Public Hearings Sought On Pennsylvania Transportation Plan
Harrisburg committee chair seeks hearings delaying July 1 start for the proposed state Transportation Department. Senate approval cleared. House delay possible to allow hearings. The plan would unify highways rail and air transport under a cabinet secretary with five deputies.
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William Edenburger
Harrisburg
UPI
State Transportation Department
Pennsylvania
Senate
House
Joseph F. Bonetto
D-Allegheny
House Transportation Committee
Bonetto
Bell
State Highways Department
Traffic Safety and Motor Vehicle
Revenue Department
Mass Transportation Division
Community Affairs Department
Commerce Department
Aeronautics Commission
Military Affairs Department
Body of missing girl found near Route 106 in Wilton
The body of 10 year old Mary K Mount, missing since May 27, was found by two teen fishermen near a pine grove off Old Hawtree Road close to Route 106 known locally as the highway to nowhere. Autopsy scheduled. no Mount family has seen the body. Local police tentatively identified the remains.
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New Canaan
Joseph Mount
Alphonse Cotoia
New Canaan High School
Gary Brown
Huckleberry Road
Nowhere
Wilton
Two Youngstown residents held on larceny charges
Ronald Johnson and Leonora Sims, both jailed on $500 cash bonds after pleading innocent to larceny. A hearing is set for tomorrow before Alderman Howard B Hanna. The alleged theft occurred at Dave Clingensmith TV Service on East Washington Street. a radio valued at $84 was recovered by the store manager but Johnson fled. Sims was arrested near New Castle Auto Parts and Johnson on Milton Street.
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Youngstown
Ronald Johnson
Leonora Sims
Howard B. Hanna
Hanna
Dave Clingensmith
E. Washington St
Jack Camerot
Sims
Johnson
New Castle Auto Parts
Milton St
Ohio
Nixon to seek tough law to curb campus rioting
The Nixon administration plans to seek federal authority to deploy US marshals or troops to quell campus riots. The plan would let colleges turn to federal courts to reopen closed campuses and enforce anti riot orders, with loss of federal student aid up to five years. Two lawsuits were filed against a senate subcommittee investigating riots but quickly dismissed. Witnesses alleged SDS leaders are communists and described a staged role by Lawrence J. Kihnel Jr.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
House
Senate
U.S. District Court
Howard F. Corcoran
SDS
Lawrence J. Kihnel Jr
Subcommittee
Kichnel
New Orleans
Fire damages car on Randolph and Morton streets
Fire caused about 25 dollars damage to a car at Randolph and Morton streets at 6 a.m. today. Firemen said the blaze confined to the back seat was likely started by a cigarette. The car is owned by William Briggs of 1932 Hamilton Street.
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Randolph and
Morton Streets
William Briggs
Hamilton St
Prison probe planned for Lawrence County jail
An investigative committee of the Lawrence County prison board was formed to examine jail operations. The panel will include Frank A. Vitril Sheriff George S. Sigler Dist Atty Kenneth E. Fox Jr and judges Henderson and Lyon to study logs on inmate medical needs behavior and shift communication with recommendations to follow. The board also recommended bids for a closed circuit TV system with four cameras and two monitors.
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Lawrence County Prison Board
Frank A. Vitril
Vitril
Robert E. Foht
Foht
George S. Sigler
Dist
Kenneth E. Fox Jr
John F. Henderson
Howard W. Lyon
Candidates Seek Recount Of May Primary Ballots
Grace R. Skoog and Hilda DeCarlo filed a petition in county court asking a recount of ballots from the May 20 primary in Third Ward sixth precinct. They posted $50 and $21 fees but county officials noted a Monday deadline for contesting returns and lack of an affidavit. Prothonotary Ralph R. White filed the petition for court determination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace R. Skoog
W. Clayton Sr
Hilda DeCarlo
Barbour Place
Republican City School Board
Prothonotary’s
Ralph R. White
Monstrous attitude cited as talks stall in Vietnam
UPI reports a U.S. official in Paris blames the North Vietnamese Communists for delaying negotiations with the Allies. He portrays their refusal to negotiate with Saigon as the main obstacle, while noting Thieu’s offer for direct talks with the NLF remains open.
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Paul Treuthardt
Paris
UPID
Vietnam
U.S
Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
South Vietnam
National Liberation Front
NLF
Viet Cong
North Vietnamese Communist Party
New Castle Man Found Guilty in Cigarettes case
Steve Gomori of Ohio was found guilty by a U S District Court jury in Elkins West Virginia on charges of interstate transportation of stolen cigarettes. The $75000 haul stolen Dec 11 1966 from Golden Dawn Foods in Sharon Pennsylvania was linked to Gomori by police after a traffic stop near Weirton. sentencing was postponed seven days to allow post trial motions.
