Eight-year-old girl dies after car strike in Chester
An 8-year-old girl died at Crozer Chester Medical Center after being struck at 3rd and Broomall Streets about 10:50 a.m. by Frank Christ of Wilmington. Christ, 65, was arrested on involuntary manslaughter charges and released on $2,500 bail as police investigated.
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Chester
3Rd
Broomall
Florence Clery
Elmira Galmore
James St
Crozer- Chester Medical Center
Upland
Frank Christ
Clifton Park Drive
Wilmington
Ernest Lang
Broomall St
Tri- County Hospital
Springfield
Christ
Bumper sticker boom fuels diverse street slogans
The article notes rising bumper sticker sales across America driven by cheap copies and broad topics from war to ecology. It highlights Al Minsky in Dallas who crafts one man sticker shops and collects ideas from customers, showing stickers as a quick form of personal expression on vehicles.
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America
al Minsky
Dallas
Minsky
Vietnam
Southeast Asia Airlines
Storm delays gas burial off Sunny Point
The liberty ship LeBaron Russell Briggs carrying 418 rockets of GB nerve gas awaits disposal off Sunny Point North Carolina as tropical storm winds threaten the sinking plan. Navy delays towing until 96 hours of good weather with a 40 hour voyage to the 16,000 foot disposal depth amid court challenge by Kirk and the Environmental Defense Fund.
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Sunny Point
N.C
Navy
Atlantic Ocean
Bahamas
U.S. Court of Appeals
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Bahamas Chain
A.G Hamilton
Atlantic
LeBaron Russell Briggs
Army
South Vietnamese raid Viet Cong bases near Da Nang
Some 5,099 South Vietnamese militiamen aided by Viet Cong defectors struck 80 Viet Cong bases south of Da Nang. They claimed 125 enemy killed over two days with no air or artillery support. Government losses were four killed and 11 wounded. A U S adviser said key Viet Cong officers, including a lieutenant colonel, were among the dead.
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Saigon
da Nang
U.S
M.G. Stafford
Eagle Pass
Tex
Man’s wallet gift of honesty nets $300 return story
Chester resident Thomas McDonald loses a wallet with $300 and credit cards in a drug store. Lawrence Sergent of New Castle, Del returns it, refuses reward, saying what’s mine is mine but what isn’t isn’t. McDonald praises Sergent’s honesty and offers thanks.
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Thomas McDonald
10Th St
Chester
McDonald
Lawrence Sergent
New Castle
Del
Sergent
Weaver sworn in as county commissioner after judges appoint
In Media Courthouse H Walter Weaver the county parks superintendent was sworn in as county commissioner to fill the term of the late Frank A Snear Jr The brief 15 minute ceremony drew 150 observers including U S Rep Lawrence G Williams and was led by county solicitor Edward H P Finefield The judges and officials spoke of recent deaths within county government and Weaver will attend his first commission meeting August 26.
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H. Walter Weaver
Weaver
Frank A. Snear Jr
U.S. Rep
Lawrence G. Williams
Springfield
Edward H.P. Finefield
Walter
Henry G. Sweney
Snear
U.S
G. Robert Watkins
Bimingham
Fred Duke
Republican Board of Supervisors
War Board
Clifton Heights
Sweney
Commission
Harry A. McNichol
Edward T. McErlean
Nixon vows to back law on desegregation
President Nixon pledges even handed enforcement of desegregation laws after talks with federally sponsored citizen committees from seven states in New Orleans. He says leadership requires preventive action and vows to carry out the law without punitive measures while ensuring order and justice.
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Nixon
New Orleans
Washington
Citizens Committees
Deep South
Lunar eclipse to be Sunday across Americas
A partial lunar eclipse will begin Sunday night and be visible over most of North and South America. The moon enters Earth’s shadow at 9 07 p.m. EDT, reaches maximum eclipse at 11 24 p.m., and exits at 1 41 a.m. Monday. It will be visible over all U S except the Pacific Northwest.
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New York
North
South America
Hayden Planetarium
United States
Pacific Northwest
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