Funeral rites for Harold M. Thompson observed in Wilmington
Harold M. Thompson a Spartansburg area native who lived in California 42 years retired from Richfield Oil Co. A sister in law Mrs Milton Kingsley of Corry survives. A YMCA dance is planned tomorrow night with admission for vents and music by The Raiders. Richard Smith 4 of 61 Snyder Circle faces five charges from an August incident with a hearing set for 3 p m today before Alderman M S Cobbett. Smith posted a total bond of 9000 at arraignment on September 19.
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Spartansburg
Wilmington
Calif
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California
Richfield Oil Co
Milton Kingsley
R.D. 3
Corry
YMCA
Richard Dittman
Raiders
Richard Smith
Snyder Circle
M. S. Cobbett
Smith
Warren Man Arrested On Bigamy Count
Warren man David W. Wight faces a misdemeanor bigamy charge after allegedly marrying Laura Mae Ames Wight in April 1968 while already married to another woman. He was jailed in Warren County on $500 cash or $1,000 property bond as the district attorney notes this may be Warren County’s first bigamy prosecution. The case, filed before Peace Justice Vincent Sprague, involves a second marriage to an unnamed Warren woman and an ongoing investigation.
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Adventui Warren
David W. Wight
Richard E. Hegerty
Vincent Sprague
Wight
Warren County
Hegerty
Laura Mae (Ames) Wight
Warren
Laura Mae Wight
Samuel F. Bonavita
Twins Ordered To Win Pennant By City Council
Minneapolis City Council passes a resolution directing the Minnesota Twins to win the American League pennant. The measure lauds the Twins, leaders of the league, as they finish the season with a two game series at Boston, praising their athletic prowess and parliamentary maneuvering.
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Minneapolis, Minn
Minneapolis
Minnesota Twins
Boston
Floods flood Friendship area as roads close and schools shelter
Rainstorms drenched the Erie region with more than 1.5 inches in 24 hours, flooding Friendship and Salamanca. Basements inundated, sandbags ringed the Friendship Hotel, and eight families fled. Schools closed or sheltered, routes 17 and 219 blocked, and multiple towns faced curb to curb flooding with gas lines shut off in basements.
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Friendship Central School
Salamanca
Olean
Erie
Salamanaca
N. Y
Johnsonburg
Clarion River
Cattaraugus County
Jamestown
Telephone Corp
Frewsburg
Frew Run Road
Cherry Creek
Silver Creek
Randolph
Allegany Reservoir
Oleans
Jourth
Little Valley
Unclear League Standings Bring Complexities and Zoning Rules
A fragment reports on the American League standings becoming complex, likening them to an assessor's pad and mentioning zoning requirements for singles doubles triples and home runs. The lines reflect fragmented, colorful critique of standings and rules.
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Meeling
Queen Candidates at Game Spark Pageant Talk
A Pittsburgh union files a complaint against Peoples Natural Gas Co alleging discrimination against white people over a hiring plan to fill 100 vacancies with African American workers. Burton Duerring says the agreement violates the State Human Relations Act by preferring one racial group. The complaint goes to the Human Relations Commission as investigations start.
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Peoples Natural Gas Co
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NAACP
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Gas Employes Independent Union
Human Relations Commission
Duerring
Missile force grows with Minuteman III and Poseidon
McNamara shifts strategic force from numbers to capabilities. The Air Force Minuteman III, with a 6300 mile range, will be deployed in hardened silos and carry three warheads. The Navy Poseidon, replacing Polaris, will be submarine launched with over ten warheads and requires larger launch tubes. Thirty-one of 41 Polaris subs are being converted.
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Air Force
Navy
Associated Press
Estimated U S strategic missiles and warhead totals
A rough 1970s projection lists Air Force Minuteman III with 600 missiles carrying three warheads each and decoy aids for 1,800 warheads. Minuteman I with 400 warheads. Navy Poseidon submarines with 4,960 warheads. Navy Polaris with 160 warheads. Grand land and sea totals reach 7,320 warheads, with over 5,000 Navy weapons, conservative in tone.
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Navy
Poseidon
Water Puddle Triggers Auto Crash and Births Reported
Two area accidents injured two people and caused 1700 in damage after a Waterford puddle sent Rob ert Pettit’s car into oncoming traffic striking Clarence and Marjorie Alward of Cambridge Springs. A Bear Lake man’s tire failure caused a second crash near Columbus Lottsville. Also notes births at Corry Memorial and St Vincent Erie hospitals and Louis Armstrong's Reno release from pneumonia.
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Corry
Waterford
Robert E. Pettit
Clarence Alward
Cambridge Springs
Alward
Marjorie
Bear Lake
Columbus
Columbus- Lottsville
Edward F. Skinner
Second PSU Student Dies at Penn State
University Park AP report notes Robert Drutman a 21 year old political science senior from New York City died in the student health center after an overdose of pills. He had called for an ambulance from Nittany Hall and had dropped out last November for health reasons before returning this fall. Last Saturday a Falls Church.
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Pennsylvania State University
Robert Drutman
New York City
Drutman
Nittany Hall
Falls Church
Virginia Junior Charles Miller Found Shot and Slain
Virginia junior Charles F. Miller, 20, was found shot three times and stabbed in the back in an off campus rooming house. Investigators are still seeking his killer.
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Charles F. Miller
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