Senate fights over liquor Sunday sales and pay boosts
In Harrisburg the Senate moves on two controversial bills while the House considers a Sunday liquor sales measure limiting venues to 40 percent food sales and a Philadelphia drink tax. A five to seven member compensation panel would set salaries, with an immediate expense increase for legislators. Opponents call the moves, including the tax, as sweeteners to bad bills amid concerns about public order and church observances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Commonwealth Compensation Commission
Senate Rules Committee
Senate
Philadelphia
House
Herbert J. McGlinchey
McGlinchey
K. Leroy Irvis
Allegheny County
Irvis
Percy G. Foor
R-Bedford
Commonwealth
Pocono Mountain
Indochina fighting nearly halted amid reported casualties
Reports from Saigon Phnom Penh and the Mekong region describe sporadic fighting as Cambodian and South Vietnamese forces disengage. A Communist defector cited 1400 casualties and 500 dead near Phnom Penh while 315 Communists died in road sweeps toward the capital and the DMZ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
UPI
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Demilitarized Zone
Robert E. Sullivan
Am Rong
Mekong
Tonle Sap
9Th Infantry
No. 5
Central Highlands
Vietnam
USS, Command
Johnson Bronze Co layoffs hit about 20 workers
Johnson Bronze Co. announced further staff reductions, estimating about 20 employees across all levels, including management, were laid off. The spokesman cited customers’ turn downs and tough economic conditions as the cause, with cutbacks continuing at the Mill St plant where roughly 600 people are employed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson Bronze Co
Johnson Bronze
Mill St
Vandals paint school windows at George Washington Junior High
Police and city officials seek tips after orange paint smeared many windows and profanity and swastikas were found on the George Washington Junior High building. A janitor saw a car in a rear lot at 1 25 a.m. Principal Byron Bakewell says custodians removed the paint before 8 a.m. and notes other city schools have faced similar vandalism and burglaries recently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington Junior High School
Hitler
Byron Bakewell
Prisoner's bail order reversed after death row wait
After 14 years on death row Edgar H. Smith Jr. saw his bail plan collapse when the U S Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia reversed a New Jersey District Court bond of 5000. The court also set July 12 for arguments on a new trial claiming coercion during interrogation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
UPI
Edgar H. Smith Jr
Wednesday Smith
Stephen Lichenstein
Smith
New York
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
New Jersey
Victoria Zielinski
Mahwah
N.J
Vaccine arrives in Calcutta to aid East Pakistan refugees
British air force jets delivered doctors nurses and millions of doses of anti cholera vaccine to Dum Dum Airport as part of a mercy airlift for five million East Pakistan refugees. Cholera has claimed at least 4000 lives and officials say inoculation stocks are insufficient for an emergency program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calcutta
UPI
East Pakistan
Dum Dum
Sadat Says Peace Urgency Could Prevent War
Al Ahram reports President Anwar Sadat will address the nation on television warning that if a peaceful Middle East solution is not found by year end war becomes inevitable. He is also expected to urge national and Arab unity and reform of Egypt’s sole political party, the National Socialist Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
Cairo
al Ahram
Middle East
Anwar Sadat
National Socialist Union
Egypt
Missing boxcars haunt Penn Central in federal case
The bankrupt Penn Central seeks court relief to recover 97 freight boxcars after FBI agents recovered 180 cars missing over a year. The cars were found on the 15 mile La Salle and Bureau County railroad in Illinois, repainted with altered serial numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Salle
Bureau County
Illinois
Nixon to unveil list of American goods for China trade
The Nixon administration prepared to announce the first list of nonstrategic American goods eligible for trade with Communist China amid bipartisan criticism of its diplomacy. Officials expect more items later depending on Peking's response to early relaxed restrictions as House members denounce the handling as ping pong diplomacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Nixon
China
Peking
House
Packard warns Lockheed loan plan could set dangerous precedent
Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard testified before the Senate Banking Committee and said Lockheed may go bankrupt despite a White House rescue. He criticized Lockheed management and warned that approving the proposed 250 million loan guarantee would establish a dangerous precedent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Defense
David Packard
Capitol Hill
Lockheed
Senate Banking Committee
White House
Packard
Ford Nominated For State Selective Service Director Post
Gov. Shapp nominated 31 year old Marine veteran Robert D. Ford of Duncannon Perry County to be Pennsylvania state director for Selective Service. Ford directs PAVE and has long been active in veterans affairs since his 1964 Marine release. Nomination awaits Nixon approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
UPI
Marine Corps
Milton J. Shapp
Selective Service
Robert D. Ford
Duncannon
Perry County
Pennsylvania
Advance Veterans Education
PAVE
Ford
Veterans’ Affairs
Richard M. Nixon
Sheret 14 found dead in Penn Hills woods
Rita Sheret was found strangled in a wooded area near her Penn Hills home after she and Linda Edmonds rode a school bus home from John Linton Intermediate High School on the last day before summer break. Eugene Rapoport discovered the body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
UPI
Rita Sheret
Penn Hills
Linda Edmonds
Rita
John Linton
Miss Edmonds
Eugene Rapoport
Sheret
Illfated plane roll noted before collision near Duarte
The sole survivor says a Marine Phantom F-4 executed a 360 degree roll about 15 500 feet one minute before a DC Nine collision killed 50 near Duarte California. The crash occurred in a busy Los Angeles air corridor with air traffic control radar guiding the DC9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles International Airport
Air West
Maj
Michael Fibisch
el Toro Marine Air Station
Schiess
White House bars Judith Martin from Nixon wedding coverage
The White House refused press credentials to Judith Martin of the Washington Post to cover Tricia Nixon Cox's marriage, citing past media access at Julie Nixon Eisenhower's 1968 reception. The Post says no other reporter will be assigned to the Saturday ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
White House
Judith Martin
Washington Post
Tricia Nixon
Miss Martin
Miss Nixon
Edward Finch Cox
Post
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
New York
Connie Stuart
Pat Nixon
Rose Garden
Maurice Bonte
Bonte
Also Mentioned on This Page
Miss Pennsylvania
Elaine Sue Walls
New Castle
Indiana University
Karen Storck
Chester County
Sandra MacBride
York County
Indochina
Los Angeles
Donna Reed
Anthony Owen
Superior Court
Corea
John Clymer
Chojijin
Kangwha Island
Korea
Han River
Vandals Paint School
Trenton
News Etait
Sadat
Tamaqua
Schuylkill
Coaldale General Hospital
John J. Palewacki
Shenandoah
Frank J. Engleman
Lehighton
Helen
Anthony Cihucki
Thomas Fonslick
Paris
U.S
David K. E. Bruce
Bruce
Hanoi
Xuan Thuy
da Nang
Daniel Berrigan
Danbury Hospital
Danbury
Conn
Berrigan
Catonsville
Kissinger
Danbury Federal Correctional Institution
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!