Shafer Backs Sabbath Bill for Sunday Mercantile Hours
Gov. Shafer voiced support for the Sabbath Relief bill allowing some merchants who observe non Sunday sabbaths to operate on Sundays while keeping their shops closed on their own sabbath. Jewish leaders met Shafer in Harrisburg to press passage and religious freedom concerns.
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Harrisburg
Shafer
Pennsylvania
Atty
William C. Sennett
Stanley Miller
Murray H. Shusterman
Philadelphia
Erie County Budget Struggles With 1967 Deficit
County officials report a 1967 start with a 121000 deficit carried over from 1966. A 12 mill tax failed to cover operations, prompting new programs including Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority funding of 197100 and data processing rental of 10000. General wage increases totaling 233000 were approved, with year end projections near 400000 in the red.
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Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority
Clapper
Giant Snow Bunny Builds Snow Eggs in Corry Yard
Three boys from R. D. 4 Corry work on a giant snow bunny with a basket of colored snow eggs during a vacation. Brad Howard age 9, Thomas Neyton age 12, and Mike Neylon age 11 pose beside their creation. Warm weather may threaten the model before Easter Sunday.
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Corry, Yester
Day
Brad Howard
Jan Howard
Thomas Neyton
Mike Neylon
Arthur Neylon
Johnston
Probe to examine bankruptcy of Juliet Gibson Career School
Harrisburg says Justice Department will probe the closing after it took a year’s tuition in advance from 170 Philadelphia students and left dorms heating off. The Houston headquartered chain owed over 1 million dollars with branches in Cincinnati Pittsburgh and Houston. Boston and Philadelphia facilities would be prioritized to pay debts as girls scattered under police protection seeking homes jobs or other schools.
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Harrisburg
William
Sennett
Justice Department
Juliet Gibson
Philadelphia
Isl
Cincinnati
Pittsbrugh
Houston
Boston
Gibson
Gene Marie Cronce
Ethel Moore
Liberty
N. Y
Minnie Furstenfelt
Wilhelmina Bowen
San Francisco
Francis DeMarco
York
Youth Held In Shooting Sent To Warren State Hospital
Coudersport Potter County judge Walter P. Wells ordered an 18 year old Shinglehouse area teen committed to Warren State Hospital for observation after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Merlin Dean Jr. 13. Reed claimed the boy handed him the rifle after a noise, and the gun went off.
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Coudersport
Potter County
Walter P. Wells
Warren State Hospital
Wayne ‘Parker Reed
Merlin Benjamin Dean Jr
R. D
John Chamberlin
Reed
Dean
Scranton Milk Prices Adjusted by Commission
The latest commission order reinstates higher prices with a penny a quart quantity discount for home delivery customers buying six quarts or more. It widens the price gap between home delivered and store bought milk by two cents and sets spring and fall price changes for Class I milk, with a $5.95 per hundredweight season reduction and a $6.35 producer price in September.
Americans oppose 19 year olds draft and lottery plan
AP survey shows broad public opposition to Johnson's youngest first draft and lottery while strong support exists for college deferments. Parents and mothers express fear of sending sons to war. some military men support younger service. The issue splits on deferments and college attendance amid a looming January 1969 lottery.
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Washington
Johnson
Associated Press
Congress
Warren County January Public Assistance Totals $48 063
Warren County residents received $32 707 in January public assistance from the State Department of Public Welfare. Old age 208 people got $19 718, aid to dependent children 256 people $5 077, aid to disabled 34 people $3 996, federal state blind pensions 31 people $3 652, state blind pensions 27 people $2 206, general assistance 18 people $1 057. Vendor payments for medical care totaled $10 820 with $254 for burials and $4 292 for county administration, summing to $48 063.
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Warren County
State Department of Public Welfare
Congress hears from many on draft law as hearings near
Hundreds of letters went to Chairman L Mendel Rivers of the House Armed Services Committee as hearings on the draft law approach next month. Several congressmen reported lighter responses, with estimates as low as 6, 12, or 15 letters.
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L. Mendel Rivers
D.C
House Armed Services Committee
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Aoh
Ine
Gov. Shafer
Shusterman
Pennsylvania Jewish Community Relations Conference
Nathan Reisner
United Synagogue of America
Edward Rovner
Philadelphia Jewish Labor Committee
Alex Wollodh
Ephraim Baker
Solomon Slomovitz
Board of Rabbis of
Greater Philadelphia
Harry H. Rosenthal
Jewish Community Relations Council of
William Brody
American Jewish Committee
David L. Silver
Harrisburg Rabbinical Council
Melvin Glatt
Eastern Pennsylvania Rabinical Association
Gerald Wolpe
Joshua Alder
United Synagogues of Eastern Pennsylvania
al Mellman
Pittsburgh Jewish Community Relations Conference
E.F.M
Crystal Coal CO
Maple Ave
Corry
WSH
Scranton
Col Jeglam
Fort Lauder- Honeydale
Fla
Beach
Coats
Roslin
Mustang
Ng Predge
Ford
Cliff Buesink Ford, Inc
West Smith Street E
Nsee
Corry Journals
Shamburg
Minnick's
Felver
Nichols
Fran & Jim
Al's
Dodd’s Farm Dairy
Ficcardi’s
Morris
Stutzman’s
Palmer's
Union City
Winans
Sparta
Tate's Gulf
Benis
Cutting Neckers
Clymer Orton's
Columbus
Bob Church
IGA
Lord & Mercer
Garage and the Corry Journal
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