Pianist with six fingers overcomes obstacle to study piano
Ernest Saunders a 16 year old from Philadelphia was born with six fingers on one hand yet he plays advanced piano pieces and plans to study mathematics in college He learns by switching chords to the left hand and bass on the right and practices daily His teachers praise his determination and support from family as he prepares for lessons at Settlement Music School Germantown next fall He has pursued piano through Franklin School Chester High School and church organ work and also plays brass instruments in a band
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Philadelphia
UPI
Ernest Saunders
Saunders
Settlement Music School of
Lorraine Evans
Settlement Music School
Germantown
Germantown School
Franklin School
Chester
Chester High School
New Jerusalem Church
Carter Unveils Phase One Health Plan for All Americans
President Carter proposes the first phase of a national health plan to shield 56 million people from major illness costs, offering free prenatal and infant care and reform for the poor disabled and elderly. The plan costs 23 to 25 billion dollars with no payroll tax increases, effective 1983, creating a new 18.2 billion umbrella federal insurance program merging Medicaid and Medicare into one structure.
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Dean Reynolds Washington
UPI
Carter
Sen
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
Billy Carter faces house auction over loan default
BUENA VISTA Ga UP I reports Billy Carter son of a president faced foreclosure on his six bedroom brick home 19 miles north of Plains after defaulting on indebtedness secured by deed to secure debt. The notice cites Wells seeking sale by public outcry on the first Tuesday of July 1979.
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Buena Vista, Ga
UPI
Billy Carter
Redneck
White House
Plains
Navy
Marion County
Sybil Carter
J Myron Wells
Wells
Carter
Jana
Tom T. Hall
Carter Peanut Warehouse
Billy
Grand
Union Township storms draw sewer complaints at meeting
Residents packed the Union Township building to press the Sewer Authority over floods blamed on new sanitary sewers. They cited damaged church foundations, raw sewage, and disputed responsibility between the authority and city officials as engineers claimed heavy rain caused most issues.
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Joseph Coryea
Consoer Townsend and Associates
Morris Bernstine
Union Township
Union Township Sewer Authority
CLIF
Consoer Townsend & Associates
Zula
Robert E. Jamison
Thomas Cubellis
Coryea
Patty Rosta
Sunny Avenue
Ing
Stella Vrabel
High St
Joseph Orres
Linden St
Joseph Frankovich
Mapeat Lane
Marvin Johnson
McCleary Ave
Johnson
Donald Taylor
Beach St
Edward Baranski
Herrick St
Court limits Rehabilitation Act on professional schools
The Court narrowly interprets the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, allowing professional schools to require physical qualifications for applicants and not mandating substantial program modifications for the handicapped. Seymour DuBow of the National Association of the Deaf Legal Defense Fund condemns the ruling as harming educational and career opportunities.
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High Court
College of Nursing
Supreme Court
Seymour DuBow
National Association of the Deaf Legal Defense Fund
Washington
Weather Outlook and Statistics for Western Pennsylvania 1979
Fair tonight with a low near 45 and mostly sunny conditions on Wednesday ahead. High near 75 with a 10 percent rain chance. Weather statistics cover June 10 to June 11, noting max 66 (84 last year) and min 52 (46), rainfall .02 inch, Shenango River stage 7.30 feet (5.50).
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Pennsylvania
Shenango River
Fire destroys mobile home in Shenango Township
Fire destroyed a mobile home owned by Harry Mowrey at 928 Ruth Ave in Shenango Township. Firefighters arrived at 5 10 p m. Mowrey was not home. Cause under investigation but not deemed suspicious. Damage estimated at 7000 to the structure and 15000 to contents.
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Harry Mowrey
Ruth Ave
Shenango Township
John Gilmore
Mowrey
Gilmore
John Wayne dies at 72 after cancer battle
Wayne died at UCLA Medical Center at 5 35 pm PDT with his children at his side after a long cancer fight. Admin Bernard Strohm cited years of pain and his choice to avoid heavy meds to stay with family. Bob Hope and Sen. Barry Goldwater issued tributes, and burial plans call for a private service and donations to the UCLA John Wayne Memorial Fund.
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Richard Tosches
Los Angeles
UPI
John Wayne
Ucla Medical Center
Bernard Strohm
Strohm
Duke
PDT
Bob Hope
Wayne
John
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Guy
America Strohm
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Flaherty
Pittsburgh
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Volant
Rebecca J. Wimner Adams
Nellie G. Cramer Troxell
Young St
Cossette Fagnilli
Court St
Moraine State Park
Pate Eee Nne
Te Eeeweees
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Eas
William Butler Yeats
Shenango
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Wright Brothers
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