Longest hijack flight ends with plane back in U S
A polite but desperate gunman hijacked a Trans World Airlines Boeing 707 with 87 aboard, forcing a 2,700 mile flight from Oakland to Havana. The aircraft returned to the United States with the hijacker absent, while passengers and crew were questioned in Miami after refueling in New York. Dr. W Wallace Birnbaum, a Berkeley physicist, was aboard and drew FBI concern.
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UPI
Cuba
Trans World Airlines
United States
U.S
J. Davis
Oakland
Calif
W. Wallace Birnbaum
Nan Schwakger
St. Paul
Minn
Havana
Wilson Creek
Nev
George Behnke
Behnke
Black Panthers
FBI
New York
Europe
Bidders Ignore Bonds For Pennsylvania Education Projects
The Pennsylvania Higher Education Facilities Authority failed to sell a 22.1 million bond issue for 10 campus construction programs due to tight money. The board authorized temporary bank financing and will reoffer the bonds when market conditions improve or the six percent ceiling is raised.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Pennsylvania Higher Education Facilities Authority
Authority
Edward W. Mills
Welfare aid stand is backed in county dispute with state
Lawrence County welfare dispute centers on withheld eighty five thousand dollars for child welfare. County officials defend their right to fund caseworkers while noting conflicts with state rules. Attempts to recruit an executive director continue as staff changes occur and letters to state representatives are urged.
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Richard G. Farrow
Office of Children and Youth
Charles H. Dlugokowski
Frank A. Vitril
Pattricia Tomlinson
Bureau of Family and Child Welfare
Vitril
Lawrence County
Thomas Foley
Rene Jenkins
William C. Houk
Robert Rapp
Donna Brandt
Rapp
Brenda Bresnahan
Ann Reash
Carolyn Chandler
Weather Update for Western Pennsylvania and Lake Erie
Partly cloudy with scattered showers today tonight and Thursday highs in the 70s. Lake Erie small craft warnings down this morning with variable winds 10 to 15 knots. Temperatures ranged to 76 today and 50 tonight with trace rainfall and Shenango River at 4.95 feet.
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Pennsylvania
Lake Erie
Shenango River
College buys Perry property for recreation
Point Park College of Pittsburgh acquired about 77 acres along Slippery Rock Creek in Perry Township known as Belle Acres for $300,000 from Hamburg Bros. Inc. The land will serve as a recreation area and for one day conferences. no new facilities are planned for the county, per vice president Stanley Buswell.
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Point Park College of Pittsburgh
Slippery Rock Creek
Perry Township
Hamburg Bros. Inc
Stanley Buswell
Point Park
Buswell
Notable Local Deaths and Ages Listed Wednesday
Obituary notices name John R. John 66 of 423 Elizabeth St Lillian Moore 85 of 919 Loraine Ave Charles Wesley Fletcher 64 of Wampum Rd Samuel McFall Jr 15 of 3213 Ellwood Rd and Josephine Tindall 86 of Ellwood City with ages and residence addresses.
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John R. John
Elizabeth St
Lillian Moore
Loraine
Charles Wesley Fletcher
Wampum
Samuel McFall Jr
Ellwood Rd
Josephine Tindall
Ellwood City
Agnew urges surtax retention to fund urban needs
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew told mayors that maintaining the income surtax and repealing the investment tax credit are essential to protect the dollar and fund urban programs. He warned a failure to act would threaten housing, mass transit, welfare, revenue sharing, and hunger programs, urging support for extending the surtax.
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John G. Hope
Pittsburgh
UPI
Spiro T. Agnew
U.S. Conference of Mayors
Agnew
U.S. Casualties Rise as Vietnam Attacks Continue
U.S. officials report 37 American GIs killed and 114 wounded in renewed Viet Cong and North Vietnamese assaults from the DMZ to Saigon. Viet Cong losses exceed 249, with major base and camp attacks including Khe Sanh and the 173rd Airborne. A separate jail education plan in Lawrence County explores prisoner GED courses funded largely by federal sources.
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Saigon
Nixon
Mekong
U.S. 9Th Division
U.S. 173Rd Airborne Brigade
Khe Sanh
South Vietnam
House committee backs surtax extension amid inflation fight
The House Ways and Means Committee approved Nixon’s plan to extend the 10 percent surtax on individuals and corporations through December 31, then 5 percent to June 30, 1970. It also repeals the investment tax credit, imposes continued excise taxes on phones and autos, and would remove about 5.7 million poor taxpayers from the rolls to bolster support, for an estimated 9.2 billion in revenue.
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House
Ways and Means
Washington
UPI
Nixon
Senate
Congress
Hale Boggs
D-La
Public employees law faces uncertain path in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg report says House Leader K Le Roy Irvis expects a bill granting public employees collective bargaining rights, with school term looming. Republican Leader Donaldson plans two additional measures, one banning all strikes by public employees including teachers, the other backed by the School Boards Association.
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House
Chamber
Lee A. Donaldson Jr
Allegheny County
Shafer
Pennsylvania School Boards Association
Liberal Law-and-order mayoral winners shake NYC race
New York primary results show John J. Marchi and Lindsay winning Republican and liberal nominations respectively, while Procaccino and Wagner prevail on the Democratic side. Norman Mailer fails in bid, Lindsay poised for November contest in a tight, law-and-order themed race.
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New York
UPI
New York City
John V. Lindsay
Robert Wagner
Lindsay
Liberal Party
Norman Mailer
Marchi
Procaccino
Wagner
Mailer
Bronx
Herman Badillo
James Scheuer
Badillo
Scheuer
Democrats set budget plans for Pennsylvania 1969 70
A top Democratic lawmaker says the party's fiscal program for 1969 70 will be introduced in the Pennsylvania House before week’s end. House Democratic Leader K Leroy Irvis of Allegheny County says bills should be ready by week end amid rumors their plan could raise about 400 million dollars through increased business taxes.
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Harrisburg
UPI
House
K. Leroy Irvis
Allegheny County
General Assembly
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