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Elkins
W. Va
UPI
Steve Gomori
Ohio
U. S. District Court
Robert Maxwell
Gomori
Leonard Alpert
Weirton
Golden Dawn Foods
Sharon
Miss Pennsylvania dreams come true at Hershey pageant
Trudy Lee Pedersen 18 from Etters won the Pennsylvania Scholarship Pageant at Hershey. She spoke to the state Senate and later met Gov Shafer. Pedersen will represent Pennsylvania at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City this September after her win.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Trudy Lee Pedersen
Pennsylvania
State Senate
Hershey
Etters
Senate
Robert D. Fleming
Allegheny
Atlantic City
Pedersen
Raymond P. Shafer
Law reversal sought to lift Sunday prohibitions in Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania House adopted 1932 legislation to outlaw all Sunday bans on sports and motion pictures, allowing local options to retain prohibitions. A 25 percent petition of the highest election vote would place the reimposition question on ballots, with lifts applying only after 1 PM Sundays. The YM-YWCA announced a four week seminar for college bound students starting July 7 in suburban Rockville Maryland.
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Harrisburg
UPI
House of Representatives
Ym-Ywca
Rockville
Pacific Ocean quake swarm rattles from Alaska to New Zealand
UPI reports multiple earthquakes across vast Pacific areas. The National Earthquake Information Center and UC Berkeley seismographs logged events near Cordova Alaska 5.1 at 9 34 p m EDT near Cordova. A 6 5 quake off the Molucca Sea south of the Philippines at 9 17 p m EDT. A 6 6 quake about 1000 miles southwest of Wellington New Zealand at 7 58 p m EDT. Earlier, a 6 2 tremor 425 miles north of Guam at 3 25 p m EDT was recorded by Rockville center.
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Washington
Cordova
Berkeley
Molucca Sea
Philippines
Rockville Center
Wellington
New Zealand
Information Center
Rockveille
Guam
Memphis Driver Swerves To Avoid Collision Damage To Tractor Trailer
Police report Jamie H. Foster 62 of Memphis swerved east on Butler Ave at 3 PM to avoid a car veering into his lane. The Ryan Equipment Co truck struck a utility pole causing about 800 in damage. Foster was not injured and the other driver fled the scene. Bell Telephone repaired the line soon after.
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Jamie H. Foster
Memphis
Tenn
Butler Ave
Foster
Ryan Equipment Co
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Four U.S. units listed for withdrawal from Vietnam
Saigon dispatch says the U.S. Military Command will send home four more Army units totaling about 2000 men as part of Nixon's plan to withdraw 25,000 by September. The units include the 86th Engineer Battalion, 6th Battalion 56th Artillery, the 70th Engineer Company, and the 1097th Transportation Company.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S
Nixon
Vietnam
United States
86Th Engineer Battalion
56Th Artillery Air Defense
70Th
1097Th
Post 776 Re-elects Gabriel as Commander in Meetings
Gabriel James was reelected commander of American Legion Post 776 at a recent meeting. Senior vice commander Joseph Mendel and junior vice Albert Moses were elected with other officers named. Plans for a new front at the post home at 1-9 E Long Ave and a July 13 picnic at Gaston Park were approved along with donations to a Harrisburg headquarters project and Scotland School.
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James Gabriel
American Legion
Joseph Mendel
Albert Moses
Victor Piccione
Charles Park
William Williams
John Maritch
Gabriel
Anthony Montoura
E. Long Ave
Gaston Park
Lions Club Installs Kennaday as New Castle President
David Kennaday an accountant at Carbis Walker and Associates was installed as president of the New Castle Lions Club at a noon luncheon. He will serve July 1 to July 1 next year and will attend the Tokyo International Convention next month with his wife. The candlelight ceremony, led by president Stanley Vizard, also installed Dr. Robert Kitchen and other officers. Special guests included workers from the blind home and a bus trip to a Pittsburgh baseball game.
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David Kennaday
Carbis Walker and Associates
New Castle Lions Club
Kennaday
Tokyo
Japan
Stanley Vizard
Arthur Meek
Robert Kitchen
Jack M. French
John Lyon
Randall Mooney
Ronald Abraham
Sky Pilot
Samuel Rashid
Philip Phelps
Arthur Borland
Eugene Isidro
William Gray
Glenn McCracken
George Winter
Wizard
Paul Earl
James Leishman
Thomas Fontana
Gene Rishel
Louis Long
Joseph Friedheim
Lion
Pittsburgh
Norman Smilek
Center to seek operating funds for West Side action center
West Side Community Action Center directors agreed to raise $9,000 to operate through year end after federal cuts voided further CHARGE Inc. funding. The board added four new members Dr. David Hamilton Robert Waters Fred Gilmore and Pauline Pettigrew.
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West Side
Community Action Center
Charge
Inc
David Hamilton
Robert Waters
Fred Gilmore
Pauline Pettigrew
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West Allis
Wis
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Alhambra
Calif
Gail Budlow
Lutheran Home For the
Wauwatosa
Janette Litten
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