Sugar Grove man killed on Wattsburg fair track with sulky
Frank Ohmer a 76 year old Sugar Grove resident who loved horses died on the Wattsburg Fair Grounds race track at about 8 30 this morning Possibly killed by a horse he had bought earlier in the month Autopsy may determine if he was dragged to death or died of a heart attack as he tumbled from the sulky A barn attendant said the horse did not appear to be bolting and Ohmer had complained of stomach pains yesterday suggesting a heart condition The body was moved from the Glenn ambulance to local funeral homes for preparation
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Sugar Grove
Wattsburg Fair Grounds
Frank Ohmer
Paul Sita
Ohmer
Charles Matteson
Matteson
Sita
Olimer
Fairgrounds
Bud Stewart
Pennsylvania Department of Highways
Airgrounds
Stewart
Glenn
Glenn Funeral
Union City
Schoonover
Little Street Jobs Highlight City Project Pace
Corry city crews tackle small yet numerous tasks as summer work heats up alongside the major projects like the north end sewer and paving. Parks director Robert Grice notes completion of winter damage cleanup at City Park and plans for elm blight spraying and new sidewalks bids. City engineer David Johnson explains catch basin cleaning, while Spring Street undergoes long awaited storm drainage work in open ditches from West Pleasant to West Church, with more streets listed for preparation.
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Corry
North End
Robert Grice
Parks and Public Property
Grice
Park
Streets
David Johnson
Spring Street
West Pleasant Street
West Church Street
Concord
Grove
West Irving
West Congress
West Frederick
Disorderly case ends in jail time and jaw injury
City police wrapped up a disorderly conduct case from last Saturday night. John Sank, 22, was treated at Corry Memorial Hospital for a broken jaw after an argument on West Main Street. Alvin H Bromley Jr, 22, pled guilty, fined 25 dollars plus 9 dollars costs, total 34 dollars, and promised payment tomorrow. Police said charges will be filed against Sank as he recovered in hospital transferred to Hamot Hospital for treatment.
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John Sank
Corry Memorial Hospital
Sank
First Avenue
Bills Place
Alton H. Bromley Jr
Bromley
Lank
West Main Street
Bill
Porter Auer
Harley Drake
Hamot Hospital
Evie
Red roundup ends Madrid crackdown on suspected Communists
Nearly 100 suspected Communists arrested nationwide in a Franco era crackdown finished as police declare the operation complete. The roundup began in May and included several foreigners among those detained.
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Madrid
Spain
Chicago Lad Ends Fair Bound Trip In Jail
MAYVILLE The county jail is closer to the World’s Fair than before for a teen, Carl Fiorino, 18, of Chicago. He was taken from an improperly registered car in a ditch near Panama by the State Police at Falconer station after an alarm was issued. Fiorino called the arrest a rescue and said he was running out of gas, food and money, and now he will eat.
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Mayville
Flushing Meadows
Carl Fiorino
Chicago
Panama
Falconer Station
Elevator Hunt Negro In NY Ice Pick Slaying
Leonard Simpson, 63, a New York lawyer, was found slain in his apartment building after an elevator ride to the lobby. Police seek a tall gaunt Negro man seen leaving the building on 90th Street near Broadway as evidence points to an ice pick like weapon and a theft motive.
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New York
Selma Simpson
90Th Street
Broadway
Simpson
Victor
Court Orders Action To Reopen Prince Edward Schools
A federal judge in Richmond orders Prince Edward County to appropriate funds within a week to reopen and operate public schools closed since 1959 to avoid desegregation. The ruling requires taxes to be levied and funds raised by June 25, with schools to be run nondiscriminatory and substantially equal to other rural counties. The injunction against tuition grants for private education remains. The board plans a briefing and possible decision by the deadline.
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Richmond, Va
Prince Edward
Lewis
Supreme Court
Virginia
Prince Edward County
Goldwater Leads With 361 Delegates in GOP Count
Sen. Barry Goldwater holds 361 Republican delegates bound by state laws or conventions, exceeding half of the 677 votes in an AP survey. Gov. Scranton retracts a TV debate jab. Civil rights vote expected tonight or tomorrow on a replacing package. Rowley testifies as a Kennedy assassination witness. Niigata oil fires near control. Relief pours into quake city. Prince Edward County must fund schools to reopen.
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William Scranton
Sen. Goldwater
Niigata
Man Killed In Coal Yard Accident At Springfield Plant
Robert Conley, 35, of Markle, Westmoreland County, died yesterday when a pile of coal buried him at West Penn Power Co. Springfield plant. He was cleaning a coal hopper when the coal shifted and collapsed.
