Public safety warnings and local incidents mix in Erie region notes
A mangled summary from a 1967 Erie area clipping reports seat belt dangers cited by Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Frank McKetta, a Corry bike theft, declining Jamestown water levels, divorce filings, a child bicycle injury, flare shortages for Chautauqua Lake, a hefty WWGO fine for power violations, a vehicular bumper incident, a YMCA youth dance, and the Crawford County jail escape and recapture of James Lee Brady with charges of prison breach and larceny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Tubbs
Corry
Hamot Hospital
Erie
Coldilion
Frank McKetta
Pennsylvania
McKettar
James Lee Brady
Meadville
Crawford County
Donald W. Ladner
Brady
Blooming Valley
Willis 74 Plans Open Boat Trip To England
Willis a 74 year old mariner plans a 100 day voyage from Montauk NY to Plymouth England in an 11 and a half foot boat. He previously sailed solo 204 days across the Pacific from Peru to Australia in 1984 and last year was rescued halfway to England after an abdominal hernia. He says the voyage seeks to practice Yoga to stay young and to be in England for his autobiography release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willis
England
Montauk
N.Y
Liam Willis
Plymouth
Pacific
Peru
Australia
New York
Atlantic
Lone Bandit Robs Savings Bank for About Four Thousand
Police seek a lone bandit who robbed the First Federal Savings and Loan Association in Monongahela of about $4,000 yesterday. The man asked teller Leonora Carcella for a five dollar bill for five ones, handed her a bag, then said to fill it. When she hesitated a revolver was shown and she emptied the drawer. The robber forced her downstairs and fled on foot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamestown
Board of Public Utilities
Merle W. Smedburg
Ross Mills
Ivanian Avenue
Liberty
Monongahela, Pa
Federal Savings and Loan Association
Leonora Carcella
Monongahela
U S Faces Large New Fiscal Year Deficit Preview
Washington(AP) The government opens the new fiscal year with a projected red ink exceeding 13.6 billion and possibly over 20 billion as Vietnam war spending drives the deficit. Fiscal 1967 ended with about 11 billion in red ink and a debt near 327 billion, underpinning the broader peacetime shortfall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Union
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
Vietnam
Budget Bureau
Treasury Department
Fowler
Robinson visits Buffalo amid urban affairs talk and unrest notes
Robinson, now a special assistant on urban affairs for Gov. Rockefeller, spoke with officials and attended sessions with Mayor Sedita. In Niagara Falls police reported no significant incidents after earlier vandalism by Negroes, as Robinson and Niagara University player Calvin Murphy addressed a local Negro gathering amid a calmer Friday night in Buffalo’s Jefferson Avenue and Ferry Street area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank A. Sedita
Robinson
Brooklyn Dodgers
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Niagara Falls
Calvin Murphy
Niagara University
Jefferson Avenue
Ferry Street
Buffalo
Four Astronauts Named Nothing Dramatic Says First Negro
AP reports Maj. Robert H. Lawrence Jr and three other aerospace research pilots named to the Air Force MOL program. The quartet, including Lt. Col. Robert T. Herres, Maj. Donald H. Peterson, and Maj. James A. Abrahamson, will join two others on a Titan 3C mission to the orbiting laboratory slated for 1970. Lawrence, the youngest and only with a PhD, describes the selection as a natural progression. Peterson and Abrahamson discuss teamwork and future space plans amid questions of race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Manned Orbiting Laboratory
Robert H. Lawrence Jr
Lawrence
Air Force
Department of Defense
Robert T. Herres
Denver
Colo
Donald H. Peterson
Winona
Miss
James A. Abrahamson
Portland
Ore
Laurence
Chicago
Ohio State University
Abrahamson
Peterson
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Orbiting Lab
Go Go Girls Protest Topless Order in Detroit
A dozen Detroit go go girls protested manager Frank Bruce's order that they dance topless at the Sound a Go-Go Club. They paraded with signs opposing topless dancing while noting competition had cut his business by about 20 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Distrust
Detroit
Frank Bruce
Also Mentioned on This Page
Robert Moore
East Stith Street
Erie County
Janet L. Cox
R. D
Michael
Lawrence Roberts
West Pleasant Street
Corry Memorial Hospital
Chautauqua Lake
A. B. Bottini
Chautauqua Lake Region
Ohio
Canada
Bottini
Ming
R. C. McLaughlin
Federal Communications Commission
Radio Staton
WWGO
WESB
Bradford
T. R. Bromeley
YMCA
Richard Dittman
Fifth Society
Dittman
Elmer A. Ortner
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
WOTR
Lone Bandit
U. S
Sea’s Drugs
Aerospace Research Pilot School
Edward Air Force Base
Solette
RCA Victor
Meerhoff
North Center
TY and Appliances
North Main Union City
Virgin Islands
FOX
Calle
Ray Charles
Bob Church
N. Canter St
Door Busters
Meadow Brook
Gov
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