Jury Chosen For Trial Of Ex-Phila Newsman Karafin
Jury selection started in Philadelphia for former Inquirer reporter Harry Karafin charged in 204 counts with blackmail and corrupt solicitation. Atty Richard Sprague outlined 62 witnesses as three consolidated cases cover attempts to extort 150000 from officials, a teachers group, and the First Pennsylvania Bank. Judge Robert N C Nix Jr. rejected motions for separate trials.
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Philadelphia
Harry J. Karafin
Karafin
Philadelphia Inquirer
Dist. Atty
Richard
A. Sprague
Sylvan Scolnick
Sprague
First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Ca
Robert N.C. Nix Jr
Humphrey and Nixon clash over nuclear treaty and Biafra policy
Senate race rhetoric centers on U S troop reductions and nuclear weapon treaty provisions. Humphrey accuses Nixon of mixed signals while Nixon criticizes diplomacy over the Biafra crisis, urging Johnson to act boldly to save lives amid scarcity.
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Dean Rusk
Washington
U.S
Humphrey
Nixon
Biafra
Johnson
America
Jointure closers eyed for merger with Elgin area
Dr. John Mohr announces the Jointure is nearing the state mandated minimum of 4,000 pupils, the sole potential hurdle to the merger of Township Concord Township and Elgin borough. Merger would simplify operations and reduce costs, with local directors eager to proceed.
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Page One
Concord Township
Elgin
John Mohr
Commissioner Jailed On Bribery Charges
Former Gay Water Commissioner James L. Marcus receives 15 months in prison for bribery conspiracy involving kickback schemes. Marcus, son in law of former Connecticut Gov. John Davis Lodge, pleaded guilty and cooperated with prosecutors in the case. He began his sentence after muting in federal court as Judge Edward Weinfeld cited his breach of public trust.
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NEW York
James L. Marcus
Marcus
Iintaw
Connecticut
John Davis Lodge
Edward Weinfeld
Weinfeld
Markus
Daley defends police actions at convention amid TV probes
In Chicago Daley defended police handling of antiwar demonstrators while charging media with exaggerating force used during the Democratic convention. He noted a one hour balance program planned for Sept 15 to air on 47 stations including Metromedia and WGN. Honolulu records a record hot spell with 52 days at 90 or above.
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NBC
Maysor Richard J. Daley
Metromedia
WGN Continental
Daley
Vey Daley
Gas firm wins price boost to pay income tax hike
Harrisburg AP reports Peoples Natural Gas Co backed by Pittsburgh will charge an extra 90 cents to 2.56 yearly for 288,000 customers to offset a 1/40 tax surcharge. The PUC granted 1.1 million of a 6.2 million rate increase to cover the tax, affecting Allegheny and 15 western PA counties. Non heating customers rise about 80 cents. heating customers pay 2.56 more. The tax-offset idea was rejected atop the general rate hike. Hearings resume Sept 18 as the agency finalizes the remainder of the proposal. Funeral services were held today for Dr. Kenneth M. Day, ear surgery pioneer and founder of Eye and Ear Hospital’s audiology department. He died yesterday at his Shadyside home at age 7.
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Harrisburg
Peoples Natural Gas Co
Pittsburgh
Public Utility Commission
Peoples
Allegheny
Pennsylvania
PUC
Kenneth M. Day
Eye and Ear Hospital
Day
Shadyside
Push Nuclear Treaty Passage
Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged to act quickly on a nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Senator Albert Gore junior urged swift passage as the White House pressed for approval amid East European upheaval. The pact requires two thirds in the Senate and aims to curb the spread of nuclear arms while allowing peaceful energy cooperation.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Albert Gore
Dtenn
Congress
Johnson
Senate
East Europe
Mike Mansfield
Dean Rusk
U.S
Gore
United States
Russia
Heart Donor Gave Birth To Child Before Death
CAPE TOWN AP A hospital bulletin reports the heart of a dying donor was used for Pieter Johannes Smith and a baby was delivered in the operating room just before the donor died The donor was unnamed and reports about her age race and tribe were disputed by hospital officials The infant was born while the heart was transplanted and survived with the recipient in good progress
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Cape Town
South Africa
Pieter Johannes Smith
Die Burger
J. G. Burger
Groote Schuur Hospital
Burger
Mra
Mambusha Dawushe
Transkei
Cape ‘Town
Smith
Walt Disney stamp to honor creator in Marceline
In Marceline Missouri a commemorative stamp for Walt Disney will be issued Wednesday. Disney spent part of his boyhood in the town and the ceremony will be attended by Disney widow Roy Disney Postmaster General Watson Gov Hearnes Sen Long Rep Hull and Santa Fe president John Reed. The governor has proclaimed Wednesday Walt Disney Day. The stamp shows Marceline as Disney lived there from ages five to nine with a boy drawing on a pad in the foreground and a fishing pole. Disney was born in Chicago in 1901 and died December 15 1966.
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Disney
Marceline
Walt Disney
Missouri
Roy Disney
W. Marvin Watson
Warren E. Hearnes
Edward V. Long
W. R. Hull Jr
John S. Reed
Santa Fe Railway
Chicago
Venezuelan authorities bar Daniel C-Bendit from entering
Caravas Venezuela AP Daniel Bendit known as Danny the Red leader of this year’s French student revolt was not allowed to leave the jetliner after arriving in Caravas government sources said he was aboard the aircraft and barred from entering the country due to restrictions on his movements.
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Caravas
Venezuela
Daniel
Danny the Red
Colin- Bendit
Coln-Bendit
Sabotage Ruled In Guard Blast
A series of explosions at the California National Guard Armory in Van Nuys damaged four 24-ton trucks and destroyed a fifth. No injuries were reported. Sgt. R J Reynolds said guses and fuses were found in damaged and undetonated devices. FBI joined the arson probe as police and fire departments investigated the 1 40 a m blasts in the motor pool of the 4th Battalion 14th Artillery.
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van Nuys
Calif
California National Guard
R. J. Reynolds
14Th Artillery
Reynolds
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Cohn-Bendit Invited to Caracas by Student Group
The plane flew on to Lima where Cohn-Bendit had been invited by a student organization in Caracas and planned a two day stay.
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Lima
Cohn-Bendit
Caracas
Negroes Roam Streets In Syracuse
In Syracuse a night of unrest saw small groups of Negro youths roaming the South Side for over seven hours hurling rocks and debris at cars. Four injured were reported from a prior Sunday disturbance. A liquor store and two other shops were looted. two teenagers were arrested. Police used tear gas Sunday but not in this latest trouble.
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Syracuse
N.Y
South Side
New Negro Group Charts Future for African American Progress
Philadelphia AP U S District Judge Leon Higginbotham head the American Foundation of Negro Affairs opened the five day conference urging delegates to think before polarizing. He urged building black economic power to aid entry into full society as the convention aims to chart a 10 year plan for Negro progress.
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Philadelphia
American Foundation of Negro Affairs
U.S
Leon Higginbotham
Foundation
Higgishot J
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