Highway Commission to Decide Funding for Major Road Program
Harrisburg UPI reports Pennsylvania faces a $950 million share of a $1.5 billion road build plan for 1971 73. The Highway Commission meets to consider financing options while Gov Shafer pushes a $266 million tax package with standby authority for an income tax. House leaders push open hearings on taxes and yields. The higher education panel schedules a hearing on a master plan.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Highways Department
Shafer
House
Herbert Fineman
Philadelphia
Ways and Means Committee
Westminster graduates urged to move with the times
Dr. Dale K. Milligan of Beulah Presbyterian Church urged Westminster College's 113th commencement graduates to “get up, get out, move on” as he noted the era's constant change and obsolescence of textbooks. He spoke to about 250 seniors.
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New Wilmington
Dale K. Milligan
Beulah Presbyterian Church
Pitttsburgh
Westminster College Board of Trustees
Pittsburgh
Dr. Milligan
Westminster
John C. Peterson
Center U. P
Slippery Rock
Westminster College Alumni Association
Harold E. Barry
Clifford L. Jones
Pennsylvania
C. McCrea Hazlett
University of Rochester
Galbreath Hall
Edward R. Towns
Chagrin Falls
Ohio
Glenn B. Morris
Frank L. Jones
Clairton
P. Roger Good
David C. Karlson
Youngstown
Dorothy J. Pollock
McKeesport
Edward G. Sample
Sharon
Lawrence Verone
New Castle
Wendell Wagner
Irving L. Mansell
Robert F. Jamison
Frances Emma McDowell
Volant
RD 3
Leonard Braham
Sarasota
Fla
David L. Colton
Council
Beeghly Theater
Vietnam
Delber L. McKee
Norman R. Adams
Lawson A. Pendleton
Will to Succeed theme at New Castle High baccalaureate
High school seniors heard Attorney Gilbert Levine discuss determination and will power in a baccalaureate address at New Castle High School. The service included prayers by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Francis McCart er and Rabbi Iwan Gruen, with the Concert Choir performing.
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New Castle High School
Gilbert D. Levine
Levine
Roosevelt
Truman
Fisenhower
Kennedy
Pierre Mendes France
Martin Luther
Msgr
Francis McCarter
St. Mary's Church
Iwan J. Gruen
Temple Israel
Richard Lampe
Edwin Lewis
Francis Cleaver
Francis Craig Cleaver
E. North St
Vietnam
Robert A. Myers
William E. Shaw
Robert E
Dairy Lunch robbery reports $110 cash stolen
John Gostyle proprietor of the Dairy Lunch at 207 E Long Ave reported a break in early Sunday with entry by cutting bars on a rear window. A cigarette machine was damaged and $110 in cash taken from the cash drawer as a thief or thieves fled. Police investigate the incident alongside separate break in at B&B Mercury Sales where tires valued at $360 were stolen.
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John Gostyle
E. Long Ave
New Castle
George Kennedy
Ernest Crawford
B&b. Mercury
Monroe St
Construction firms union in agreement reaches wage deal
Most construction firms reached a settlement with Local 964 Construction and General Laborers Union for a 1.20 per hour wage increase. Carl DiGennaro said only New Castle Lumber and Supply Co. and W. J. Siebhander did not settle. The pact calls for 10 cents raises in June and December plus five cents for welfare and pensions, with a 40 cent rise in 1968 and 1969. The Shenango Valley Contractors association contract expired today.
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Local 964
Construction and General Laborers Union
Carl DiGennaro
New Castle Lumber and Supply Co
W. J. Siebandler
DiGennaro
Union
Shenango Valley Contractors Association
Mercer County Contractors Association
Rev Turner Defines The Four R s Of Americanism At Graduation
The Rev William J Turner pastor of Clen Moore United Presbyterian Church spoke on Americanism during Neshannock High School's baccalaureate address titled The Four R s of Americanism He urged practice of faith along with reason respect responsibility and religion Invoking the service were Rev Richard M Henderson Kings Chapel Methodist Church and choir director David Clark with organist Mrs Jean M Sproull assisting.
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William J. Turner
Clen Moore United Presbyterian Church
Neshannock High School
Turner
Richard M. Henderson
Kings Chapel Methodist Church
David Clark
Jean M. Sproull
Fire destroys unoccupied house on Leesburg-Volant Road
Last night at about 10 p m a house on Leesburg Volant Road burned to the ground. The Holmes family who owned the dwelling had previously occupied it. East Springfield and Volant volunteer fire departments responded but could not save the building. They confined the fire and prevented spread to nearby high tension lines.
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Leesburg - Volant Road
Holmes
East Springfield
Volant
Villa Maria graduates 23 at commencement exercises
Twenty three Villa Maria High School seniors promenaded to pomp and circumstance then collected diplomas. Valedictorian is Mary Ellen Michelle Owen. Commencement speaker Rev. John N Hoey urged simple living amid rapid technological change. Seventeen graduates plan four year college, two junior college, two business college.
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Elgar
Villa Maria High School
Gounod
John N. Hoey
St. Joan of Arc Church
Streetsboro
Ohio
Father Hoey
Robert J. Reardon
Villa Maria
Notre Dame
Cardinal Mooney
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Robert Green Jr
Pittsburgh Rd
Jameson Memorial Hospital
Warner
Wilmington Ave
Photo Shop
A&p
Volant RD 3
Walter W. Braham
Lawrence County
U.S. Army
11Th Armored Cavalry Division
1St Baptist Church
Barbara Jean Cleaver
Alice Leola Cleaver
Pvt
Keith Allan Cleaver
Ft. Stuart
Gary James
Wayne Anderson
Harold J. Cleaver
Bernice Hexamer
Clara Brown
Emery J
Emery James
Oak St
Margaret Smith
St. Francis Hospital
Joseph
Sara Blair Smith
Stanley
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Ellwood City
Mayor
Walter J
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Theodore
George
Charles
Emma Reider
Ida Frengel
Edward A. DeCarbo
J. Henry Breakiron
Wesley Methodist Church
Cas-eview
Fred
Ethel
Tee Farm
Larry
State Farm Tire and Casualty Company
Bloomington, Simnole
Dale Young
E. Washington St
Rev. Turner
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Emergenc
New Castle News
Ernst Greiner
Debbie Frabetta
Cadette
J. F. Kennedy School
Lockhaven
Otto
Kalamazoo
Mich
Central State Prep School
Villa Maria Graduates
New York
U.S. Weather Bureau
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Ariz
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Mont
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Sandberg
Calif
Ronald A. Cast
E. Oakwood Way
Valley Forge Military Junior College
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Aiba
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McBrideshannon CO
David P
McBride
Monttreal
Expo
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