Torch of Dissent Sparks GOP Attack on Johnson Programs
Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and House GOP Leader Gerald Ford lit a torch of dissent against President Johnson in a national broadcast. They argued the State of the Union is weak, U S prestige is falling, and inflation from Democratic spending endangers the economy.
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Republican Review OF State OF Union
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Everett Dirksen
House
Gerald Ford
Johnson
Washington
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Gerald R. Ford
Dirksen
Meeting Set On URA Project In Blairsville Area
The Redevelopment Authority of Indiana County will hold a 10 a.m. meeting at 519 Philadelphia St Indiana to discuss approving a loan and grant contract for the West Blairsville Urban Renewal project. Estimated costs include a $505 848 temporary loan, $414 348 capital grant, and a $42 000 relocation grant for a five acre tract including a 25 unit elderly housing project. Also planned are expansion facilities for Yale Technical Institute as the authority advances property options.
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Vatican Gives Up On Reply From Communists
Vatican sources say hopes for replies to Pope Paul VI peace appeals to Mao Zedong Ho Chi Minh Podgorny and Nguyen Van Thieu are abandoned. The Pope had sent individual appeals New Year’s Day urging peace in Vietnam.
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Peking
Hanoi
Paul VI
Vatican
Viet Nam
Mao Tze-tung
Ho Chi Minh
Nikolai
Obituaries Notice of Local Residents
Deaths include Mrs. Iva Uber Charlton 6 percent Rossiter and Mrs Anna Edwards Mc Caffery 65 of Homer City, Charles Ellsworth Kline 69 of Lucernemines, Mrs Elsie Sickenenberger Bence 86 of Pennsauken N J formerly Indiana County, Pamela Elizabeth Pandullo 7 of Blairsville 381 S Stewart St. Blairsville.
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Charles Ellsworth
Lucernemines
Weaver Oid For Cabinet Weaver Oid For Cabinet
Robert C. Weaver becomes the nation s first Negro cabinet member and first secretary of housing and urban development. He takes the oath with President Johnson watching as the Senate quickly confirms him. Johnson also nominates Robert C. Wood as under secretary, part of new department plans for urban problems.
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Robert C. Weaver
Johnson
Weaver
Senate
John F. Kennedy
House and Home Finance Agency
Senate Banking Committee
A. Willis Robertson
D-Va
John J. Sparkman
Ala
Wallace F. Bennett
Utah
Robert C. Wood
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wood
Congress
Housing and Home Finance ‘Agency
Community Facilities’ Administration
Public’, Housing Administration
Federal National Mortgage Association
Retired Sylvania Executive Dies
Funeral services set for Max F. Balcom, 77, former chairman of Sylvania Electric Products. A lifelong Emporium resident, Balcom served 45 years at Sylvania and was active in state Masonic orders and Republican politics. Survived by his widow and a daughter.
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Emporium
Max F. Balcom
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc
Balcom
Sylvania
Johns Hopkins Probes Aurora With Canada Rocket
Johns Hopkins University scientists prepare a seven foot nose cone payload for an Aerobee rocket mission to Fort Churchill to study the aurora borealis from 100 miles up. The goal is to measure high energy electron distributions and the earth's magnetic field effects to explain this striking sky phenomenon.
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Johns Hopkins University
Canada
Goddard Space Center
Greenbelt
Fort Churchill
William C. Fastie
Johns Hopkins Physics Department
Earth
Fastie
Ford Urges Pitt State Pact Plan for Pitt
Ford Foundation recommends University of Pittsburgh become state related under a contract plan to cut undergraduate tuition from 1400 to about 500 and add 1000 students. The report cites 27.3 million debt, private funding for graduate and professional programs, and trustee expansion.
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Ford Foundation
University of Pittsburgh
Foundation
Pitt
Ford
Herman B Wells
Indiana University
Pennsylvania
Penn State
Cornell University
New York State
Stanton C. Crawford
Edward H. Litchsfield
Hearings Set On Dog Laws
The Pennsylvania State Agriculture Department will hold a public hearing next week on proposed rules governing dog transportation and kennel operation under the new dog law enacted last year. Interested parties must submit testimony wishes by next Monday.
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Pennsylvania
Agriculture Department
Johnson orders higher U S Savings Bond rates
President Johnson directs Treasury Secretary Henry H. Fowler to raise interest on U S Savings Bonds citing need to match other yields. Fowler did not specify size of increase and noted the authority to raise rates up to 4 1 2 percent. The action aims to boost 1966 payroll savings participation and bond outstanding volume.
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New York
Johnson
Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
U. S
Fowler
U.S
New York State Industrial Payroll Savings Committee
Vaughn to Lead Peace Corps as Shriver Steps Down
President Johnson announced Jack Hood Vaughn will succeed Sargent Shriver as head of the Peace Corps. Vaughn, current assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, previously ran the Latin American Peace Corps program for three years. The total federal antipoverty program is cited at over 49 billion dollars.
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Washington
Johnson
Sargent Shriver
Jack Hood Vaughn
Shriver
Peace Corps
Vaughn
Weather outlook with snow flurries and cooling temperatures
Variably cloudy and chilly with breezy winds and occasional snow flurries today and tonight. Highs reach 18 to 25 with lows 12 to 18. Partly cloudy Wednesday with little temperature change and scattered snow flurries. Highs 20 to 27.
Newest LDS Chapel Opens in Aberdeen Scotland Fishing Town
Britain opens its 56th Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel in the last five years located in the east coast fishing town of Aberdeen. The new church marks another expansion of the denomination across the region.
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Aberdeen
Scotland
Britain
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Puerto Rican helper to police wins support as relief comes
Enrique Negron a 56 year old Puerto Rican who helped a white policeman fight a mob was shunned then backed by offers from a congressman a union two firms the Small Business Administration and private citizens He faced destitution but now has hope with SBA loan offers jobs from Staten Island Ferry and Metropolitan Life and a potential seaman reinstatement from the National Maritime Union He may sail again within months and plans a possible year away for change
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New York
Enrique Negron
Negron
Associated Press
Cecelia Zengerle
Manhattan
Bronx
Patrolmen's Benevolent Association
Small Business Administration
SBA
Staten Island
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
James H. Scheuer
D-N.y
Seven Thousand More U S Forces Enter South Viet Nam
Saigon faced intensified defense as 7000 more U S troops arrived. The influx includes 4000 from Hawaii and 3000 Marines from Okinawa boosting US strength to 191000. Viet Cong mortars hit Quang Ngai orphanage and government posts, while rumors of a coup swirled amid Ky leadership tensions.
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South Viet Nam
U. S
Nguyen Cao Ky
Dean Rusk
U.S. 25Th Division
Hawaii
Okinawa
U.S
Quang Ngai City
Set
Wayne Mabry
Philadelphia
An Lo
Hue
Binh Hiep
Mekong Delta
Thanh Tri
U.S. Air Force
Guam
Ostrich Receives 20 Stitches After Fence Injury
At Franklin Park Zoo in Boston an ostrich extended its neck through a wire fence and ripped it when pulling back inside. The bird sustained a neck gash requiring 20 stitches and is recovering. Brown's Hotel, dance Wed. 131x
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Franklin Park
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