Meadville Officials Push Senior Housing Plan and Other Local Updates
City officials move to submit revised plans for a $1.674 million five story senior housing project to the Philadelphia HUD regional office. Meadville Housing Authority leaders and Meadville City Council pledged support to advance the project this year. County troopers investigate a hit and run after Marinus Christensen Sr. was found injured. police cite Dennis May for speeding on Wayne Street. A stolen red Firestone bike with 20 inch wheels is reported by Gregory Deogard. An early morning yacht fire at McAllister’s Yard causes $12,000 in damages. Cory Area Industrial Development Corp. meeting moved to March 13 at Hotel Carry. Municipal police training courses announced for Cory officers. Mayor Furst intends to enroll many officers. City Solicitor Rozelle cleared to close purchase of the former Mountain Keystone Station for about $13,000. Five year old Barry Clark sustains scalp laceration from a fall at home, treated and released.
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Meadville Housing Authority
Philadelphia
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Madge Larson
Authority
Meadville
Gregory Deogard
East South Street
McAllister's
East Bay
Erie
E. C. Smith
Cleveland
Ohio
Council
Douglas Rozelle
Mountain Keystone
Rozelle
New Design to Perform at Evangelical Banquet
Nine students from Houghton College will headline the Evan gelical United Methodist Church Youth Fellowship spring banquet with the theme Star Trek. Rev. John Olexa will speak as the event kicks off a series of youth meetings through March 13. The group will also sing at Sunday services. Memorial fund established for Donald Tinko of Corry Area High School Class of 1965 who died in Vietnam. donations directed to Thomas Downey or Kathy Dennis.
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Donald Tink
Vietnam
Tinko
St. Thomas Church
Houghton College
Houghton
N.Y
Evangelical United Methodist Church Youth Fellowship
John Olexa
Corry Area
Donald Tinko
Thomas Downey
North Center Sreet
Kathy Dennis
West Frederick Street
Meir weighs ally status amid Dayan split in Mapai
Mrs. Golda Meir, a Mapai labor faction figure, faces a decision after Levi Eshkol's death. Officials say she will announce her stance on Dayan this Thursday as she contemplates her role in Israel’s cabinet and party leadership. Meir, born Golda Mabovitz in Milwaukee to Russian emigrants, has long shaped Zionist and labor movements and served as labor minister and foreign minister.
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Pave
Palestine
Women’s
Hagadah
Meir
Politcal Department
Jewish Agency For Palestine
Isad
Moscow
David Ben-Gurion
Black Panthers Picket In Erie Tn Rent Hassle
An orderly protest in front of Erie city hall drew about 10 pickets led by Neal Morrison over low rent housing. Police said the leaders are known Black Panthers with police records, as they demand a federal approved plan for three apartment complexes totaling 100 to 200 units or smaller 20 to 50 unit buildings.
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ERIE
Neal Morrison
Mario Bagnoni
Morrison
Mrs. McKay 90 Dies After Prolonged Illness
Mrs. McKay aged 90 of Spring Creek died after a long illness. Born January 27, 1878 in West Spring Creek Warren County, she taught in local schools and was a Spring Creek Congregational Church member. Survived by sons R Paul and C Neil McKay, services at Bracken Funeral Home with burial at David Curtis Cemetery Columbus. Memorials to Spring Creek Congregational Church.
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McKay
Spring Creek
West Spring Creek
Warren County
Kane High School
Edinboro
Bracken Funeral Home
Joseph Bodie
Sirhan Sirhan Defense Details Family Testimony
The defense depicts Sirhan as scarred by war and exile in the late 1940s and early 1950s, claiming his mind was crippled to plot Kennedy's murder. His mother Mary and brother Adel recount poverty, bombardments, and a soldier’s dismembered death as Sirhan’s memories.
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Elizabeth Evans
Iran Goldstein
William Weisel
Sirhan
Kennedy
Cooper
Palestine
Mary
Adel
City Poised to Resume Residential Sidewalk Program
City officials consider a $200000 revolving fund to finance sidewalk improvements. The plan would recover city costs via assessments as work completes, with city share about $54000 and interest around $27000 over five years. If adopted, total annual debt service and reserve costs rise from $77,730 in 1969 to $99,893 in 1973.
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David Johnson
Berlin Cold War standoff shapes West Berlin transit
The text describes a stalled exchange over moving West Berlin’s election site, with Ulbricht rejecting Bonn’s offer and insisting West Berlin remains separate from West Germany. It notes no Western air incidents reported in the three corridors, while communist jets left vapor trails. a British airliner harassment rumor is denied. The autobahn linking West Germany and West Berlin faced closures by East Germany.
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Ween
East Berlin
Bonn
West Berlin
Ulbricht
West Germany
East Germany
Hold Rites For H. L. Johnson
Funeral services for Henry L Johnson were conducted at Bracken Funeral Home with Rev Zenas Bean officiating. Burial followed in Spring Creek Cemetery. Honorary pallbearers included Frank Kafferlin Chandler Mason Glen Donaldson and Walter Whaley. Active pallbearers were Everett Greeley Paul McKay Kenneth Pitt William Kafferlin William Donaldson and Norman Mitchell. Local residents traveled from Ripley N Y Fort Wayne Ind Kane Dearborn Mich Warren and Meadville to attend. A separate note mentions East German border tensions with renewed Warsaw Pact maneuvers and increased checkpoint controls.
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Henry “L. Johnson
Bracken Funeral Home
Yeaterday
Zenas Bean
Meadville
Wayne Jones
Ripley
N.Y
Charles Johnes
N. Y
Charlea Johnson
Fort Wayne
Ind
Florence Peabody
Kane
Joel Peabody
Dearborn
Mich
Warren Gilson
Mae Wood
Pearle Brown
Warren
Iva Daniels
Joseph Leech
C. A
Reconnaissance Identifies PT76 Tanks Near Kontum Region
A spokesman said recon helicopters and photos identified light Soviet PT76 amphibious tanks, about 15 tons, armed with a 76mm gun and a machine gun, at Ben Het Special Forces Camp 24 miles northwest of Kontum and near the tri-border area. Earlier reports misidentified them as larger T3485s with an 85mm gun. It marked a second North Vietnamese use in the area.
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Ben Het
Kontum
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Laos
Assault at Lang Vei Camp Led by Tanks and APCs
In February 1968 infantrymen supported by a column of 15 PT7és and armored personnel carriers overran Lang Vei Special Forces Camp near Khe Sanh in northwest South Vietnam. Three tanks and four APCs strayed before allied defenders withdrew from the camp.
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Lang Vei
Khe Sanh
South Vietnam
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Corry
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Joseph Furst
Cory Police
Barry
Paul Clark
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Nixon
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