Beaver Falls Fire Destroys Three Buildings
A Friday blaze in Beaver Falls engulfed three downtown structures including Jean's Frocks Inc and a Woolworth building. Damages top $500,000 with about 200 firefighters battling for four hours. Fourteen firemen were injured and residents aided as gas furnace ignition linked to the blaze.
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UPI
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F. W. Woolworth Co
Merle Plowman
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Ellwood City
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Edwin Phillips
New Castle News
Johnson seeks overtime cuts to spur job growth in 1965
President Johnson weighs reducing manufacturing overtime to unlock about 919,000 new jobs as he returns from Texas. He may propose a fiscal 1965 budget just under 100 billion dollars and push for quick congressional action.
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Johnson City
Tex
UPI
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Texas
Washington
Congress
Weather Outlook for Western Pennsylvania
Considerable clouds and wind across western Pennsylvania with light snow flurries in the northern area. Highs range from 34 to 40 in the north and 38 to 43 in the south. Tonight turns colder with mostly clear skies and lows in the 20s. Sunday looks fair with little temperature change. Weather data show a 24 hour period ending 7 am with a high of 51 and a low of 33, no precipitation, Shenango River at 4.1 feet.
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Shenango River
Death Record Louis Kosior of Wampum
Louis S. Kosior aged 30 of Wampum died Saturday January 4 1964. He is survived by his wife and other family members with funeral arrangements to be announced.
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Louis S. Kosior
Wampum
Conservative Liberal Contest Shapes For GOP Primaries
UPI reports a conservative Liberal clash as Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller enter the 1964 GOP race. Both target New Hampshire Oregon and California primaries with Goldwater viewed as front runner despite poll drops. New Hampshire emerge as a pivotal test for nomination prospects and party strategy post Kennedy era.
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UPI
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Nelson A. Rockefeller
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New York
New Hampshire
Oregon
California
Kennedy
Rocky Mountain
Russian Professor Plunges From Cambridge Apartment House
In Cambridge Massachusetts Yuri A Aseyef 35 an associate philosophy professor from the University of Leningrad on exchange at Harvard was critically injured in a three story fall. The FBI State Department and police investigate with secrecy surrounding the incident and Aseyef had applied for asylum December 29 notified to the Soviet Embassy on December 31.
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Mass
UPI
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State Department
Yuri A. Aseyef
University of Leningrad
Harvard University
Washington
Aseyef
Lawrence Municipalities to Reorganize Monday
Elected officials from most of Lawrence County's 26 municipalities will meet in separate sessions Monday to reorganize.
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Lawrence County
Unemployment Rate Drops to Eight Year Low in County
Lawrence County's 1963 unemployment rate fell to 7.3 percent in November, the lowest since September 1955, with 2,040 filing for compensation and about 33,100 employed on average, a gain of 1,000 over 1962. County and city officials will be sworn in at the courthouse and City Hall, with installation of county commissioners led by George F. Bolinger and Ray Bailey, and mayor John C. Jordan guiding new council members and officials in City Hall.
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Lawrence County
Bureau of Employment Security
Wilda K. Patterson
George F. Bolinger
Ray Bailey
Sam H. Byers
Joseph W. Gilmore
Ralph R. White
John A. Meehan Jr
Robert E. Foht
Clare M. Lutz
John C. Jordan
Robert W. Rainey
Jordan
William J. Watkins
George Rigby
Claude L. Humble
City recreation director open to safety ideas for sled program
In Inside News, the city recreation director seeks public input to improve safety of the sled riding program. The note appears on page 2 amid other brief items and local updates.
Pope Paul VI Enters Jerusalem Amid Palm Procession
Pope Paul VI arrived in Jerusalem on a historic pilgrimage marking the first papal visit to the Holy Land. He crossed palm leaves at Damascus Gate after a 52 mile ride from Amman and planned meetings with Jewish Moslem and Christian leaders to seek peace and unity.
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United Press International
Jerusalem
Jordan
UPI
Paul VI
Damascus
Amman
Rome
Holy Land
Christendom
Paul
Israel
Hussein
Mohammed
Pope Paul
Jesus
Sewer Charter Blocked by State Approval Clash
Local Republicans blocked state approval of New Castle's Sanitary Authority delaying incorporation. City Solicitor Scarazzo flew to Harrisburg to relay the halt by telegram to Commonwealth Secretary Bloom. Mayor Rainey blasted Jordan while the new council seeks funding options for a $3 million sewage treatment plant.
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New Castle News
Pa. 18
James L. Scarazzo Jr
Harrisburg
Robert W. Rainey
George S. Bloom
Rainey
John C. Jordan
Jordan
Ier
Democratic Council
Tony O. Cooper
William E. Columbus
Robert W. Brenner
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