United States Sets Medal Record At 1968 Olympics
United States finishes with 107 total medals and 45 golds, led by George Foreman in boxing and a dominant swimming diving team. Russia totals 89 medals with 30 golds, while the U.S. basketball team secures gold over Yugoslavia. Alaska altitude blamed by Soviet coach for uneven results amid a wave of world records and controversies.
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Mexico City
George Foreman
Foreman
America
Jones Cepulis
Helsinki
Russia
Tokyo
United States
Gabriel Korobkov
Vera Caslavska
Czechoslovakia
Japan
Henry Tba
U.S
Yugoslavia
Sugar Grove Officials Mum On Cop Firing
Sugar Grove fired its police chief Claude Perrigo of Russell last week but officials refuse to reveal the reasons. Mayor Robert Anderson confirmed the dismissal and said several reasons should not be public. Perrigo had no comment. Unofficial sources linked the shakeup to an altercation in which Perrigo allegedly injured Curt Enos and impeded a deputy. State Police are providing coverage while the borough colors shift.
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Sugar Grove
Claude Perrigo
Russell
Robert ' ‘Anderson
Perrigo
Curt Enos
Enos
Fan
Head Of Truck Firm Dies In Pittsburgh
William Grimm age 67 founder and president of Pittsburgh Johns town Express Inc dies after extended illness at a city hospital. He began in trucking in 1928 and is survived by wife Elizabeth two daughters and a son. Requiem mass set for Wednesday in Carrick.
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Pittsburgh
William Grimm
Pittsburgh-Johnstown Express Inc
Grimm
Elizabeth
Carrick
Veteran Pilot and Passenger Die in Plane Crash Near Midstate
Veteran pilot Robert S. Hykes 44 and passenger Harry A. Mishler 38, both of Bloomsburg, were killed when their single engine plane crashed on Rattlesnake Mountain six miles northeast of Midstate Airport. Turbulence was reported but cause undetermined. The flight was from Washington, DC to Bloomsburg.
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Philipsburg
Atlantic
Rattlesnake Mountain
Midstate
Robert S. Hykes
Harry A. Mishler
Bloomsburg
Washington, D.C
Hykes
Aviation Services Inc
Will Meet To Elect Merged School Board
Titusville and Pleasantville school boards will meet at 8 p m today in the Titusville High School cafeteria to elect an interim committee for the merged district. Seven Titusville directors and two Pleasantville directors are nominated for committee spots to oversee operations after the merger takes effect in July. Nominations were made at separate meetings earlier this month.
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Titusville
Pleasantville
Best Sellers and Book Review Preview in Corry Library
A sample Corry Public Library list features Best Sellers across fiction non fiction and children and a commentary on Herbert Tarr's Heaven Help Us. The review notes the book’s humorous yet serious tale of a rabbi balancing tradition with church fashion and fund raising. It also teases James Baldwin's Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone.
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Vance Packard
Sadaki Nakabayashi
Edwin P. Hoyt
Jean Thompson
Mrs
Bo Jo Jones
Ann Head
Leo Rosten
Richard Bradford
My Brother
Stevie
Eleanor Clymer
Madonna
Rumer Godden
Erik Christian Haugard
Corry Public Library
Herbert Tarr
James Baldwin
Possible floor nominations at tonight's session
It is possible that further nominations will be made from the floor at tonight's session. Nine Titusville directors and 14 Pleasantville directors are expected to be present.
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Titusville
Pleasantville
Derailment Halts Norfolk and Western Train Near Dunkirk
A broken coupling derailed the 78th car of an east bound Norfolk and Western train near Dunkirk New York, triggering air brakes on the remaining cars and blocking several railroad crossings for about an hour before the two sections were joined and moved on.
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Dunkirk
N.Y
Norfolk and Western
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Tommie Smith
John Carlos
International Olympic Committee
Avery Brundage
Chicago
Tre Journal Daily
The
Corry Public Library Committee
Arthur Harley
Couples
John Updike
Topaz
Leon Uris
Heaven Help
Myra Breckinridge
Gore Vidal
Ellie Prinz
Love Thy Neighbor
Israel
Ellie Pring
Bertha Keyes
Lemon St
Wendell Shields
Concord St
E. D. McJunkin
West Columbus Ave
Russell L. Stover
Phoenix
Virginia Henry R. D
Corry
Imperial Electric Dryer
Western Auto
East Washington Street
Frigidaire Bothara To
Barney’s Firestone
Canter Street
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