Agnew to Dedicate Confederate Monument Amid Controversy
About 100000 expected at Stone Mountain Georgia for a dedication ceremony led by Vice President Spiro Agnew to honor Confederate leaders. President Nixon was set to speak but canceled due to world affairs. controversy surrounds Agnew’s selection. In other items, Cardinal Wright urged priestly marriage remains immature, and protests against Nixon policy surge nationwide, with 437 colleges on strike or closed.
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Spiro T. Agnew
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Mass
Harvard
Virginia
University of Wisconsin
Missing Columbus girl triggers state police teletypes
A 12 year old Columbus girl Cindy Carol Newman is missing. State and city police search with likely companions Randy Lang 18 and an unnamed second youth Ted Beckwith. Newman is described as five feet four inches tall and 127 pounds wearing blue and white striped shorts and a white blouse with a windbreaker. Police urge sightings be reported to nearest agency.
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Cindy Carol Newman
Beverly PcQueen
West Main Street
Bear Lake
Randy Lang
B.D. 3
Corry
Ted Beckwith
Lang
Beckwith
Corry Rubber Workers Gift for Salvation Army Memorial Room
Employees of the Corry Rubber Co contributed over $1,000 to fund a memorial room for the Salvation Army Citadel campaign. The note includes a caption “Showm left to right.”
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Corry Rubber Co
Salvation Army Citadel Fund
Israelis Bomb Bases Near Lebanon Border in Raid
Israeli warplanes attacked guerrilla bases on Lebanon's western Mt Hermon slopes for 90 minutes amid cross border fire. Eyewitnesses reported heavy aerial activity and artillery exchanges as Israeli leaders warned that actions would replace warnings.
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Tel Aviv
Secantire Ninene Arab
Lebanon
Mt. Hermon
Israel
Arca
Corry Industry Supports Memorial and Salvation Army Fund
Members of the Industrial Division of the Corry Chamber of Commerce met at noon to back the Stanford Hose Memorial Fund and the Salvation Army campaign for 100000 dollars toward a 300000 dollar citadel. They dropped plans for a foundation and considered a living memorial via Corry Memorial Hospital equipment, but chose memorial contributions. The five man memorial fund board plans legal incorporation to ensure perpetuity and a formal framework.
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Corry Chamber of Commerce
Stanford Hose Memorial Fund
Salvation Army
Corry Memorial Hospital
Memorial
Memorial Fund
Open 8th War Front Against North Viets
Saigon reports 2500 additional American troops enter Cambodia to open an eighth front against North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces. Elements of the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, aided by Sheridan tanks and armored personnel carriers, push west of Saigon and reach toward Pleiku in the Central Highlands as a broad sweep continues. Reports say more forces may be found, with ongoing battles across the western Cambodia border and northern mobilizations.
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Saigon
Cambodia
U.S
Sea's Drugs Sold to Eckerd's in Corry Plaza Opening
Arnold Seastead owner of Sea's Drugs announces sale of the pharmacy and health beauty line to Eckerd Drugs. The Eckerd store opens next Wednesday in Corry Plaza on Route 6 bypass with Seastead retaining the North Center street shop offering greeting cards stationery candy and gilt items. Seastead will manage the new outlet as Seastead's with Marion Rowley as manager. Eckerd operates since 1698 and expands to its 16th store under John M Cochran.
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Sea's Drugs
Eckerd Drugs
Corry Plaza
Route 6
Seastead
Corry
Eckerd
Jamestown
North Center Street
Marion Rowley
Seastead’s. Seastead
John M. Cochran
Erie
Pennsylvania
New York
Sherwin-Williams
Pickum Shoe
Kendall
North Center
East Washington Nd
Wednana Ree
Nixon Defends Policy Amid White House Protests
President Nixon defended his Southeast Asia policy at a nationally broadcast news conference while agreeing to listen to thousands of demonstrators gathered near the White House to protest U.S. involvement in Indochina. He suggested a possible face to face meeting with some protesters and stressed his Cambodia action aims to shorten the war and enable withdrawal, as Agnew toned down remarks to cool tensions.
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Nixon
Southeast Asia
White House
U.S
Indochina
Cambodia
Pennsylvania Avenue
Executive Mansion
Spiro T. Agnew
Boise
Idaho
Agnew
United States
Walter J. Hickel
Gou
Vietnam
Tagree
Mobe
Washington Monument
Thousands protest in Washington against Vietnam War
In Washington thousands of mostly young dissenters gathered near the White House to demonstrate against U.S. policy in Southeast Asia. Officials prepared for possible violence while urging nonviolence as Nixon urged peace and offered potential talks.
State Mounts All Out Battle To Retain Penn Central Service
An all-out effort to save intercity passenger rail service in Pennsylvania will be presented in five cities starting Wednesday in Philadelphia. Governor Shafer announced a task force of cabinet officers will lead the commonwealth’s case at Interstate Commerce Commission hearings. Penn Central proposes to eliminate rail service west of Harrisburg and cut Philadelphia to Harrisburg by 50 cents.
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Pennsylvania
Commonwealth
Philadelphia
Raymond P. Shafer
Public Utility Commission
George S. Bloom
Interstate Commerce Commission
U.S. Custom House
Penn Central Transportation Company
Harrisburg
Robert G. Bartlett
William T. Schmidt
William C. Sennett
Joseph W. Barr, Jr
Clifford L. Jones
Bloom
ICC
Penn Central
Ath
Altoona
Pittsburgh
Erie
St Thomas School seeks lay teachers to fill shortage
St Thomas School launches parish fund drive to hire lay teachers for next fall. Joseph Sarnicki and John Lutz lead the effort as Rev Cooper says salaries must match public schools to attract workers. The diocese notes women religious once teaching are now entering other fields, threatening staffing.
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St. Thomas School
Sisters of Mercy
Joseph Sarnicki
John Lutz
Cooper
St. Thomas Parish
Erie
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