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Pipysburgh
Robert Conley
Markle
Westmoreland County
West Penn Power Co
Springfield
Senate Readies Rights Vote in Civil Rights Battle
Washington AP reports the Senate has shifted toward a final civil rights vote after rejecting Southern amendments. A 76 to 18 substitution kept core antidiscrimination provisions while favoring voluntary compliance and state handling of complaints before federal action. If approved, the bill could reach President Johnson soon with House plans to take it up without changes.
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Senate
Washington
House
Johnson
William M. McCulloch
Robio
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Integration Plan Sparks Negro School Demotion in Giles County
Giles County plans to close its two Negro schools next fall and transfer 130 pupils to all white schools with 4,000 pupils. Principal Laurence Leftwich, who has led the two schools for 15 years, condemned the move as discrimination against Negro teachers as seven teachers lose their jobs.
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Pearisburg
Giles County
School —Board
Jpotite
Laurence Leftwich
Route 6 Bypass Delayed Again in Harrisburg
In Franklin at a Pennsylvania Highway Information Association meeting, officials indicated the Route 6 bypass for Corry faces further delay. State officials noted another project on Route 922 is also delayed, and a firm commitment for Route 422 exists. A redesign from 22 to 23 feet wide adds a month or two, with talks of letting a contract around August or September. The delay threatens Corry sewer plans as West Columbus Avenue Cover area prepares for the route.
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Harrisburg
Corry
Pennsylvania Highway Information Association
Franklin
Wil
Fred P. Madigan
State Highway Department
Ergineer
Richard Frame
Highway Department
Erie County
Bureau of Public. Roads In
Washington
Madigan
Columbus Avenue
Goldwater Aims For 261 Delegates In Bid For Nomination
Barry Goldwater has 677 first ballot GOP votes credited by an AP survey with 36 delegates bound by state laws or convention actions. The tally includes 118 from primary instructions, 243 from state or district directives and GOP rules allow delegates to vote their conscience. If Montana's 14 delegates go for him, total could rise though many politicians doubt legally binding pledges.
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Westunurunlar
Sen
Barry Goldwater
Associated Press
Goldwater
Arizona
San Fran
Sco
Montana
Oregon
Wisconsin
California
Scranton Says Delegates Rounding Up For GOP Nomination
Governor William W. Scranton reported progress in his drive for the Republican presidential nomination. He dismissed Allegheny County Chairman Paul Hugus’s claim of up to 20 second ballot votes as baloney and said his late campaign was ripening beautifully as he prepared for the convention with plans to map strategy after arriving in Harrisburg then visiting Indian Town Gap.
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Harrisburg
William W. Scranton
Denver
Colo
Pennsylvania
Gav
Allegheny County
Paul Hugus
Baloney
Hugus
U.S
Barry Goldwater
Scranton
Harrisburg-York State
Mary
Indiantown Gap
St. Louis Wednes
Motorcyclist Killed in Bedford County Collision
Donald Swartz, 24, of New Enterprise, was killed when his motorcycle collided with a truck on a road near Woodbury. The truck driver escaped injury.
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Bedford
Bedford County
Woodbury
Donald Swartz
New Enterprise
State Road Group To Hear Corry Appeal
The newly formed State Highway Commission will hold three regional hearings in Erie tomorrow to gather input on highway needs and priorities. S. A. Long and David Johnson will attend from Corry to press a five point program including Route 6 bypass, a new south entrance for Route 277 traffic, overall Route 6 improvements, North Center street maintenance, and East Main resurfacing. The hearings aim to include many counties and shape a six-year construction plan for Pennsylvania.
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Holiday Inn
18Th Street
Henry D. Harral
Commission
Harrisburg
Corry
S. A. Long
Chamber of Commerce
David Johnson
West Pleasant Street
North Center Street
Harrar
Erie
Armstrong
Venango
Crawford
Warren
Lawrence
Clarion
Jefferson
Butler
Clearfield
McKean
Clinton
Centre
General Assembly
Pennsylvania
Harral
George N. Wade
Camp Hill
Ralph J. Down
Sharon
Harold “G Restink
Louis G. Feldmann
Hadleton
Henry F. Huth
Lan‘caster
Roy E. Furman
Waynesburg
Aberdeen Typhoid Siege Ends After Monthlong Outbreak
Aberdeen health officer Dr Tan MacQueen announced the citys typhoid epidemic is contained with no new infection sources found. Four hundred forty seven people remain under treatment while one death is recorded and the quarantine on tourism is lifted.
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Apenient
Secand
Scotland
Aberdeen
Tan MacQueen
Mac+ Queen
Poland Rejects Western Plan On Soviet Involvement
Poland rejected a West German suggestion to include part of the Soviet Union in a plan to freeze nuclear weapons at present levels in central Europe, the official Polish press agency PAP reported today in Warsaw.
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Poland
Soviet Union
Europe
Pap
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