Wedding Plans Ended by TWA Crash Victim
William Robertson 46, from Western Pennsylvania, was en route to his wedding when he died in the Cincinnati TWA Flight 128 crash. He had called his fiancée Mary Litchfield in Pittsburgh minutes before boarding in Los Angeles. She learned of his identity from the crash report and attended to identify the body. they had planned to marry at St Michael's of the Valley Church in Ligonier.
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Pittsburgh
Los Angeles
William Robertson
Mary Litchfield
Cincinnati
World Airlines
Robertson
Miss Litchfield
Lawrence Litchfield Jr
St. Michael's of the Valley Church
Ligonier
Andrew W. Robertson
Long Road To Junior Miss For Corry Girl
Sue Grobholz of Corry Erie County pursues the Pennsylvania Junior Miss title with four days of receptions rehearsals and interviews in Reading after a delayed Pittsburgh to Reading flight. She travels with parents and escorts as 29 contestants compete in Governor Mifflin High School Auditorium.
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Sue Grobholz
Corry
Erie County
Reading
Sue Ellen
Erie
Lake Central Airlines
Pittsburgh
Allegheny Airlines
Allegheny
Allentown
United
Governor Mifflin High School
R. K. Grobholz
Robert Personett
Personette
East Lake Jaycees
Kin Of Warren Area Residents Killed In Crash
The article reports a fatal airplane crash near Cincinnati affecting Warren County residents. Beaty Junior High teacher Theodore W. Ochs and his sister were among the victims’ relatives in Warren. The dead include a California couple en route home and 66 victims overall with 13 from Pennsylvania.
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Warren Area
Craan
Cincinnati
Beaty
Theodore W. Ochs
Lucinda
Och
Aletal Anne Ochs
Warren
Edinboro State College
California
Mildred Ochs Manfrey
Rouse
Kenneth Green
Marcellus
Bud) Schmader
Greater Cincinnati
Bombings in Mississippi City Target Rabbi Home and Others
A dynamite blast damaged the home of Rabbi Perry Nussbaum in Jackson, the fourth bombing since mid September and the second in four days. No injuries were reported. The attack follows a September bombing of Temple Beth Israel and precedes other incidents including a Tougaloo College dean’s home and a Negro minister’s residence in Laurel.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Perry
Nussbaum
Temple Beth Israel
Tougaloo College
Laurel
Allen Johnson
Fluoridation Bill Faces Senate Democratic Opposition
In Harrisburg a bill mandating water fluoridation for cities over 20 000 residents meets resistance from most Senate Democrats. Sponsor Albert H Pechan says 50 000 plus populations would start Jan 1 1969 and 20 000 to 50 000 would begin Oct 1 1969. He cites Ford City as a local success with cavities declining.
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Dems
Harrisburg
Senate
Albert H. Pechan
Pechan
Ford City
Armstrong County
House
Journal Today Features Buys For Christmas
Corry Journal presents a Christmas supplement with local merchants offering gift items. Produced with the Corry Chamber of Commerce Retail Division, it invites readers to plan Christmas shopping in Corry stores and notes high quality merchandise at competitive prices.
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Corry Journal
Corry Chamber of Commerce
Corry
Youths Freed Of Murder Charges In Philadelphia
In Philadelphia 12 teenaged boys, ages 14 to 17, charged with murder and related offenses were freed after prosecutors failed to produce key witnesses. The autopsy doctor and two arresting officers did not appear due to an ongoing police emergency. The judge ruled lack of corpus delicti evidence and cause of death established by witnesses.
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Philadelphia
John Cosby
Cosby
Joseph L. McGlynn
James T. Weston
State of
Utah
Wolf
McGlynn
Fourth Anniversary Service At Dealey Plaza Kennedy Site
Interfaith leaders conduct a one hour ceremony at Dealey Plaza marking Kennedy's assassination four years earlier. Dallas officials plan a Kennedy Memorial Plaza two blocks east with completion expected early 1969 after the fifth anniversary.
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Kennedy
Dallas
Tex
Dealey Plaza
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy Memorial Plaza
Dak To Battle Costs Mount As Hill 875 Fights On
US reinforcements push into Dak To amid heavy clashes to clear Hill 875. By noon two battalions held the crest as fighting neared a stalemate after 72 hours, with 79 Americans killed and 178 wounded in the latest phase. The toll since the operation began includes 246 dead and 860 wounded Americans and about 1,290 North Vietnamese killed.
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Saigon
Dak To
U.S
Hill 875
North Vietnam
Senate Passes Massive Social Security Bill to 7 Billion
The Senate approved a sweeping Social Security measure expected to cost about 7 billion in the first full year, with 15 to 59 percent increases for current beneficiaries and larger boosts for future retirees. The bill, sent to conference with the House, faces tough negotiations over cash benefits tax provisions and new welfare restrictions. A Birch Bayh amendment raises the annual earnings limit for retirees to 2,400, adding 600 million in 1968 costs.
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Washington
Senate
House
Wilbur D. Mills
Ways and Means Committee
Mills
Senate Finance Committee
Birch Bayh
Finance Committee
Long
City hires tax collector and clerk for new income tax system
The New City System Hire Tax Collector and Clerk in Changeover article notes a special meeting where William Miller was named tax collector at 1900 dollars annually and Mrs. Fred Schwab as earned income tax clerk at 3000 dollars. They will start December 1 in the Municipal Building, with records turned over by current receiver R. Elwin Fuller and support from the Meadville firm Elston and Keeberg for setup.
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William Miller
Corry Area
Fred Schwab
Citizens National Bank
Citizens Corry
Marine Naonal Bank
Miller
Schwab
R. Elwin Fuller
City Votes to Continue Aid to CAIDC for Third Year
City Council unanimously agreed to fund the Corry area Industrial Development Corporation CAIDC for 1968 with 774.40 and to pay the 1967 amount of 774.40. The delay in 1967 followed confusion from shelving of the Erie County Industrial Development Corporation which previously received the 10 cents per capita noted by the annual payment. Council had delayed action in 1967 but moved this week to support the local agency amid reminders from CAIDC.
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Corryrea Industrial Development Corporation
CAIDC
Erie County Industrial Development Corporaton
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Journal Today
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Dallas-Fort Worth
Gerald J. Klein
Texas School Book Depository
Warren Commission
Elm Street
Parkland Hospital
Dak
Ia Drang Valley
Plei Mei
New
Johnston
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