Family Pride Week Proclaimed By Pennsylvania House
The Pennsylvania House unanimously passed a resolution declaring June 24 to 30 as Family Pride Week in a move targeting Gov. Thornburgh's Gay Pride Week. Rep. Clifford Gray said the vote shows public sentiment, criticizing the governor for pandering to anti family elements for political purposes.
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UPI
Dick Thornburgh
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Clifford Gray
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Thornburgh
Primary candidates spent fewer dollars in final days
Campaign expense reports due tomorrow at the Lawrence County Courthouse show most spending occurred before the May 15 election. Several candidates reported varying self funding, with totals ranging from under $40 to about $14,500, and multiple incumbents winning nominations while post election expenditures were minimal.
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Lawrence County
Glenn McCracken Jr
McCracken
John A. Meehan Jr
Meehan
VW Rabbit plant standstill as workers refuse cross picket lines
At the Volkswagen Rabbit assembly plant near New Stanton Pennsylvania production halted after UAW Local 2055 members refused to cross picket lines amid a wildcat walkout over break changes. A federal court order to end the stoppage took effect with the second shift.
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UPI
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Chet Bahn
United Auto Workers
Train derails on bridge near Lancaster injures seven
A seven car Amtrak National Limited derailed on a bridge over the Congestoga River near Lancaster Pennsylvania. Two cars hung over the edge as rescue crews quickly turned off power and freed passengers. Eighty foot drop with river below complicated access but seven people were hospitalized with minor injuries.
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Lancaster
Erie skydiver killed in jump near Harbor Creek Township
Ronald J Sheldon, 22, of Erie died when his parachute apparently failed to open during a sky dive with friends on Burnette Road near Pennsylvania 20 in Harbor Creek Township. Coroner Merle Wood pronounced him dead at the scene. Autopsy planned. State Police and FAA investigating.
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Erie, Pa
UPI
Ronald J Sheldon
Erie
Harbor Creek Township
Sheldon
Burnette Road
Pennsylvania 20
Erie County
Merle Wood
Pennsylvania
Federal Aviation Administration
Blue Shield expands subscriber board membership in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg report notes the Pennsylvania Blue Shield Board of Directors voted to add 21 more subscriber members to the corporation to widen the eligible pool and strengthen subscriber voice in Blue Shield affairs. The move follows a prior addition of 18 subscribers six months ago by the newly elected 36 member board, now balanced with providers.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Pennsylvania Blue Shield Board of Directors
Blue Shield
DC 10 crash death toll revised to 273
The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office revised the May 25 American Airlines DC-10 191 death toll from 275 to 273. Remains on the ground identified as two onboard passengers. Flight carried 258 passengers and 13 crew. two ground fatalities. Bones of two dogs from the aircraft were also found.
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UPI
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Cook County
Robert J. Stein
Stein
O Hare International
Tourist drowns at Ryefossen Falls in Norway
Vincent Victor Capets, 50, of Altoona, Pennsylvania, drowned after slipping into the mouth of the Ryefossen river near the falls while sightseeing with his wife and two children. His body was recovered about a half mile downstream on a Norway summer vacation trip near Gjoevik, about 100 miles north of Oslo.
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UPI
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Oslo
Escaped convict surrenders after two year run
Louis Poveromo, last of 10 hospital escapees from 1977, flew into Kennedy at 5:30 am from San Francisco and vanished as reporters waited. He finally surrendered at a Manhattan stationhouse after meeting with lawyers, reportedly tired of running. Police had no advance notice of the surrender.
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UPI
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Poveromo
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Bernard Graber
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Kaneohoe
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Unmanned Soyuz 32 Returns to Earth with Crew Still Aboard
Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakhov and Valery Ryumin remain aboard the Salyut space station after 110 days. They will return in Soyuz 34, launched last week, while Soyuz 32 lands in Kazakhstan as the first Soviet manned craft to come back unmanned.
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UPI
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Valery Ryumin
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Ryumin
Space
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Trucker protests spark National Guard protection in Alabama
National Guard troops and highway patrolmen protected convoys amid violent protests as independent truckers halted depots across Alabama Tennessee Kentucky and other states. Gas shortages spread with lines at Nashville stations. officials seek court orders to end blockades and curb violence.
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Alabama
Independent Trucker
Independent Truckers Association
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Tennessee
Kentucky
Nashville, Tenn
Lamar Alexander
Leonard Barnwell
Tennesee
Tennessee Retail Gasoline Dealers Association
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City Council Tells Cable Franchise Transfer Uncertain
The transfer of the city cable television franchise faces doubt and is not on tonight’s agenda. Council President Eugene DeCaprio says the matter may never be discussed. CablEntertainment Inc. has a sales deal with Lawrence Cablevision Inc. contingent on council approval. The current franchise runs ten years, with a $6.50 monthly rate and no support yet for a rate increase.
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Council
Eugene DeCaprio
Cablentertainment Inc
Lawrence Cablevision Inc
Lawrence Cablevision
DeCaprio
Cabl Entertainment
Blood drive to aid Lawrence County residents planned at Neshannock High
Lawrence County Community Blood Program schedules a June blood donation at Neshannock High School cafeteria from noon to 6 pm Tuesday. Joint effort by Jameson Memorial Hospital St Francis Hospital and the Lawrence County Red Cross aims to collect pint donations from 18 to 66 year olds weighing over 110 pounds with no hepatitis malaria or cancer history. Local businesses and groups including Fisher's Big Wheel New Castle Battery First Methodist Church and Union Carbide support the effort with pre registration at the Red Cross or on site. Barrage of volunteers from Fisher's Big Wheel and Fishers Clothing Stores assist in registration and recruitment with a New Castle News photo showing workers ready to give.
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Mitchell Road
Jameson Memorial Hospital
St. Francis Hospital
American Red Cross
Fisher's Big Wheel
Neshannock Township
Fishers Clothing
Washington Street
Lawrence Village Plaza
Fishers Big Wheel, Inc
Nurse baby switch case shocks Los Angeles suit
In a non jury trial Mary Childs sues Kaiser Foundation Hospital and three doctors for 24 million, alleging malpractice after a nurse swapped her newborn with a stillborn, saving the live infant at home before arrest for murder revealed the child’s true identity. The physician witness described finding a dead fetus and a foul smelling body, while authorities linked the nurse to a long chain of crimes including kidnapping and murder.
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UPI
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Jack Kartel
Mrs. Childs
Duarte
Calif
Kaiser Foundation Hospital of
Hollywood
Norma Armistead
Kaiser
Kartel
Superior Court
Sidney Kaufman
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