Truman laid to rest in dignified Independence service
Bess Truman and daughter Margaret Daniel bid farewell as Lt Gen Cassidy presented the folded flag to Mrs Truman at the flag draped coffin. The private rites at Truman Library grounds honored the 33rd president with statesmen and family in attendance.
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Independence
UPI
Bess Truman
Harry Truman
Truman
Missouri River
Taok
White House
Margaret Daniel
Patrick F. Cassidy
Mes. ‘Teaman
Cassidy
Sth
Millons
Bess
W. Hugh McLaughlin
Masonsin
Missouri
Hubert Hustphrey
D-Minn
Senate
Thomas E. Dewey
Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
VPI
Truman Library
Egypt prepares war plan amid Sadat decree
President Anwar Sadat ordered nationwide war preparations directing governorates to form committees. He will chair a national committee with a Sidku-led subcommittee while meetings with aides begin this Saturday to coordinate a long, drawn-out conflict with Israel and seek Arab support.
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United Press International
Israel
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Sadat
Aziz Sidku
Parliament
Syria
Libya
Federation of Arab Republics
State House control in doubt as votes contested
In Harrisburg Republicans claim a House majority of at least 102, but the state says results are inconclusive amid legal challenges. Certification and swearing in loom as disputed Philadelphia Chester Beaver and Lackawanna races may decide control before the January convening.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Musd
GOP
State Department
Lee
Pettine
House
Senate
Secretary of State
C. Delores Tucker
Pettine Sai
Keen
Philadelphia
Chester
Beaver
Lackawanna
Frank Vacca
Anthony DiDonato
Samuel Morris
Karl Glocker
Chester County
Glocker
Albert Kuhni
Charles Laughlin
Beaver County
Surviving Andes crash survivors admit cannibalism
Sixteen men who endured 70 days on a Chilean peak after a Uruguayan air force F27 crash said they ate the flesh of dead colleagues to survive. Alfredo Delgado led the revelation at a news conference to about 600 observors, calling the act intimate communion and a means to subsist.
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Montevideo
UPIY
Andes
Alfredo Delgado
Jesus
Delgado
Chile
Civilization
Santiago
Speeding Driver Cited After 112.5 MPH On I 48
State trooper Malcolm Burnett stopped a late model foreign car on Interstate 48 near here for 112.5 mph in a 70 mph zone. Driver Lawrence Sarsoun, 31, claimed the accelerator was stuck and said he was coasting in neutral. Burnett issued a speeding ticket.
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Tinley Pam
UPI
Malcolm Burnett
Interstate 48
Here
Lawrence
Sarsoun
Malcolm
Win
Commissioners set property tax at 14 mills for 1973 budget
Lawrence County commissioners adopted the 1973 budget totaling 3 173 908 dollars, a 227 001 increase from 1972, with 13.0 mills for general purposes and 0.2 mills for debt service. They approved state liquid fuel funds and preliminary allocations for townships and noted hospital funding delays. The board also discussed appointments to the Mental Health Advisory Board and planned a 2 p.m. adjournment to finish year-end business after honoring Harry S Truman.
