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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1971
Page
1
Holding court Canonero II, Derby and Preakness winner, strides toward the triple crown at Belmont Park. He races this Saturday in the Belmont Stakes as a United Press International artist crowns the moment.
Mostly cloudy today with showers or thundershowers likely. Highs in the 70s and lows 50s to 60s. Thursday partly cloudy and mild with highs in the 70s to 80s. Rain trace recorded. Shenango River stage 4.90 feet. Moraine State Park reports 61 degrees and .05 inches of rain with 5 020 in attendance Tuesday.
June 2 1971 death records list Frank Papa 62 of Cleveland Ohio Yunis Kidoor 70 of 1606 Huron Ave George J Lemos 53 of Ellwood City Mrs Florence Wilkeson 87 of 833 Allegheny Ave Lawrence Wooster Canton Pa John C DeSanti 73 of 803 E Sutton St and Charles H Michael 412 Young St.
President Nixon warned the Soviet Union against letting its Egypt treaty spur a Middle East arms race that could threaten peace. He said Moscow must not escalate weapon supplies to Cairo and reiterated hopes for a peace settlement while weighing China’s UN seating and a forthcoming trade list with Beijing.
Lawrence County faces a six month delay totaling 55000 dollars in state funds for child welfare services. Welfare officials cite civil service qualification gaps and staff shortages as reasons while county officials dispute the move as political pressure ahead of elections.
American journalist Arthur Morse executive director of the International Institute for Radio and Television died when his car skidded into a lake at Bled during the New Frontiers of Television symposium. Two others escaped and Morse, trapped in the submerged car, was found dead. He long served as reporter and director of See It Now on CBS and is survived by two children and his widow.
The New Castle Area School Board adopted a 7 608 008 dollar 1971 72 budget, up 388 838 from 1970 71, with taxes remaining at 52 mills, per capita taxes of 10 and 5, and five mill wage taxes. Major expenditures include instruction 4 388 491 and maintenance 798 460. A recent public meeting drew no attendees to question the plan.
Unemployment for the New Castle area for a two month period ending April 15 was 6.1 percent. The April employed reached 33 900 of a 36 100 work force as jobless figures rose from last year but stayed below February’s 7.7 percent.
Harrisburg notes a House vote on allowing Sunday liquor sales from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. for hotels restaurants and airports with 30 percent food and other beverage receipts and a $200 annual license fee. Hotels with retail dispenser licenses could sell malt beverages Sundays for a $100 permit.
Brig. Gen. John W. Donaldson faces charges of murdering six South Vietnamese civilians and assaulting two others. The incidents allegedly occurred in late 1968 and early 1969 in Quant Ngai province while he commanded the 11th Infantry Brigade Americal Division.
Amos Crosby 38 of Farrell Mercer County fired two shots with a 25 caliber pistol after a Little League baseball game killing his wife Minnie 30 and Winters B. Gunther 60 who died at Venango County Osteopathic Hospital. Gunther a spectator died from an upper chest wound. Crosby fled in a white late model car and was arrested by four officers. He faces arraignment today on a general charge of murder.
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