Wallace and Taft Force Runoff in Key Primaries
Wallace and Brewer failed to secure a majority in Alabama, forcing a runoff on June 3 as Taft defeated Rhodes in Ohio to face Metzenbaum, with Gilligan winning the Democratic Ohio governor nomination. Taft led after carrying Cleveland area. Metzenbaum led in Cleveland meanwhile. Pennsylvania Gas Company and union workers reached a three year contract with wage gains and upgraded benefits effective May 1 1971.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George C. Wallace
Albert Brewer
Alabama
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
James A. Rhodes
Senate
Taft
Howard Metzenbaum
John H. Glenn
Wallace
Brewer
Rhodes
Melzenbaum
Glenn
John J. Gilligan
Roger Cloud
Cuyahoga County
Cleveland
Metzenbaum
Meizenbaum
Stephen M. Young
Young
Pennsylvania Gas Company
International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers
Afl-Cio
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Pennsylvania
New York State
Erie, Warren and Corry
Baras
Jamestown
New York
Loblaws Opens In Route 6 Plaza With Ribbon Cutting
The new Loblaws store in the Route 6 plaza opened this morning. Mayor Edward Zarger used a meat cleaver to cut the ribbon as dignitaries and officials from Corry Chamber of Commerce gathered for the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loblaws
Route 6 Plaza
Edward Zarger
Richard Dolan
Donald Hunter
Zarger
Ross Bailey
Corry Chamber of Commerce
Joseph Sarnicki
Dennis Frushone
Charles White
Endsley
Anticipated State Surplus Shrinking Reported in Harrisburg
Gov Shafer and Budget Secretary Maxwell disclosed on Tuesday that initial revenue projections show the anticipated state surplus of about ten million dollars is shrinking. The notice comes as officials reassess expected funds against early fiscal data in Harrisburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Shafer
David O. Maxwell
UC Council Sees Quiet Session With Parking Signs and Property Sale
Borough council spent most of the meeting on reports and recommendations. A central communications room air conditioner will be installed. Signs will be erected on Prospect Street for alternate side parking with one side Monday Wednesday Friday and the other side Thursday and occasional open Sundays. The Union City bypass for Route 6 was postponed with no scheduling from the state. The borough agreed to sell adjacent property to Reichbaum for 495 dollars to park his trucks. Police target stray dogs and junk cars, with five junkers removed. Putnam Street residents will be contacted about street improvement damages, with May 16 as a backup finishing date. In unrelated notes, April revenues fell short of estimates, while education tax exceeded expectations by 2.4 million. corporate net income tax underperformed by 88.5 million.
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Ceara Eine
Harold Maynard
Prospect Street
Union City
State Highway Department
Putnam Street
Maxwell
Revenue Department
Viet Cong Kills 40 Americans In South Vietnam
Allied forces opened three new fronts inside Cambodia as Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces struck back in South Vietnam killing 40 Americans and wounding 84. The U.S. Command reported an artillery base attack south of the DMZ with casualties from the 101st Airborne Division and heavy mortar barrages at Firebase Opeth.
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Saigon
Cambodia
South Vietnam
U.S. Command
Demilitarized
101St Airborne Division
Dmz
FBI Adds H. Rap Brown To Top 10 Fugitives List
The FBI expanded its Most Wanted list to eleven to include H. Rap Brown, a 26 year old black militant charged with interstate flight to avoid prosecution. He is described as armed and dangerous. The move comes after Maryland seeks charges and Brown missed a riot and arson trial. The case traces to his 1967 fiery speech and SNCC leadership.
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Washington
FBI
H. Rap Brown
Brown
Maryland
James Earl Ray
Martin Luther King Jr
SNCC
Student National Coordinating Committee
Hales Co
Aoeed
Nation wide college protests over Kent State shootin
Pennsylvania State University closed its 18 campuses as antiwar protests spread across Pennsylvania. At Carnegie Mellon about 1,000 students heard witness accounts of Kent State shootings. Penn, Temple, and Drexel joined demonstrations in Philadelphia while campuses statewide held memorials. In Kent, National Guard withdrawals began while faculty urged halt to classes until control was handed over. FBI and Guard probes continued into the deaths of four Kent State students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania State University
U.S
Southeast Asia
Ohio College
University of Pittsburgh
Cannegiee-Mellon University
Pittsburgh
Carnegie
Mellon
Kent State University
Robert Hart
Army National Guardsmen
Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Penn
Temple University
Drexel Institute of Technology
City Hall
Bobby Seale
Balck Panthers
Selinsgrove
Susquehanna University
Toda
Bucknell Universty
Lewisburg
Cambodia
Lafayette College
Easton
Philadelphia College of Art
Moore School of Art
Haverford College
Washington
Lycoming College
Williamsport
Kent State
House
Gerald Ford
R-Mich
Kent
Ohio
Robert H. Canterbury
Wounded Corry GI Moved To Tokyo
Harrison Keppel son of Mr and Mrs Martin Keppel 204 East Columbus avenue wounded last week in Vietnam has been transferred to a U S Army hospital near Tokyo where he is being treated for injuries to his left leg. He is in good spirits and has talked with his parents by phone and through letters. Two operations have removed shrapnel and repaired nerve damage and muscle injuries but he has no feeling or movement in the limb pending further surgery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison Keppel
Martin Keppel
East
Columbus Avenue
Vietnam
U.S. Army
Tokyo
Keppels
Young Keppel
Keppel
Grand Jury Indicts Chevron On 900 Counts For Oil Slicks
A federal grand jury indicts Chevron Oil Co on 900 counts for willful violations of offshore oil well safety rules tied to a Gulf of Mexico spill 30 miles southeast of New Orleans. Potential fines total $1.8 million. Interior Secretary Hickel pled strict enforcement, while Chevron defends its actions. Indictments mark the first under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act of 1953.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Chevron Oil Co
Washington
Walter J. Hickel
Chevron
Hickel
Louisiana
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf
Warren Legion Donates to Fire Memorial Fund
The American Legion Cornplanter Post in Warren handed over 647 to Corry Fire Chief Alfred Apps for the Stanford Hose Company Memorial Fund. The drive, organized by Duane Johnston and supported by Post Commander Basil Trowbridge, pushed the total to 25 657 with additional contributions pending. Rex Apps attended with his father, amid a group of volunteers and other donors including Mary E. Rochester and Edward Balliett of Hire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren’s Cornplanter Post
American Legion
Alfred Apps
Stanford Hose Company Memorial Fund
Duane Johnston
Cornplanter Post
Warren
Corry
Legion Post
Basil Trowbridge
Post
Chief Apps
Rex
David Apps
Warren Legionnaires
Rex Apps
Apps
Warren Times
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UC Council
South
Temple
Pitt
Allison Krause
Dickenson College
Carlisle
U.S. Army War College
Wilkes-Barre
Kings College
Ohio American Civil Liberties Union
T. del Corso
Ohio National Guard
Benson Wolman
del Corso
Corry GI
ALCOA
Aluminum Company of America
Benton, Ark
K. H. Shaffer
Standard ‘Oil of
California
Warren Legion
Volunteer Fire Association
West Haven
Con
Mary E. Rochester
Edward Balliett
Corry Area
Eerie
Dodd Feries
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