City Coors Latest Ambulance Proposal
Attorney Walter S. Peake, acting for the Corry Ambulance Service, asked the City Council the $64,000 question about providing ambulance service. Mayor William A. Peiffer replied that the council feels responsibility, but others should too, as the discussion continued last night amid a financially ailing firm.
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Walter S. Peake
Corry
Peake
Council
Clifford Holcomb
William A. Peiffer
Meadville Ambulance Drive Details Plans And Rates
Meadville officials outline ambulance service options as the annual drive unfolds. Plans show family, extended family, and individual memberships with per resident rates for nursing homes, plus non member charges for night calls. A city hospital or other qualified group could own the fleet under a new Organization X structure with a manager and staff.
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Meadville
Meadville Ambulance Service
Jack Downey
Undertakers
Downey
Holcomb
Peake
David Johnson
Johnson
Council Champers
Anyother
Organization X
Center Mead Wayne Set For Early Paving Curbs
City plans three streets and an alley paving project this summer with Mead Avenue Wayne Street North Center Street and Stone alley. Bids will be sought for paving widening and curbing with varying assessment rules. Total program about 36000 dollars approved by City Council as city engineer David Johnson will advertise for bids.
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South End Hill
Mead Avenue
Wayne Street
North Center Street
Stone Alley
Wright and Gould Streets
David Johnson
Johnson
Amish Appeal to Supreme Court Over Compulsory School Law
An Amish farmer LeRoy Garber of Yoder appeals Kansas court ruling upholding a compulsory school attendance law. The ACLU seeks to strike down the law as violating constitutional religious freedom, arguing Amish education should follow their faith. The case could prompt a new U S Supreme Court review of minority religious rights in public education.
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Supreme Court
Washington
Kansas
LeRoy Garber
Yoder
Sharon
Garber
Old Order Amish Mennonite Church
Kansas Supreme Court
Cent
U. S. Supreme Court
American Civil Liberties Union
ACLU
Appellant
Rail Unions Order Members Back To Work In 1967 Settlement
Washington AP six shopcraft unions ordered members to return to work under a new federal back to work law to end the nationwide rail strike. Picket lines persisted in some rail centers as Labor Secretary Wirtz conferred with union leaders and the president signed the measure assigning a presidential board to seek a voluntary settlement and, if needed, impose a settlement after 90 days.
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Washington
White House
W. Willard Wirtz
J. E. “Doe” Wolfe
The
Southern
Southern Railway
Frank W
U.S. District Court
Chattanooga
Tenn
Johnson
Congress
Vietnam
Onders
Union Pacific
Great Northern Railroad
Burlington
J.A. Nesbett
Pine Bluff
Ark
City to Seek Bids for Airport Pavement Project
City Council moved to advertise for bids on paving a runway from the landing strip at Lawrence Airport to the new hanger area planned for summer completion. The project, funded by a county grant of 3000 dollars yearly for five years, totals about 14000 dollars with a key item being a new administrative building. Council member Jack Downey opposed borrowing without budget funds, but four votes secured bids to be opened August 7.
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Lawrence Airport
Hanger
David Johnson
Connellman
Jack Downey
Downey
Robert A. Ott
Rogers Structural Steel Co
Alter Traffic Patterns On Two Streets
City engineer David Johnson proposed changes to Maple Avenue and Franklin Street with Mott Street under review. He urged converting a short end of Maple Avenue toward East Washington to two way to curb wrong-way exits while preserving the rest of Maple’s northbound flow. Johnson also suggested relocating no parking signs northward past the proposed area.
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David Johnson
Maple Avenue
Franklin Street
Mott Street
Johnson
Council
East Washington Street
East Park Place
East Washington
Sampan Sinkings Hit Viet Cong Supply Route Near Saigon
AP dispatch reports 122 Viet Cong sampans sunk in two helicopter strikes and 142 Communist soldiers killed in South Vietnam in 24 hours. Red mortar and rocket attacks hit five camps near Saigon as Firefly helicopters disrupted a river convoy at Truong Siang River mouth.
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Saigon
U.S. F Command
South Vietnam
Truong Siang
Sparta Seeks Aid For Clear Lake Improvement
Sparta appeals to the State Department of Forests and Waters for help to improve 160 acre Clear Lake. Mayor Roland Putnam cites leaking dam, weed overgrowth, and siltation as problems. Testing borings at the spillway are planned with Dam owner Lawrence Snapp to approve. Soil Conservation Service recommends raising the spillway to deepen water and aid fishing.
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Spartansburg
State Department of Forests and Waters
Roland Putnam
Putnam
Lawrence Snapp
Soil Conservation Service
Maurice Goddard
Forests and Waters
Former Brazilian President Dies in Air Collision Near Fortaleza
Humberto Castelo Branco, retired army marshal and Brazil’s former president who seized power in 1964, was killed when an air force jet collided with a small private plane he rode in. The crash occurred near Fortaleza in Ceara state, northeast Brazil, and was announced by the National Security Council.
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UD DE Janeiro
Brazil
Humberto Castello Branco
National Security Council
Fortaleza
Ceara
Start Work On Meadville PPG Plant
PPG Industries began work today on a new first glass plant near Meadville at the Rebert Industrial Park. The project will hire about 400 workers and is slated for completion by next summer.
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Meadville, Pa
PPG Industries
Rebert
Meadville
Newark Riots Bring Fatal Police Clash Amid Jersey Unrest
Newark battles flare as Black looter Raymond Gilmer, 20, is shot after a high speed chase ending in a car via alley escape. Patrolman John Romano injured in a separate confrontation with rioters. Freddie Lee Jones, 24, dies in Jersey City fire incident. Plainfield sees prisoner releases and officer killed in riot violence.
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Newark
N.J
Jersey City
New Jersey
Plainfield
Elizabeth
Paterson
New Brunswick
Fied
Raymond Gilmer
Gilmer
John Romano
Freddie Lee Jones
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City supports two way radio service plan here
City officials gave no objection to a new two way answering and dispatching service crafted by Slocum's Electronics on East Main Street. The plan includes a base station in Concord Township and remote control from East Main Street for truck dispatching emergency doctor contacts and other services, pending FCC approval and PUC certification.
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Louncy
Public Utilities Commission
PUC
William A. Peiffer
Charles Slocum
Corry
Concord Township
Slocum
The
Journal Today
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Fred Ewing
East Main Street
Carry
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John W. McCormack
Senate
Mike Mansfield
City Coors
Houston
Tex
B.D. Cumming
Shell Oil Co
Cumming
Petroleum Administration
Center, Mead, Wayne
Reds
U.S
Sparta
Bulletin
Negro Looter
Jersey
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