Presbytery approves city housing project and church calls
The Presbytery of Shenango approves a New Castle low cost housing project funded by a 20 409 grant request to United Presbyterian Self Development of People Committee and endorses several church calls. It also updates Shenango United Presbyterian Home by laws and grants property purchases and repairs to local churches.
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Shenango
Martin Luther King
New Castle
Farrell
Presbytery
United Presbyterian Self Development of People Committee
Hillside United Presbyterian Church
Greenville
Burg
Douglas E. Nagel
Douglas Pratt
Nagel
First U.P. Church
Cumberland
Maryland
Pratt
Eastminster
Wichita
Sas
New Wilmington
Lynn McElree Portz
First Presbyterian Church
E. Scott Johnston
Westfield Presbyterian Church
Lake Erie
Highland United Presbyterian Church
Sharon
East Street
Six Ams Riv Vu opens at New Castle Playhouse with quirky cast
The New Castle Playhouse presents six quirky characters in the dinner theater comedy Six Ams Riv Vu at Junkyard Lounge. Anne Miller and Paul Friedman navigate an apartment trap as laughter rises with Thomas McEwen stealing scenes as the pajama-clad building superintendent.
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Zelda Fitzgerald
New Castle Playhouse
Junkyard
Curtinime
Anne Miller
Mary Isabella
Paul Friedman
Nick Allegro
Playhouse
Thomas McEwen
X body cars win insurance break in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Harvey Bartle III approved a lower damage rate for Allstate on the new X body General Motors cars the 1980 Chevrolet Citation Pontiac Phoenix Oldsmobile Omega and Buick Skylark. He also approved a smaller 5.5 percent rate increase for Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co which had sought seven percent.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Pennsylvania
Harvey Bartle
Allstate Insurance Co
General Motors
Battle
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co
China oil export plans eyed by Pittsburgh visit
Song Zhenming head of China’s Ministry of Petroleum Industry told a UPI crew in Pittsburgh that China plans to export more oil and gas as its production grows beyond 700 million barrels last year. The Chinese delegation toured Consolidated Natural Gas Co, US Steel, and Mine Safety Appliances, and discussed fracturing recovery and environmental safeguards during rapid petroleum growth.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
People’s Republic of China
United States
China
Song Zhenming
Ministry of Petroleum Industry
Song
Consolidated Natural Gas Co
Kang Shien
State Economic Commission
Steel Corp and
Mine Safety Appliances International Inc
Lodovico murder trial opens with Saturday session
Testimony began in the Raymond Barber case in Ellwood City as witnesses testified under sequester. Prosecutors described a fatal fight at a local glass shop that left 28 year old Steve Lodovico dead. Autopsy confirmed a fatal puncture wound and massive bleeding with multiple injuries.
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Raymond Barber
Mahoningtown
Cornell Ave
Steve Lodovico
Ellwood City
John A Cherry
DuBois
Cherry
Lodovico
Barber
Richard Lombardo
Ellwood
Glogowsk
Lombardo
Eric Williams
George P. Micacchione
David Simon
Howard H. Reynolds
Allegheny County
Earl R. Davis
Allegheny County Coroner’s Office
Davis
Sadler charged with second degree murder in Bellamy case
Former Green Beret Sgt Barry Sadler, composer of Ballad of the Green Berets, is charged with second degree murder in the death of songwriter Lee Emerson Bellamy. Sadler posted 10000 dollar bond and claims self defense after Bellamy was shot outside Darlene Sharp's Nashville apartment on December 1.
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Nashville, Tenn
UPI
Green Beret
Barry Sadler
Green Berets
Sadler
Darlene Yvonne Sharp
Lee Emerson Bellamy
Ms. Sharp
Bellamy
Kennedy death likely result of conspiracy says committee
NBC News reports the House Assassinations Committee will conclude John F Kennedy was probably assassinated as part of a conspiracy. The final draft outlines how organized crime figures could have arranged the murder and cites acoustic analysis supporting two gunmen, naming Carlos Marcello and Santos Trafficante as the most likely mob bosses involved.
