One Year Since Agnes Flood Hits Pennsylvania
Harrisburg reports mark one year since Tropical Storm Agnes caused the Great Flood of 1972. Officials note $3.6 billion in damage and 250000 evacuated while human misery remains untallied by statistics.
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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1973
Page
1
Harrisburg reports mark one year since Tropical Storm Agnes caused the Great Flood of 1972. Officials note $3.6 billion in damage and 250000 evacuated while human misery remains untallied by statistics.
Washington reports say President Nixon will say he was misinformed by aides and will acknowledge his own judgment errors. The Washington Post cites a strategy to counter charges by former counsel John Dean II, with Dean testifying to Nixon and aides knowing of the coverup. Martha Mitchell asserts Nixon always knew what was going on.
In Harrisburg heavy rains June 21 22 trigger Pennsylvania Flood of 72 with inches measured across cities including Harrisburg York Willamsport and Wilkes Barre. Mohawk Football Parents Club plans a June 21 meeting at 7 p.m. at the sectival inviting all parents to attend and bring stamp books.
UPI reports U S officials seek release of Emmet Kay of Honolulu the first acknowledged American prisoner of war captured since the cease-fire Kay was piloting a small propeller plane that went down May 2 over Communist territory en route to a Lantian government outpost near Bouam Long by the Plain of Jars his capture disclosed June 1 after Pathelian officials announced they had captured an American major.
South Vietnamese Command said Communist terrorists shot nine members of a deputy hamlet chief's family to death near Thuan Nhon, 100 miles southwest of Saigon, after midnight. An additional family member was wounded, with no further details provided. Canadian officials reported attacks on three truce team helicopters.
Golda Meir, aged 75, announced she will seek another four year term as Israel's prime minister. Supported by a large public majority in polls, the Ukranian-born leader's move ends months of suspense and internal anxiety within the Labor Party.
Washington reports the Postal Service plans a likely January rise in first class mail to 10 cents to cover higher labor costs. Postmaster General Elmer T. Klassen said the service will seek a rate increase from the Postal Rate Commission in September and expects a l-cent stamp. The rise would add about $1 billion annually, largely to fund substantial wage hikes for postal workers.
Westinghouse Electric Corp workers representing about 68 000 agreed to a seven month wage contract with a maximum increase of 88 cents an hour and a cost of living adjustment. The pact runs to July 11 1976 and features a three tier raise: 15 cents retroactive to last Monday, 16 cents starting June 10, and 16 cents on June 9 1975.
In Hershey Pennsylvania the court martial of State Police Lt. Col. Charles B Graet moves into its second week as prosecutors prepare to rest their case with decisive witnesses. The charge alleges he copied test questions and answers last September and passed them to his brother Sgt Vincent Graet before an October promotional exam. Lt Col William Cooper leads the prosecution with a strategy hint.
In Erie, defense for Albert Pass plans to attack a chain of confessions as the last of seven defendants faces trial in the 1969 Yablonski slayings. Attorney Harold Gondelman says the prosecutions relied on deals offered to three admitted conspirators who testified against Pass.
The Philadelphia Bulletin says a daily cooperative funded a February two day junket to Boca Raton for Speaker Kenneth B. Lee amid milk price legislation concerns. Lee denies any conflict of interest and says the Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers paid the trip. Secretary Phillip Alampi also attended. The trip was described as a mixed bag of business and fund by a Bulletin source.
James T. Lynn, secretary of Housing and Urban Development, told the 41st Conference of Mayors in San Francisco that federal aid to cities would be higher than ever. He rebutted Mayor Joseph Alioto, who complained that cities have been orphaned under the Nixon administration.
Dick Best of Poland Ohio won Best in Show with his 1909 Maxwell at the second annual Antique Auto Show held at New Calle Fairground. Winners in multiple classes included A L Phillips in a 1951 Hudson, R D Zulick in a 1941 Lincoln, William Walters with a 1922 Essex, and Bartels with a 1956 Thunderbird in restoration.
Summit talks with Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko point to new Soviet American agreements. Planned pacts cover mutual research in transportation and agriculture, oceanography, and a tax arrangement for U.S. reporters and businessmen in Moscow. A broader civil air pact and science cooperation are also anticipated, with Brezhnev addressing the American public from San Clemente.
Skylab astronauts Conrad and Weitz plan a Tuesday morning spacewalk to recover film cassettes from the solar observatory. They will also try to fix a faulty battery regulator with a hammer shock and brush a dust particle from a telescope, leaving sunshade material outside for analysis by future crews.
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