County Parks Provide Outdoor Recreation For All
Gazette editorial highlights Indiana County park growth from Blue Spruce Pine Ridge and Hemlock Lake to Yellow Creek and Two Lick Creek Reservoir. It notes progress from no facilities to expanding open spaces and waterways, urging residents to use and promote these resources and directing questions to park officials.
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Indiana County
Blue Spruce Park
Pine Ridge Park
Two Lick Creek
Hemlock Lake Park
Yellow Creek State Park
Keystone Generating Station
Soul searching on racism and civil rights figures
The piece critiques racism as a public provocation to policy, cites Rhodesia and apartheid, and questions sanctions versus communist regimes while noting Angela Davis’s acquittal in a 1970 Marin County case. It warns of drowning risks in summer, urges swim readiness, and highlights McGovern’s California primary wins and Democratic jostling ahead of the convention.
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William Ingersoll
Rhodesia
South Africa
United States
United Nations
Russia
Red China
Angela Davis
California
Jude
Marin County
UCLA
George McGovern
Miami
New Hampshire
McGovern
Democratic Party
Humphrey
Ed Muskie
George Wallace
U. S. News and World Report
Wallace
Eaam
Muskie
Rooney’s Friends and Favors Stir Washington Scandals
Washington turf war over Rooney’s purse strings exposes his power over State Justice and Commerce funding. Shipping lines like Moore-McCormack and Prudential Grace donate in election years, while subsidies flow and investigations rise. Barbs about Kriger and Kriger’s wife note campaign gifts and influence.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
John Rooney
D-N.y
State
Justice and Commerce Departments
Rooney
Congress
Supreme Court
House Appropriations
Nick
Vistindios
Nicholas Pasco
Moore-McCormack Lines
Spyros 8. Skouras
Prudential Grace Lines
Pacific Far East Lines
American President Lines
Pacific Far East
Commerce Department
Seatrain Ship Building
Charles Kriger
Small Business Administration
Kriger
Henrietta
Local recycling drive shows urgency and need for public participation
A Readers Write letter from Indiana PA extols recycling and recounts volunteering at a county collection point under a shortened 9 to 1 day. The writer notes heavy car flow, exhausted volunteers, and tons of bottles, paper, and cans unloaded into Salvation Army vans and a dump truck. He urges broader community participation to address overflowing dumps and emphasizes proper rinsing and separation.
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County Home
Indiana
Boro
White Township
Salvation Army
The
Gazette
Fire sale catalog of Democratic primaries memorabilia
A Washington dispatch reports the Democratic National Committee offering an extensive primary memorabilia sale. Items include 246 Edmund Muskie books, 100,000 bumper stickers, 250,000 campaign buttons, 8,670,000 feet of film, 50 one minute TV spots, 300,000 pamphlets by Henry Jackson, letters, posters, and other campaign keepsakes from Muskie, Lindsay, Hartke, Harris, Yorty, Sanford, McGovern, Humphrey, and McCarthy campaigns. The sale includes autographed photos, banners, tossable tote bags, and many collector items amid questions about value.
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Art Buchwald
Washington
Democratic Party
Sen
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Pennsylvania Avenue
President Muskie
New England
Muskie
Lindsay
Henry Jackson
Joseph Alsop
UPI
Jackson
Florida
Golda Meir
Vance Hartke
Hartke
Dita Beard
ITT Company
Fred Harris
Democratic National Committee
Gene McCarthy
Dump Johnson
McCarthy
New Hampshire
Sam Yorty
America
Humphrey
Hubert Humphrey
McGovern
California
Lawrence O’brien
Wilbur Mills
Dog Protection Laws Needed
An editorial from Indiana Evening Gazette condemns neglect of abandoned dogs in Homer City Pa. It criticizes cruel owners and calls for enforceable laws and spaying and neutering to curb overpopulation. The piece urges kindness to helpless creatures and laments current attitudes toward animal welfare.
Squire Hodge Uses Calaboose For Liquor Case In Blairsville
A June 17 1922 incident in Blairsville sees Squire P M Hodge jail a first offender without bail after a liquor law violation. A defendant pleads to change Sunday clothes before entry, and the Squire retorts that jail is where violators go in their Sunday attire.
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Blairsville
Squire P. M. Hodge
Calaboose
Murphy
Philadelphia
Bill Lundstrom
Indiana
Old Fort
John Kuziel
Pittsburgh
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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AP News
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Cuba
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Henry Kissinger
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Cliff Hansen
Senate Interior Committee
Hansen
ITT Security
International Telephone and Telegraph Corp
Paraguay
Roque Avila
Avila
Asuncion
Ricord
Peter Rodino
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U.S
Raymond Ulitalo
Ricard
Bart Schwartz
Nixon
Better Business Bureau
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Milwaukee Journal
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Indiana Evening Gazette
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Grover Cleveland
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