Poor People's Campaign narrows demands to 23
Washington AP readers of the Poor People's Campaign issued a revised 23 priority demands list this week, focusing on food and job programs. Abernathy signaled the 23 could be met by federal agencies, with potential civil disobedience if unmet, as Resurrection City faces morale decline and leadership tensions linger.
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Washington
Ralph David Abernathy
Resurrection City
Abernathy
Tme
Congress
Joseph S
Clark
D-Pa
America
Tornado Kills Ten in Tracy Minnesota
A powerful tornado ripped through Tracy Minnesota killing at least ten people and wrecking up to 300 homes. More than a dozen are missing and over 20 hospitalized with seven bodies recovered overnight and three more found after daylight. National Guardsmen and Civil Defense workers search the debris as two boxcars were blown onto rooftops and streets cleared of wreckage. Emergency generators kept Tracy Hospital operational while water and power were restored.
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Tracy, Minn
Tracy
Tracy Hospital
Minnesota
Marshall and Slayton
Bernard Holm
Holt
46 Years Of Twilight Sleep End At Jamestown
Jamestown woman’s long twilight episode ends with death of Charles H. Jones, 60, who suffered sleeping sickness after being stricken with lethargic encephalitis on February 2, 1922, while a Jamestown freshman.
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Jamestown
Charles H. Jones
Fiery Car Crash Kills Prominent Industrialist
C Layke Sheets 49 owner and president of Layke Tool Co. died at 11 20 pm Wednesday after his station wagon was rear ended near Harrisburg. Sparks ignited the fuel and exploded, killing Sheets who had left on a business trip. The other driver Donald Butzy 37 from Susquehanna Township survived and was hospitalized in satisfactory condition.
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Meadville
C. Layke Sheets
Layke Tool Co
Guys Mills
River Road
Susquehanna Township
Harrisburg
Sheets
Donald Butzy
Polyclinic Hospital
Girl 6 Fatally Injured in Leesburg Car Crash
A six year old girl Tracy Ann Pitzer died on arrival at Grove City Hospital after a car truck collision two miles east of Leesburg. Her father Jeffrey G. Pitzer 22 of New Castle the car driver was admitted in satisfactory condition with a fractured hip. Truck driver John L. Banks 55 of R D 6 Mercer also injured.
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Merch
Grove City
Leesburg
Tracy Ann Pitzer
Jeffrey G. Pitzer
New Castle
John L. Banks
R. D
Mercer
Corry Benefits From Fortunes Top 500 Industries
Corry anchors its economy with five Fortune 500 plants including Firestone Corry Foam and Dow Chemical unit Dowell as well as five of the 50 largest merchandising firms and two top utilities. Firestone leads local rankings at seventh nationwide with Dow Singer Carnation and Agway also in the top 175. Major merchants Sears Roebuck A and P Montgomery Ward Woolworth and G C Murphy rank highly nationwide.
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Fortune
Corry
Firestone Tire and Rubber
Corry Foam, Products Co
Down Chemical
Dowell, Inc
Singer
Jamestown ‘Corp
Carnation
Agway
Firestone
Dow
Sears, Roebuck
Montgomery Ward
F. W. Woolworth
G. C. Murphy
Sears
Missing wife triggers mix up across two men
A Union City man reported his wife missing to state police, listing a woman by name and description. Last night another Union City man claimed his wife was missing, giving the same name. Police found the two men older than the “missing wife” and concluded the reports referred to two different women, with the first husband and the second husband both involved.
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Union City
Corry City
Plane Crash Kills Brother Of Corryite
A light plane crashed in a logging area near Somerset, killing 33 year old Jack Stein a Monroeville pharmacist and brother of Mrs. Arthur Cohen of West Columbus Avenue. Two men aided the victim but he died from burns. Stein had rented the plane from Latrobe Aviation Co en route from Morgantown West Virginia to Latrobe. An Indian Lake Airport instructor reported a radio message that said I am lost then sixty degrees before silence. The craft reportedly clipped a tree, hit a sapling, and burst into flames.
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Somerset
Jack Stein
Monroeville
Arthur Cohen
West Columbus Avenue
Cohen Milly
Stein
Latrobe Aviation Co
Latrobe
Morgantown
W.va
Donald Winters
Indian Lake
Winters
Vietnam casualties could hit 255,769 by year end says AP analysis
U S combat casualties in Vietnam reached 177,716 by June 8, with 24,744 killed and 80,841 wounded requiring hospital care. If trends continue, total casualties for 1968 could reach about 255,769, surpassing Korea War deaths. Weekly averages rose sharply since 1967, signaling possible escalation.
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Washington
U.S. Vietnam
Hanoi
U.S
South Vietnamese
United States
Paris
South Vietnam
First Phase Ends Authority Look At Renewal Reports
Corry’s urban renewal moves toward completion as Erie County Redevelopment Authority and City Council review survey and planning data. Letters of interest from Aero- Dynamics Aero Flow Corry Foam Corportation Wing Division Aero Ajax Iron Works and others show potential sites in Fourth Ward. Final action hinges on compiling John Blackson Associates work and next steps reported.
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Corry’s
Fourth Ward
Erie County Redevelopment Authority
Bea’s Steak House
City Council
Wea
Forndustry
Aero-Flow Dynamics
Corry Foam Products Co
Corry Rubber Corp
al Xander
Ajax Iron Works
Wing
Aero
American Chronicle Company
Corry Bridge
John Blackson Associates
U S Troops Uncover Rocket Sites Near Saigon
U S troops comb the Saigon area uncovering 32 enemy missiles and killing 26 guerrillas. Despite 12 000 allied troops in the region Viet Cong fire rockets into Tan Son Nhut airbase. one American dies and a plane is damaged. Largest cache by 1st Infantry six miles northeast reveals 22 rounds of 107 mm Chinese rockets.
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Saigon
ILS
Tan Son Nhut
U.S. 1St Infantry Division
U.S. 25Th Infantry Division
U.S
Baby girl born with slug in body survives delivery
In Kings County Hospital Brooklyn a four day old girl hospitalized after doctors found a bullet in the womb. Surgeons delivered by cesarean section and x rays showed the infant carried the bullet in the intestines. Police investigate the shooting with no arrests reported.
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New York
Kings County Hospital
Brooklyn
Carlie OrUs
Ater
Ortiz
Gary Siegel
Teachers Lift Sanctions After $44.7 Million Pay Boost
AP from Harrisburg reports the Pennsylvania State Education Association will lift sanctions it imposed on Gov Shafer and the legislature after a $44.7 million teacher pay increase and raising starting salaries from 4500 to 5400. PSEA President Joseph Standa said a formal notice will go to those who received the original announcement. The governor’s compromise bill followed a 20,000-member rally and a March 4 demonstration that pressured funds the union sought.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania State Education Association
PSEA
Shafer
Pennsylvania
Joseph Standa
Johnstown
Standa
House
Senate
PSA
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