Congress May Probe Yablonski Slayings
In Washington Pennsylvania the funeral for Joseph A. Yablonski his wife and daughter drew harsh words as a ritual of infamy. The Labor Department announced a full scale probe of the United Mine Workers presidential race amid calls for Senate investigations and a $50000 reward for those responsible.
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Washington
Joseph A. Yablonski
Labor Department
United Mine Workers
Immaculate Conception Church
Charles Owen Rice
Msgr. Rice
Kennedy Brothers
Martin Luther King Jr
Pennsylvania
UMW
Senate
Robert P. Griffin
R-Mich
Joseph Koleszczyk
Yablonski
St. Thomas Catholic Church
Clarksville
Armand Jean Baldwin
St. Vincent’s College
Holy Rosary Church
Pittsburgh
Western Pennsylvania
John L. Lewis
Philip Murray
Eia
Justice Abor
Military Leader Tells South Viets War and Still Not Near
North Vietnam’s Vo Nguyen Giap, in seven December essays, warns the war will continue and victory remains distant. He notes prolonged struggle, greater sacrifices, and strategic shifts as U S forces stay entrenched in Vietnam and Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops adapt along the front.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Vo Nguyen Giap
Dien Bien Phu
Ho Chi Minh
Giap
People's Army
People's War
United States
Vietam
East Cold Snap Brings With It Record Laws
Pittsburgh report as temperatures plunged to four below zero. Yellow Cab Co. faced hours of delays due to high demand with drivers using taxis to reach work. Western Pennsylvania saw record lows from Blue Knob to Windber. Frost bite risk closed several schools while Peoples Natural Gas projected a 24 hour record output of over 740 million cubic feet to 293000 customers across 16 counties.
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Pittsburgh
Yellow Cab Co
Bill Garwyk
West View
Blue Knob
Gallitzin
Laurel Mt
Windber
Pennsylvania
Peoples Natural Gas Co
Peninsylvania
Corry Men Plead Innocent In Burglaries
Frederick Carter and John Willis pleaded not guilty to nine burglary counts each at arraignment in Warren County court. They, along with John Amacher and William Johnson, were tied to a series of cottage and camp burglaries in late August and early September. Troopers Evanko and Sita led the investigation that netted 15 burglaries and recovered about $2,000 in loot including guns a TV a camera and a radio.
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Warren County
Frederick F. Carter
West Bend Street
John J. Willis
South Center Street
Robert L. Wolfe
Carter
Willis
John Evanko
Paul Sita
Corry
John Amacher
York Street
William Johnson
Amacher
Erie County
Johnson
The
Journal Today
Evanko
Union City
Explosions and Fires Shake Erie East Side
In subzero temperatures families were evacuated from a block on Erie East Side after a string of explosions and fires likely caused by gas leaks. Police and PA Gas Company crews investigated gas pressure issues with no injuries reported.
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Erie
Pennsylvania Gas Company
Seizes RR Engine To Settle Suit
In Redding California attorney Jack Halpin seized a switch engine and caboose from Southern Pacific Railroad Co with a constable to satisfy a 48000 claim. He released himself and returned the train after the railroad said payment was en route. The move, authorized by a court order, followed nonpayment of a judgment. A separate report notes the death of five year old Ronald Headlee when a piano collapsed on him.
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Redding
Calif
Jack Halpin
Southern Pacific Railroad Co
Halpin
Southern Pacific
San Francisco
Superior Court
Washington
Ronald Headlee
Inquest Refuses Skindiver Opinion On Kennedy Case
Edgartown Mass AP Judge James A Boyle barred testimony suggesting Mary Jo Kopechne could have been saved if help had been summoned sooner. Skindiver John Farrar testified only about his role recovering Kopechne, not about speculation or theory. The inquest aims to determine possible criminal action, with a report to the Superior Court and transcript to follow after all indictments are ruled out.
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Edgartown
Mass
James A. Boyle
Mary Jo Kopechne
Edward M. Kennedy
John Farrar
Miss Kopechne
Kennedy
Chappaquiddick Island
Kapechne
Farrar
Washington
Boyle
Superior Court
Atty
Edmunds
Dinis
Promise Waiting Scholarship Recipients Delivery Soon
Harrisburg AP 88,000 Pennsylvanians waiting since September for state scholarship funds were promised payment as soon as possible after Gov Shafer signed a 51.4 million bill. He said agencies will cooperate to speed payments and noted many students faced high-interest borrowing while the impasse delayed funding.
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Harrisburg
General Assembly
Shafer
Senate
House
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency
Jack E Leonard Bridegroom At 58
LAS VEGAS AP Jack E Leonard the sharp tongued comic married Gladys Esther Westling 32 an art exhibitor who was divorced the day before in Ventura California. Leonard a widower for his first wife who died in 1968 tied the knot in a Las Vegas chapel on Thursday.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Jack E. Leonard
Gladys Esther Westling
Ventura
Calif
Leonard
Man gets life for stealing 50 cents in Dallas
Curtis Columbus Jones, 32, was sentenced to life in prison after a jury found him guilty of breaking and entering a car for stealing 51 cents, with a penny dropped in the car. The life term invoked Texas habitual criminal law due to a prior conviction.
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Dallas
Tex
Curtis Columbus Jones
Jones
Texas
Reliefer Work Bill Placed In Committee
Rep. Forest Hopkins 1822 bill would require able bodied welfare recipients to work on public projects. It passed to Health and Welfare Committee chaired by Rep. Sarah Anderson. bill sets wage deductions from welfare checks and suspends benefits for noncompliance with work requirement.
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Forest Hopkins
State House of Representatives
Sarah Anderson
Philadelphia
Hopkins
Anderson
Department of Public Welfare
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Chip” Yablonski
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University of North Carolina At Greensboro
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