Five Die In Turnpike Crash In White Haven
A panel truck crossed the median strip on the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike causing a five vehicle collision that killed five and injured a dozen near White Haven. Victims include Fred Elkinton and family members from Media and Edwardsville. Several injured were hospitalized in critical condition.
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White Haven
Pocono Mountain
Fred W. Elkinton
Haddonfield
Cleo
Susan
Mary W. Allison
Media
Robert Sloan Jr
Edwardsville
Luzerne County
Wilkes-Barre General Hospital
Sally Cooper
Rose Valley
Delaware County
Margaret Shafer
Lehighton Hospital
Sacred Heart Hospital
Allentown
Timothy Lynady
Scranton
Isadore Rosner
Dale
Philadelphia
Mattison Named Mayor in Belton Election
In Belton the ballot lists two James Mattisons for mayor. Incumbent James C. Mattison faces challenger James A. Mattison, nicknamed Squat, both sharing the same name but no relation.
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Mattison
Belton
D.C
James Mattison
James C
Jamie” Mattison
James A
Groups spend over 200000 to counsel conscientious objectors
Two groups spend more than 200000 yearly to advise COs on military service eligibility. Officials say no Vietnam era rise in CO exemptions. boards reportedly hardening stance. Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors and National Service Board for Religious Obstructors cite tougher attitudes, while data show about 11041 1-0 classifications and related service figures.
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Washington
Selective Service
Central Committee For Conscientious Objectors
Philadelphia
Vietnam
National Service Board For Religious Objectors
White House
J. Harold Sherk
National Service Board
Draft Board
Cos
Arlo Tatum
Lewis B. Hershey
Tatum
Pentagon
Central Committee
Mennonites
Brethren
Atum
Sherk
Canada
United States
Rockefeller mediates garbage strike and raises wages
Governor Rockefeller reached a settlement with sanitation workers after a mass of over 5,000 men worked in frigid temperatures. The agreement grants a $425 yearly raise retroactive to July 1, with total city costs around $4 million. The Taylor Law back-to-work order remains under dispute and a jail sentence for defying it stands.
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Nyc
Rockefeller
Lindsay
Paul O'Dwyer
John JeLury
Four Trent children arrive to testify in bizarre slaying case
Chester Pennsylvania police report Dorothy Trent 38 mother of ten was killed by husband Charles 41 who blamed her tithes to the Congregation Yhvh. Apostle James Raymond 53 led the sect and arranged for the children to testify and for their care. The district attorney seeks the children as witnesses with plans to return them to care services.
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Chester
California
Dorothy Trent
Charles
Yhoh
James Raymond
Raymond
Trent
Hollywood
Delaware County
Dist. Atty
Stephen J. McEwen
Micael
Judith
Daniel
Steven
McEwen
Yhvh
Los Angeles
Esther
Rebecca
David
Sarah
Rachel
Abraham
Aworld
Yhyh
Civil rights boycott targets local facilities after deaths
A Sunday meeting urged restitution to families of three dead and fifty injured in a civil rights protest. The boycott seeks desegregation of the city’s sole bowling alley and its eating establishment, backed by a Justice Department desegregation demand and student-led declarations from Orangeburg and Claflin College. Saymond cited longtime ties to the Trents and details emerged about Trent's earnings as a merchant ship officer and family finances.
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U.S. Justice Department
Orangeburg
South Carolina State College
Claflin College
Saymond
Trents
Los Angeles
Trent
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