House Democrats confident on budget path to Senate
House leaders say the $2.455 billion budget plan should clear the chamber in the next weeks and reach the Senate. Deliberations focus on July forecasts, with adjustments in funding, salary increases, and stopgap appropriations totaling $135 million for July. The timing hinges on session status in August and federal funds risk for welfare.
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Burton W. Siglin
Harrisburg
UPI
House
Chamber
Senate
K. Leroy Irvis
D-Allegheny
General Assembly
Irvis
Legislative Kitty
Department of Community Affairs
Pennsylvania
Weisman program approved for Lawrence County plan
Murray Weisman, county program director, said state officials accepted the comprehensive Mental Health-Mental Retardation plan for Lawrence County. The state requests detailed information on personnel classification, partial hospitalization, a proposed group home, salary structures, and goals and management for continued funding until a state budget is enacted.
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Lawrence County
Murray Weisman
Weisman
State Civil Service Commission
Civil Service
County prisoners may get education and recreation program
President Judge F Henderson backed a county jail plan to provide adult education classes for prisoners and keep them occupied. Fred Duckworth proposed the program at a prison board meeting. a committee will research jail operation improvements and report to the full board.
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F. Henderson
Henderson
Fred Duckworth
County Schools
Jack Llewellyn
Llewellyn
De Americanizing War Continues With River Patrol Boat Transfer
The United States handed South Vietnam 64 armed river patrol boats worth 18.2 million dollars at Saigon docks in a major de Americanizing move. General Abrams praised Vietnamese capacity to patrol the Mekong Delta as 800 American crewmen shift to new posts. The transfer raises U.S. boats given to South Vietnam to 167 in 12 months as Nixon signaling withdrawals continues.
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Saigon
UPS
United States
South Vietnam
Creighton W. Abrams
U.S
Vietnam
Mekong Delta
Abrams
Gen
Cao van
Vien
Delta
Nixon
U.S. 9Th Division
Boys drown trying to save brother at quarry incident
In North Beaver Township Ohio two Lyda brothers aged 15 and 17 died while attempting to rescue each other at a limestone quarry near their New Middletown home. Authorities say one youth may have tried to save his brother before both were swept under.
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Bessemer
Ohio
Beaver Township
Middletown
Edward Joseph Lyda
Richard George Lyda
Edward J. Lyda
Edward
George
New Middletown
John A. Meehan Jr
Ohio State Line
Richard
Meehan
Richard George
Edward Joseph
Youngstown
Springfield School
St. Paul the Apostle Church
Elaine
Winifred
Andrew
Robert
Raymond
Glue Firm Test Ends In Silence At Madame Tussaud
Michael Booty 27 volunteers on a chopping block to test a glue developed by his company. The rope blade failed to cut as a safety bar held, leaving Booty unharmed. His life was insured for 240000 with his wife as beneficiary.
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London
UPI
Michael Booty
Booty
Madame Tussaud’s
Chamber of Horrors
Marie Antoinette
Insurance Company
Weather outlook with scattered thundershowers expected
Cloudy and warm today with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers. High in the 80s. Tonight and Thursday partly cloudy and warmer with a chance of more thundershowers. low in mid 60s and highs in the upper 80s. Friday partly cloudy and warmer with isolated thundershowers. 24hour stats show max 78 and min 46 with no precipitation. Shenango River stage 5.0 feet.
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Shenango River
Welfare staff dwindling as caseworker resigns
Ann Reash a county Child Welfare caseworker says she was hampered by county commissioners who blocked visits to a protective family delayed a court order and ignored a pay raise and performance evaluation leaving the agency with four resignations in 10 weeks.
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County Child Welfare Agency
Ann Reash
Miss Reash
Curfew Imposed in Harrisburg After Night of Riots
Harrisburg authorities impose an eight p.m. to seven a.m. curfew after a second night of disturbances stemming from racial tensions. Police report 23 arrests, 14 fire alarms, and injuries including a city officer and four firemen. Officer Ray mond Kertulis is under investigation for the fatal shooting of 18 year old Charles Scott who was lighting a Molotov cocktail in Allison Hill. A special committee was formed after city officials met with the Black community to ease tensions.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Pennsylvania
Martin L. Watts
Dist. Atty
LeRoy S. Zimmerman
Charles Scott
Raymond Kertulis
Allison Hill
Albert H. Straub
135H
Market Sts
Harrisburg Hospital
Charles Henry
Harrisburg - York State
Mt Pleasant Fire Co
50 Pennsylvanians Prisoners Of Vietnam War
Defense officials said at least 50 Pennsylvanians and about 30 New Jersey servicemen, with possibly 20 to 30 from Delaware, are prisoners of war in North Vietnam. Richard C. Capen Jr. cautioned there is no immediate hope for release and noted 341 servicemen nationwide are prisoners, 987 missing in action.
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Mcguire Air Force Base
N.J
UPI
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
North Vietnam
Defense Department
Richard C. Capen Jr
New Hope
Capen
Ference
Paris
Ellwood City Woman Marlene Bramlett Obituary
Mrs. Marlene E S Buzzelli Bramlett 35 of Ellwood City is named in a late June 1969 notice. The brief item records her age and residence, indicating an obituary or death notice in the local paper.
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Marlene E. S. Buzzelli Bramlett
Ellwood City
Borough officials seek arbitration stance at convention
Pittsburgh delegates at the State Association of Boroughs meeting push against compulsory arbitration for police and fire salaries. They oppose a three member board that would bench municipal power with final binding decisions. The 58th convention ends today.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
State Association of Boroughs
Gerald Goodwin
The
Boroughs Association
Tax Free Status Keyed In House Tax Bill
Harrisburg lawmakers propose legislation to tax the bare land value of real estate owned by educational religious medical and governmental non profits while preserving tax exemption on their building value, changing overall real estate tax treatment.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Commonwealth
John C. Pittenger
Lancaster
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