Teacher pay bill faces House hurdle in financing plan
Harrisburg reports the plan to fund higher teachers salaries faces party dissent over diverting 184 million dollars from the governors supplemental budget plus unspent 9 million from this year. Critics warn future legislatures must cover contracted capital improvements. The overall appropriation bill awaits floor action after Senate approval.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Raymond P. Shafer
T He
House
Senate Appropriations Committee
George N. Wade
Cumberland
New Castle High School 1968 Graduation Honors Best Class
New Castle High School awarded diplomas to about 600 graduates as Dr. Fred L. Dryan of Mansfield State College urged them to respect themselves and others. He praised the class as the best and noted the theme The Best to You Each Morning.
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Fred £. Dryan
Mansfield State College
Joseph FP. Fabbri
St. Vitus Church
Robert Hails
First Baptist Church
Russell L. Horchler
Fred Y. McLure
Albert Russo
New Castle Area School Board
Dale Kurtz
Francis Lynchh Jr
Terry Musi
Charles Dunlap
Austin Cowmeadow
Motorist Suffers Shock After Auto Incidents
Ronald W. Ruha 26 of 324 Moody Ave suffered a diabetic condition and was treated at St. Francis Hospital after his car hit the rear of Sally Abraham 40 at a Reynolds Street light. Damages about 250 dollars. Morty Blews 51 of 231 Smithfield St blacked out while driving west on State Street and hit a pole causing about 450 dollars in damage. Witnesses said the car was traveling slowly.
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Ronald W. Ruha
Moody Ave
St. Francis Hospital
Sally Abraham
Arlington Ave
Morty Blews
Smithfield St
State St
Funeral Directors Win Professional Status Bill
Harrisburg senate approves House passed legislation giving funeral directors professional status and moves the state board from Public Instruction to the Department of State. The bill faces debate over a provision banning food or beverages in funeral homes with Irish wakes cited as a concern. An amendment allowing coffee in anterooms was defeated.
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Senate
Miles B. Zimerman Jr
R—Dauphin
House
State Board of Funeral Directors
Public Instruction Department
Department of State
Austin J. Murphy
D-Washington
Zimmerman
Fas Tall
Vietnam era veteran bonus approved in Pennsylvania
Senate clears the 24 million veteran bonus and death benefit plan for Vietnam veterans 49 to 0 and sends it to the House. The bill would borrow 28 million with a 25 per month payment up to 750 and a 1000 death benefit for line of duty fatalities, and places a borrowing referendum on the November 5 election.
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Harrisburg
VPI
Pennsylvania
Senate
House
Vietnam
Tax collections brighten Pennsylvania fiscal outlook
Harrisburg reports unexpected May tax receipts improve the state's finances. State Budget Secretary Arthur P. Sampson says May collections beat estimates by 31 million, narrowing the year end red to about 20 to 25 million. Corporate tax and selective business taxes led gains, while liquor taxes underperformed.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Commonwealth
Arthur P. Sampson
Pennsylvania
Sampson
May
Campus police gain wider powers over student disorder
The Senate unanimously approved a liberalized measure to grant campus police at all state aided colleges broader powers to enforce order, protect property, exclude disorderly persons, and arrest when needed. The bill now goes to the House. Separately, the Senate also sent to the House a bill making it a legal duty of the governor to remove trespassers on state owned property.
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Harrisburg
Senate
House
Hughes wins majority of New Jersey Democratic delegates
Gov Richard Hughes won about 60 of New Jersey's 80 Democratic National Convention delegates in the state primary. Sen Eugene J McCarthy earned 17 delegates with three undecided as write in results also favored McCarthy and Richard Nixon. Hughes indicated delegates would stay uncommitted for now and likely meet within two weeks to decide.
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Richard Hughes
Hubert Humphrey
New Jersey
Hughes
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McCarthy
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Grier
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Colorado Springs
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Air Force Academy
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Chicago
Kennedy
Paul Schrade
Cio-Afl
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William Weisel
Irwin Stroll
Elizabeth Evans
Schrade
Bobby
Lawmakers defer Shafer traffic plan to Manbeck report
Senate Highways Committee delays action on Gov Shafer traffic safety package awaiting findings from the five member Manbeck Committee. The proposal includes implied consent for breath tests and driver education, with other measures tied to federal highway funds and new penalties for violent acts against transit.
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UPI
Senate
Shafer
Manbeck
Marvin ¥. Keller
Bucks
Clarence Manbeck
Lebanon
Spe
Cial
Pennsylvania
Raymond P. Shafer
Highways Committee
State Revenue Secretary
Peace talks resume in Paris as deadlock lengthens
Washington and Hanoi reopened negotiations in Paris with hardened stances amid slim prospects for a quick breakthrough. The seventh session began at 10:30 am local time, with North Vietnam demanding an unconditional halt to bombing and all hostile acts, while U.S. negotiators pushed for steps toward a broader peace. Le Duc Tho delivered the order from Ho Chi Minh guiding Hanoi to uphold its firm position.
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John A. Callcott
PARIS
UPI
Washington
Hanoi
Vietnam
Glassboro
N.J
Johnson
North Vietnam
America
Thuy
Ho Chi Minh
le Duc Tho
Party
Heirarchy
Fighting in Mideast on anniversary of war
United Press International reports renewed fighting along the Israeli Jordan frontier on the war’s first doniversary. Amman claims 35 Jordanians killed and 62 wounded by Israeli forces. Israel counters that Jordan started shelling civilians and that three Israelis were killed or wounded while civilian settlements were damaged.
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United Press International
Middle East
Holy Land
Amman
Jordan
Jerusalem
Haim Barley
Israel
Kennedy Shooting: Kennedy Wounded in Ambush at Los Angeles
The gunman, described as a white male 25 to 28, acted alone and faced six counts of assault with intent to murder. Kennedy’s condition remained extremely critical after surgery. the attack occurred at the Ambassador Hotel during celebrations for the California primary day.
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Thomas Reddin
FBI
Joan Dempsey Klein
Bearby Hall of Justice
John Doe
Reddin
George Charles Erhard
Pasadena
Calif
Erhard
George Erhard
Marin County
San Francisco
Kennedy
Ambassador Hotel
Embassy
Los Angeles Times
Boris Yaro
Gay
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