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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1971
Page
1
Police Chief Richard E. Hanna announces a four week program for 24 youths, with daily classes and field work across three divisions. The aim is to foster interest in law enforcement careers and improve relations between police and youths in New Castle.
The program aims to give 24 youths about 30 hours with officers to build understanding and trust. Classes run June to early July with six students per class, two hours daily, plus field work in patrol juvenile and detective divisions and firearms safety training. Selection is by New Castle High School officials. police say workload will continue as normal and evaluation will follow.
Lois Knox, 26, a state office worker, was freed by police after being held by George Allan Lyle, 30, who barricaded himself in a North Street house. Tear gas was used after shots were fired. Knox suffered a superficial gunshot wound and Lyle was seized. Police confiscated two pistols and a rifle.
Senate and House moves loom over Vietnam funding as Mike Mansfield calls for a cease-fire with a fixed withdrawal date and prisoner releases. He argues the war was a mistake and urges a gradual U.S. troop and POW departure, while Congress debates measures to end U.S. involvement by year end or extend deadlines into 1972.
The Supreme Court denied Brando a hearing, allowing a $6 million defamation suit by three California police officers over Brando’s remarks about the April 1968 Oakland clash with Black Panthers to proceed. Police officers Coffman Fredericks and Brown, named in the suit, were involved in the incident that led to Hobby Hutton’s death.
The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that Jackson, Mississippi may close all public pools rather than desegregate them. The case involved five pools shut in 1963 after a circuit court order to open them to all. Justice Black said motives behind lawmakers are hard to judge and a law is not invalidated for bad motives.
State police probe an assault and robbery of 33 year old Robert J. Kalajainen of 709 West Washington Street. He and two companions went from a bar to his home then Frew Mill Road where he was beaten and robbed of a $12 watch and about $60 cash. Kalajainen, knocked unconscious, lay in a roadside ditch for hours before wandering to a neighbor’s yard and receiving treatment at Jameson Memorial Hospital for a cut above the left eye.
Greyton H. Taylor a famed American winemaker and author dies after a long illness at Geneva Hospital. He chaired the New York State Wine Institute and the American Wine Museum in Hammondsport where his father founded Taylor Wine Co. in 1880. Franklyn McCormack, noted Chicago radio figure famous for poetry readings, dies of an apparent heart attack during an overnight WGN show at Loretto Hospital.
New Castle reports Dr Elburt F Osborn head of the U S Bureau of Mines admitted the agency and the coal industry are not fully compliant with the 1969 Health and Safety Act. Osborn and NCA president Carl E K Bagge urged continued pressure for compliance and safer methods amid broader energy policy critique by Sen. Robert Byrd highlighting funding gaps between nuclear and coal research.
The Bell Telephone Co of Pennsylvania and the Federation of Telephone Workers resume contract talks after FTW president I C Glendenning called off a statewide strike due to movement in negotiations. Bell’s offer could raise wages 30 percent over three years for about 14 000 FTW members, with local issues remaining key. In another item, Mr and Mrs Edward Finch Cox wed at the White House and honeymooned secretly, while Tricia Nixon and her husband were speculated to be abroad or at Camp David.
Soviet spacemen aboard the Salyut orbital laboratory vote from space casting ballots for the Communist bloc. Georgi Dobrovolsky Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Parsayev pledge support to the party line and five year plans while keeping fit on a treadmill amid weightlessness and cabbage and onion crops.
Four babies survive from nine born to Mrs. Geraldine Brodrick as doctors report one in satisfactory condition and others unstable. Two infants were stillborn and three died during the night after breathing troubles. The world’s largest recorded multiple birth occurred at Royal Hospital for Women, with four girls and five boys born prematurely.
Washington reports new aid for farm labor housing with grants up to 90 percent of construction costs and loans at 1 percent interest. Five and a half months after liberalization, Farmers Home Administration will start accepting applications though forecasts of expansion remain uncertain. Hollywood notes Frank Sinatra’s curtain call and retirement remarks at a Telefilm gala with tears, ovations, and a vow to pursue new ambitions.
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