Legislators return to address consumer protection and urban issues
Harrisburg reports that the General Assembly reopened after a recess to hear Gov. Shafer discuss a consumer protection package and urban problems. He outlined a plan giving the Bureau of Consumer Protection new powers, plus a mandatory breath test provision for drunken driving and higher mortgage interest limits.
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Harrisburg
UPI
General Assembly
Raymond P. Shafer
Shafer
Bureau of Consumer Protection
State Justice Department
Two youths die in crash on U S 62 near Sharon
A car carrying two boys slammed into a tree three miles east of Sharon in Hickory Township and was sheared in half. Both youths were killed Saturday at the scene.
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Pulaski RD 1
U.S. 62
Sharon
Hickory Township
Robert F. Hartman
New Wilmington RD 1
Hartman
Kusky
Urban
Hickory
John Urban
Youngstown
Joseph
Josephine Szabat Urban
Paris man first European heart transplant recipient
Paris doctors claim 66 year old truck driver Clovis Roblain received the heart of 23 year old Michel Guppaz in Europe s first heart transplant at La Pitie Hospital. The nine hour operation led by Dr Christian Cabrol left Roblain unconscious with a normal heartbeat and hopeful signs for recovery.
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Paris
UPI
Europe
Clovis Roblain
Michel Guppaz
la Pitie
Christian Cabrol
Gerard Guiroudon
Jean Facquet
Maurice Mercadier
Roblain
United States
South Africa
India
Philip Blaiberg
Cape Town
Christiaan Barnard
Blaiberg
Mercadier
Reds hunted in infested jungle Captain marries nurse
Capt. Lawrence Dring of Summerville South Carolina Special Services and Rebecca Gould of Altoona Pennsylvania married after he was wounded in Vietnam. She helped save his life at Pleiku and Fort Gordon hospital. The couple planned a honey moon drive to Ft Gordon as he recovers with 13 pints of blood given.
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Altoona, Pa
UPI
South Carolina
Pennsylvania
Vietnam
Lawrence Dring
Summerville
S. C
Rebecca Gould
Altoona
Theodore E. Gould
Grace Methodist Church
Army Hospital
Ft. Gordon, Ga
Dring
Miss Gould
Pleiku
Rebecca
United States
Mary
Terry
National Guard
Army
Special Services
Green Berets
Mop-up drive in A Shau Valley yields heavy casualties
UPI dispatch reports U S and South Vietnamese forces expanding operations in the A Shau Valley with 44 North Vietnamese killed in a machinegun fight and ongoing heavy losses. Jets bombed supply lines, while several helicopters were shot down or damaged amid tough terrain and harsh weather.
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UPI
Nat Gibson
U.S
Laos
Army 1St Air Cavalry Division
Toda
Glis
A Shau
North Vietnam
Panhandle
South Vietnam
Hue
Red
Army
4Th Division
Saigon
John Tolson
Delaware
Local Obituary and Public Notices Item
A list of names and ages from Pulaski, New Bedford Pulaski Rd, Ellwood City, New Castle, 722 Acorn St, 1113 Dewey Ave, Santa Ana California and 908 Cunningham Ave dated Monday April 29 1968. Included are Gary Kusky 17 John Urban 18 Harry Miller 66 Donnald Fullwood 44 Mrs Henry Karki 79 Henry Monroe 79 Mrs Mary McCandless 79 and Adam Wisosky 85.
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Gary Donald Kusky
Pulaski RD
John M. Urban
New Bedford - Pulaski
Harry W. Miller
Ellwood City
Donnald Fullwood
New Castle RD
Henry Karki
Acorn St
Henry Raymond Monroe
Dewey Ave
Mary Edith McCandless
Santa Ana
Calif
Adam Wisosky
Wysocki
Cunningham
British troops land to quell Bermuda riots amid unrest
Bermuda faced racial violence with 17 injured and 100 arrests as British troops and a 250 soldiers navy unit landed from England to restore order. A dusk to dawn curfew pinned tourists in hotels while riots spanned downtown Hamilton causing $240,000 in damage and raising political tensions ahead of May elections involving the UBP and PLP.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
UPI
Atlantic
Carolina
Lord Martemere
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Worcester
England
UBP
PLP
Britain
Abnarth y heads delegation in capital poor march plans
Rev Ralph Abernathy leads about a hundred delegates in Washington for three days of talks with Cabinet members as the Poor People's Campaign begins. Organizers vow massive nationwide action including caravans and a May 30 rally with hundreds of thousands.
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Rev. Abernathy
Louis Cassels Washington
UPI
Martin Luther King Jr
Ralph Abernathy
Dr. King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Lafayette
Washington
Weather of Western Pennsylvania and UPI temperature reports
Increasing cloudiness and mild weather in western Pennsylvania with scattered showers tonight and Tuesday. Highs mostly in the 60s 50s near Lake Erie. Lows in the 40s. UPI reports extreme temperatures: 97 at Presidio Texas, 20 at Alamosa Colorado.
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Lake Erie
New York
UPI
U.S. Weather Bureau
Hawaii
Alaska
Presido
Tex
Alamosa
Colo
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