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Lawrence County
Frank A. Vitril
Robert I. Foht
Pant
Wilmington Township
Wayne Township
Scott Township
State Secretary of Public Welfare
County Mental Health
Donna Stewart
Carl Sacherich
Harry W. Riegel
Olga Nared
Sister Maria
St. Francis Hospital
New Year bombing pause ordered in Vietnam war
UPI reports President Nixon ordered a brief New Year’s Day halt in fullscale bombing of North Vietnam. Saigon says the pause will last about 24 hours, shorter than the Christmas halt, as losses mount with multiple American aircraft shot down and crews missing. China-backed protests and Hanoi declarations shape potential changes before year’s end.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S
Nixon
North Vietnam
North Dee
Laos
Hanoi
Paris
Peking
Vietnam
Chou En-lai
BSA
US. Navy
RASC
Mekong Delta
Hanoi-Haiphong
Hanni
Urella Shapp meet Harrisburg amid wiretap controversy
State Police Commissioner Rocco P Urella was to meet Gov Milton J Shapp as reports grew that he might resign or be fired over a wiretap incident. Creamer and Urella clashed since joining Shapps administration while troopers investigated Philadelphia corruption and wiretaps at a King of Prussia motel. Three troopers were suspended without pay pending resolution.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Rocco P. Urella
Milton J. Shapp
Urella
Arella
J. Shane Creamer
Shapp
Creamer
State Crime Commission
Philadelphia
King of Prussia
Suspect Arrested in Bloomfield Nurse Beating Case
Homicide detectives named Donald Speed Tedford as the suspect in the Bloomfield attack on Nancy Bush, a Magee-Women's nurse now in critical condition with skull fractures. Tedford, 21, of Squirrel Hill, faces assault with intent to kill, rape, and strong arm robbery charges after arrest shortly after 4am. Bush, 20, a Leeghburg native living with a roommate, was attacked when she opened her door for work and is hospitalized at St. Francis. Tedford is married, a Vietnam veteran, and formerly worked as a car salesman.
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Pittsburgh
UFI
Magee-Women's Hospital
Donald “Speed” Tedford
Somerset
Squirrel Hill
Tedford
Nancy Bush
Bloomfield
Miss Bush
St. Francis Hospital
Leeghburg
Armstrong County
Suspect bound over in Kennett Square patrolmen killing
WEST CHESTER Pa UPI Ancell Hamm 28 was bound over to the Chester County grand jury on charges of killing Patrolmen Richard Posey 38 and William Davis 27 outside Kennett Square Borough Hall last Nov 15. Bail set at 250000 after a four hour preliminary hearing where witnesses tied the murder weapon a high powered hunting rifle to the ambush style shooting.
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West Chester
UPI
Ancell Hamm
Chester County Grand Jury
Kennett Square
Hamm
Donald Brown
Grant
Richard Posey
William Davis
Kennett Square Borough Hall
CBS technicians approve three year strike contract
New York CBS technicians, cameramen, and electricians who struck 56 days ago voted to accept a three year pact by a 561 to 509 margin. The deal includes a 5.5 percent annual raise and two extra holidays, lifting base weekly pay from 205 dollars. Workers were set to return within 48 hours amid a strike that idled CBS staff in New York and six other cities.
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New York
UPI
Columbia Broadcasting System
Radio and Television Engineers Union
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
CBS
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Washington
Boston
Chicago
St. Louis
Cholera quarantine expanded in Lehigh County farm cluster
The Agriculture Department placed Upper Macungie Two in Lehigh County under hog cholera quarantine after a Christmas Eve outbreak in a 40 hog herd. Breeding and feeding operations within five miles are restricted while similar quarantines exist in Franconia Township Montgomery County and South Middletown Township Cumberland County. All outbreaks trace to infected swine from New Jersey exposed at a Bucks County livestock auction.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Agriculture Department
Macungie
Lehigh County
Franconia
Montgomery County
South Middletown
Cumberland County
New Jersey
Bucks County
Reagan signs bill protecting newsmen privilege in California
Governor Reagan said the measure defends reporters who refuse to reveal confidential story sources under the First Amendment. The law covers publishers editors reporters and staff of newspapers wire services and radio or TV stations, but it does not affect William Farr who remains jailed for contempt over source disclosure in the Manson case.
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Sacramento
Calif
UPI
Ronald Reagan
William Farr
Los Angeles Times
Charles Manson
Farr
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
Rockefeller invited to lead West Virginia Wesleyan College
BUCKHANNON WV IUP- Rockefeller IV denied the governorship and will spend 10 days weighing an offer to become West Virginia Wesleyan College president. The 95-year-old former secretary of state, defeated by Arch Moore, did not commit and said the board will decide within a week to 10 days.
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Buckhannon
W. Va
UPI
John D. Rockefeller IV
West Virginia
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Stanley H. Martin
Rockefeller
Arch A. Moore Jr
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