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Washington
UPI
House Assassinations Committee
John F. Kennedy
NBC News
NBC
Kennedy
John Kennedy
Robert
McClennan
Carlos Marcello
Santo Trafficante
Pittsburgh unions strike as contracts expire in city
In Pittsburgh area, members of three building trades unions including bricklayers stone setters and drywall finishers walked out after their contracts expired. About 1000 workers affected. operating engineers held firm for now extending talks day by day. Ironworkers and construction drivers settled, to be voted on this weekend. A union spokesman said negotiations with the Mason Contractors Association could resume today.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Ironworkers and
Mason Contractors Association
Allegheny County
Whale sinks yacht Snow White in Pacific collision
The 41 foot New Zealand yacht Snow White collided with a whale and sank in the South Pacific. Seven crewmen were forced into life rafts about 570 miles north of New Zealand. A Royal New Zealand Air Force Hercules plane located two life rafts, dropped a dinghy stores and a radio. The crew reported the yacht struck the whale and sank earlier Friday while en route from Fiji to Auckland. None were injured.
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New Zealand
UPI
South Pacific
Royal New Zealand Air Force
Hercules
North Cape
Snow White
Fiji
State Ordered to Pay Six Percent Interest
Harrisburg reports Commonwealth Court directs the state to pay 6 percent interest on unpaid 1977 budget impasse paychecks to AFSCME workers. Judge Crumlish Jr notes the award aligns with arbiter Mullin's decision and allows further meetings to determine the amount. The ruling cites sovereign liability when the state is placed in a position of liability by contract or statute.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Commonwealth
James Crumlish
American Federation of State
Charles Mullin
DC-10 Fleet Grounding After FAA Inspections
Washington reports that 22 of 138 DC-10 aircraft failed government ordered inspections following last week’s Chicago crash. FAA said 59 pylons showed issues, with 116 planes back in service after passing inspections or receiving minor repairs.
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Washington
UPI
America
Felman
FAA
Langhorne Bond
Widow of Pornographer Sought in Missing Case
FBI and state police seek Lilian Krasner widow of Luzerne County pornographer John Krasner who was killed near a Florida motel last February. Krasner 53 died during a vacation burglary attempt. Mrs Krasner 54 has been missing from Harveys Lake since last Wednesday. Allen Morro, Krasner's former partner, was wounded in a tavern shooting the night prior.
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Harveys Lake
Krasner
Allen Morro
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York
Luzerne County
Morro
Cadiz UMW official Lamb shot on Ohio highway
Investigation into the April 24 shooting of United Mine Workers official Bill Lamb has stalled. Harrison County sheriff Capt. John McMillan said Lamb's account of being waved down on U S 250 near Cadiz, possibly knocked out and shot in the arm and leg, is the sole evidence remaining. Lamb, an International Executive Board member, has been a contentious figure and was suspended by UMW President Arnold Miller.
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Cadiz
Ohio
UPI
United Mine Workers
Bill Lamb
John McMillan
Harrison County
Friday Lamb
Lamb
UMW International Executive Board
UMW
Arnold Miller
Washington
U.S
Victims Awarded 32572 In Pennsylvania Crime Victims Board
The Crime Victim s Compensation Board approved 22 claims totaling 32572 with Attorney General approval. The largest award 6083 went to Troy Felder of Philadelphia County for aggravated assault. Payments cover medical funeral costs and lost earnings. cumulative total reached 789664.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Lee High choir trip cut after polio outbreak in Amish country
In New Haven a group of 43 Lee High School choir members were slated to travel to Lititz Pennsylvania to stay with area families and perform in a church. Four travelers were barred from the trip due to a polio outbreak nearby while others received booster shots before departure.
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New Haven, Conn
UPL
Lee High School
Pennsylvania
Lititz
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