Stop-Gap Spending Advances in Pennsylvania Legislature
The House OKs a 135 million stop-gap package to finance general government through July, clearing the Senate Rules Committee. Senate leaders expect quick passage as lawmakers seek a one month budget extension for 1969-70, with an amendment blocking Gov Shafer’s proposed medical aid cutback.
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Hantcoong
Pennsylvania
House
Senate Rules Committee
General Assembly
Senate
Stanley G. Stroup
Bedford
Rules Committee
Shafer
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Skull Look by Naomi Sims Sparks Fashion Debate
Naomi Sims, a 21 year old model, creates Skull Look that draws attention for its bold design and potential controversy in the fashion world. The piece signals a shift toward darker, macabre aesthetics embracing skull motifs.
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Naomi Sims
Prison and labor camps for Panthers in Cuba amid race tensions
The Panthers report arrests and isolation in Cuba with claims of racial discrimination similar to the United States. Johnson cites hijacking, Cuban attitudes, and bans on contacting African embassies while listing four Panthers in Cuba seeking exit.
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Johnson
Panther
Panthers
Black Panther Party
United States
Pary
United Nations
National Airlines
New Orleans
Havana
Cuba
Southern Gram
Shafer
Baton Rouge
Africa
Omar Talif
New York
Byron Moese Booth
Los Angeles
Calif
Earl Farrow
Denver
Colo
Charles Rhaim
Smith
James Akili
Cleaver
Bill Could Narrow Local Government Powers
Pittsburgh report says a pending state bill would curb local authority by restricting tax rates boundary changes property assessments eminent domain and school regulation. Fred E. Hershey of the State Department of Community Affairs warned the measure would limit home rule charters and block communities from defining who is taxable.
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Pittsburgh
State General Assembly
Fred E. Hershey
Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs
Hershey
State Department of Community Affairs
Wolford Joins Callen in Dropping UMW Presidential Bid
Elijah Wolford of Morgantown becomes second candidate to withdraw from the United Mine Workers presidential race. Basil Callen, also from Morgantown, quit on June 9, leaving Steve Kochis of Clarksville as the sole remaining candidate. Wolford will focus on miners health and safety legislation championed by Jock Yablonski of Clarksville, Pa.
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W. Va
Elijah Wolford
United Mine Workers
W. A
Tony" Boyle
Basil Callen
Wolford
Joseph ‘Jock’ Yablonski
Clarksville
UMW
Steve “Cadillac” Kochis
Boyle
Racist Booklets Spark Church Controversy in California
A youth stabbing a policeman is linked to racist coloring books first distributed at Sacred Heart Church in San Francisco and later in Oakland and Sacramento. Reverend Eugene J Boyle condemns the material as crude and unhelpful. Seale says the booklets were conceived in Sacramento and published there. Police policy now allows married women on the force but bars uniformed duty if pregnant. Shop Your Corry Stores.
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Sacred Hearth Catholic Church
San Francisco
Hunters Point
Oakland
Sacramento
Eugene J. Boyle
Sacred Heart
Seale
Police Department
Dutch Blame Insecticide For Rhine Contamination
Dutch scientists claim an insecticide is killing millions of Rhine fish and could pollute water supplies in Dutch and German cities. West German officials say they cannot confirm the report, while authorities investigate a 12 mile Rhine stretch where dead fish appeared last week.
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Duesseldorf
Germany
Rhine
North Rhine-Westphalia
St. Goarshausen
Rhineland’Palatinate
Bingen
Amsterdam
Coblenz
Netherlands
ADN
U.S
Vietnam
Health Service
Lorelei Rock
Rhineland- Palatinate Agriculture Ministry
Franklin Boy Killed in Odd Mishap in Carlsbad
Richard Rick Fenner 14 of Littleton Colorado was killed when a car ran over a yard while he and friend Mark Franz blau walked near Dr A A Franz Klau home in Carlsbad New Mexico. The youths tried to escape the erratic driver and Fenner was fatally run over. The Fenner family had lived in Franklin for years before moving to Colorado last year.
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Franklin
Richard
Rick) Fenner
Mary Ann Fenner
Littleton
Colo
Carlsbad
N. Mex
Fenner
A. A
Franz Klau
Rick Fenner
Mark Franzblau
Rick
Fenners
Carls
Colorado
Denver
Father and son share kidney transplant at Cleveland Clinic
A Lancaster father donated a kidney to his 2 year old son Benjamin Armstrong Jr during a Cleveland Clinic operation. The boy had used an artificial kidney for a month prior and had chronic pyelonephritis. Both father and son were reported in satisfactory condition after the procedure.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Lancaster
Benjamin Armstrong Jr
Cleveland Clinic
Armstrong
Government report cites smoking links to diseases and cancer
A new smoking report reviews evidence since the 1964 surgeon general finding. The National Clearinghouse compiles the annual analysis from global papers, with a focus on lung cancer and other illnesses.
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National Clearinghouse
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