Chester High urged to reopen public attendance for home games
In a public statement readers urge Chester school officials to lift the ban on public attendance at Chester High School basketball games. They argue a October 5 football disturbance was not a planned attack and that afternoon games for students only hurt players and the community. They note upcoming league games and request restoring full public access to home games.
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Chester
Chester Sun Valley
John J. Vaul
Chester High School
Clipper
Clippers
Ridley
Nether Providence
Carelessness Aids Burglars During Holiday Season
FBI data show 1.6 million burglaries in 1967, up 218,500 from 1966. The agency warns burglary is common in urban areas, urges moving to North Dakota or, if staying, securing doors and windows since 15 percent of 1967 burglaries occurred with unlocked entries.
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FBI
North Dakota
FBE
St. Petersburg
Fla
Huntington
New York
Remembering Chester's old era of ice cream and diners
Readers recount Morrison's velvety ice cream served with lady fingers at a now vanished parlor. Pierce & Kuhfuss and Bossard's are named among rival emporiums. Birney's mid-town oasis offered birch beer and cigars while Bee Anderson's diner drew crowds with beans and five cent coffee. Bee's brother Dave Anderson is mentioned.
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Chester
Morrison’s
Morrison's
Pierce & Kuhfuss
Bossard’s
Birney
Bee” Anderson
Sth
Edgmont Ave
Rathskeller
7Th Street
Bee
Dave Anderson
Reminiscences of Chester's Market Street Ice Cream and Local Shops
The writer recalls Morrison ice cream on Market Street between 2nd and 3rd and a branch at Sti and Upland now an undertaker. Mentions Pierce and Kubfuss above St Michael's, the living Pierce girl Mrs Thomas Booth, and Sam Pilkington soda. Describes nearby shops, the Sharpless Milk Store, and carriages past the Sharpless estates. Recollects pre Prohibition lunches, early spaghetti house Trosino's, and Di Costanza hoagie origins.
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Morrison
Market Street
2Nd
3Rd
Sti
Upland
Pierce
Kubfuss
St. Michael's Church
Thomas Booth
Wallingford
Margaret
Paul Kubfuss
Sam, Pilkington
8Th Streets
Tom Fennell's
Massey’s
Morton House
Imperial Hotel
McCall's Collonade
Reilly's City Hotel
Pike's Hotel
Chester
3Rd and
Franklin Sts
di Costanza
7Th Ward
Lampkin Street
Moynihan Appointed Urban Affairs Aide Faces Senate Debate
Richard Moynihan, named to the Nixon administration, is praised as the lone expert among new department heads aside from Kissinger. Critics on the left accuse the Moynihan report of bias, but supporters cite rising city welfare rolls and disintegration of black families as validation of his urban analysis.
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Washington
Richard Tix
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Defense
Daniel P. Moynih
Henry Kissinger
Nixon
Moynihan
Vietnam
Lberal
Cognoscenti
New York City
Congress
Pat Moynihan
Council On Urban Affairs
Internal Revenue Service
Justice Department
Midwest
Peter
Paul
General Accounting Office
Moynihan Antipoverty Drive Slammed as Sloppy
Washington columnist argues Moynihan's antipoverty push is undermined by sloppy work and misused funds. He cites GAO audits, inflated costs, and alleged theft while praising Moynihan’s stance and public reforms amid criticism.
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Chuck Rhoads
Frank Mankiewicz
Tom Braden
Time Magazine
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Spiro Agnew
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Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway
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Bud Wilkinson
Victor Riesel
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Chicago
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Los Angeles
Gary
Phoenix
Kansas City
Grand Rapids
Charleston
W. Va
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OBO
OEO
Community Action Agency
Office of Review
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