Salute satellite begins orbit as joint Soviet space station aim
Moscow reports unmanned Salute orbited 145 miles high over Baikonur in Cosmonaut Alley and will pave the way for manned ships to join in a multi launch effort to build an orbiting space platform. Tass calls Salute an orbital scientific station used as keystone for future laboratories and moon missions.
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Moscow
UPS
Earth
Baikonur Space Center
Soviet Central Asia
Sputnik
United States
Tass
Body Found Along McClain Road Near Mt Jackson
State police investigate discovery of a male body found this morning along McClain Road near Mt Jackson. Butler State Police have been called to assist in the inquiry.
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McClain Road
Mt. Jackson
Butler
Sessions Named to Union Township Planning Commission
Robert Sessions of 9 N Round St was named to a five year term on the Union Township Planning Commission by the township supervisors at their monthly meeting. Minutes of the prior meeting were approved along with monthly bills. Bids for road oil, gasoline, and salt were received but tabled for later review. HI LO WEATHER New York region report notes a 96 degree high at Laredo Texas and a 25 degree low at Ely Nevada.
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Robert Sessions
N. Round St
Union Township Planning Commission
HI LO Weather
New York
UPL
National Weather Service
Hawaii
Alaska
Laredo
Tex
Ely
Nev
Fire at Imperial Hotel in Bangkok Kills and Injures Many
A pre dawn blaze at Bangkok’s Imperial Hotel in the diplomatic quarter killed many and injured others, mostly Americans. Police reported 24 bodies recovered with more feared. Survivors complained alarms failed and exits were hard to find as flames raged through the five story building.
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Bangkok
UPI
Imperial Hotel
Sth
U.S. Army Field Hospital
Imperial
U.S
Gene Leupp
U.S. Air Force
Hawaii
James James
Leupp
Tony Tersch
The
Holy Redeemer Church
Body believed to be Miss Webb's found
In Phnom Penh a body believed to be Catherine M Kate Webb UPI Bureau Manager in Phnom Penh was found in a battle area 55 miles southwest of the capital She had been missing since April 7 along with five others while covering a highway 4 battle Cambodian troops later burned the bodies Involved were Toshishi Suzuki Chhim Sarath Tea Kim Hieng and two Cambodian interpreters Robin Mannock said Webb moved forward to view the scene then came under fire Witnesses reported possible capture by North Vietnamese troops but searches found no proof San Francisco also reported power failures clogging downtown streets with stalled trolleys and buses during rush hours.
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Phnom Penh
UPI
Catherine M
Kate" Webb
United Press International
Miss Webb
Toshishi Suzuki
Nihon Denpa News
Chhim Sarath
Tea Kim Hieng
Robin Mannock
Associated Press
Dur
Ing
Mannock
High education eyes scholarships loans seminar in New Castle
About 250 representatives from schools colleges and lending institutions plus the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency met at New Castle Business College for an information seminar on state scholarships and loans. PHEAA seeks nearly a 20 percent funding increase for 1971-72 with current scholarship funding at 51.4 million. Loan funding requests await the governor’s budget. The day long seminar covered program status and workshops with Q and A.
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Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency
New Castle Business College
G. Crawford Lyon
Stephen Delpero
PHEAA
Gary D. Smith
Trio cleared in school bus crash near Allentown
Hubert Daye Frank Tedesco and Michael Grazioso were cleared of involuntary manslaughter charges after a week long trial over July 15 bus crash on Route 22 near Allentown. The wreck killed seven Long Island children as the bus plunged 50 feet over an embankment and landed on its roof.
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Allentown
APD
Hubert Daye
Long Island
N.Y
Daye
Montclair
Frank Tedesco
Bayonne
N.J
Michael Grazioso
South Toms River
Window damage at Union Area school on Scotland Lane
About 11 windows totaling around 66 square feet were smashed late Sunday or early yesterday at Union Area Intermediate Grade School on Scotland Lane. All panes were on the south side. State police ask anyone with information to contact the local sub-station.
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Union Area
Scotland Lane
Ne Ca Hi students to show art work at YMCA exhibit
About 150 New Castle High School art students will display work at a YMCA exhibit starting April 30. The annual show features 250 pieces across 2-D, 3-D and graphics from ceramics to silk-screenings, prepared under directors Gwin Isaac Rentz and Badger.
