Two Solution with problems Hooking and unhooking take money
United Press International reports money drives both sides of narcotics with methadone funds surpassing fifty million dollars yearly and thousands employed in its administration. Diversion, clinic controls, and street sales pose risks while officials note limited but real street availability, affecting heroin markets and public policy.
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Justin Bavarskis
United Press International
UPI
Ed Butler
Roosevelt Hospital
New York
Westchester County
N.Y
Detroit
Roy Whang
Pittsburgh
William A. Bloom
Tulane University
New Orleans
Nixon
Allegheny County Faces Methadone Treatment Gap
In Allegheny County about 3,000 to 10,000 heroin addicts exist while roughly 1,000 are enrolled in three methadone centers. Officials cite strict criteria requiring two years’ addiction, prior detox attempts, and age limits, plus a two to three month wait for beds across county facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert T. Aarons
Western Psychiatric
PIDA Approves Loan for Rare Earth Industries Plant
The Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority approved a 178 530 loan for Rare Earth Industries Inc of Orlando Florida to locate a plant in West Pittsburg. Funds will buy land from Taylor Township and remodel the Remaloy building owned by American Metallurgical Products. UPI report.
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Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority
PIDA
Rare Earth Industries Inc
Orlando
Fla
West Pittsburg
Victor J
Andrew
Greater
Rare Earth Industries
Steel and Magnet Industries
Defense Department
Remaloy
First Federal Savings and Loan Association
Peoples Bank of Western Pennsylvania
Dollar Savings Association
Citizens National Bank
The
Small Business Administration
Four primaries in one day and a grandfather born
On the same day a candidate won four primaries, his daughter Ann McGovern Mead gave birth to a son named Jason. Separate items report Sofia Bassi's early release after a lengthy murder sentence and Apollo 9 veteran James McDivitt planning to resign to lead Consumers Power Co. in Jackson Michigan.
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McGovern
Ann McGovern Mead
Jason
Local man loses leg in Mercer County crash
Edward Hardisky, 25, of 20 Spring St New Castle, is listed in satisfactory condition at Presbyterian University Hospital after his leg was amputated above the knee from an auto wreck on April 1 in Hickory Township Mercer County. He was among five Mercer men injured when his van on E State St was struck head on by a car driven by Joseph Muscarella 21 of New Wilmington RD 1. Hardisky’s leg was freed after 45 minutes. charges against Muscarella remain pending.
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Pittsburgh
Edward Hardisky
Spring St
New Castle
Presbyterian University Hospital
Hickory Township
Mercer County
Mercer
Hardisky
E. State St
Joseph Muscarella
New Wilmington RD 1
Muscarella
HRC head warns bill would devastate desegregation efforts
Homer C. Floyd of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission says a House bill to strip the HRC of powers to order desegregation would be devastating. He argues it would allow districts to revert to segregated schooling and undermines broader goals of equal educational opportunities.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission
Homer C. Floyd
HRC
State House
House
Senate
Floyd
Commission
South Vietnamese Marines Break into Quang Tri Province
UPI reports a 2,500 man South Vietnamese Marine force punching through heavy artillery and advancing over a mile into Communist held Quang Tri Province. Five Marine battalions moved north of the My Chanh River defense line along a 14 mile front near Saigon as 130mm guns from Quang Tri City pinned them briefly.
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Saigon
UPI
Quang Tri Province
Donald A. Davis
Hue
My Chanh River
Quang Tri City
My Chanh
East European Communists See Path to Vietnam Talks
Belgrade and East European contacts say North Vietnam will push toward serious peace talks later this year. They argue Hanoi is running out of steam politically and militarily and anticipate a more flexible posture as Nixon meets Chinese and Soviet leaders. East West accords no longer tied to Vietnam.
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Belgrade
UPI
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Nixon
Peking
Moscow
Vietnam
Young Pennsylvanians Vie For National Spelling Bee Title
Two in running as 25 spellers survive early rounds of the 45th annual National Spelling Bee sponsored by Scripps-Howard. Bethlehem’s Frank J. Perch Jr. and Lancaster’s David Cherry, ages 13 and 12, remain contenders. several others from Pennsylvania were eliminated for misspellings.
Senate probes AT&T Poly-Clean contract link
Senate Commerce Committee enters third day of hearings into the success of Poly-Clean the all-purpose industrial cleaner. Expected witnesses include AT&T officials and Western Electric personnel amid questions about a chemical firm with underworld links securing the contract.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
American Telephone & Telegraph
At&t
Western Electric Co
Senate Commerce Committee
Belfast turmoil grows over IRA peace stance and bombings
In Northern Ireland, SDLP sources report a Catholic backlash against Provisional IRA methods for peace as Whitelaw releases internees fuel the shift. Bombs hit Newcastle offices. a Tyrone station bomb was defused. Noise pollution alarm from WHO cites Sweden study of youth hearing loss.
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Belfast
UPI
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Social Democratic and Labor Party
SDLP
Northern Ireland
William Whitelaw
Ulster
Newcastle
County Tyrone
Stockholm
World Health Organization
WHO
U.N. Environment Conference
Sweden
Graham cites Northern Ireland conflict as social not religious
Reverend Billy Graham, returning from Ireland after meetings with Catholic and Protestant leaders, says the war there is social, not religious, and Belfast is tenser than Saigon with Ireland's peace fragile. He spoke at a news conference before addressing the Southern Baptist Convention.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Northern Ireland
United States
Billy Graham
Graham
Ireland
Belfast
Saigon
Southern Baptist Convention
Baptists
Teachers in Kittanning Defy Court Back-to-Work Order
Judge Roy A. House of Armstrong County Common Pleas Court ordered strikers in the Armstrong School District to show cause why they should not be held in contempt. The hearing follows their defiance of a back-to-work order while talks under a court-appointed referee resume.
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Kittanning
UPI
Roy A. House
Armstrong County Common Pleas Court
Armstrong
House
Armstrong Education Association
Walk for hungry mobilizes 2000 in Pittsburgh kickoff
About 2,000 people are expected to join a walk for the hungry to raise 75000 for needy across the world. The trek starts Sunday at Schenley Park in Pittsburgh and ends July 1 in Philadelphia, following U S 30. Organizers are Community Hunger Appeal of Church World Service and National Council of Churches. Participants pledge per mile.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Schenley Park
Philadelphia
U.S
Community Hunger Appeal
Church World Service
National Council of Churches
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Northend Family Center
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Andrew L. Lluberes
Aarons
Veterans At
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Black Action
St. Francis
Emil S. Trellis
Western Psychiatric Institute
Jackson, Miss
James Meredith
Meredith
University of Mississippi
Los Angeles
George
Acapulco
Mexico
Sofia Bassi
Houston Space Complex
John Franco Bassi
Trellis
Ann Mead
Aureliano Bispo de Oliveira
Cuiba
Mato Grosso
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