Corry Motorist Blinded by Sun Causes Rural Crash
Corry motorist James Foley of 1218 West Pleasant street told state police he was blinded by the sun before crossing the centerline on a rural road near Elgin and colliding with an oncoming truck driven by Clair Fenno of R. D. 3 Corry. Total damage listed at 850 dollars. Fenno complained of chest pains but did not seek medical care. Separately, Western Pennsylvania temperatures are expected to run above normal for five days with a warming trend into next week and less than a quarter inch of precipitation from showers early next week.
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M Corry
James Foley
West Pleasant Street
Corry
Elgin
Clair Fenno
R. D
Fenno
Pennsylvania
Hoffa Loses Bid For State House Seat In Detroit
James P. Hoffa, 26, Democrat, lost by 154 votes to Anthony C. Licata in a special Detroit state House election to fill Joseph Kowalski’s seat. Licata, backed by Gov. Romney, leads House 55 to 54 after 11,500+ turnout. Hoffa vows to campaign again. Hoffa Sr. is jailed on a jury tampering conviction.
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Detroit
James P. Hoffa
House of Representatives
Hubert H. Humphrey
Robert F. Kennedy
New York
Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Anthony C. Licata
George Romney
Licata
James R. Hoffa
Bill to regulate state rainmaking seeks licenses
In Harrisburg AP reports a House bill proposes temporary regulation and licensing of weather modification. It would repeal county power to ban weather modification, create a cloud seeding advisory committee under Agriculture, and require licensees to compensate farmers for losses from drought or damaging rains. Violations could bring a 10000 dollar fine and the act would expire July 1, 1969.
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Harrisburg
William Shuman
D. Franklin
Department of Agriculture
Agriculture Department
Missing Viet Hero Defects To Cuba
Miami reports Radio Havana says Cuba granted asylum to U S Army Maj Richard Harwood Pearce a Vietnam veteran with top secret clearance who said he left the United States for conscience reasons Pearce arrived with his 6 year old son at Libertad Airport near Havana and telegraphed the revolutionary government while U S officials said they would consider possible legal action but noted Pearce’s army status.
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Miami
Fla
Radio
Pearce
Libertad
Havana
Houston
Washington
State Department
Carl Barteh
U.S
Barteh
United States
Cuba
Bartch
Coast Guard
United States Army
Richard Harwood Pearce
Liberty Airport
Sandra Mitchell
Richard Jr
Mrs. Mitchell
State Run Race Top Issues Showdown On Education Aid
Washington AP report on House debate over a Republican backed school aid bill amendment. Civil rights enforcement officials weigh three paths: accelerate, slow, or maintain desegregation pace across states. Ed Green argues for full civil rights enforcement and nationwide application. Conyers predicts the amendment will accelerate desegregation in all regions, altering earlier liberal views.
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Washington
House
Mitchell
Pearce
Walter N. Pearce
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Atlanta
Birmingham
Cuba
Northern civil rights vote sparks Southern unease debate
The House debated a civil rights enforcement amendment with Rep. Frank Thompson Jr and Republican Leader Gerald Ford remarking on its possible limits in the South. Observers suspected liberal support aimed at making the measure acceptable to Southern lawmakers. A HEW official said the amendment would not affect the South, but may prompt stronger northern desegregation efforts. The body also approved Fountain's amendment requiring full hearings before withholding funds for noncompliance.
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Edith Green
D-Ore
Office of Education
Congress
South
John Conyers Jr. Dmich
Conyers
Peter Libassi
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
North
House
L.H. Fountain
D-N.c
Safety System Failure Causes West Side Freight Collision
New York Central officials say a safety system allowing opposite-direction trains to share a single track broke down Monday causing a head on collision of two freights on Manhattan's West Side. Six crewmen died and six were injured as the fiery crash halted northbound and southbound traffic on a track normally used by northbound trains. The southbound freight had obtained written permission to use the track. the repair procedure is standard and officials could not explain the breakdown.
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NEW York
New York Central Railroad
Upper Manhattan
City Left With Only 1 Policeman in Newton Falls Strike
In Newton Falls, Ohio, more than twenty city workers walked out after a council meeting was canceled. The strike left the town of about 5,000 with only one police officer on duty, as the fire department remained volunteer staffed and the county sheriff offered help for outside calls.
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Warren
Ohio
Newton Falls
John Kelly
North East Ohio Public Employes Union
Harl McGregor
Trumbull
Smoking Contagious Say National Health Official
Pittsburgh AP report shows Dr. Donald R. Chadwick of the National Center for Chronic Disease Control telling a National Tuberculosis Association convention that cigarette smoking is contagious like measles. He cites social pressure and pervasive advertising as driving youths to smoke.
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Pittsburgh
Donald R. Chadwick
National Center For Chronic Disease Control
National Tuberculosis Association
National Clearing- 4 House
Whisky-Drinking Bandits Sought In Brink's Robbery
Police hunt three whisky drinking bandits including an alias Eddie after robbing a Brink's armored truck of 630000 from the East Side First County National Bank. They waited hours inside the bank, then forced guards into an anteroom, scattered evidence, and fled in two cars as a responding officer dealt with the scene. A separate Long Beach suit awarded $70000 in damages to a man who alleged a nine inch surgical instrument was left inside him during an operation. A four alarm fire in Pittsburgh Overbrook caused about 20000 in damages with no injuries.
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Brocton
Mass
Eddie
Brink's
East Side
First County National Bank
Exidie
Long Beach
Calif
Superior Court
Raymond Earl McDevit
Tucson
Ariz
Peter Plechas
Charles J. Churchill
McDevit
St. Mary's Hospital
Waco, Tex
Pittsburgh
South Hills
Overbrook
Unbearable Soviet Life Prompted Svetlana Alliluyeva
Soviet Life 'Unbearable' says Svetlana Alliluyeva describing life in the Soviet Union as unbearable and fate-driving her departure. She writes in the Atlantic June issue about shedding fear and urging others to wake from political sleep. Her son Joseph criticized her decision in Switzerland, while she began the piece after reading Pasternak and reflecting on her country and children. Industrialist Ralph Montague Ferry, 78, prominent ALCOa engineer, died in St Michaels Md after 43 years with ALCO.
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Boston
Joseph Stalin
Soviet Union
Russia
Svetlana Alliluyeva
Atlantic Monthly
Moscow
Joseph
Switzerland
Switzland
Boris Pastrnak
Dr. Zhivago
Pasternak
Michaels
Ralph Montague Ferry
Aluminum Company of America
Ferry
Pittsfield
Mass
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