Carter forms commission on Three Mile Island accident
President Carter named John G. Kemeny of Dartmouth College to head the panel with 11 others, including Ann Trunk of Middletown, Pa. The commission, possibly 12 members, will study the Pennsylvania incident within six months and report findings to the President, aiming to ensure future plant safety.
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Mouth College
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Middletown
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White House
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Three Mile Island regulatory panel members listed
A technical assessment of the plant events, causes, emergency preparedness, and NRC procedures is discussed with panel members including Bruce E. Babbitt Patrick Haggerty Paul A Marks Coral Marrett Lloyd McBride Harry C McPherson Russell Peterson Thomas Pigford and Theodore B Taylor associated with geophysics sociology health sciences and engineering and aerospace at prominent institutions.
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Texas Instruments Inc
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Columbia University
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University of Wisconsin
Lloyd McBride
United Steelworkers
Harry C. McPherson Jr
Lyndon Johnson
Delaware
Russell Peterson
Thomas Pigford
University of California At Berkeley
Theodore B Taylor
Princeton University
Curfew covers Wichita Falls after deadly tornado
A dusk to dawn curfew and price freezes were imposed as Wichita Falls, Texas, faced the worst tornado disaster in five years. Officials report at least 42 dead in the city, with hundreds injured. recovery challenges and looting fears persist while aid measures and disaster declarations proceed.
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Texas-Oklahoma
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Missouri
Arkansas
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Red River
Vernon
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Lawton
Oklo
Mother of 6 chosen for presidential panel on Three Mile Island
Ann Trunk, mother of six from Middletown, joins President Carter's blue ribbon commission to study the Three Mile Island crisis. She says she will avoid taking sides, and recounts delaying evacuation advice with her husband, an PSU Middletown professor, who believed detectors showed no radiation threat.
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UPI
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Carter
Three Mile Island
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Pennsylvania State University
Dick Thornburgh
Thornburgh
Carnegie Course Brings Dale Carnegie to New Castle
The New Castle News will sponsor the Dale Carnegie Course in New Castle. Richard E. Rentz said the program, in operation for 53 years, has helped over a million people with self confidence memory and communication. It is offered nationwide and abroad and details are available by writing or calling the newspaper.
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New Castle
Dale Carnegie
Holocaust Remembrance Urged Across Community in April Dates
Dates of April 28 and 29 mark the 1945 Allied liberation of Nazi camps and a new cross faith remembrance effort. In New Castle a joint Christian Jewish service is planned at Tifereth Israel with Rabbi Spector and Rabbi Gruen addressing the audience. The event aligns with a national commission on the Holocaust and ongoing education efforts. The ministerial fellowship supports remembering the victims including six million Jews and five million non Jews, with the film Night and Fog shown to illustrate the atrocities.
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Joseph Spector
Tifereth Israel
New Castle
Ivan Gruen
Temple Israel
Rabbi Spector
Tifereth
Martin Waldman
Dachau
Trucking wage deal sparks industry and union conflict
The Teamsters and trucking firms report a three-year tentative agreement with about a 30 percent wage-bene fit rise, while the administration cites 22.5 percent under Carter's 7 percent cap. The lockout ends as freight haulers resume moves across highways, aiding auto plants after 107,000 layoffs. Ratification by workers is expected to be strong as Alfred Kahn notes Carter’s commendation.
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Alfred Kahn
Police arrest two in New Castle marijuana bust
Police charged Anthony Pennacchio and Marlene Probst in a large New Castle drug operation. Officers found about five to six pounds of marijuana valued at 2500, plus 4450 in cash and several weapons during a 1:50 a.m. raid on their home. The case, called one of the department’s biggest in years, led to arraignment this morning.
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Anthony Pennacchio
Marlene Probst
Washington St
William Carbone
Detective Bureau
Good Friday closings and drug raid in Lawrence County
New Castle News will close at 2 p m on Good Friday. A raid led to three adult arrests on drug charges and a juvenile, with two children placed with Child Welfare and the suspects jailed on cash or property bonds after a three month narcotics investigation led by Carbone and the Lawrence County narcotics bureau.
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James Carangi
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Carangi
Trout Fishermen Ready for Countywide Angling
County brief highlights include Saccharin debate and a weather map update. Paris designs modeled appear in the week’s digest. The ePGths item notes 1 County and Trout fishermen ready to begin angling season with local notes on gear and locations.
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Saccharin
Paris
Ovis Ca Cee
Death records and weather details from Western Pennsylvania
Deaths listed include Mrs Joseph Haybarger age 54 of 1 Fleming Way and 83 year old Mrs Josephine Cochran at 811 Wilmington Ave along with infant Ronald Nathaniel Hardisky eight days old of RD 6 Frew Mill Road and Herbie Reinhart 26 of Birdsboro Pa. The weather notice forecasts breezy mild conditions with showers and thunderstorms through Friday and high temps in the upper 60s. rainfall near 100 percent tonight and Friday. Weather statistics show max 57 min 28 with 41 precip and Shenango River at 9.70 feet. Moraine State Park temperature 53 at 11 am with east wind 9 mph and 0.35 precip and 1,051 Wednesday attendance.
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Fleming Way
Ronald Nathaniel Hardisky
Frew Mill Road
Josephine Pyle Lent Cochran
Wilmington Ave
Herbie Reinhart
Birdsboro
Pennsylvania
Shenango River
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