Electrical storms lash wide area with 90 mph winds
Galeforce winds and lightning battered Chautauqua County and surrounding regions, causing utility outages and property damage. Fires struck a Waterford barn and a Wattsburg residence, with Erie's city fire department handling 11 lightning calls as power lines and roofs were ripped away.
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Corry
Waterford
Wattsburg
Chautauqua County
New York State
Titusville
Meadville
Bradford-McKean
Erie
Sinclairville
Jamestown
Edward Zarger
Penelec
North Hast
Columbus
Garland
Joseph Risjan
R.D.1
Dublin Road
Kuhl Hose Company
Mill Village
Union City
Perry Hi-Way Hose Company
Risjan
Pennsylvania Electric Co
Northwestern Rural Electric Cooperative
Cochranton
Conneaut Lake
Springboro
Rural Electric Co-op
Linesville
Dinboro
Investiture of Charles as Prince of Wales Amid Bomb Attack
Queen Elizabeth II formally invested Charles as Prince of Wales at Caernarvon Castle as a bomb shattered tracks nearby. Two youths arrested near the scene as crowds clashed with Welsh nationalists. the procession proceeded amid security and global TV coverage.
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Caernarvon
Prince Charles
Prince of Wales
Elizabeth
Britain
Caernavon Castle
Charles
Wales
Caernaryon
Cardiff
Senate panel defeats free food stamp proposal in 7 to 5 vote
In Washington the Senate Agriculture Committee rejected a measure to provide free food stamps to impoverished families by a 7 to 5 vote. Supporters included McGovern D and Dole R while plans would raise federal financing to 1.5 billion by 1971 and shift eligibility oversight to the Agriculture Department. The committee aims to liberalize the program and may take the issue to the Senate floor.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
George McGovern
D-S.d
Marlow W. Cook
R-Ky
Robert J. Dole
R-Kan
Herman E. Talmadge
D-Ga
James B. Allen
McGovern
Nixon
Olina
Agriculture Department
Senate
Close Call as Lightning Strikes Tree Near Union City Man
Henry Kleszczowski, 21, of Union City, escaped serious harm when a lightning bolt struck a tree while he walked with Herbert Most near Spartansburg. He was treated at Corry Memorial Hospital after a passerby found him unresponsive but no injuries were confirmed on exam.
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Union City
Corry Memorial Hospital
Henry Kleszczowski
Richard Gambino
Corry
Alpine Inn
Alvin Brenner
Spartansburg
Eugene Hutchinson
Brenner
Corry Ambulance Service
Kleszczowski
Harrisburg Bill Denies Scholarships for Violent Campus Disruptions
The Pennsylvania House passed a bill by 164 to 28 denying state scholarships to students convicted in court or expelled for disrupting college activities. Rep. Patricia Crawford championed an amendment limiting aid while reducing the minimum grant from 3200 to 100 and ensuring five year students receive aid for full duration.
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Harrisburg
House
Patricia A. Crawford
Chester
Senate
Crawford
American armored drive hits Tay Ninh amid heavy Viet Cong losses
In Tay Ninh area, thirty US armored vehicles engaged North Vietnamese troops for nearly three hours, with 42 enemy troops reported dead and American losses at one killed and one wounded. The clash followed a broader series of battles around Nui Ba Den Mountain and Tay Ninh City.
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Saigon
Tay Ninh City
88Th
Sth
U.S. 25Th Division
Tay Ninh
Nui Ba den
U.S
Barrier Island
da Nang
U.S. Army
Americal Division
Ben Het
Car Slips Jack Falls On Man In Pittsburgh Medical Center
A Spartansburg man, Clifford Hutchison, 21, remains in fair condition after a car jack slipped while he was replacing a spring and crushed bones beneath his right eye. He received emergency care at Titusville Hospital before transfer to a Pittsburgh eye ear nose and throat unit for intensive care.
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Spartansburg
Pittsburgh
Clifford Hutchison
Theodore Hutchison
Titusville Hospital
Hideout Burglary Suspect Nabbed in Spartansburg Area
Constable William T. Carter arrested Virgil Anderson of Titusville in Spartansburg after a search of a remote cabin tied to a spree of camp burglaries in Forest County. State Police found a pistol, while Anderson and accomplices Rudolph Anderson and Robert E. Proper face multiple burglary charges and jail in Tionesta.
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William T. Carter
Spartan Township
Carter
Virgil Anderson
Titusville
Spartansburg
Anderson
Rudolph Anderson
Robert E. Proper
Forest County
Paul Sita
Harold Eberhardt
Corry
Andersons
Proper
Tionesta
Raymond Morris Lumber Company
Morris
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K. Leroy Irgis
Irvis
Herbert Fineman
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