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James Rentz
Jesse Badger
New Castle School
YMCA
New Castle News
Ne-Ca-Hi
New Castle High School
Patricia Gwin
Edward M. Isaac
New Castle
TWU Local 234 Members Ordered to Show Cause in Contempt
Sixteen TWU members including fourteen Local 234 workers and two shop stewards must appear in court to show cause why they should not be held in contempt for defying an injunction and continuing an eight day transit strike. Judge Jamieson set a back to work order and will meet with Local 234 executives and SEPTA negotiators as Gov. Shapp presses for a resolution. The strike halted service for about one million commuters.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Transport Workers Union
TWU
D. Donald Jamieson
Jamieson
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
SEPA
Milton J. Shapp
Arader Confirmed As Pennsylvania Secretary Of Commerce
Gov Milton Shapp named Walter G Arader of Radnor as secretary of commerce in Pennsylvania. The Senate confirmed him unanimously 42 0 after more than six weeks delay. Arader 51 owns a Philadelphia consulting firm and says the post will not require him to abandon the business. He cites no need to sever ties with Walter G Arader and Associates Inc amid patronage disputes in the Democratic Senate delegation.
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Harrisburg
Arader
Shapp
Copeland resigns as DuPont board chair in surprise move
Lammot DuPont Copeland, chairman since 1967, resigns for personal reasons atDuPont Co. board meeting. His son Lammot Jr. filed for bankruptcy last October. Copeland, 65, declined re election after Evelyn Y. Davis questioned retirement rumors. Charles McCoy becomes chairman.
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Wilmington, del
UPI
Lammot DuPont
Copeland
DuPont Co
Lammot Jr
E. I. DuPont
Evelyn Y. Davis
New York
Charles McCoy
Coraopolis Curfew Aims to Ease Racial Tensions
Police from several communities and sheriff's deputies aided Coraopolis in enforcing a curfew designed to ease racial tensions. A meeting between blacks and borough officials helped calm the situation. The trouble began at Coraopolis High School with a midday confrontation between black and white students and a group of about 50 blacks overturning bleachers at a baseball game before officials sent students home.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Coraopolis
Howard White
White
Coraopolis High School
Teachers return to class amid talks in Allegheny area
United Press International reports that South Park School District teachers returned to work today pending contract talks, while strikes continued in Erie Norwin Latrobe Area East Allegheny Upper St. Clair Allegheny Mifflin and DuBois Area districts affecting about 60,000 students. DuBois Area teachers had walked out Monday as a court injunction against striking was denied by Clearfield County Judge John Cherry. Philipsburg Osceola teachers in Clearfield and Centre Counties were ordered back by injunctions.
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United Press International
South Park
Allegheny County
Erie
Norwin
Latrobe Area
Westmoreland County
East Allegheny
Upper St. Clair
Allegheny
Mifflin County
DuBois Area
Clearfield County
Clearfield
John Cherry
Philipsburg-Osceola
Centre Counties
Roof collapse at Gary No. 2 mine kills miner
One miner, Wylie Owens of Boissevain, Va., was listed in good condition at a Bluefield hospital after a roof collapse at Gary No. 2 mine killed Kyle Lynch, 59, of Bluefield. George Easley, 39, of Wilcoe, was treated for knee cuts and assisted investigators as state and federal officials examined the retreat section where a coal pillar was being split.
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Gary
W. Va
UPI
Bluefield
U. S. Steel
Wylie Owens
Boissevain
Kyle Lynch
George Easley
Wilcoe
McDowell County
Welch
Warren Firefighters Warn on 26-Job Cutback
In Warren Ohio Firefighters Local 204 chairman Robert Pagent warned City Council that temporary layoff of 26 firefighters amid a citywide furlough would force the department to respond to only about one in three calls. He criticized Mayor Raymond Schriver, saying the cuts amount to playing Russian roulette with residents.
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Warren
Ohio
UPI
Robert Pagent
Pagent
Raymond Schriver
Court upholds busing in desegregation ruling
The Supreme Court, in a major desegregation ruling, reversed a lower court's focus on eastern Mobile and affirmed that busing and flexible attendance zones can advance actual desegregation. Chief Justice Burger noted districts should strive to eliminate one race schools while avoiding rigid boundaries.
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Alabama
Mobile County
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Burger
Circuit Court
Mobile
Suh Circuit
Virginia
Mississippi
Nixon
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
N.C
James B. McMillan
Charlotte
Rurger
New Castle
Russell L. Horchlet
Joseph Solomon
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