Paratroopers and local incidents highlight Erie area life
Army Cpl. Marc Snell from Erie served in Vietnam as the sole local serviceman noted. A North Center Street man and a Wattsburg resident faced family disputes. Donna Brown reported parking sign damage. Hospital listings misnamed Brian Titch’s parents. Three runaways from St Joseph’s Home were found near Corry and returned by authorities.
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Pentagon
Pennsylvania
Vietnam
Army
Marc
Snell
Frederick R. ‘Snell
Erie
Cpl. Snell
John McLaughlin
North Center Breet
Corry Memorial Hospital
Brian Titch
Paul Titch
Clair Titeh
Back LBJ Move To Spare Dole From Spending Cut
Washington AP report notes President Johnson seeks to exempt federal welfare payments and farm price supports from the 6 billion spending cap. House support grows as Rep. George H. Mahon says exemptions are uncontrollable items. Rep. Wilbur Mills not opposing Mahon’s plan. About 1.2 billion involved. The cap covers 180.1 billion for the year ending next June 30, with exemptions for Vietnam costs and uncontrollable items like debt interest and Social Security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Johnson
House
George H. Mahon
Tex
Appropriations Committee
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Ways and Means
NYC Teachers Balk Over Job Security
New York City Board of Education plans a firm offer on job security to the United Federation of Teachers to end a day-old strike that has halted the nation’s largest public school system. Union president Albert Shanker says the strike will continue despite a court injunction under the Taylor Law. The dispute centers on decentralization plans, class size assurances, and protections against local boards overriding citywide understandings.
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New York
Board of Education
Albert Shanker
Sae
UFT
Brooklyn
Donovan
Jone Uipt
Stripper Vel Blaze Free After Indecent Exposure Trial
Vel Blaze, 44, a redhaired stripper and mother of five from Atlanta, was acquitted by an all male jury in Savannah Beach on indecent exposure charges. The trial followed her May 3 arrest after a Black Lace Lounge performance as officers testified the costume was similar to beachwear.
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Savannah Beach
Velvet Blaze
Miss Blaze
Betty Lou Jones
Atlanta
Robert, J. Dubby
Carmen Baby Hearing Set For Theater
A U S District Court hearing is set for Friday after Somerset County Drive-in Theater sought an order to continue showing the film Carmen Baby. State police seized the film August 19 at the request of the district attorney who charged obscenity. The theater owner John F Betters and Amsterdam Film Corp filed suit asserting lack of prior obscenity determination and irreparable financial loss. The petition noted that courts in Rhode Island and New Jersey had said the film was not obscene.
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Errasance
U.S
Somerset County
Somerset County Dist. Atty
Alexander Ogle
John F. Betters
Amersterdam Film Corp
New
Democrats dispute Sennett claim organized crime lacks safe haven
Harrisburg report notes Rep. Herbert Fineman charging state AG William Sennett overstated organized crime reach in Pennsylvania. Sennett countered by citing cooperation among the Crime Commission, state police, and district attorneys, pointing to arrests, a Schuylkill County horse race operation, and a Westmoreland prostitution probe alongside a wiretap bill pending in the Senate.
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Harrisburg
William C. Sennett
Pennsylvania
Herbert Fineman
Democratic House
Sennett
National Crime Syndicate
Pennsyvania
Cosa Nostra
Commonwealth
Shafer
Oy. Shafer
Pennsylvania Crime Commission
Schuylkill County
Westmoreland County
Law and Order
Murder charges held after Kentucky interracial gun battle riot
Thirteen men including eight whites and six Negroes were ordered held on murder charges after an interracial gun battle Labor Day in Berea near Richmond Kentucky. Two men were killed, Elza V. Rucker and Leno J. Boggs. Authorities reported 14 weapons were seized and hearings set for Oct 23 before a county grand jury. The incident followed a rally by the National States Rights party and divided testimony on who fired first. Local committees and Berea officials condemned hate groups.
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Richmond
Labor
Madison County
Robert Turley
Kentucky
Tuley
National States’ Rights Party
America
Berea
Ohio
Georgia
John Nixon
States’ Rights Party
Homer Baker
Nixon
Elza V. Rucker
Lexington
Leno J. Boggs
Rucker
Connie Lynch
Savannah
Berea Common Council
Atlanta Garbage Strike Deepens With Arrests In Sit Down
In Atlanta a police crackdown saw 67 people arrested as striking sanitation workers, led by civil rights figures including Rev. Ralph David Abernathy and Fr A D King, joined a sit down to block a city garbage truck amid 17 hour patrols and emergency pickup.
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Atlanta, Ga
Ralph David Abernathy
Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Martin Luther King Jr
Memphis
Tenn
A. D. King
Andrew J. Young
SCLC
University Band Scrambles After Cold War Cancelation
The University of Minnesota concert band faces loss after the planned Soviet cultural exchange was halted by Cold War tensions. A 60 member group prepared to tour, but the invasion of Czechoslovakia and U.S. government action left them with surplus items and no trip.
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Minneapolis
Minn
University of Minnesota
Soviet Union
United States
Czechoslovakia
U.S
Frank Beneriseutto
Gopher
Lurch
Columbia University seeks dismissal of riot trespass charges
Columbia University asks the courts to drop criminal trespass charges against about 400 students arrested during spring demonstrations over a gym at Morningside Park and ties with a defense research agency. Trustees chair William Petersen says leniency could ease tensions and allow action.
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NEW York
Columbia University
William ©. Petersen
Morningside Park
Department of Defense
Waltham Buys Bronze Firm in New Castle
The sole U.S. maker of aircraft clocks, Johnson Bronze Co., has been acquired by Waltham Precision Instrument Inc. of New York. President Edward M. Flaherty said the deal, for an undisclosed price, should close before September and Bronze will continue as an independent unit. Bronze makes bushings and bearings and employs about 100 people.
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New Castle
Johnson Bronze Co
Edward M. Flaherty
Bronze
Waltham Percision Instrument, Inc
New York
Flaherty
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Wattsburg
Fels
Donna Brown
South Center Street
Corry
St. Joseph's
St. Joseph's Tome
LBJ
Dole
Nyc
Carmen
LA Faz
Bolivia
Rene Barrientos
Barrientos
Lisbon
Antonio Salazar
Ipswich
Mass
Crane Reservoir
Auveriaed
Captain Kangaroo
Carrig
North Center Street
Dems
Joseph Lowery
Hosea L. Williams
Morton Shapiro
American Federation of State, County and Municipal
Newport Beach
Calif
Mamie van Doren
Lee Meyers
Los Angeles
Miss van Doren
Meyers
Dallas-Fort Worth
Waltham
Erie, Corry
Titusville
Marine Bank
Marine
Pennylvania
Marine National Bank
Coarry, PA
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