CHARGE Faces Possible Closure Over Funding Loss
CHARGE Inc the local anti poverty agency may go out of business after January 31 as the federal Office of Economic Opportunity tentatively discontinues funds. Acting president Stephen E Burger says a board meeting will discuss the letter and invites citizens to attend. Executive director D John Razzano calls the move a terrible blow to 4667 area families in poverty while awaiting CEO approval of a new 184610 budget for central office and neighborhood centers.
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Charge
Union Township Sets 93 785 Budget With No Levy Change
Union Township supervisors approve a 93 785 spending plan for next year and keep the 5 mill property tax unchanged. The 1969 budget lists 95 569 in expected receipts including a 40 000 year end balance. Actual receipts to date total 114 455 with 82 956 in general fund and a 31 449 balance at start of 1968. The township expects 16 514 from the 1 percent earned income tax this year and next year, but wage levy funds will go to a separate building fund. Supervisors plan a 100 000 township building on Scotland Lane next year. Continued on page 3.
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Union Township
Scotland Lane
Rockefeller to Seek Fourth Term in 1970
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, the nation’s longest serving governor, announces plans to run again in 1970 for a fourth four year term. The Lawrence County Young Republicans Club will elect officers at 8 p.m. tomorrow at downtown GOP headquarters with a slate of candidates and a film on the Electoral College to be shown. Refreshments will be served.
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New York
UPI
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Leslie Slate
Lawrence County
Young Republicans Club
GOP
Electoral College
Parish to honor pastor with Golden Jubilee celebration
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Francis M. McCarter, pastor of St. Mary Church, marks 50 years as a priest with a testimonial dinner at Cathedral at 6 30 p m on January 7. He served 28 years at St. Mary’s and has two assistants, Rev. Charles Bergman and Rev. Daniel Dixon. Reservations offered by Col. John Gallagher.
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Francis M. McCarter
St. Mary Church
Msgr. McCarter
Elizabeth, Pa
St. Mary’s
Peter J. McKenna
Bentleyville
Pittsburgh
Holy Cross Church
St. Peter’s Church
St. Mary of the Mount
New Castle
Rev
Charles Bergman
Daniel Dixon
Col
John Gallagher
Park Ave
Bessemer Adopts 101 255 Budget for 1969
Bessemer Borough Council approved a 1969 budget of 101 255 with no tax increase. Expenditures total 101 255 including general government 39 200, protection 15 160, highways 12 200, health 500, library 1 600, recreation 4 900, and capital outlay 6 000. Revenue is projected 101 255 from taxes grants licenses and other sources. Officials invite applications for a part time police officer and part time water and streets staff.
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Bessemer — Borough
Water and Streets Department
Weather Update for Western Pennsylvania and Lake Erie
Partly cloudy and cold with highs in the teens to mid 20s and lows 5 to 15 degrees, some mountain valleys dipping to minus 5. Winds from Lake Erie east to southeast 5 to 15 knots today, tonight 10 to 20 knots southwest. Temperatures for the 24 hours ending 7 am: high 26, low minus 1, trace snow. year earlier highs 44, lows 26.
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Lake Erie
Earthquake rattles Philadelphia area for first time in 130 years
An earthquake measuring 2.5 on the Richter scale struck the Greater Philadelphia area at 4:13 a.m. EST, rattling windows and toll booths but causing no reported damage. ESSA notes earlier quakes near Philadelphia in 1840, with calls to police, fire, and media stations.
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Benjamin Franklin
Walt Whitman
Delaware River
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ESSA
Washington
United States
State Police
UPI
US death toll in Vietnam tops 30 000
Saigon reports the U S death toll in Vietnam has surpassed 30 000 with nearly half occurring this year Officials say 29 865 Americans had died through November 30 and new figures push the total past 30 000 as Communist fire strikes nine camps near Saigon and the Cambodia border.
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UPS
Vietnam
U.S
Cambouida
America
Death notices for Vida V. Johnson Edelman Laneve
Obituaries list Vida V. Johnson 88 of 803 Highland Ave Michael Edelman 75 of Ellwood City and Mrs Joseph Laneve 59 of Hollywood Fila.
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Highland Ave
Michael Edelman
Ellwood City
Joseph Laneve
Hollywood
Fila
Educators push to curtail human relations school power
The Pennsylvania State Education Association plans a showdown at its convention over the State Human Relations Commission authority to issue anti discrimination orders to school districts. Delegates will consider moving school jurisdiction to the State Board of Education and 31 other resolutions.
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Harrisburg
UPI
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State Board of Education
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Erie
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McKeesport
Penn Hills
Pittsburgh City
Wilkinsburg
Allegheny County
Aliquippa
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Coatesville
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Susquehanna
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Farrell Area
Mercer County
Norristown
Montgomery County
Philadelphia
Washington
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Chester
Trick and treat Youth steals $816667 in Tokyo bank robbery
A man dressed as a traffic officer tricked four Toshiba Electric Co bank workers into leaving with three metal boxes of unrecorded banknotes totaling 816667 dollars. He stole their car on a road near Fuchu prison, using a helmet and police car guise to flee. No shots fired.
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Tokyo
UPI
Fuchu
Toshiba Electric Co
Eiji Nakada
Koganei
Toshiba
Miura
Probable Nixon cabinet lineup leaks in UPI report
The UPI cites educated guesses for Nixon’s post election cabinet. Possible picks include John N. Mitchell for attorney general, Robert Finch for health and welfare, Moynihan for housing, Volpe for transportation, Romney for commerce, Kennedy for treasury, Blount for postmaster general, Reynolds or Gilhooley for labor, and Laird for defense with interior and agriculture names also discussed. Dillon considered for State but remains in banking.
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Nixon
New York
Robert H. Finch
California
Commerce
South
James J. Reynolds
John J. Gilhooley
New York City
al Shock
Sioux Falls
S.D
Clarence Palmby
Department of Agriculture
Eisenhower
Douglas Dillon
Four Boys Die In Indiana Pa House Fire
Four young brothers aged 13 7 4 and 3 were killed when a Chevy Chase home in Indiana County burned Monday night trapped in an upstairs bedroom. Parents and three other children escaped as firefighters faced water shortages cold and crowds. The blaze reportedly started in the basement and investigators have not determined a cause.
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UPI
Chevy Chase
Indiana County
John Deyarmin
Rick
Kenny
Denny
Charles Deyarmin
Indiana
Deyarmin
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