Head Start expansion eyed to include homes for younger children
Assistant HEW Secretary James Farmer proposed extending Head Start to home settings for children three and younger and their parents. He argued for training nonprofessionals as a new careers program to coach families, citing Florida and New York City pilots and mixed evidence on Head Start outcomes.
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Craig A. Palmer
Washington
UPI
Asst
HEW
James Farmer
Farmer
Nixon
Johnson
Florida
New York City
Frank Riessman
New Careers Development Center
New York University
Israeli Warplanes Raid Jordan Again In Four Days
Israeli warplanes struck Arab guerrilla positions inside Jordan near Al Adassiyah, firing machineguns in what the government in Amman called retaliation for attacks on Israeli soldiers and a collective farm. Jordanian anti aircraft fire was reported with no damage or ground casualties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press International
Jordan
Amman
Al-Adassiyah
Sea of Galilee
Beit She’an
London
Soviet Union
United States
Middle East
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Israel
Suez Canal
Gulf of Aqaba
Maoz Chaim
Syria
Kuneitra
Haifa
Beirut
Cairo
al Fatah
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Merchant kills wife and seven children in New Jersey
Puerto Rican merchant Rafael Torres 42 Free on one murder charge was arrested on charges of stabbing or beating to death his wife and seven of their nine children. An eighth child was critically wounded. Police found a knife and baseball bat. Torres had previously been jailed for a Hoboken murder.
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Jersey City
N.J
UPI
Rafael Torres
William McCarthy
Torres
Hoboken
John Karst
Ramon
Rafael
McCarthy
Caspar Carbone
Ramon Torres
Volunteers to be honored at Dixmont Hospital event
The Mental Health Association of Lawrence County and the New Castle Council of Churches will be recognized by the Dixmont State Hospital board tonight for one year of service. Volunteer Services Recognition Night honors 15 county volunteers and two local organizations for 1968 69 work, with the Lawrence County Red Cross chapter receiving a 10 year certificate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mental Health Association of
Lawrence County
New Castle
Clarence Bowden
Harry Cook
Leonard Cramer
Sue Cramer
Gertrude Craven
Margaret Cullen
Ida Matricardi
Ida Montozzi
Hanna Simonton
Leora Sneckenberger
Pearl Thatcher
Grace Vredenburg
Elizabeth Knowles
Violet Lasky
Neshannock Township zoning hearing outlines proposed amendments
About 50 residents voiced complaints and suggestions at the third hearing on a zoning amendment. Commission chair Lewis Dayton said the proposal would be revised for legal corrections before referral to supervisors, who will hold a public hearing prior to adoption. Residents urged reclassifications, with debates on agricultural, commercial, residential, and industrial park districts and the need to balance land use with development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neshannock Township
Township
Lewis C. Dayton
Commission
Dayton
Planning and
James Caldwell
Zoning Commission
C. M. Booker
David Strizzi
Linden Bruce
Clyde Hutchison
John Cater
Clifford Terbush
Clifton E Rogers Associates
Harrisburg
William Mooney
Wilmington Rd
Harold Green
Terbush
U.S. 422
Pa. 18
Mitchell Rd
Jay White
Covert Rd
Lewis
Frank Alduk
New Castle Co
Space ships readied for Apollo moon mission at Cape Kennedy
Ground crews prepared one spacecraft for a 30 day orbital ride starting Saturday and another for Apollo 11 astronauts journey to the moon in three weeks. Astronauts Armstrong Collins and Aldrin and five monkeys training for the mission as technicians install stage separation devices on the Saturn 5 booster and capsule ahead of the July 16 lift off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Kennedy
UPI
Neil A. Armstrong
Michael Collins
Edwin E. Aldrin
Armstrong
Collins
Aldrin
Senate approves gender rights bill expanding employment access
The Pennsylvania Senate passed a bill adding sex to the 1955 anti discrimination law, prohibiting sex questions on job apps and sex based quotas and protections in housing and public facilities. The measure passed 44 to 2 and moves to Gov Shafer for signature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Edenburger
Harrisburg
UPI
Raymond P. Shafer
Teamsters Union
Pittsburgh Steelers
Senate
Jeanette F. Reichman
Northampton
Allegheny County
Jack E. McGregor
Wayne S. Ewing
Court rejects bid to recount Third Ward precinct ballots
Lawrence County court denied Grace R. Skoog and Hilda DeCarlo petition to open the sixth precinct ballot box and recount ballots, finding noncompliance with state statutes after the June 16 protest deadline. President Nixon reportedly will nominate Dr. John H. Knowles of Boston for HEW assistant secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence County
Third Ward
Grace R. Skoog
W. Clayton Sr
Hilda DeCarlo
John F. Henderson
Nixon
John H. Knowles
Boston
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
White House
UPI
Birthday boy admits breaking police station window
In Chicago Edward Harnen an 11 year old boy confessed after entering the police station with a shattered window He returned on his 12th birthday to offer payment but Commander John Fahey forgave the incident giving Edward a new ball and bat instead praising him as a good kid and a breath of fresh air.
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Chicago
UPI
Edward Harnen
Edward
John Fahey
Fahey
Judy Garland Dies in London From Accidental Overdose
London coroner ruled Judy Garland died of incautious self overdosing on Seconal in her Belgravia home. The 47 year old singer was found in a locked bathroom at 4 Cadogan Lane by her husband Mickey Deans.
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London
UPI
Judy Garland
Miss Garland
Gavin Thursdon
Cadogan Lane
Belgravia
Mickey Deans
Highest paid New York City teachers reach historic contract
NYC teachers and the Board of Education reached a tentative three year agreement making them the highest paid teachers in the United States. The top salary in year three will be 13 950 after eight years experience, up from 11 150, with last day of school June 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
UPI
New York City
Board of Education
United States
John V. Lindsay
Officials to discuss law for mental health act
Officials from law enforcement judiciary and welfare will meet in Dist. Atty. Kenneth E. Fox Jr. office at 10 a.m. tomorrow to discuss mental examination provisions of the Mental Health Mental Retardation Act of 1966. Murray Weisman will review the law which he says spells out lines of authority for noncompliant individuals and is a humane approach for those who may be dangerous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Office of Dist. Atty
Kenneth E. Fox Jr
Murray Weisman
Weisman
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Ban Lashkoff
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Lashkoff
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Bessemer
Thomas Bianchi
Jameson Memorial Hospital
Evans City
Mary Jane Johnson
Prospect St
U. S. 422
Ya Lue
Neshannock
Joseph L. Moretto
State Senate
House
D. Elmer Hawbaker
R - Franklin
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