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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1971
Page
1
Pitcher swamped Jeff Potter sees Ellwood City High advance to the finals of the WPIAL playoffs at Three Rivers Stadium after blanking West Mifflin North on three hits in the semi finals at Hopewell High.
Showers and thundershowers this morning and afternoon over mountains. Becoming windy and cooler with more showers possible in the west this afternoon and tonight. Highs in the mid 70s to mid 80s, lows in the 50s to near 60. Wednesday cooler with partly cloudy skies. Shenango River stage 5.24 feet. Moraine State Park reports 74 degrees and 4,368 attendees.
Two obituaries report the deaths of Mrs. Sylvester Janni Jennings age 84 of 514 West North Street and Miss Mary Kathryn Crocker age 85 of 219 North Beaver Street on June 8 1971.
UPI reports two American GIs were killed and four wounded in fighting near a U.S. base south of the DMZ two miles south of the line and north of Cam Lo. South Vietnamese forces report heavy action with 330 Communist deaths cited over four days. Phu Quoc island helicopter downed with one crewman wounded amid separate incidents. Phnom Penh sources allege North Vietnamese troops forced villagers to stay during Cambodian attacks east of Phnom Penh.
Michael Perry a New London Connecticut resident and Ellwood City native died in the Allegheny Airlines crash near New Haven. He worked for General Dynamics Electric Boat and is survived by his wife Rose Marie DeCaria and five children along with five sisters and a half brother. Funeral plans were not set. The crash killed at least 20 people as the jet hit five unoccupied cottages during approach to New Haven Municipal Airport.
Wildcat strike by 318 bridge tenders leaves 28 of 29 drawbridges inoperable and halts city traffic. Mayor Lindsay monitors downtown roads from a helicopter as Army engineers restore eight bridges and commuters shift to transit amid extreme heat.
Report from Karimpur describes about 900 civil war refugees from Pakistan buried in mass graves after cholera struck them during mass exodus into India. Police commandant Amal Bhattacharjee oversees burials beside improvised bamboo markers as monsoon clouds drift overhead.
Reports detail the Tweed New Haven airport crash where an Allegheny Convair 580 killed 28 and a possible ILS installation could have prevented it. In Duarte California a Air West DC9 and a Marine F4 collided at 12,000 feet killing 50 aboard.
Gary and Susan Moore of Neshannock Falls Road Wilmington Township were inside a mobile home when a gust lifted it eight yards. They escaped unharmed as power fuses failed and nearby trees damaged homes and trailers. Ten trailers suffered damage in Pleasant Hill area with one roof blown off.
Three Soviet cosmonauts aboard the first Cosmodom shifted their 60 foot space laboratory into a higher orbit after docking Soyuz 11 with the Salyut station. They began scientific chores including medical and biological research and tested navigation and life support on the 25 ton orbital lab.
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