Erie County Prison Rebuild Plans and Local Thefts Reported
Erie County officials plan a $30 000 prison wall repair project. A Tri State Hardwoods vending machine theft left over 10 in dimes while 5 or 6 bills disappeared. Memorial services were held for Mrs Gertrude Amidon Jackson of Erie. Police cited Jerry McIntyre for reckless driving after a downtown incident. A marriage license was filed by Leon Sanborn and Betty Stuffelbeam. Corry residents reported a vacant-house entry and a prowler in West Smith street. A third teen in Joyride thefts was identified. Clothing stolen from a West Washington street clothesline was returned by a youth. Dennis Halfast was cited for failing to stop at Center and Washington. Gasoline was stolen from a resident's car. Alfred G Hallman sued for 10000 damages over a playground injury on July 1960.
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Tri-State Hardwoods
Pennsylvania Avenue
Jerry McIntyre
Snyder Circle
McIntyre
Erie County
Leon P. Sanborn
West Church Street
Betty L. Stuffelbeam
West Washington Street
Dennis Halfast
Corry
Center and
Washington Streets
Center Street
Scranton Family Retreats to Adirondacks Following Campaign Push
Gov. William W. Scranton and his wife with four children flew to the Adirondack League Club in the Adirondacks after a bid for the Republican presidential nomination. The Scrantons kept to seclusion, traveling by private plane from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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von purGe
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Scranton
Susan
William
Joseph
Peter
Harrisburg
Harlem Rights Strife Continues With Protests and Riots
About 250 gathered in front of the CORE office in Harlem as speakers urged calm and more Negro police. When urged to go home the crowd chanted for justice and then moved through residential areas. Police fired into the air to disperse rioters after a bar melee left five injured, two patrolmen among them, and a bar damaged. Separate unrest in Bedford-Stuyvesant saw 300 to 400 protesters throw bottles and smash a window, with metal screens torn but no looting reported, until police dispersed the crowd hours later.
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Harlem
Farmer
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Brooklyn
CORE
Robber Hits Western Union in Dayton Amid Police Convention
A holdup at a Dayton Western Union office yielded an undetermined cash amount as about 700 police officers gathered nearby for the Fraternal Order of Police convention at a local hotel. Authorities investigate the daytime incident near the convention scene.
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Dayton
Ohio
Western Union
Bible study fight faces funding crunch in Lebanon
The Cornwall Lebanon Suburban Joint School Board warns a funds shortfall could end its defense to keep Bible as a literature course. Attendees were two residents who sued to stop the plan. The district awaits a federal directive and has spent about 5000 on lawyers with only 1100 in a Bible study fund.
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Lebanon
Cornwall - Lebanon
Robe Lux
James N. Shavely
North Lebanon
R Board
Lex
Snagely
Lux
Frederick V. Follmer
Lewisburg
Follmer
U.S. Supreme Court
Department of Public Instruction
DPI
Victoria
Eric
Ebenezer
Supreme Court
Centenarian Mary Collins Hears Plaque Plans
In Linesville Mrs Edmonia Collins 100th birthday was celebrated with talk of a plaque from the local medical society. She recalled a long life and joked about pills and flowers as a century sustaining formula.
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Linesville
Edmonia Collins
Medical Society
Goldwater Avoids Civil Rights Battle At Rally
Barry Goldwater urged avoiding the explosive civil rights issue in the presidential campaign after a Washington rally interruption by Rockwell supporters. He said he would welcome talks with Johnson and favored giving the new civil rights law time to work, while criticizing current enforcement.
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Barry
Lyndon
Rockwell
Goldwater
Washington National Airport
Chicago
Johnson
Senate
Protest Riot At French Embassy in Saigon
In Saigon South Viet Nam about 50 Vietnamese students raided the French embassy late at night they burned an embassy truck tore down the French seal smashed teleprinter equipment furniture and windows A student leader chanted Down with France De Gaulle and neutrality The raid followed another anti French incident in three days including damage to a World War II memorial during National Day of Shame events.
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Jits
Saigon
France
de Gaulle
de Sertud
Erie Man Killed in Thruway Jeep Truck Collision
Erie resident Thomas Hawk, 34, died in a head injury after his jeep was rear ended on Interstate 9 near Summit Township. Dean Sarvey Jr., 96, of Rock Creek Ohio, drove the truck. Hawk’s body was taken to St Vincent's Hospital for autopsy. Deputy Coroner Arren W. Wood said ruling pending police conclusions.
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Erie
Thomas Hawk
Interstate 9
Houte 97
Summit Township
George Kuleina
Mawk
Dean Sarvey Jr
Rock Creek
Ohio
Sarvey
Kaleina
Hawk
St. Vincent's Hospital
Arren W. Wood
Wood
Herbert Lee Phillips
Conneaut
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Hamot Hospital
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East Main Street
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East Street
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Alfred G. Hallman
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Atte
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Russell Stover
South Viet Nam
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Kreitzbender
East South Street
Marian Smith
Meadville
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Turben's Auto Service
Columbus, Pa
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Robert M. Bracken Olin W. Bracken Jr
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