Holiday Havoc Leaves Several Hurt in Area Crashes
Four auto crashes across Corry and Union City over July 4th left Willis Stroup and others injured. Stroup, 59, was treated after his car left Route 426 near Corry, striking a tree. In Spartansburg a pickup flip left three youths with cuts and bruises, and two cars collided near Union City injuring two occupants. Authorities cited vehicle loss of control, wet roads, and pole impact in multiple incidents.
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Corry
Spring Creek
Union City
Willis Stroup
Stroup
Contolt
Corry Memorial Hospital
James Kranar
Spartansburg
Richard Deutsch
Dennis McGee
Ivan Biskeslee
R.D.1
Blakeslee
Gary Stone
Arthur Chamberlin
Joseph Brown
Cambridge Springs
Brown
Union City Memorial Hospital
Terence Haskin
Union City-Waterford
R.D.3
Minnick
Hippies Roam Aspen Streets Prompt Curfew and Deployments
About 500 Hippie types sparked unrest in Aspen Colorado triggering a curfew after at least five dynamite blasts. Sheriff Whitmire appealed for help as 17 posse members and local officers reinforced a four-man force patrolling the town. Seven curfew violators were jailed with eight hippies held for mysterious activities. No injuries or charges reported.
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Aspen
Colo.ap
Carrol Whitmire
Pitkin County
Dick Ritchey
Garfield County
Glenwood Springs
Martin Dumont
Ritchey
Denver
Storm Ravages Corry Area and Lake Erie Coasts
A powerful summer storm battered Corry vicinity and Ohio cities along Lake Erie causing widespread outages and injuries. In Meadville and Westford area mobile homes were destroyed, five hospitalized, and at least eight killed nationwide as lightning, wind, and falling trees disrupted power lines and boats on Lake Erie.
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Crawford County
Dorothy Dobbins
Homestead Falls
Ohio
Meadville City Hospital
Pymatuning Reservoir
Westford
Meadville Ambulance Service
Cleveland
Associated Press
Lake Erie
Michigan
Toledo
U.S. Weather Bureau
Maumee
U.S. Coast Guard
Coast Guard
Nation celebrates 193rd birthday with parades and picnics
Americans enjoyed a July fourth across cities and parks from Brooklyn beaches to Los Angeles coastlines. crowds in Chicago Lincoln Park, St Louis air show spectators, and a Key Biscayne parade with President Nixon highlighted the holiday. astronauts critiqued antiwar protests near Independence Hall as mourners gathered in Bardstown for soldiers' funerals.
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Coney Island
Brooklyn
Los Angeles
Yosemite
Sequoia-Kings Canyon
California
Chicago
Lincoln Park
Mary Kirbs
Nixon
Key Biscayne
Fla
Philadelphia
Independence Hall
Walter R. Cunningham
St. Louis
Mississippi River
Bound Brook
N.J
George Washington
Bardstown
Kentucky
Penelec Employee Returns to Work After Stoppage
An operating employee of the Pennsylvania Electric Co. returned to work at 11 a.m. Thursday after walking off in a dispute with management. The walkout began last Monday in Meadville and spread to Corry, Erie, and Albion by Wednesday as crews coped with damage from a severe storm. IBEW officials arranged the return and a meeting on contract interpretation is planned next week.
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Superior Refuse
North Center Street
Columbus Avenue
Douglas Rozelle
David Johnson
East South Street
Johnson
Superior Refuse Co
City of Meadville
Corry
Sae Yeiang
Ven Aho
Penelec
Johnstown
Robert Stoddard
General Telephone Co
Meadville
Ohio
Westford
Pennsylvania Electric Co
Erie
Albion
C.L. Imhoff
Northwestern
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
IBEW
Crawford Counties
Fireworks Injure Seven Kill One in Independence Day Toll
AP reports a fatality and multiple injuries across several states on Independence Day. A 2 to 3 year old girl died in Kansas City Kansas after being struck by homemade fireworks. others, including a Northwest pilot, a Massachusetts boy and Ohio residents, suffered burns and injuries. Police described accidents from arson to cannon bursts and a car fire caused by a lit firecracker.
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Kansas City
Kan
Shelley Adams
Tacoma
Wash
Chuck Crawford
Northwest Orient Airlines
Commencement Bay
Goodale Park
West Boylston
Mass
Gerard N. Gaudette Jr
Wickliffe
Ohio
Cleveland
John Coxwell
James Spahn
Niles
Spahn
Russellville
Ark
Little Rock
Russellville Country Club
New York City
Lower Manhattan
Wallace
Idaho
Four Youngsters Hurt In Thursday Accidents
Four youngsters were injured in separate incidents Thursday. Melanie Smith, 6, was hospitalized after fracturing her left elbow in a swing fall. Peter Sander, 10, suffered a cut left wrist while whittling with a jackknife. John Pless, 9, received a scalp laceration from a rock hit near his Gould Street home. Lisa Kuzma, 2, twisted her right arm after a fall at home on West Bend Street.
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Corry Memorial Hospital
Melanie
Samuel Smith
Corry
Peter
Peter Sander
R.D
John
John Pless Jr
Gould Street
Lisa
George Kuzma
West Bend Street
Astronauts Reveal Tent Protecting Moon Mission Crew
Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong Aldrin and Collins describe an open-face tent and air system built to ward off germs during a moon mission press conference at the Manned Spacecraft Center. The $5,718 tent sits 50 feet from reporters with blowers pushing air outward. After an hour of questions, they will hold private interviews behind glass in the lunar receiving laboratory before quarantine.
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Space MM
Qqvuone
The
Space Agency
Neil A. Armstrong
Edwin 8. Aldrin Jr
Michael Collins
Manned Spacecraft Center
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Conneaut
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LOFTY
East South
Concord
Dutch Hill
Canadohia Lake
Zarger
Sparta
Wis
Vietnam
My Tho
West Berlin
U.S. Army
Tricia Nixon
London
Imhoff
Neil A. Collins
Edwin Aldrin Jr
Armstrong
Michael Quarters
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