Conscience of Franklin County ends 28-year editor career
Kermit W. Red Salyer after 28 years as editor of The Franklin News Post sells the paper to a Martinsville Bulletin executives’ corporation and plans to fish in the Florida Keys. He recalls a career marked by libel suits, jail threats, and bold editorials that earned him the title conscience of Franklin County.
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Franklin County
Craig Schwed
Rocky Mount, Va
UPI
Kermit W
Red” Salyer
Franklin News P
Salyer
News-Post
Martinsville Bulletin
Martinsville
Franklin
County Times
Florida Keys
Florida
Costal mystery unsettles Crawford County jury panel
Frank G. Costal did not appear for the preliminary hearing as about 160 residents gathered for jury selection in Crawford County. Judge William R. Ralph urged jurors to avoid discussing the case as proceedings opened a homicide-related trial in Meadville.
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Don Nakles
Meadville
Crawford County
Frank G. Costal
Costal
New Castle
William R. Ralph
Lawrence County
Ralph
Jurors View Training Film On Courtroom Procedure
Prospective jurors attend a 20 minute film at Crawford County Courthouse detailing jury duties and courtroom rules. Judge Ralph praises the film and hints at wider use in Lawrence County while a Wayne State Center produced it and a new state law updates juror pay to 9 dollars daily for three days and 25 dollars thereafter with mileage.
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William R. Ralph
Ralph
Lawrence County
Glenn McCracken
Alfred Hitchcock
Center For the Administration of Justice
Wayne State University of Detroit
Crawford County
P. Richard Thomas
Frank G. Costal
Reagan and Lopez Portillo Meet on Mexican Border
Reagan and Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo held a discreet two hour session on the Ciudad Juarez border, promising follow up talks within six months on U S Mexican issues. Reagan called the meeting successful and wonderful and urged more direct dialogue between nations, with plans for similar talks with Canada’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau before Inauguration Day.
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Helen Thomas Washington
UPI
Ronald Reagan
Jose Lopez Portillo
Ciudad Juarez
Washington
Reagan
U.S
Mexico
Lopez Portillo
Richard V. Allen
el Salvador
Allen
Carter
Cordoba Bridge
City to investigate soaring cancer rate in Philadelphia
Philadelphia officials plan a four-month probe into why cancer deaths in two industrial South Philadelphia areas rose 22 percent above the national average from 1972 to 1978. The Daily News cites 2,117 cancer deaths and links higher rates to local plants and facilities.
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Philadelphia
UPI
The
Daily News
David Soricelli
Soricelli
South Philadelphia
Bridesburg
South
Nicetown-Tioga
Midvale-Hoppenstall Co
Bruce Ames
National Cancer Advisory Board
Snow advisory with two to four inches expected
A Western Pennsylvania travel advisory warns of snowfall tonight amounting to two to four inches. Temperatures will drop to the upper teens with wind and a 90 percent chance of snow tonight. Snow flurries possible on Wednesday with temps around 10 by evening and a 40 percent chance of precipitation.
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Pennsylvania
New Castle Public Library to Close for Move
The New Castle Public Library will close to the public at 9 p.m. today and reopen in the new building on North Street Feb. 2. The Pennsylvania Army National Guard will move books on Saturday and Sunday, with professional movers handling delicate equipment and microfilm files.
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New Castle
Pollution rises across Great Lakes says scientists panel
A three scientist panel at AAAS warns that improved detection shows more contaminant types and wider spread in the Great Lakes, despite overall declines. Dr Eugene Perrin of Wayne State notes four figure chemical lists now detected while asbestos uptake in Duluth water prompts cancer questions though causality remains uncertain. Some researchers tie higher cancer rates in Thunder Bay to historic dumping of iron ore into western Lake Superior from 1955 to 1980.
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Toronto
UPC
Great Lakes
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Eugene Perrin
Michigan
Wayne State University
Duluth
Minn
Thunder Bay
Ont
Burglars Rent Office Above Bank in Queens Vault Raid
A team of skilled burglars rented an office above the Chase Manhattan Bank branch in Queens and drilled through two feet of concrete to rob 200 safe deposit boxes. They left tools behind and may have netted several hundred thousand to $1 million in cash and jewels. the main vault was untouched and the crime was discovered Monday.
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New York
UPI
Chase Manhattan Bank
Queens
Chase Manhattan
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CPOE
Frank Pollio
S. First St
Thomas R. Sarver
New Wilmington
Arelene Stiteler
Morris St
George M. McGary
N. Mercer
Anna A. Isacco
Forestville
Charles Levine
Miami
Shenango River
Robert Louis Stevenson
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