Striker unrest sparks gas odor incidents in several cities
Meadville reports strong gas-like odor as United Natural Gas workers strike. Fire crews evacuate workers at Pennsylvania Tool and Gages and search for odor sources from the armory to the business district. Authorities say a substance called Stench used to detect gas was dumped near Mill Run, with similar incidents in Titusville, Oil City, and Franklin. Two other harassment acts shut gas service to hundreds. service restored after investigations. A Syracuse fatal crash claims Mrs. Donald McDonald and her daughter Deborah after a guard rail collision on Interstate 81.
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Meadville
United Natural Gas Co
Pennsylvania Tool and Gages, Inc
Cherry Alley
Wolff's Hardware
Wirt's
UNG
Oil City
Titusville
Franklin
Venango County
Emporium
Cambria County
State Health Department
Mill Run
Syracuse
Donald McDonald
Waynesboro
Memorial Hospital
Deborah
McDonald
Interstate 81
Erie Soldier On Latest Casualty List
Washington AP reports Pennsylvania men killed in action in Vietnam. Named are Raymond Krupinski of Erie Army PFC. Neil B. Brown husband of Jessica Brown of Pittsburgh Marine Pfc. Walter P. Bem son of Matelidy Bem of Indiana. Also listed as dead Sgt 1c William F. Rocco husband of Arretta Rocco of Lewistown. a daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. James Clark of R D 2, former Connie Wright.
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James Clark
R.D. 2
Clark
Connie Wright
Washington (Ap
Pennsylvania
Vietnam
Raymond Krupinski
Erie
Army P.fc
Neil 8. Brown
Jessica A. Brown
Pittsburgh
Marine Pic
Walter P. Bem
Matelidy Bem
Indiana
Army
William F. Rocco
Arretta J. Rocco
Lewistown
Stiff penalties proposed for welfare fraud in Pa
In Harrisburg a Bucks County Democrat proposed a bill to punish welfare fraud with fines up to five thousand dollars or five years in jail. Rep James Gallagher cited reports that over 850 Philadelphia recipients admitted duplicating benefits, creating a new fraud category for illegally obtaining funds from the Commonwealth and its agencies.
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Harrisburg
Bucks County
James Gallagher
Bucks
Philadelphia
Gallagher
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Grace M. Sloan
Hold Rites For Mrs Ruth White
The funeral service for Mrs Ruth White was held yesterday at the Clymer Hill Reformed Church with Rev. Russell Esveld officiating. Burial followed in the French Creek Cemetery. Mrs Lloyd Einink and Roger Einink sang Beyond the Sunset with Mrs Raymond Te Winkle as organist. Bearers were Thomas Yaiko Carlton Brumagin Robert White Raymond Willink Melvin Restink James Van Arden. Friends and relatives attended from Sherman Mayville Westfield Findley Lake and North East.
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Ruth White
Clymer Hill Reformed Church
Russell Esveld
French Creek
Lloyd Einink
Roger Einink
Raymond Te- Winkle
Thomas Yaiko
Carlton Brumagin
Robert White
Raymond Willink
Melvin Restink
James van ¥Arden
Sherman
Mayville
Westfield
Findley Lake
North East
Challenge Arbitration For City Workers
A three member federal panel in Philadelphia took under advisement a suit challenging a state act authorizing binding arbitration in labor disputes for police firemen and other city workers. The suit, brought by Herbert Newburg for the Pennsylvania Association of Township Commissioners, seeks an injunction against the act claiming it erodes local tax setting. Defendants include Ridley Township Police Officers Association and Fraternal Order of Police lodges and the American Arbitration Association.
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Philadelphia
Herbert Newburg
Pennsylvania Association of Township Commissioners
Ridley Township Police Officers Association
Delaware County
Fraternal Order of Police
American Arbitration Association
Herbert Fineman
Smut crackdown leads to multiple arrests in Cleveland
In Cleveland three men were arrested in raids described by Chief Prosecutor Clarence D. Rogers as the start of a larger effort to remove smut peddlers. Montay faces possession charges for obscene materials found at his locations, John DeFelice and William A. Holmes, owners of nearby bookstores, also charged with possession. A theater manager, Robert Mullen, was charged after police viewed an obscene film. An East Side building housing Loverign News Co. and World Wide News Co. was padlocked and materials were to be hauled away today.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Clarence D. Rogers
Montay
Rogers
John DeFelice
All Adult
William A. Holmes
Near West Side
Broadyue Theater
Robert Mullen
Lakewood
DeFelice, Holmes and Mullen i
Loverign News Co
World Wide News Co
Supreme Court suspends welfare residence rule nationwide
The high court stayed state welfare residence requirements yesterday and upheld prior suspensions in California and Illinois. The decision follows an April 21 ruling granting indigents access to welfare benefits after establishing residency, with Pennsylvania’s one year waiting period struck down amid a challenge by Leila Waggoner, a seven‑child recipient.
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High Court
Washington
U.S. Supreme Court
Pennsylvania
California
Illinois
Pittsburgh
Leila Waggoner
Supreme Court
Promise Pole Removal To Start Bypass Work This Fall
After a meeting with the highway department and utility personnel in Starbrick, S J Groves superintendent L B Hales said the Route 6 bypass conversion could proceed this fall if Bell Telephone and Pennsylvania Electric meet commitments on pole removal and replacement. Bell and Penelec said they would move and reset the first poles by May 15 and finish the remainder by May 23, ending delays from a prior report that construction halted due to poles not being moved.
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Warren
Highway Department
Starbrick
S.J. Groves
Construction Company
L.B. Hales
Bell Telephone
Pennsylvania Electric
Bell
Penelec
Richard Fox
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It Sportec
Corry Memorial Hospital
John Neiswonger
R.D
Neiswonger
Mary Welsh
Frank’s
First National
Corry
HHH
Hubert H. Humphrey
Citizens Committee On Public Education
Ernest T. Campbell
New
York
Riverside Church
Harlem
James Forman
Light Suit
Forman
Uts
Buick
Adulat
Fast Gas Company
Pennsylvania Gas Air Conditioning Dept
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