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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1966
Page
1
Union Area School District voters backed a 4 mill cut to real estate taxes by a 4 to 1 board vote after earlier proposing a 56 mill levy. The board also approved a 50 mill levy amid talks of 54 or 53 mills and voted to close Sunny Ave Elementary School as two directors were absent.
Shenango Township supervisors back a plan to cooperate with the city on a sewer line between the city and the state Youth Development Center on Frew Mill. The board hired solicitor Robert M. White to negotiate costs for transporting and treating sewage after engineer Michael Baker Jr. provides cost estimates to update the Big Run Interceptor.
About 750 youths will enter the labor market in the next 30 days as Gov. Scranton launches a Summer Jobs for Youth drive urged by Mrs. Wilda K. Patterson of the New Castle Bureau of Employment Security. She notes 400 are students and the rest graduates or college students seeking summer work.
Mostly sunny and warmer today with a high of 62 to 72 degrees. Tonight remains fair and cooler with a low in the 40s to low 50s. Friday brings partly cloudy skies and warmer temperatures with a chance of showers in the northern portion. 24 hour stats show max 61, min 35, precip none, river Shenango at 4.5 feet.
The Surveyor spacecraft completed a 63 hour voyage to the Sea of Storms and sent back 144 high quality pictures. Scientists report the lunar surface appears rubble strewn and not solid rock, with many rocks or mounds visible and dust cover likely minimal.
The page highlights June weddings recalling ancient Rome with a feature on ceremony style and themes. Rich Allen is noted as unaffected by a shoulder injury at the plate in a brief sports item. Frank Thomas speaks his mind in a travel feature, with page references for further detail.
Frank D. Kirsch Sr. 68 of 8 Spring Street and Madie E. Overlander 99 of Ellwood City are listed in the death records for Thursday June 2 1966. The notice notes their ages and residences as part of the public obituaries on page 2.
Shenango residents debated converting to a borough after a county cost study estimated up to 14 782 dollars extra annually for borough government. Township officials argued the figure is high while residents weighed higher taxes against protection from annexation by New Castle.
Westminster College announces Alumni Achievement Awards for three alumni during commencement weekend. W. Walter Braham 1915 former Lawrence County judge serves as PA Bar Association president. Dr. Robert M. Hall 1950 an oral surgeon noted for a brain and spinal operation drill saw. Arthur A. Schreiber 1951 chief of Group W Washington News Bureau. Exercises at 2 p.m. Monday on South Terrace will conclude the weekend activities.
Astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan await clearance for a new 9:39 a.m. EDT Friday launch to rendezvous with a satellite in near perfect orbit. Engineers say the computer guidance bug is fixed after replacing two faulty logic modules, with the shroud question on the target satellite lingering.
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