Unused Equipment Waste Found in Defense Study
The Defense Department and McDonnell Douglas Corp. acknowledge at least 12.5 million dollars in waste on ground support gear for the F4 Phantom II. GAO identified costly unused screwdrivers, overpriced tools, unusable cleaning gear, and underused stored items due to weak inventory and screening procedures.
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Washington
Defense Department
General Accounting Office
McDonnell Douglas Corp
St. Louis
McDonnell
GAO
Congress
Air Force
Navy
Army
False alarm on suspected Nazi in Panama peddler
Panama AP report says a man arrested as a possible Heinrich Mueller is not the missing Gestapo chief. Investigations Chief Hector Valdes retained custody while West German authorities may present evidence. The suspect, claiming to be Francis Willard Keith, has thumbprints matching a 1942 Keith and diary and living history in Panama.
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Panama
Gestapo
Heinrich Mueller
Mueller
Francis Willard Keith
Webb City
Valdes
Mr. Keith
Berlin
Francis W. Keith
Panama Canal Zone
Keith
Panama City
Latin America
Martin Bormann
Hitler
Fuehrer
Adolf Eichmann
Argentina
Simon Wiesenthal
Jewish Documentation Center
Vienna
Eichmann
South America
Wiesenthal
MeInnes Strike Vote Keeps Walkout In Effect
About 130 members of the MeInnes Steel Co. Employes Association overwhelmingly voted to remain on strike against East Main street firm after a 12:30 p m Monday walkout over demands for higher base rates. Management called the action a wildcat breach of contract. Picketing has been quiet besides two egg-throwing incidents at the plant.
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MeInnes Steel Co
East Main Street
Ray Griswold
Columbus
Griswell
Frank Carnegie
Appraisers To Begin In Urban Renewal Area
Residents of the Fourth Ward urban renewal area will see activity as preliminary appraisals start within two weeks. John Blackson and Peter Spedding of John Blackson and Associates, hired by the Erie County Redevelopment Authority, will conduct outside property inspections focusing on gas water and electricity utilities. The work bounds First avenue West Pleasant street Lemon street and West Main street. A separate Allied Appraisal Co of Cleveland is conducting a citywide Erie County appraisal. both groups are independent and officially recognized with police approval.
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Fourth Ward
John Blackson
Peter Spedding
Blackson
First Avenue
West Pleasant Street
Lemon Street
West Main Street
Allied Appraisal Co
Cleveland
Local Trucker Unhurt As Big Overturns Near Warren
A tractor-trailer mail truck overturned on Route 6 two miles west of Warren after the driver David R. Sterling swerved to avoid a vehicle that cut in front of him and struck another car. Damages totaled 3000 to the truck and 250 to an electrical pole. no injuries. Joe Rutsky in the auto involved had very slight damage. Sterling, 25, and Rutsky, 21, were unhurt. Police say Sterling tried to avoid further crashes after the collision. In Butler, Jane Ann Mountcastle, 24, recreation director at a home for the aged, has been charged with murder for shooting her estranged husband John Mountcastle, 28. the couple had a five-year-old son and had lived apart for a year.
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Warren
Dan Portzer
David R. Sterling
Snyder Circle
Sterling
Joe Rutsky
Pittsfield
Butler
Jane Ann Mounteastle
Home For the
John
Blue Cross rate hike raises hospital cost fears
Pittsburgh AP reports state Insurance Commissioner David C. Maxwell warned spiraling hospital costs may have to stop and will deliberate a 15.6 percent Blue Cross Western PA rise for at least a month. He weighs Blue Cross finances subscriber ability to pay and hospital cost cuts.
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Pittsburgh
David C. Maxwell
Blue Cross
Western
Pennsylvania
Maxwell
Hospital Council of Pennsylvania
David Stahl
Maurice Louis
Allegheny County
U S Forces Seize Hill Overlooking Dak To
AP dispatch reports U S Army infantry captured the top of a strategic hill overlooking Dak To in central South Vietnam after heavy two week fighting near the Laotian and Cambodian borders. Air war against North Vietnam also intensified as a Pentagon list of targets remained off limits.
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Saigon
Peter Ar
Jnett
U.S
U.S. Infanth
Tryien
Dak To
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Pentagon
4Th Infantry Division
Westmoreland Sees No Early End But Optimistic On Progress
In Washington, General Westmoreland tells Congress the war in Vietnam will not end soon though progress is steady. He doubts a yearly termination and favors accelerating a troop buildup while U.S. and South Vietnamese forces push to seize Hill 1338 near the Dak To valley amid heavy fighting and casualties, with eight thousand enemy troops opposing.
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Washington
William
Westmoreland
Vietnam
U.S
U. S
Johnson
Sen
Henry M. Jackson
Senate Armed Services
Jackson
Richard B. Russell
D- Ga
Its
Hanoi
Tass
Arnett
4Th Division
Dak To
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Rockwell Corp
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Rubery Owen
Thomas Callahan
Association of Mayors of Boroughs of Pennsylvania
Peter J. Page
Bethel Park
Sieze
William Westmoreland
Southeast Asia
Richard Russell
Senate Armed Services Committee
Jerome Davis
Journal
Johnston
Malcolm W. Lewis
East Irving
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