Lions Celebrate Fourth of July at Mack Center With Races and Show
Indiana Lions Club hosts a full Mack park Fourth of July program featuring stock car races at 2 p.m. a wrestling show at 8 p.m. a coin and pet show, a fireworks display at 10:15 p.m. and six bicycle drawings. Proceeds support the Lions Health Camp four miles west of Indiana. Police will tighten patrols statewide to curb traffic accidents over the holiday weekend.
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Mack Community Center
Indiana Lions Club
Lions
Mack Park
Gazette Skips Monday Fourth Holiday Edition
Gazette employees join Americans in observing the July 4 holiday and will not publish on Monday. The office and newsroom reopen at regular hours on Tuesday. Have a safe weekend.
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Indiana
The
Gazette
Indiana County police issue annual Fourth of July fireworks warning
Indiana County police officials including state police from the Indiana substation and Indiana borough police chief Harry Owens warn that fireworks use will not be tolerated. Those caught with, selling, transporting, or possessing fireworks will be arrested. Federal law bans transporting fireworks into states where sale is prohibited. licensed displays remain legal.
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Indiana
Harry Owens
Remarkable Pine Creek Declaration Coincidence Celebrated
Jersey Shore residents reenact a 1776 coincidence under the Tiadaghton Elm as 23 men signed the Pine Creek Declaration of Independence on the same day the Philadelphia Congress adopted the real Declaration. The elm, 500 years old, anchors Independence Day lore with markers and a history of Fort Horn, riders, and fair play justice on the Susquehanna frontier.
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Jersey Shore
Little Pine Creek
Philadelphia
Independence Hall
Great Britain
Continental Congress
Pine Creek
The
Pennsylvania
Fort Horn
Susquehanna River
Patrick Gilfillan
Michael Quigley Jr
Susquehanna
Baby Makes Early Debut In Blairsville
A premature baby boy weighing three pounds three ounces was delivered by ambulance on East Market Street Blairsville at 1 p.m. The mother and infant are reported doing well at Indiana Hospital. The delivery involved Dewey Foust and nurse staff with Dr. Herbert Hanna assisting after the trip.
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Blairsville
East Market St
Indiana Hospital
Jack Oaks
Star Route
Spring Church
Latrobe Hospital
Marion Oaks
Oaks
J and H Ambulance Co
North Spring St
Dewey Foust
Missing Dalmatian Triggered Cross State Search
A Pennsylvania woman seeks her missing six year old Dalmatian with help from a U.S. senator, a congressman, state police from two states, district attorneys, and humane societies. She may fly to Ulster County New York to view dogs on a farm in hope of finding hers.
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Slatingdon
Pennsylvania
U.S
New York
Humane Societies
Peter Lakavage
Ulster County
Lakavage
Rocky Glenn
Easton
Allentown
New York State Police
Animal Rescue League
Berks County
Joseph S. Clark
D-Pa
Joseph Y. Resnick
D-N.y
FBI
Resnick
N. Y
Northampton County
Brezhnev Denounces U S Nuclear Blackmail Claim
In Moscow Brezhnev challenged U S claims of missile superiority and said Soviet missiles are enough to end any aggressor. He praised anti missile defenses and criticized Western estimates as biased and weak.
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Moscow
Leonid I. Brezhnev
United States
Soviet Union
Soviet Communist Party
Kremlin
Tass
Washington
Brezhnev
U.S
Veteran Barber Dies In Saltsburg
William Coates 73 of Saltsburg R. D. 1 died Friday at Veterans Administration Hospital Oakland. He had worked as a barber in Saltsburg for more than fifty years.
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Barber
Saltsburg
William Coates
Saltsburg R. D
Veterans Administration Hospital
Oakland
Coates
Salk Withdraws As Clinic Head
Dr Jonas Salk resigns as president of the Salk Institute in San Diego to focus on research. He will remain director while Augustus B Kinzel becomes president on July 31 after Kinzel retires from Union Carbide Corp where he led research.
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San Diego
Calif
Jonas Salk
Salk Institute For Biological Studies
Salk
la Jolla
Augustus B. Kinzel
Kinzel
Union Carbide Corp
Redistricting Battles Loom in Pa Legislature
Pennsylvania House and Senate return July 19 after budget bills move to Gov Scranton with reapportionment as the main hurdle. Democrats outline plans to cut House seats from 209 to 200 and form single-member districts ahead of a Sept 1 court deadline to implement one person one vote.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Scranton
House
Senate
State Supreme Court
Soviet Youth Satirizes Red Tape With Eyewear Tale
Zverev in Komsomolskaya Pravda lampoons Soviet bureaucracy by recounting a battle to buy two lenses for his glasses. He is told only one lens can be sold and that two must be from special groups. He buys a case himself after being refused a crush proof option. The piece critiques needless rules and asks for accountability.
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Moscow
Ilya Zvyerev
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Zverev
Zverevy
Fivedead and dozens injured in Thruway bus crash
An eastbound Greyhound bus from Chicago to Boston collided with a westbound car on the New York Thruway two miles west of Waterloo causing five deaths and 35 to 40 bus passengers hurt. The car crossed the median and both vehicles were destroyed as fire followed the impact.
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New York Thruway
Waterloo
N. Y
Greyhound
Boston
Chicago
Cleveland
Syracuse
Thruway
Jesus Irizarry
New York City
Israel Mercado Ortiz
Bronx
N.Y
Rochester
Obituaries Remain Atop Page Two
Obituaries list William Coates 73 of Salisbury R D 1 Rev Harry William Miller 81 of Kittanning formerly Indiana States Mrs Pearl 87 Rossiter RD LATE DEATHS J Earl Putt 75 Penn Run
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Coates
William
Salisburg
R. D
Miller
Harry William
Kittanning
Indiana
Pearl
Rossiter
J. Earl
Penn Run
Weather improve with cooler, drier conditions ahead
The forecast calls for clearing skies and lower humidity this afternoon with highs in the 70s. Tonight will be fair and cooler with low in the 50s. Sunday looks sunny and mild with highs around 70.
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E. Wilson Purdy
Purdy
Harry H. Brainerd
Brainerd
Susan Swenson
Concord
N.H
Union
Baby
Hess
Sattix
Cessna’s
Shelocta
B.P. Inn
Creation Club
Melodaires
Nercessian
Mrs. Lakavage
U.S.A
Kansas Avenue
Topeka
Kansas River
Medora’s Grill
Clymer
Rustic Lodge
Windy Ridge
Saltsburg Rd
Graceton Union Hall
Sun
Clymer Slovak Club
Melody Men
Optimist Club
Bell Funeral Home
Donald Anderson
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