Alden Scholars honor 204 Meadvill e students at Allegheny College
Allegheny College awarded Alden Scholar status to 204 Meadville area students for the 1968 69 year with a 3.20 GPA or higher. Notables include Gregory Brown son of Mrs Roger Brown. Other local news covers Corry Thiel pledges, local police citations, a bank dividend, and community events.
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Allegheny College At
Meadville
Alden
Gregory Brown
Roger Brown
West Frederick Street
Corry
Thiel College
Greenville
Roberta Jean Swart
Norman L. Swart
Diane Williams
Charles Williams
Wayne Street
Zeta Tau Alpha
Linda Moore
Robert B. Moore
East Smith Street
Alpha Xi Delta
Cover Smuggled Pot With Snakes
Miami AP reports customs agents seized fifty boa constrictors used to cover marijuana shipped from South America. The snakes were packed in linen bags inside five crates and found atop 100 pounds of marijuana crammed into the same bags.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
United States
South America
111 Year Old Texas Woman Dies in Tivoli
Regina M. Hernandez of Tivoli in Refugio County died Tuesday at 111. Born September 7, 1858 near Laguna Seca Mexico she immigrated to Tivoli in 1910 with her husband who died in 1926. She became a citizen at 104 and is survived by two daughters 88 grandchildren and many great grandchildren.
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Port Lavaca
Tex
Regina M. Hernandez
Tivoli
Refugio County
Hernandez
Laguna Seca
San Luis Potosi
Mexico
Eduardo Caballero
Herminia Villarreal
Erie Scout Given Hero's Award for Life Saving Act
An Erie Cub Scout Lewis A. Kocher, 11, received the Medal of Merit from the Boy Scouts of America for saving 7-year-old Edward Mifsud on July 10, 1968. He tackled the burning boy and beat out flames with his bare hands after a flaming sheet of paper ignited the child.
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Erie
Boy Scouts of America
National Court of Honor
Edward Mifsud
Lewis A. Kocher
James S. Stolley
Washington Trail Council
Mifsud
Edward
Lewis
Edward's safety honored amid burn risk and scout ties
Kocher, a Troop 37 member in Wesleyville and once of Pack 62, was honored for preventing severe burns. The change follows attribution by NAMED SPORTS EDITOR TORONTO. Publisher John Bassett announced Scott Young as sports editor. Meanwhile U S helicopters search a jungle clearing northwest of Saigon as North Vietnamese troops attack.
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Edward
Kocher
Troop 37
St. James Church
Wesleyville
John C. Diehl
PTA
Toronto
John Bassett
The
Telegram
Scott Young
U.S. First Cavalry Division
Saigon
Mercer County Man Killed In Car Crash
State police report a 22 year old Mercer County man John Winner of Transfer died early today when his car lost control on Pennsylvania 18 and struck a bridge abutment three miles south of Greenville. Winner recently returned from a year in Vietnam with the U S Army.
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West Columbus Avenue
Dennis M. Consolo
Mound Street
Philip Amoroso
Mead Avenue
Philip Catallu
Amoroso
Catalin
T.A. Hubley
Greenville
Mercer County
Pennsylvania
John Winner
Vietnam
U.S. Army
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Albert A. Sweet
Ajax Iron Works
Meadville City Hospital
Marine National Bank
Ruben
Bessie), Cohen
Pittsburgh
Inlaw
Arthur Cohen
Blank Funeral Home
West Main Street
George Cooklis
Frank Carnegie
Cooklis
Tionesta
Tionesta Volunteer Fire Department
Endeavor Lumber Company
William Walton
Tidioute
Tionesta Ambulance Service
Warren General Hospital
Lake Pleasant United Methodist Church
Floyd E. Martin
Claude Groters
William Sturdevant
Wayne Valley
Cranberry Area
Township Recreational Committee
Aardvark Associates
Hamilton
Gas Company
Texas
Mac
Pennsylvania Gas
Pennsylvania Gas Co
Clenla
MR. Richards
Akes
Evans Sugar & Sue
Center St
Bestform
Evans Sugar ’N Spice
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