Cholera crisis grows in East Pakistan and Calcutta
UPI reports a refugee influx into Calcutta reaching 100,000 daily as cholera spreads among the displaced. Western aid groups note meager funds and urge governments to act, pressing the United States and others to pressure Pakistan to allow UN and Red Cross relief into East Pakistan amid the mounting disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Cassels
UPI
East Pakistan
India
Calcutta
United States
Nations
Pakistan
U.S
United Nations
International Red Cross
Drug education program planned for New Castle Area Schools
A seven month study led by Joseph Martin outlines a preventive drug education program for kindergarten through 12th grade in New Castle. The plan uses a flexible, multimedia curriculum with teacher led phases and school wide involvement to instill knowledge before age 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Gwin
New Castle
Joseph Martin
Calvin DiCarlo
Martin
Robert Plohr
Carol Gillette
Alberta Desch
Dorothy McAdams
John Aram
Edward Bender
Betty Robinson
Freda Thompson
West Side
John F. Kennedy
PTA
Neshannock School Budget Closes Amid Subsidy Delays
The Neshannock Township School District closed its 1970 71 budget with total expenses of 200 120 including payroll. State subsidy delays remain unresolved with 15 percent of the third payment received and the fourth due at month end. The board approved June payments and budget transfers and filled two resignations with new hires while adjusting contracts and approving a Title I continuation and Vo Tech budget. A summer fitness program was set and bids opened for furniture and playground work as cafeteria losses stayed low.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Gwin
Neshannock Township
Mary Elton Ulmer
Rosemary DeHoog
Patricia Rowland
Robert Brown
Plan to create regional drug treatment center eyed
Dr. Murray Weisman announced a regional plan to design an in-patient drug treatment center serving a 14 county area including Lawrence County. The plan aims to map addict locations, identify facilities, choose a treatment model, and determine staffing as part of Gov. Shapp’s 1971 72 budget four objectives. Proposals are due by June 30 with state legislature reviews possible.
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Milton J. Shapp
Lawrence County
Murray Weisman
Weisman
John Dee
MHMR
Shapp
Caches Seized in Saigon Amid Parade Disruption Fears
South Vietnamese police seized two Viet Cong arms caches in a suspected plot to infiltrate Saigon during Armed Forces Day parades. Phnom Penh communiques reported Communist bombardments of Cambodian army posts around Phnom Penh as U.S. jets were alleged called in to aid battles near the capital. Saigon military spokesmen said thousands searched the capital for hidden arms locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
UPI
Phnom Penh
U.S
New Jersey Adopts 3.5 Percent Tax on Some Pennsylvanians
Governor Cahill signed a law taxing about 35,000 Pennsylvanians working in New Jersey at 3.5 percent retroactive to August. From August to year end the rate is 5.5 percent, then returns to 3.5 percent after January 1. Taxpayers fear dual taxation if both states require payment.
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Trenton
N.J
Miners end UMW tied nationwide strike in court move
A four day walkout by Loyal to Boyle coal miners ended after UMW President W A Boyle ordered workers back to the job. The stoppage idled up to 90000 miners across eight states before tapering off Thursday night. In Allentown Pennsylvania Mack Trucks chief Zenon C R Hansen announced the Soviet Union plans a 700 million truck factory using US machinery.
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Charleston
W. Va
UPI
United Mine Workers Union
UMW
W. A
Tony
Boyle
Allentown
Soviet Union
Mack Trucks
Zenon C. R. Hansen
Hansen
Pennsylvania
V. N. Sushkov
Soviet Foreign Trade Ministry
Peace forces push in House on Vietnam war issue
In a strong showing the peace faction in the House fell short as Republicans backed Nixon. A bid to endorse total U.S. withdrawal by December 31 lost 254 to 158, and a second plan for withdrawal by June 30, 1972, contingent on prisoners’ release failed 238 to 146. The Senate on Wednesday also rejected a set peace deadline.
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Washington
UPI
House of Representatives
Nixon
Indochina
House
U.S
Senate
Turmoil in Jacksonville prompts extra state troopers
Officials ordered 45 troopers and a 20 man Florida Marine Patrol riot squad after two nights of street violence in Jacksonville. About 150 arrests were made and damage neared 250000 dollars as mobs burned looted and sniped, with Mayor Tanzler deferring further help to Sheriff Carson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Fla
UPI
Florida Marine Patrol
Hans Tanzler
Dale Carson
Agreement reached to avert Pittsburgh airport kitchen strike
Teamsters Local 249 representing 108 in flight kitchen workers reached an agreement with Gladieux Food Service Inc at Greater Pittsburgh Airport. Judge Barron McCune had ordered the workers to stay on the job through midnight. If no deal, a strike could have begun at 12:01 a.m.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Teamsters Local 249
Gladieux Food Service, Inc
Greater Pittsburgh
Barron McCune
City firm ordered by NLRB to recognize union
The National Labor Relations Board ordered City Welding and Manufacturing Co to recognize the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers as bargaining agent for all production and maintenance staff. The firm must cease actions seen as anti union pressure and reinstate workers to prior positions. The company plans an appeal to the U S Circuit Court in Philadelphia while contesting NLRB findings after 53 workers voted for AM to represent them.
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National Labor Relations Board
City Welding and Manufacturing Co
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Joseph Marinelli
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Philadelphia
Arthur M. Goldberg
NLRB
South integrates more black students than other regions
A Health, Education and Welfare report shows Southern schools now enroll a higher share of black students with white majorities than California or Illinois. In 11 southern states, 39 percent of Negro pupils attended majority white schools in 1970-71, up from 18 percent in 1968, while 32 northern western states held at 28 percent and border states plus D C rose to 32 percent.
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Washington
UPI
South
Mississippi
California
Ilinois
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Department
Office of Civil Rights
District of Columbia
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Sydney Royal Women's Hospital
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LAM
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