Center Struggles To Keep South Side Hope Alive
The South Side Center, led by Rudy Aldridge, battles funding as it expands youth programs in a 50 block poverty zone around Howard Way. After initial grants and a steady stream of donations, staff shortfalls threaten planned senior, family, and education initiatives and long term operation.
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Bill Ruffin
Rudy Aldridge
New Castle
South Side Center
Pittsburgh
United Fund
East Side
Croton
Aldridge
Office of Economic Opportunity
Barbara Murphy
Westminster
South Side
Falls St residents submit hardship list to Redevelopment Authority
A group of Falls St area residents presented a hardship case list to the city Redevelopment Authority, seeking fair evaluation under the federal relocation act. The authority also approved a grievance committee to handle relocation issues, following complaints at its May meeting about disrepair in the Falls St urban renewal project.
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Falls St
City Redevelopment Authority
Frances Waters
Authority Board
Steve F. Prokopchak
Authority
Edward A. DeCarbo
Elm and
Shenango Streets
J. W. Gilmore
W. Grant St
Prokopchak
Gilmore
Hughes seeks public release of monthly air strike data
Senator Harold E. Hughes proposes a bill to declassify monthly counts of air strikes and bomb tonnage by U S forces in Laos Cambodia North Vietnam and Thailand. He cites the Lavelle North Vietnam raids as a prompt for transparency.
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United Press International Washington
UPI
Harold E. Hughes
D-Iowa
U.S
Laos
Cambodia
North Vietnam
Thailand
Hughes
Air Force
John D. Lavelle
FBI chief: wiretaps remain useful despite ruling
Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray III said wire tapping is a desirable tool and that the Supreme Court ruling against phone taps will not hinder the FBI. He plans to read the antiwiretap opinion to determine the law but expects no damage to internal security probes. Legal and housing stories passim.
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Sacramento
Calif
UPI
FBI
L. Patrick Gray III
U.S. Supreme Court
Gray
House adopts conservative abortion bill in Pennsylvania
In Harrisburg the Pennsylvania House rejected both extremes and passed a conservative measure allowing abortion only to save a mother's life. A full abortion legalization bill failed 14 to 185, while a stricter ban with a three-physician panel was not voted on.
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Harrisburg
UPI
House
Gerald Kaufman
Dallegheny
Abortion Bill Sparks House Debate on Women's Rights
Kaufman argues the measure would empower women to decide their futures, while opponents warn it could normalize killing. Gelfand questions late pregnancy safety, McCue invokes genocide risks, and Mullen fights amendments amid clashes over protecting life and rape exceptions.
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Kaufman
Charles Mebus
Montgomery
General Assembly
Eugene Gelfand
Philadelphia
Gelfand
United States
Germany
Martin P. Mullen
David Savitt
Summer Arrives With Frost Warnings and Rains Across Regions
Summer officially began at 3 06 this morning amid frost warnings and heavy rains from the remnants of Agnes. Flood watches and warnings spread through the Carolinas, southern Appalachians, and parts of Pennsylvania, while the central U S saw fair but cold conditions and frost advisories in the Dakotas and northern Minnesota.
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United Press International
Appalachians
Agnes
South Carolina
Dye Mountain Region
Carolinas
Pennsylvania
Dakotas
Minnesota
Rockie
Plains
UN Security Council urges action against hijackings
The U N Security Council unanimously calls on governments to take all appropriate measures to curb aerial hijackings. Israel questions effectiveness, while the U S hopes the move plus an ICAO Montreal resolution will yield concrete anti hijacking steps.
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United Nations
UPI
U.N. Security Council
Israel
U.S
George Bush
Security Council
Montreal
International Civil Aviation Organization
ICAO
Cease fire Possible From Provisional IRA Wing
Irish Republic sources said a cease-fire announcement could come within 48 hours and involve a seven day halt in hostilities. The statement would likely come from Dublin headquarters of the Provisional Sinn Fein rather than IRA leaders in Northern Ireland. The conflict since August 1969 has killed 382 people.
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Belfast
UPI
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Irish Republic
Dublin
Provisional Sinn Fein
Northern Ireland
Maryland judge weighs dismissal in Wallace shooter case
A Maryland judge will hear five motions by Arthur Bremer's court-appointed attorney. The motions seek dismissal of all charges, a delay of the July 12 trial, a jury trial, consolidation of 24 state charges, and disclosure of state and federal evidence.
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Upper Marlboro, Md
UPI
Maryland
Arthur Bremer
George C. Wallace
Ralph W. Powers
Prince Georges Circuit Court
Benjamin Lipsitz
Bremer
Milwukee
Train toll climbs to 102 in Vierzy tunnel crash
The Vierzy tunnel train crash death toll rose to 102 with ten more bodies found, officials said. The final tally could reach 120 as rescuers disengage wreckage from two express trains that collided after debris from a collapsed tunnel ceiling blocked the line Friday night.
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Soissons
France
UPI
Vierzy
PAT fires two PR managers in austerity drive
Port Authority Transit in Allegheny County began its economy program by dismissing Edward Jensen public relations manager and James F. Bender customer services manager. Their combined salary was about 43 000 dollars a year, Mauro said.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Port Authority Transit
PAT
Allegheny County
Edward Jensen
James F. Bender
John T. Mauro
Attractive teenage mother faces sentencing in trooper murders
Witnesses resume testimony before a three judge panel on the punishment for Marilyn Dobrolewski a 19 year old Toledo Ohio mother who pleaded guilty in the killings of Delaware Troopers Ronald Carey 20 and Donald Yarrington 24 in Media Pennsylvania. The courtroom was packed as police traced the death scene and escape routes used by the pair.
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Media
UPI
Delaware
Marilyn Dobrolewski
Toledo
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Ronald K. Carey
Donald Yarrington
Burned Body Tentatively Identified in Greene Township Tragedy
Trumbull County Coroner Dr. Joseph Suchmack Jr. announced the burned body recovered June 12 from a smoldering car in Greene Township is tentatively identified as 58 year old Michael Lariccia who once lived in the Youngstown area. The car was opened by a gas station operator who found the remains.
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Warren, Ohio
Time pause at midnight to sync GMT signals
London reports a one second time pause at midnight June 30 to correct radio time signals from the Royal Greenwich Observatory. The sequence includes six short beeps for seconds 55 to 60, a one second pause, then a long tone marking midnight. By month end the signals will run almost a second fast against true GMT.
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London
UPI
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Greenwich Observatory
Nixon selects Abrams as Army chief of staff choice
Gen. Creighton W. Abrams nominated by President Nixon to be Army chief of staff. Confirmation by the Senate is required before he succeeds Gen. Westmoreland who retires June 30. Abrams faces possible Senate opposition over alleged role in unauthorized bombing and awaits a 17 day Senate recess starting July 1.
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Washington
UPI
Creighton W. Abrams
George S. Patton
Vietnam
Army
Nixon
Abrams
Senate
William C. Westmoreland
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Frederick C. Weyand
Springfield
Mass
West Point
Westmoreland
3Rd Army
George Patton
Abe Abrams
Bruce Palmer
Full-time planner approved for Lawrence County development
The Lawrence County planning commission approved a full-time planner and advertised for a draftsman to assist. Vitril criticized funding from Harrisburg and Washington, urging tax cuts and better road maintenance to attract industry. The planning trio endorsed both roles, aiming to meet Housing and Urban Development and Commerce requirements.
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Lawrence County
Vitril
Planning Commission
Russell Kawa
Neshannock Township
John Cater
New Castle
Larry D. Worth
X of Housing and Urb Development
Department of Comm Affairs
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