Pothole Parade Highlights Crumbling Village Roads
A Columbus woman, Rolland Chase, and Lindsey Hollow residents describe deep potholes and eroded berms on local roads from Casey’s Corners to Darrow’s Corners and Lindsey Hollow. Bypasses traffic, school buses, and milk trucks use the roads amid ongoing Route bridge work. The Journal plans to forward reader letters and highway neglect concerns to legislators and the Department of Transportation, noting limited road work this year.
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Columbus
The
Journal
Trie Street
Rolland Chase
Casey’s Corners
Darrow’s
Lindsey Hollow Road
Lindsey Hollow
Whitney Run
Erie
Corry
Fourth Ward
Department of Transportation
Three Guards Beat in Graterford Prison Riot
In a Graterford State Correctional Institution riot, 16 inmates seized the maximum security block, beating three guards as thick smoke filled corridors from mattress fires. Authorities retook the area after about three hours with state troopers aiding. seven inmates suffered smoke inhalation and some prisoners and guards received treatment.
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Philadelphia
State Correctional Institution
Graterford
Pottstown
Rocco Arella
Robert L. Johnson
Johnson
Brokenstraw Inn Fire Loss Extends to Kitchen Blaze
Mrs. Joseph Romanosky of Garland, co owner with her husband of the Brokenstraw Inn, is in satisfactory condition at Corry Memorial Hospital after a fire last night. Fire Chief Harold Williams said the fire began in the kitchen range and was confined mostly to that area. Fire crews from Garland Spring Creek Wrightsville and Youngsville worked until about 10 p m with smoke and water damage cited as the main loss. Officials said damage would be extensive and no repair timeline for the restaurant was available.
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Joseph Romanosky
Garland
Brokenstraw Inn
Corry Memorial Hospital
Harold Williams
Spring Creek
Wrightsville
Youngsville
Williams
Homanosky
Pennsylvania Senate Bans Abortions With One Exception
The Pennsylvania Senate approved a bill banning all abortions except when the woman's life is in danger. It would require a three doctor panel to determine medical certainty and imposes penalties up to $3,000 fine or five years in prison, with harsher penalties if death results. The measure now returns to the House, with adjournment set for Monday.
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Harrisburg
Senate
Shapp
House
Marlin Mullen
Philadelphia
Mullen
Henry Messinger
Lehigh
Pennsylvania
Jeanette Reichman
U.S. Supreme Court
Allegheny
Centre Counties
State Supreme Court
Southern University clash ends in deaths and injuries
Baton Rouge AP report: at Southern University's main campus a brief student takeover of the administration building ends with one black student killed and two others wounded as law enforcement uses tear gas grenades to clear the scene. Occupiers exit with hands over heads. no clear culprits identified.
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Baton Rouge
Southern University
State Board of Education
Death Plane Find WWII Joe Kennedy Remains Recovered
Police constable Stewart Evans in Great Yarmouth says WWII bomber wreckage linked to Joseph Kennedy was found buried in Suffolk. The Liberator carried Lt. Joseph Kennedy and co pilot Lt. Bud Wyllie. Kennedy died Aug 12, 1944 during an attack on a German rocket site in France. The discovery includes an engine fuselage section and a wing after six months of searching. The aircraft was to take off from Norfolk, reach the target, and bail out over English soil. An Air Force spokesman declined comment.
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Great Yarmouth
England
Joseph Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Stewart Evans
Kennedy
Suffolk
London
Bud Wyllie
Evans
France
Norfolk
Wyllie
Liberators
Saxmundham
AWS
Air Force
Energy Crisis Hits Corry Area Industries
Energy shortages ripple through Corry with gas restrictions spreading to Viking Plastics and McInnes Steel. Viking plans six month gas cutoffs and will install oil heating. McInnes requires dual fuel systems if expanding. CAIDC notes housing project may heat with electricity due to fuel limits. Electric utilities also warn of potential summer brownouts.
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Tim Pryor
Corry
Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Electric Company
Viking Plastics
McPherson Street
Viking
William Haibach
Viling
Haibach
McInnes Steel
East Main Street
Pennsylvania Gas Company
McInnes
C. Conrad Monroe
Corry Area
North Vietnam Rejects Treaty Changes in Paris Talks
In Paris, Xuan Thuy rejects U S Saigon demands to modify the draft cease fire. Nguyen Xuan Phong pushes for withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops and demilitarized zone as essential terms. Tho travels from Moscow to Paris for what is described as the final round with Kissinger.
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Paris
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Henry A. Kissinger
le Duc Tho
Xuan Thuy
United States
Saigon
Hanoi
South Vietnam
Nguyen Xuan Phong
Phong
North
Kissinger
Tho
Moscow
U.S
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Canal Zone
All Female Abortion Law Commission
Joe Kennedy
Wellington
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Jaycees
Henry Hicks
Kiwanis Club
Hicks
Center Street
First Avenue
Young
An Hoa
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