy snowfall as a suspected cause and noted about a foot of snow fell in the area. Power was restored using alternate feeder lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerset, Pa
Somerset County
Pennsylvania Electric Co
Senate Okays 69.3 Billion For Defense
The Senate approved 85 to 4 defense funding of 69.3 billion with an 2.2 billion for local forces in Vietnam and Laos. A ban on American ground troops in Laos and Thailand was adopted amid debate over ABM costs and Safeguard funding. Nixon announced a third 50,000 troop withdrawal from South Vietnam with an April 15 deadline.
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Washington
Senate
U.S
Thailand
Laos
Pentagon
House
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Vietnam
Allen J. Ellender
D-La
J. W. Fulbright
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Mike Mansfield
Montana
John Tower
R-Tex
Mansfield
Nixon
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Robert Thompson
Southeast Asia
Thompson
City Council Approves Dana Scouten Hire and Reynolds Promotion
City council unanimously approves hiring Dana Scouten 21 of Spartansburg as police officer to fill 11th position and aid holiday staffing. Scouten will enroll in Erie Rookie Police Academy after year start. Mayor also promotes Officer Warren Reynolds to private first class for three years service.
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Joseph Furst
Dana Scouten
Spartansburg
Scouten
Civil Defense
Sparta
Furst
Erie
Warren Reynolds
Frank Carnegie
Reynolds
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Public Utility Commission
Highway Department
Erie Lackawanna Railroad
Journal
Endsley
Barney Bernard
State Superior Court
Pennsylvania Department of Highways
Route 6
Scotts Crossing
Viet’s Thieu
Oregon
Mark Hatfield
Hatfield
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