Strong Sentiment For Quotas In Johnson Trade Drive
Washington AP reports top Johnson aides push for import quotas to shield U.S. industry while seeking freer trade. House Ways and Means hearings will feature Roth Wirtz Smith Udall Rusk Freeman and Furness as witnesses though Treasury Secretary Fowler is absent signaling no plans for import taxes or export rebates to curb dollar drain.
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Washington
Johnson Administration
Congressional
Capitol Hill
Means
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Congress
Johnson
House
Ways and Means’ Committee
William Roth
Labor
Willard Wirtz
Commerce
C. R. Smith
The
Interior
Stewart L. Udall
Dean Rusk
Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Betty Furness
President Johnson Speaks at Glassboro Rally
President Johnson addressed about 7,000 people outdoors in Glassboro during a 30 mile ride and helicopter arrival on the athletic field. He cited progress since the Hollybush meeting with the Soviet Union and outlined trade policy steps including extending tariff negotiation authority, reforming chemical tariffs, aiding industries hurt by imports, and funding for U.S. Canal Zone workers.
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Glassboro
Kennedy
U.S
Witnesses meet at Huntingdon discuss why God permits wickedness
Thirty eight Indiana delegates joined 1,195 attendees at the semi annual Jehovahs Witnesses assembly at Huntingdon Senior High School. District supervisor Wissman delivered a public address on June 2 explaining that only God can answer why evil persists and detailing future paradise on Earth for righteous people. He urged listeners to learn and do God's will now to be prepared for the near execution of the wicked.
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Jehovah’s Witnesses
Huntingdon Senior High
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We Alieowanm Fen
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of
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Mr. Wissman
Jesus
Parking Problem Resolved in Renewal Area Sale Plan
Borough and county officials authorize negotiations to sell four parcels in the Central Indiana Urban Renewal area. Prices range from 55 to 151 cents per square foot with designated uses including commercial, multi family, and college housing. IUP interest noted. Graver Construction reports completed site work costing 56,605.82 for Blairsville projects.
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Central
Indiana
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Church Streets
Stewart's Hardware
Church and
Sthawl
Glass
Maple Streets
Ninth
Water Streets
Burns Alley
Acme Market
Indiana Evening Gazette
Mus! Relubdle
IUP
Maple
Glass Streets
Michael Moran
Graver Construction Co
Blairsville
Sugar Alley
Yale Technical Institute
Bothi
Gov Maddox Receives Gift From Atlanta youths
Three Atlanta high school youths named Jim Patton Steve Bishoff and George Knight presented Gov Lester Maddox with a nonpolitical donation to a White House named Mac The boys said there was no special occasion and Maddox accepted the nearly grown gander and set it loose in the fountain in front of the governor's mansion.
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Atlanta
Lester Maddox
White House
Mac
Jim Patton
Steve Bishoff
George Knight
Maddox
Two Bears Found Amid Vietnam War Claims
Pittsburgh dispatch reports detectives and the coroner found bones of two bears during a weekend search tied to a larger inquiry. The piece interleaves excerpts about peace efforts in Vietnam with President Johnson urging restraint and a step by step approach to ending the war.
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Laceski
George Kanski
Asia
Hvispitas
Pittsburgh
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Mifflin
South Vietnam
Thawanilad Nalien
Alla
Johnson
Hanoi
Vietnam
Middle East
Indiana Urban Renewal project advances amid property buys
The Indiana Urban Renewal area moved closer to completion this fall with three May purchases raising owned properties to 48 and 16 remaining. Relocations reached 62 families 11 businesses and 77 individuals, while 16 families seven businesses and 23 individuals still leave the area. Demolition starts this week near the IUP Student Union as the board hires Timothy Grafton for maintenance and authorizes condemnations on 869 Grant St and 860 Maple St. County Commissioner William W. Jones gains approval to buy a furnace and kitchen cabinets from his project holdings. Julian Fine is hired for acquisition appraisals and Janet Cumey receives a salary increase as bookkeeper entering her second year.
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IUP
Timothy Grafton
Indiana Project
William W. Jones
Julian Fine
Janet Cumey
Eeper
Authority
Grant St
Maple St
Bishop Connare to Celebrate Mass at Greensburg Newman Center
The Most Rev. William G. Connare, Bishop of Greensburg, will celebrate Mass at 6:30 PM in the Newman Center at 1200 Oakland Ave. A Knights of Columbus donation to the Newman Center will be presented at a Foster Hall dinner on the Indiana University of Pennsylvania campus. Har ry Altman, Greensburg G C Murphy manager and Diocesan Knights chapter president, will present the gift. Other speakers include Carman Capone, Supreme Director, and Samuel Furgiuele, IUP public relations director.
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Greensburg
Newman Center
Oakland Ave
Connare
Knights of Columbus
Foster Hall
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Spe
K of C
Harry Altman
G. C. Murphy
Carman R. Capone
Knights’ of Columbus
Samuel F. Furgiuele
JUP
Derailment disrupts Penn Central freight in Lewistown
In Lewistown Pennsylvania a Sunday derailment of 43 of 127 freight cars halted Penn Central traffic near Granville. A tank car carried ammonia but no leakage reported. Cars held coke, deal and steel with no injuries. Trains detoured via Lock Haven and Williamsport. Damage estimated well over $200,000.
