Sealing No 9 Mine Ends Hazardous Trapping
Officials say sealing No 9 mine at Mannington West Virginia is completed after 78 miners trapped for over a week. The process fills all openings to cut air flow and extinguish the fire though it risks killing any potential survivors. Corcoran cites no human life possible where trapped. relatives gathered at a church as the community faces tragedy.
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Mannington
W.va
Consolidation Pal Co
Corcoran
James Fork United Methodist Church
No. 9
Matt Menas
Henry Skarzinski
One in Three Paycheck Recipients Live Elsewhere in Corry
The Corry Earned Income Tax Office reported that one third of payroll checks picked up by local workers are sent home to other communities. For the last fiscal year taxes totaled 266000 on 28 million payrolls with 75000 paid to other districts. Collector William Miller expects 290000 next year and about 80000 lost to outside districts. He cites second setting wage settlements and a new Firestone plant as factors boosting employment and tax receipts for the school district and city.
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The
Corry Earned Income Tax Office
Earned Income Tax Board
William Miller
Miller
Two Larceny Cases Probe Cash Stolen From Homes
City police investigate two larceny cases totaling 300 dollars. The Bedow couple report five twenty dollar bills taken from a sealed envelope in Mrs Bedow’s purse last night after they found the purse moved from the kitchen. A second case involves 200 dollars taken from a Third Ward home in September, reported now after a thorough search.
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Gary Bedow
127
Gould Street
Third Ward
James Keppel
Town Raises 18000 For Operation To Help Teen
MELBOURNE Florida community responses to a call for kidneys operation for 17 year old Mike Shankle raised about 18000. Local clubs newspapers and radio stations organized the drive with many donors including the Gannett Florida Co. Most funds were pledged and over 8000 in cash was banked. The family thanks all who contributed.
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Melbourne
Fla
Mike Shankle
Oive
All Gallie
Eee
Gannett Florida Co
Elderly Man Kills Two Then Ends Own Life in Pittsburgh
The coroner reports a 74-year-old man shot two fellow residents in a Hill District rooming house before turning the gun on himself. Victims are identified as Albert Smith, J. G. Pringle, and Stephen Wright, all elderly men in their seventies.
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Pittsburgh
Hill District
Albert Smith
J. G. Pringle
Stephen Wright
Pringle
Wright
UC Youth Cited For 3 Offenses
Police cited a 16 year old Union City area youth, Jerry Fuller 19 of R D 1 Union City, for reckless driving speeding and driving without a license or permit. Fuller crashed on North Center Street. Damage 400. Other drivers cited include Harry Clabbatt 32 of R D 11 Corry speeding Nelson Caldwell 39 Union City red signal Jeffrey Haenel 17 Union City loud muffler Richard Sander 18 Spartansburg loud muffler James Carlson 26 Warren speeding.
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Union City
Jerry Fuller
Puller
North Center Street
Columbus Avenue
Fuller
Merle Ottaway
T. A. Hubley
Harry Clabbatt
R. D
Corry
Norbert Bachomer
Nelson E. Caldwell
Ottaway
Jeffrey L. Haenel
Bachofner
Richard R. Sander
Spartansburg
Bachof
Nev
James Carlson
Warren
Hubley
Erie Teener Charged In Beating Death
A 15 year old, David Clanton, pleaded innocent to murder at a purse snatch beating death of 52 year old Laura Olsen. He was returned from Brooklyn by his father after escaping a reform school, with a hearing set for December 16.
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Erie (Ap
David Clanton
Brooklyn
Clanton
Laura Olsen
Plane crashes while bound for Corry. family affected
A chartered Cessna 172 carrying Mrs. Matalene R. Sharer of Nutley New Jersey to visit her critically ill father crashed on a hilltop near Warren Area High School. The pilot Marvin Hatley and two others survived after winds and bad weather forced an emergency landing at 3 500 feet.
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New Jersey
Corry
Warren Area High School
Matalene R. Sharer
Sussex
Nut
Kathleen
Marvin Hatley
Stockholm
N.J
Hatley
Warren Barracks
Gasoine
Warren
Robert Fields
Death of 16 year old girl in Corry traffic crash
A 16-year-old Corry girl, Jean E. Green, was killed when struck by a westbound car on the Corry-Spring Creek road. A 5-year-old East Street girl was injured after being struck on East Main Street by a car driven by John Decker. Both incidents occurred near Corry. no charges reported against Malek. Nancy Lee Rooney, 8, was admitted to Corry Memorial Hospital with possible fractures after the East Main Street collision.
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Corry
East Street
Jean E. Green
Rob
Art Green
Corry-Spring Creek Road
Joseph M. Malek
Columbus
Corry-Spring Creek
William Barbour
Barbour
Malek
Miss Green
Corry Memorial Hospital
John Brown
Olin W. Bracken
East Main Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Corry Ambulines Service
Nancy Lee Rooney
Ellen Rooney
East Main
John Child
Decker
Police Lecture Kettle Gang Incident Reported
Police were called to the Salvation Army citadel at 4 p.m. yesterday after a group of boys attempted to take money from a kettle at North Center and Washington streets. Officer in charge Robert McCauley and other officials identified several youths and ordered them to stay away from the kettles. The boys denied the accusation.
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Ponce
Robert McCauley
Salvation Army Citadel
Kettle Campaign
North Center
Washington Streets
Sides Ready Charges At Peace Talks
Paris AP dispatch reports Hanoi and the United States file accusations of violations to the bombing halt while talks loom. Hanoi and the National Liberation Front refuse to recognize the Saigon delegation. South Vietnam insists it will talk only to Hanoi. A Hanoi spokesman leveled the bluntest bombing charge yet against U S planes.
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Paris
Hanoi
United States
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
North
Two Girls Beaten To Death In Woods
In Rockaway Township New Jersey police found two girls dead in a wooded area. The victims June Rodriguez seven and Darline were identified after a rock used as a murder weapon was found nearby stained with blood. Darline’s uncle Edward Copensky found the hoodies in a gulley behind their home as authorities searched with about 100 residents after the parents reported them missing.
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Rockaway Township
N. J
June Rodriguez
Darline
Edward Copensky
Rodriguez House
Chestnut Terrace
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Consolidation
Mountaineer Coal Co
John Corcoran
Mod
Atha
Mahan Run
Llewellyn
Skarzinski
Dennis Toler
Erie Teener
Corry Area High School
Frank Green Jr
A. D
Green
Seaman Robert Green Jr
Atlantic
Claude Ayers Sr
Bracken Funeral Home
State Police
Crsonnel
Jean Green
Journal
Rastesttoni
Gee
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