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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1964
Page
1
California primary results show Senator Goldwater defeating Rockefeller in a competitive GOP contest. City police announce a downtown crackdown on parking violators with intensified patrols targeting double parking and illegal loading zones.
Earl F. Herold, grand master of Masons in Pennsylvania, named Dr. F William Sunderman a Mason at a Grand Lodge ceremony in the Scottish Rite Cathedral. Sunderman, born in Altoona, trained at Gettysburg College and the University of Pennsylvania, has led clinical pathology research and improved laboratory measurement standards. More than 1,000 Masons attended.
Aberdeen authorities search shops and wholesalers for corned beef linked to a typhoid outbreak that has infected 241 people and caused 30 suspected cases in the city. Four confirmed and 18 suspected cases appeared in other Scottish cities, with three suspected in Newcastle and one in East London.
Senator Barry Goldwater defeated Nelson Rockefeller in California boosting his GOP race lead. The result adds 86 delegates toward the Republican National Convention, bringing Goldwater to 433 of the 655 needed for the nomination.
Pierre Salinger, former Johnson aide, won the Democratic nomination for U S senator in California after a tough primary battle with Alan Cranston. He immediate hinted at Southeast Asia travel, while Goldwater and Rockefeller battled in California for the Republican Senate nomination. In other news, seven-year-old Gary Letera was struck by a car on Wilmington Avenue, becoming the city’s 14th traffic victim in seven weeks. he was hospitalized in satisfactory condition with head injuries.
Western Pennsylvania mostly cloudy with a few showers or thunder showers and little temperature change. Highs 58 to 66, tonight 45 to 50, cooler in valleys 40 to 45. Thursday partly cloudy and cool with a few showers possible. Lake Erie winds southwest to west 8 to 15 knots today shifting to north 8 to 14 knots tonight with scattered showers likely. 24 hour period ending 7 am shows max 68, min 50, precipitation 0.05 inch. prior week data in parentheses.
In Ellwood City region actions are taken to rescind wage tax shares for the local school district and Wayne Township adopts a dog control law. Ellport enacts a sewer rate measure to raise revenue as Jaycee Horse Show set for June 12 and 13.
A $600,000 grant request by New Castle to fund part of a $2.6 million sewage treatment plant cleared state review and awaits final approval from the U S Public Health Service within two to six weeks. Hazleton leads Pennsylvania in funding priority, with $900,000 federal funds available.
A federal court jury awarded 9.6 million to three utility firms and Judge Lord trebled the damages under antitrust provisions, totaling 28,927,217.25 dollars against six manufacturers of heavy electrical equipment. The six defendants include General Electric Westinghouse Allis Chalmers McGraw Edison Wagner and Maloney Electric. This is the first wave of civil suits from the 1961 antitrust action against 29 firms.
A man phoned in a bomb threat to the Sheraton Park Hotel less than an hour before President Johnson and Mrs. Johnson visited a dinner honoring United Nations Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. Police found no explosives on the premises before the visit.
Mayor Wagner pledged five million dollars to hire 900 more Police Department officers to fight roving gangs in New York. He announced expedited training for transit police, with 700 veterans to be assigned to overtime transit duty amid fears of racial violence spreading from Brooklyn.
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