New Castle Considers New Post Office Facility
U S Representative Frank M Clark proposes a new post office for New Castle to handle rising business from a western Pennsylvania trucking garage. The facility would be leased to the city, developed with the Redevelopment Authority, and fall within an urban renewal area awaiting federal approval. Clark expects a reply within a month and notes modernization may occur if rejected.
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New Castle
U.S
Frank M. Clark
D-Bessemer
Post Office Department
Pennsylvania
City Redevelopment Authority
James R. Paige
Clark
City of
Federal
Official Pennsylvania uses DST starting Sunday
Pennsylvania begins daylight saving time under state sanction for the first time. Clocks jump one hour ahead at midnight and remain fast until Oct. 30. Taverns close at 2 a.m. under official DST rules, with curfew enforcement for youths 16 to 18 and parental supervision required overnight.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Pennsylvania
William W. Scranton
Yatesville
Luzerne County
Harry H. Brainerd
Young
Three children die in row home fire in Philadelphia
In South Philadelphia a blaze killed three children aged about four to seven. A North Philadelphia fire injured five children and an adult, with victims including Mrs. Mary Lucas and Oxford White. Jean Robinson, 21, leaped from a third floor window and fractured both legs and her hip.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Mary Lucas
St. Agnes Hospital
Oxford White
Jean Robinson
North Philadelphia
Ore
Nina Serano
Donald Murphy
Eddie Robinson
Robert Serano
Mary Ann Murphy
Lodge to Return Home for Talks on South Viet Nam
U S Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge plans to return to Washington briefly for consultations as officials see a brighter political picture in South Viet Nam. Lodge's trip aims to ease tensions after Buddhist demonstrations threatened Ky's regime, with a return to duties in Saigon afterward. New Castle Area School District receives 800000 subsidy to cover a 250000 loan for April payroll.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Johnson
South Viet Nam
Lodge
Nguyen Cao Ky
South Vietnm
New Castle Area
Dairy farm group wins price hike in Pittsburgh area
The United Dairy Farmers plans to seek similar retailer agreements after Kroger Co. and Beverly Farms Dairy signed a deal paying farmers 5.25 per hundredweight for milk without higher retail prices. About 50 percent of Pittsburgh area milk is Class 1. Kroger will initially buy 2000 gallons daily and market the product as Pennsylvania milk.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
United Dairy Farmers
UDF
Kroger Co
Beverly Farms Dairy
Kroger
Beverly Farms
Ernest Hayes
Pennsylvania
Kroger and
Beverly
Don Hirsch
Krogers
Hirsch
Dodging the draft editorial
An editorial commentary discusses draft avoidance and its implications, weighing civic duty and personal risk with a stern, opinionated tone typical of the era.
Deaths Aboard Local Note Names New Bedford and New Wilmington
George H. Strayer age 55 of New Bedford Samuel H. Sloan age 61 of New Wilmington Roy F. Preston age 74 of 221 Hillcrest Ave Mrs Rachel C Hosler age 37 of RD 7 are listed in the death records dated Saturday April 23 1966 with no further details provided.
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George H. Strayer
New Bedford
Samuel H. Sloan
New Wilmington
Roy F. Preston
Hillcrest Ave
Rachel C. Hosler
Marines Press Victory In Two Day Viet Cong Battle
U S Marines and South Vietnamese troops pursued remnants of a Communist force after a two day clash about 335 miles north of Saigon. Allied units reported 322 dead and estimated another 200 guerrillas bodies carried away. Casualties were listed as light for the U S and South Vietnamese.
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U.S
Viet Nam
Quang Ngai
Four injured in Ellwood two car crash near Union Street
Four borough residents were hospitalized after a two car crash on Line Ave near Union St. Tony Lombardi 324 Line Ave was in very serious condition with a skull fracture and was moved from Ellwood City Hospital to Presbyterian Hospital then to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Oakland.
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Ellwood City
Line Ave
Union St
Tony Lombardi
Ellwood City Hospital
Presbyterian Hospital
Pittsburgh
Veterans’ Administration Hospital
Oakland
Lombardi
Navy
Norfolk
Babcock and Wilcox
Benjamin Chamella Jr
Clover Ave
County steering committee named for better roads drive
A 40-member coalition of city township borough and agency officials launched a high priority campaign in the courthouse to secure four lane widenings on U S 422 to Butler County U S 224 to the Ohio line Pa 65 Ellwood City to New Castle and Pa 18 to the county line The New Castle Bypass and Beaver Valley Expressway were flagged for early state construction plans.
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Lawrence County
U.S. 422
Butler County
U.S
State Department of Highways
Donald W. Fox
Renan Valley
Franklin
State Highway Commission
John C. Jordan
Dominic E. Cioffi
New Castle
R. J. Schill
Ellwood City
Schill
William
C. Houk
Beaver Valley
U.S. 224
William J. Watkins
Croton Ave
N. Mill St
Highland Ave
Moravia St
S. Jefferson St
W. State St. Hill
New Wilmington
S. Market St
Mercer Rd
Little Beaver Township
North Beaver Township
Washington Township
Plaingrove
Pulaski Township
Mercer County
Shenango Township
Pittsburgh Rd
Bessemer
Mt. Jackson
Mahoningtown
Fox
Raymond Good
Progressive Council
East New Castle
Richard J. Audino
Harbor Bridge project under way over Shenango River
Work has begun on replacing the Harbor Bridge over the Shenango River with Broadhead Construction Co of Aliquippa clearing trees along the river bank as a first step in the project.
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Harbor
Shenango River
Broadhead Construction Co
Aliquippa
Western Pennsylvania Weather: Increasing Clouds and Showers
Western Pennsylvania reports mostly cloudy skies with increasing cloudiness north. Warmer today with scattered showers and possible thundershowers this afternoon to evening. Highs 67 to 77, lows 47 to 57, mild over the period with 24 hour max near 70. River stage at Cames River 5.6 feet, versus 6.3 feet last year.
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Pennsylvania
Cames River
Plastic heart patient reports slight improvement at hospital
Marcel L. De Rudder, 65, sick since his artificial heart began aiding his damaged heart, shows better vital signs and stable readings in morning bulletin. The left ventricular bypass works about 75 percent, doctors report, following the historic DeBakey operation at Methodist Hospital.
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Paul
Freeman
United Press International Houston
UPI
Marcel L. de. Rudder
Methodist Hospital
de Rudder
Michael E. DeBakey
Rudder
Westville
Edna
DeBakey
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