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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1969
Page
1
A four part Pennsylvanian series cites duplication and vague audits as waste in state spending. Leaders from both parties call for efficiency experts to uncover overlapping programs. Critics target manpower training, retired miners benefits abroad, and a private ETV contract as costly boondoggles.
The Shenango Area School Board last night adopted a $1,700,000 budget for 1969 70 with no tax change. The plan uses 44 mills real estate tax 1 percent wage tax 3.5 and $6 per capita tax and $10 occupational Privilege tax. It increases $90,970 from the prior $1,608,030 budget.
Harrisburg reports a sharp clash as the state school boards association accuses the Pennsylvania State Education Association of pressuring for negotiated rights while sacrificing accountability. The PSBA leader also attacked House Bill 234 proposing limited teacher strikes and broad negotiations, amid budget details and staff raises at a local meeting.
Bessemer Borough awarded a 7940 dollar contract to City Construction Co for a water line on 19th Street. Officials discussed leasing a lake from Bessemer Cement Co along Bessemer Hillsville Road, adding lifeguards and hours with no action. Clean-up week is set for June 10 12 and 14 with curb rubbish only. The borough plans to lease a Poland Avenue Ext building for a 4740 dollar tractor-loader and a nine week school playground program starting June 16 supervised by Ronald Lape and Judy Grimes.
Dr. Karland J. Carlson president of Westmiaster College outlines three causes for the current rise in student led reforms during Laurel High School graduation exercises in New Wilmington He cites rising higher education enrollment from 3.5 million to seven million and projected 10 million by 1975 the permissive society and concern over social issues He warns of SDS influence and urges graduates to seek truth and balance amid change with ceremony leaders and staff named.
Police logged multiple two car crashes yesterday on Sapam at Simpson Cann streets and at E Washington Street and Bayles Way. Drivers Eugene Cioffi 20 and Reese Daniels 47 collided as Daniels turned onto Cann Street, while Donald Rowe 47 moved north then turned, triggering a collision with Gerald Maggie 2a. A separate crash at Spruce and E Washington involved Carl D Augustine 17 turning onto Spruce, causing damage to parked cars Ralph Pia and Randolph Rife.
Washington UPI reports War ton Earl Burger won approval of the Senate Judiciary Committee to become the next chief justice of the United States. The nomination was recommended unanimously to the full Senate. In Annville Pennsylvania Paul R Hayes a 35 year old York resident died after falling 110 feet to the bottom of Millards Quarry. He was employed by the York County Bridge Company.
Saigon reports finding 259 Communist bodies southwest of Dak To after weekend American air and artillery raids. The claim follows heavy bombardment and cites value of big bombers and guns in reducing guerrilla threats. Separate clashes near Saigon and along the Mekong Delta yield further Viet Cong casualties.
A blonde woman robbed a YOUNGSTOWN gas station Monday at gunpoint, fleeing in a late model car with a sawed off shotgun. Police described the suspect as attractive and said Station attendants reported the hold up. Mayor Carl A. Cralella Jr plans to meet Governor Shafer in Harrisburg tomorrow to discuss HUD housing concepts with other Pennsylvania mayors.
The Defense Ministry paper Red Star assails Mao Zedong and China, branding his foreign policy as chauvinistic and opening a second front against socialist countries. The piece targets Red China amid preparations for the International Communist summit.
UPI reports Apollo chief says equipment on hand could support 10 more lunar landings if Apollo 1 succeeds next month. Air Force Lt. Gen. Samuel Phillips notes post first landing in July 20, future flights likely every four to six months to assess exploration value and a possible lunar base. He spoke at a Peaks of Progress breakfast in Pittsburgh.
A three alarm blaze in a midtown Kansas City apartment left seven dead including five children and two adults. Fire crews reached the top floor after hours of fighting and found five bodies plus two unidentified children, an infant died at Mercy Hospital, and the father Lawrence Smith survived with injuries after leaping from a third floor window with the baby. Eighty residents were made homeless as police urged caution about remaining occupants.
Four teenagers retreated to a parked sports car in La Jolla to inhale laughing gas in a bid for a high. Two youths died at the scene or shortly after arrival at a hospital, while two others survived. Names given include Clare Errick, 18, and Peter Strata, 17, with survivors Nora Ruffeora, 15, and Brad Hunter, 17.
Ricardo Resendez, 26, accused in a guard killing, released his last hostage unharmed and walked from a Lumberton farmhouse after speaking by phone with fellow convict James Lee. Lee had surrendered earlier. Isley Wilcox and a prison guard were freed, ending a Monday prison break.
Ruth Harris 39 of Toronto Ohio is in guarded but improved condition at St Johns Hospital Pittsburgh after being bitten by a brown recluse spider. She arrived from Valley Hospital Steubenville Ohio and brought the spider in a class jar. She is treated with cortisone for hypertension as part of poison center antidotes and antitoxins stocked for bites and pesticide poisonings.
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