June Rain Drags Down Local Activity Across Area
Rain filled June with 20 days of wet weather slows attendance at Moraine State Park Pearson Park and Cascade Park. Catholic Day canceled as greens stay soggy. Local golf courses roofs painters and cement crews report delays while retail sales limp. Travel and sewer crews continue under weather with a forecast of a interruption by Monday.
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Rich Rowbach
Moraine State Park
Butler County
Pearson Park
Neshannock
Cascade Park
New Castle
Hutchison
Susquehanna River floods prompt nationwide evacuations
Widespread flooding from the Susquehanna and Ohio rivers triggers evacuations across Pennsylvania and nearby states. Wilkes-Barre declares an 8 PM curfew as 100,000 area residents flee rising waters. Bell Telephone loses service as dikes fail and shelters fill while looting concerns rise and crews bolster defenses along multiple rivers.
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Wilkes-Barre
Susquelanha
Bell Telephone Co
Ohio
Pittsburgh
Allegheny
Monongahela
Harrisburg newspaper plant flooded by Susquehanna rise
Harrisburg fathers and staff report the Patriot News Building flooded as the Susquehanna River swelled to nearly second floor level. National Guardsmen monitoring from air reported the water surpassing flood marks. The Patriot and Evening News ceased publication. last employees evacuated late Thursday night amid failed pumping and fuel shortage.
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Harrisburg
Harrisburg Patriot & News
Lancaster
Williamsport
Reynolds Street
Harrisburg Patrio-News
Susquehanna
James Doran
Newhouse
National
The
Patriot
Evening News
Doran
Floods at a glance
A state by state report on flooding from tropical storm Agnes. Widespread damage across Pennsylvania Virginia Maryland New York North Carolina Ohio and Washington D C with hundreds dead or homeless and governors mobilizing National Guard.
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United Press International
Agnes
North Carolina
Officials drop murder case over Cross in Ed Bovier stabbing
The case against Cross in the fatal stabbing of Ed Bovier is dropped due to missing witnesses and Cross’s rehabilitation. Cross thanked the Lord as he stood, claiming he was sent by the Lord to set things right.
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United Press International London
UPI
Felix Bikunule
Felix
W. H. Hughes
Nigeria
Cross
Ed Bovier
Don Nichols
Northern Vietnam attack repulsed by South Vietnamese paratroopers
Government troops beat off a mass assault by 800 Communist soldiers across open ground along the My Chanh River north of Hue. The 308th Division plus six other attacks totaling about 2,000 men were repulsed as U S air bombing and naval shelling pounded the area.
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UPS
South Vietnam
My Chanh
Hue
Sie
U.S
Boats clash off Lebanon as guerrilla groups claim victory
In the Mediterranean near Rashidieb, Israeli gunboats infiltrated Lebanese waters but were repelled by Al Fatah maritime militants. With cited opposition from revolutionaries, one Israeli boat was knocked out of action and the Israelis began withdrawing, with no casualties reported.
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United Press International
Mediterranean Sea
Lebanon
al Fatah
Rashidieb
Thei
Flood relief work approved for manpower enrollees
J Terrell Whitsitt, regional manpower administrator, announced that enrollees in Youth Corps Public Employment and Operation Mainstream may be deployed immediately to flood relief in five states hardest hit by Agnes. The federal funds will support state local and county efforts in Pennsylvania Maryland Delaware Virginia and West Virginia.
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UPC
Agnes
J. Terrell Whitsitt
U.S. Department of Labor
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Delaware
Virginia
West Virginia
Whitsitt
Telephone repair campaign hits flood battered towns in Pennsylvania
Dell Telephone Co to dispatch 200 repair crews in trucks to Harrisburg Sunbury Shamokin Bloomsburg Williamsport Lock Haven and Huntingdon with up to 30400 telephones out of service in central Pennsylvania as Wilkes-Barre awaits floodwaters recede. Food prices rise in May and a 30 day meat price freeze is considered by Price Commission while middlemen’ s price cuts kept May rise modest. John Tressler convicted of first degree murder in Bellefonte for killing Patrolman Ronald Seymore and wounding another officer over dump pollution orders. Nixon Kissinger rest at Camp David before talks on how Peking may assist ending Vietnam war.
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Ohio
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Norristown
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Shamokin
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Williamsport
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Wilkes-Barre
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Agriculture Department
The
Price Commission
Bellefonte
John Tressler
Coleville
Centre County
Tressier
Tressler
Ronald Seymore
Clarence Seanard
Thurmont
Henry A. Kissinger
China
Peking
Kissinger
William P. Rogers
White House
National Security
Camp David
Cafoctin
Landmine Kills Three Britons Near Dangiven
An early morning landmine exploded under a Landrover near Dangiven, Belfast, killing three British soldiers and wounding four soldiers and a civilian. The army said the vehicle was not on patrol but moving between locations, and the blast wrecked the Landrover after being hurled into the area.
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Belfast
UPL
Dangiven
Strike threat looms as longshoremen prep Monday walkout
In Honolulu UPI reports union leader predicts a longshoremen strike for Monday while organizers of Operation Blackeye push public support for government intervention to keep the docks moving. John Burns expresses hope the strike can be averted as ships run on schedule. A 22 hour bargaining session left ILWU negotiators saying they are far apart, with another meeting expected today.
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Honolulu
UPI
Ioo
John Burns
Malson Navigation Co
ILWU
Isleton Rebuild Effort After Devastating San Joaquin Floods
In Isleton California authorities convened amid floodwaters as 9,000 residents sought shelter with friends and in emergency structures. Officials warn cleanup could take a year while damages climb toward 25 million dollars as dikes failed and water depths reached ten feet. Coast Guard evacuated hundreds. 74 pleasure craft were hauled out. town faces widespread destruction including a new West End housing subdivision.
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Isleton
Calif
Coast Guard
Tommy Ciaramilaro
James C. Donovan
Army Corps of Engineers
Viemile
Nancy Stanley
Bank of America
President signs tough bus curbs amid education bill
President Nixon signed a multi billion dollar higher education bill with strong busing curbs and new programs. He decried Congress as rhetorical and evasive on court ordered busing and threatened a constitutional amendment. Provisions delay judicial busing edicts and provide federal aid to private and public schools, plus National Institute of Education, vocational training grants, and student aid loans.
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UPL
Nixon
Tse
Congress
National Institute of Education
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