Trudeau Faces Riot as Police Clash With Demonstrators
In Montreal during Canada's election campaign riot scenes erupted near the St. Jean Baptiste Day parade. Police in both horse and foot units fought demonstrators who hurled bottles stones and firecrackers. Police reported 91 bystanders and 44 officers injured with more than 290 demonstrators arrested. Trudeau remained on the reviewing stand amid concerns of a bomb plot while pledging a one Canada stance.
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Canada
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Quebec
St. Jean Baptiste-Day
Botiles
Garnet Valley Students Accepted for Three Month South American Exchange
Five Garnet Valley High School sophomores Susan Booth James Hall Jacqueline Robertson Christine Rourke and Philip Woodworth will spend three months in South America through the International Fellowship Exchange Program. Host families and schools in Ecuador Colombia Argentina and Brazil will arrange housing and travel. The program covers air transportation and hosting, with students staying with families and attending local schools.
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Daily Times
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Thomas A. Booth
Mattson Road
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Ecuador
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Lane
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Medillin
Colombia
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B.ashton Robertson Jr
Old Concord Road
Rosario
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Brazil
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William Rourke
Conchester Road
Bethel
Belo, Horizonte
Philip Woodworth
Hayden
Woodworth
Garnet Mine Road
Jacqueline
Pty Record Eounter
Bej Electrician
Swarthmore Ave
Ridley Park
Henry ‘Yost
Michael Markley
Donna Nutt
Haller’ Road
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Lynn Road
Donna Cane
Chester Ave
Lifton
Heights
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Stockett
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Buenos Ires
Mar del Plata
Mother and three children injured in route on Ogden Road crash
A Chester woman, Mrs. Constance Thompson, 30, and her three children Susan 10 Doreen 9 and Wilbura 7 were treated for minor injuries after their station wagon left Ogden Road and hit a culvert. Two Thompson children were uninjured. The family resided at 2200 Overlook Drive.
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Chester
Ogden Road
Delaware
Constance Thompson
Overlook Drive
Susan
Doreen
Wilbura
Sacred Heart Hospital
Thompson
Ridley Park Man Named By Firemen
Ridley Park resident Harry J. Foot was reelected president of the Delaware County Firemen's Association at Parkside Fire Company. Other officers installed included Raymond Richmond as 1st vice president and Robert R. Baxter as vice president along with secretary and treasurer officers. The group planned a meeting with Delaware County Community College officials to discuss a fire science technology program and announced a first school session at the Ridley Park Fire Company on September 8-9.
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Harry J. Foot
Ridley Park
Delaware County Firemen's Association
Parkside Fire Co
James Baird
Pennsylvania Firemen’s Association
Raymond Richmond
Robert R. Baxter J Ly
Robert G. Moore
Ralph Pierce
George C. Mackey
Delaware County Community College
Johnson to seek 18-year voting age legislation
President Johnson says he will formally ask Congress this week to pass a law lowering the national voting age to 18. The move aims to expand the electorate and empower younger citizens in national elections.
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UPI
Johnson
Congress
Guards Quell Columbus Prison Riot Amid Large Police Turnout
In Columbus Ohio coast guard and city police joined National Guardsmen to restore order after inmates of the 122 year old state prison rioted for more than five hours. The disturbance began with a fire in the print shop as inmates seized weapons tossed from a mini golf course. At least 50 injured, nine inmates and eight guards hospitalized. officials say 150 guardsmen were on standby and 200 guardsmen were moved inside to quell the riot. The warden Ernest Maxwell, aging toward retirement, vowed to rebuild the facility with a new penitentiary planned near Portsmouth.
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Ohio National
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James A. Rhodes
Hayes
Ralph Ketcham
Portsmouth
Here
Maxwell
Reagan Guard Assigned for Governor Reagan Nomination
In Sacramento California Secretary of State reports Secret Service agents assigned to guard Governor Ronald Reagan a favorite son candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Calif
Secret Service
Ronald Reagan
California
David Eisenhower Named Youth Chairman for Nixon
David Eisenhower, two, grandson of a former president, becomes national chairman of Youth for Nixon. He vows to urge collegians and young voters to back Richard M. Nixon as he accompanies fiancée Julie on the campaign trail. Nixon aides call him a natural choice with a charming smile.
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David Eisenhower
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Richard M. Nixon
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Washington Command Post
Delaware Writers Attend Sixth Philadelphia Conference
A group of Delaware County writers join the sixth annual Philadelphia Writers Conference at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel from Wednesday to Friday. County residents Mabel Love of Sharon Hill and Olga P. MacFarland of Tollgate will present book and cash awards for a nationwide creative writing contest. The event features workshops across 15 writing classifications including manuscript criticism with instructors Mrs. George H. Soule of Springfield W Maxwell McKee of Ridgedge and Ruth Sampter of Radnor.
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Bellevue Stratford Hotel
Mabel Love
Sharon Hill
Olga P. MacFarland
Tollingdale
George H. Soule
Springfield
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Rutledge
Ruth Sampter
Radnor
Firemen’s awards canceled after Sharon Hill blaze
Delaware County Firemen's Association citations for 1968 were not presented Monday night because a three alarm fire at Cardinal Printing Co. on 938 Chester Pike Sharon Hill burned them Saturday.
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Delaware County Firemen’s Association
Cardinal Printing Co
Chester Pike
Sharon Hill
Budget Plan Seeks Major Chester School Overhaul
Record budget adopts a $9 million repairs and new construction program for Chester schools including an $8 million hospital site building, two $4.3 million middle schools, and $7 million for remodeling. President Clarence H. Roberts says programs will be outstanding and white students may be bused to Negro-area schools. The DPI must approve. prior master plans were rejected for sketchiness or missing data.
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DPI
Chester
Chester Hospital
9Th
Barclay Sts
Delaware County man convicted in four drowning deaths
Allen Thomas, 28, of Collingdale Delaware County was convicted Monday of negligent driving and involuntary manslaughter for a crash on Grays Ferry Avenue Bridge that caused four people to drown in the Schuylkill River on August 6, 1967. Sentencing was deferred pending a motion for a new trial.
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Philadelphia
Allen Me Thomas
Upland Terrace
Collingdale
Thomas
Grays -Ferry Avenue
Schuylkill ‘River
Weather and tide details for County Nation today
Today's forecast notes a high near 87 with moon rise at 4 50 pm and low tides around 1 12 am and 1 40 pm. Sunrise occurs at 5 34 am and sunset at 8 18 pm with typical June norms and a 24 hour precipitation estimate.
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Annvalige Water Terminal
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