Budget Hearing Focuses On School Subsidy and Temple Plan
Harrisburg AP reports a State budget hearing centered on a $1 billion general fund for education with $87.4 million for public schools and a $74 percent hike in Temple University’s appropriation. Penn State, Penn, and Pitt faced questions about overhead and building costs while the governor’s budget office backed Temple’s plan amid broader university funding debates.
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Harrisburg
Department of Public Instruction
House
Senate
Lawrence
Temple University
Temple
Pennsylvania
Universities of
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania State University
Penn State
Eric A. Walker
Albert W. Johnson
Johnson
Governor's Budget Office
House Committee
Walker
David R. Baldwin
Ninth Grade Students Tackle Probabil ity and Statistics Course
Warren students in Bealy Junior High explore non credit early morning math in a ninth grade accelerated program. Ted Newton teaches Tuesdays and Thursdays 7:30 to 8:10 a.m. Projects include dice frequency charts, coin flip variables, sports outcome predictions, English meter frequencies, and cryptographic message decoding with two more tasks planned for the term.
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Bealy
Ted Newton
Pat
Tereit
Brgik Ue Toe Vii
Tof Lath
Phese
Thie
Duving
Newton
Temple Aid Favored in State Higher Education Plan
A state committee hearing focused on Temple's preferred higher education aid boost amid a governor's modest university funding plan. Temple seeks 4.2 million while Penn State asks 24 million total. Pitt would receive 3.1 million. University leaders voiced cautious support pending a master plan by the Department of Public Instruction.
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Temple
Penn State
Walker
Baldwin
Penn
Pitt
Edward H. Litchfield
Gaylord P. Harnwell
Department of Pub Uc Instruction
DIES OF INJURIES IN PITTSBURGH AREA
A 73 year old man died at McKeesport Hospital from injuries four hours after a car struck him. The victim was Joseph Elyes of Versailles Borough.
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Pittsburgh
McKeesport Hospital
Joseph Elyes
Versailles Borough
Births Triple Deaths In 1961 Vital Stats Report
A regional vital statistics report for Registration District No. 25 247 covering Corry Elgin and Concord Wayne townships shows 411 births and 124 deaths in 1961. Births were nearly even by gender 204 male 207 female with six sets of twins. Most births 411 occurred at Corry Memorial Hospital with 248 to non residents. Deaths totaled 124 with 117 in Corry and Wayne and Concord townships accounting for seven. Hospital deaths were 86 with 41 non residents. Leading causes include heart disease 38, vascular and renal disease 17, cancer 15, pneumonia 12, cerebral hemorrhage 1, pregnancy complications 9, stillbirths 9, kidney disease 4, accidental 3 and other 7.
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Corry
Elgin
Concord
Wayne
Sidney Br Elston
Corry Memorial Hospital
Bilston
Sculptor Tyan Mestrovic dies at 78 in Notre Dame
SCULPTOR SUCCUMBS SOUTH BEND Ind. Prof. Tyan Mestrovic aged 78, long resident sculptor at the University of Notre Dame, famed internationally for modern religious sculpture, died yesterday of a stroke. He joined Notre Dame in 1955 after eight years as a professor at Syracuse University.
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Ind
Tyan Mestrovic
University of Notre Dame
Mestrovic
Notre Dame
Tinejarts
University of Syracuse
Erie Arson Suspects Face Court Action January Hearing
Two men Raymond Zapolski and Charles Miller are charged with arson and conspiracy after allegedly plotting to burn Gharay's Cate, a business hit by a $10,000 blaze. Both pleaded innocent at arraignment in Erie County Jail and were held on bonds set at $6,000 and unspecified. A morning fire followed an anonymous tip. proprietors reportedly carried no insurance. In Levittown, Herman E. Naegele, 85, was struck and killed by a car on Lincoln Highway in Middletown Township, driver Catherine Gallagher telling police she did not see him.
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Erie
Gharay's Cate
Raymond Zapolski
Charles W. Miller
Levittown
Herman E. Naegele
Penndel
Middletown Township
Lincoln Highway
Catherine Gallagher
From Coal Miner to Prudential Big Wheel
Orville B Beal rose from a Pennsylvania coal mine to become executive vice president at Prudential Insurance Co of America. Born in Monroe County, he joined Prudential as a clerk in 1926 earning $60 a month, later becoming sales division manager, then vice president, and eventually executive vice president. His ascent mirrored the era when mining towns fed regional industry and loyalty to a single employer propelled career climbs.
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Louis R. Menagh
Prudenal Insurance Co. of America
Beal
Pru
Orville
Prudential
Mononpaleha
University of Newark
Jamestown Pilot Missing in Wild New York
Plattsburgh Air Force Base reported a BAT Jet bomber missing after a routine training mission. The pilot, 1st Lt. Rodney B. Bloomgren, 26, of Jamestown, was listed with three other crew members believed to have crashed in New York's North Country. Bloomgren, a 1953 Jamestown High School graduate, is married to Connie Iris, 25, and is the son of Mr and Mrs Harold Bloomgren.
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Air Force
Wilds
New York
North Country
Rodney B. Bloomgren
Jamestown
Bloomgren
Plattsburgh Air Force Base
Harold Bloomgren
Jamestown High School
Iris
Connie
Plane search ends with no clue on missing men
No trace of three children named Cynthia and Stephen in the report. Aircraft from Plattsburgh and Griffiss bases along with the Royal Canadian Air Force scoured snow covered terrain. The Weather Bureau warned temperatures may drop to zero tonight as survivors’ kit contained food and waterproof matches.
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Plattsburgh
Griffiss Air Force
Rome
Royal Canadian Air Force
Weather Bureau
Explorer dies in Cambridge after long illness
Sir James Wordie, 72, explorer, geologist and geographer, died yesterday in Cambridge after a long illness. Wordie was closely associated with polar exploration for 40 years and participated in numerous expeditions.
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Explorer
Cambridge
England
Sir James Wordie
Wordie
Polar Exploration
Franklin Man Takes Own Life in Franklin Area
Franklin man Jatin Werney Obler, 60, of Franklin, was found dead by relatives near his home after a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. Dr. Prank Butters, Venango County coroner, ruled death suicide. Ohler, who had lived with his nephew and wife for 12 years, had been in poor health and formerly worked as an elevator operator at the Exchange Hotel and in State Highway maintenance.
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Anc
Jatin Werney Obler
Pranklin
Prank B. Butters
Prankin
Venango County
Ohler
Harry
Hik
Exchange Hotel
State Highway Department
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