Blackstone Corp announces 7.5 million expansion plan
Reginald A. Senna, president and GM of Blackstone Corp in Padtra, reports a 7.5 million expansion approved by the board. Projects include a 200 thousand plant for the ux division, a 1.3 million addition to the automotive plant, and a 6 million malleable iron foundry. Police log two car collision at South Center and Main streets with light damage. Missing purse case noted in Corry. Local resident Andrew Hohel hospitalized as a surgical patient. Sparta PTA cancels January meeting. February meeting set for the 21st. Erie man Owen S. Royall escapes injury, car damaged after leaving Columbus-Lottsville road.
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Reginald A. Senna
Jamestown
Blackstone Corp
South Center
Main Streets
Keith Parker
Garland
West Main
Joseph 0. Turos Jr
Erie
Andrew Hohel
Cori Sparta
Jot Hospital
Owen S. Royall
Columbus-Lottsville
Royall
Pa Compromise Payments For Liquor Licenses Ended
Gov Scranton approved a law ending compromise payments that allowed liquor licensees to stay open during suspensions. The act takes effect in 60 days and gives the Liquor Control Board power to fine 50 to 1000 dollars and to suspend or revoke licenses. Under prior law the board could accept compromise payments of 10 dollars per suspension day.
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Aunsuucsukg
Gov. Scranton
State Liquor Control Board
Exchange expert dies in Washington at 69
Emerson Bigelow longtime foreign exchange expert for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II and former financial consultant to the State Department died Tuesday of emphysema in Washington. He was 69.
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Washington
Emerson Bigelow
Office of Strategic Services
State Department
Archbishop Ramsey to visit Pope Paul in Rome
Archbishop Michael Ramsey of Canterbury will visit Pope Paul VI in Rome on May 23 to discuss Vatican II outcomes. They will address relations with other Christian churches called separated Brethren and further Anglican Roman Catholic dialogue, continuing a historic move since 1960.
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Canterbury
Paul London
Church of England
Paul VI
Rome
Church Information Board
Michael Ramsey
Ramsey
Geoffrey Fisher
John XXIII
Fisher
Johnson bids higher taxes on autos and business profits
President Johnson asks Congress to restore excise taxes on cars and phone calls and to speed up corporate tax collections. He contends the revenue would fund Vietnam and domestic programs, adding more than 4 billion a year without an overall tax rate hike. House Ways and Means hearings may begin next week amid mixed support.
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Washington
House
Johnson
Ways and Means Committee
Sidney Herlong Jr
Senate Finance Committee
John M. Brown elected vice president of Pennsylvania Gas
The Board of Directors of Pennsylvania Gas Company named John M. Brown of Warren as vice president. Brown joined the company in 1949 as a cadet engineer in Erie after graduating from West Virginia University. He later became chief engineer and moved to Warren in 1964. He has held roles with Red Cross, Boy Scouts, St. Pauls Lutheran Church, and local civic groups.
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John M. Brown
Pennsylvania Gas Company
National Fuel Gas Company
Warren
N. B. Donovan
Brown
Erie
West Virginia University
American Red Cross
Cornplanter Council
Boy Scouts of America
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Conewango Club
Rio de Janeiro Flood Toll Hits 283 Amid Water Shortage
The Rio de Janeiro area reports 283 dead from floods and landslides with Petropolis bearing the largest deaths. A 150 pound boulder shattered a main water line, cutting 40 percent of the city’s supply and triggering a relief effort for thousands displaced to schools and centers. Voluntary aid flows include food and medicine as inoculation supplies move in from the United States.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Niteroi
Bay
Petropolis
Favela
Hio
Francisco Negrao de Lima
Copacabana
Tijuca
Delio Santos
Social Service
U.S
United States
McClelland Considers Appointment After Grand Jury Talks
McClelland says appointments will be made within a week or two after talks on the grand jury. Already named assistants include Richard Brabender Michael Palmisano and Robert Kelleher. About 125 cases are on the grand jury docket, none major.
Pittsburgh man sentenced for wife’s fatal shooting in May
John Thurman, 23, of Pittsburgh, was sentenced to six to 15 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his wife Brenda Thurman, 28, last May. He told Judge J Frank Graff he was “worked up” after seeing her with another man. she was shot five times.
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Pittsburgh
John Thurman
Thurman
J. Frank Graff
Armstrong County
Brenda
Harvard psychiatrist urges school course on social drinking
Dr Morris Chafetz proposes teaching practice drinking in schools from elementary through college to foster a healthy attitude toward alcohol. He argues supervised social drinking could reduce heavy use and help youths form relationships, while acknowledging ongoing doubts about its impact.
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Chafetz
New York
Aft Vard University
Morris Chafetz
Anaretz
Harvard
Diesholic Psychiatric Service of
Philadelphia
Massachusetts General Hospital
Widener Dixon
Boston
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Corry
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NPS
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Dallove Ik
Pennsylvania
Robert P. Casey
Fred B. Rooney
Crat
Carry Savings and Loan
North Center ST
Mae More
Broxodent
Squibls
Corry Pharmacy
Hare
Tencin
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