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Lewistown
Penn Central
Granville
J. F. Spreng
Altoona
Lock Haven
Williamsport
Shafer Approves Antipoverty Grant and VISTA Plan
Gov. Shafer approved a 508270 federal antipoverty grant for the Economic Opportunity Council of Reading and Berks County to fund seven ongoing programs. Local funds of 113765 will supplement the grant. He also approved 60 VISTA volunteers for a Philadelphia tutorial project aiding the disadvantaged.
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Harrisburg
Economic Opportunity Council of
Reading
Retarded Facility Must Close
Harrisburg AP reports the Wynnefield Institute for Mentally Retarded Children in Philadelphia is ordered to close by June 25 due to gross negligence in operation. Welfare Secretary Thomas W. Georges says arrangements must be made to remove 30 children immediately as investigations found noncompliance with state care and treatment regulations despite prior notices and visits.
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Harrisburg
Department of Public Welfare
Wynnefield Institute
Philadelphia
Welfare
Thomas W. Georges
Welfare Department
Georges
Urban Area Fishing Plan Announced
Pennsylvania Governor Shafer unveiled a plan to let urban residents fish without leaving cities by stocking 107 urban water areas in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The long range goal envisions expanding sites through pollution cleanup and pond development to broaden access for city dwellers, including those without cars.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Shaer
Shafer
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
The
Fish Commission
Mellon
Added One Per Cent Tax Thru Senate
Harrisburg AP The bill to authorize all school districts except Philadelphia and Pittsburgh to levy a 1 percent income tax moves to the House after Senate approval 39 4 The measure would let local districts and municipalities combine to levy a 2 percent wage tax with up to 14 percent to the district Also proposed tightened drivers licenses for Pennsylvania aimed at living necessities for certain workers and other related actions. Senate floor action 49 0 on maternity sick leave for state female employees and Shafer backed campus police power extending to privately owned state aided colleges.
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Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
House
Senate
Pennsylvania
General Assembly
William B. Lentz
Dauphin
Martin L. Murray
D-Luzerne
George N. Wade
Cumberland
Stanley G. Stroup
Bedford
Albert R. Pechan
Armstrong
Ernest P. Kline
Beaver
Thomas P. McCreesh
McCreesh
Shafer
University of Pennsylvania
Stroup
Stockily Built Man Robs Bank in Pittsburgh
AP reports a stockily built man wearing dark sunglasses and a pork pie hat held up Mellon Bank Workingman's Office on the North Side. He handed a penciled eight line note to teller Laura Trybus, words misspelled, then announced a holdup as he flashed the butt of a revolver from his jacket.
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Pittsburgh
Mellon Bank Workingman's
Tteller
Laura Trybus
California Democrats Choose Between McCarthy and Kennedy
California Democrats vote in the final presidential primary, with polls predicting high turnout as McCarthy and Kennedy vie for the state’s 174 delegates. Reagan stands unopposed for the GOP, while Kuchel again faces Rafferty in a California Senate race. Kennedy and McCarthy campaign across the state, UC Berkeley and San Diego stops noted, with undecided voters and last minute shifts shaping the outcome.
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Associated Press
LOS Angeles
California
Eugene J. McCarthy
Robert F. Kennedy
Hubert H. Humphrey
Kennedy
Los Angeles Times
McCarthy
Times
National Broadcasting Co
Oliver Quayle Co
Lynch
Humphrey
Ronald Reagan
South Dakota
Johnson
Senate
Thomas H. Kuchel
Max Rafferty
Kennedy-McCarthy
Indiana
Ment
Oregon
Nebraska
San Francisco
San Diego
Phoenix
Ariz
Obituary: Helen Jones Former Indiana Resident
Helen Jones died May 30 1968 at her daughter Mrs Clifford K Scroggs Fort Worth Texas Funeral services were held Saturday at the Presbyterian Church in Fort Worth Memorials may be given to the Graystone United Presbyterian Church building fund where she was a longtime member
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Helen Jones
Indiana
Clifford K. Scroggs
Fort Worth
Tex
Presbyterian Church
Jonea
Graystone United Presbyterian Church
State Guard Riot Pay Considered
The Pennsylvania House approved a $1 million appropriation to cover National Guard costs from last April when 1,800 guardsmen were called to quell Pittsburgh riots after MLK's assassination. About 4,300 were deployed in Pittsburgh with others on standby. The body also passed $15,000 for the Commission for Legislative Modernization and debated liquor law review, criticizing Gov Shafer's nine member panel as a whitewash while defending public hearings.
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House
Senate
Pennsylvania National Guard
Pittsburgh
K. Leroy Irvis
Irvis
Shafer
Martin Luther King Jr
Pennsylvania Commission For
L. Schmitt
D-Westmoreland
Schmitt
Matthew J. Ryan
Delaware
Mouse Liquor Control Committee
Ryan
Police Lead Students Through Rebels at Rome University
Rome AP The police escorted a limited number of students back to Rome University to resume exams after Carabinieri dispersed roughly 2,000 leftist rebels who occupied campus for three days. Ten injured, 53 in custody. rector barred noncredentialed students.
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Rome
Rome University
Caribinieri
Pittsburgh man climbs bridge in suicide attempt
A despondent Pittsburgh man, Rafferty 51, perched on the Seventh Street Bridge after a jump threat. Police brought a companion to scene and aided by an aerospace plant aide, he was talked down and hospitalized at Mercy Hospital.
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Seventh Street
Duane Gooch
Rafferty
Gooch
Redondo
Mercy Hospital
Ficemen
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