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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1971
Page
1
After a year in the United States under the Americans Abroad Program sponsored by AFS, 41 youths from around the world will visit New Castle as their penultimate stop before flying home from San Francisco Miami and New York.
Hazy hot and humid with a chance of thundershowers today tonight and Wednesday. Highs in the upper 80s to mid 90s. Lows tonight in the upper 60s to mid 70s. Lake Erie winds 10 to 15 knots shifting, locally rough during storms today and tonight. 24 hour period shows: max 96, min 70, precipitation none. Shenango River stage 4.97 feet. Morain State Park temperature 80 with 17,872 attendance.
Obituary notice for June 29 1971 lists Harrison M Buck Reynolds age 82 of RD 2 and Loyal E Weller age 61 of Ellwood City with brief memorial details.
In New York Joseph Colombo Sr. remained in critical condition after being shot at an Italian-American unity rally. Police questioned rivals Joseph Gallo Albert Gallo and Carlo Gambino amid mob rivalry theories. Authorities say four guns were found. ballistics tests planned to identify the shooters.
At least one local grade school may close this fall after the Supreme Court struck down Pennsylvania’s plan that funded parochial schools. St Joseph the Worker could lose about 10 percent of its $55 000 operating budget from state aid and will decide soon if it can continue. St Vitus and nearby parochial schools expect to stay open, while Villa Maria High School plans to reallocate resources to cope with aid cuts. Church officials warn private schools face financial jeopardy without state support.
Joseph S. Noviello is named new administrator effective Sept. 1 as Sister Mary Joseph retires Aug. 31. Associate administrator is Sister Maria Miragliotta, former personnel director, now completing a two year masters program at Minnesota. Sister Maria, a Charleston West Virginia native, earned a BA in education and counseling from Duquesne University and is in a residency at Robert Packer Hospital Sayre Pennsylvania. Noviello holds a BA from Youngstown State and an MBA from Xavier University. he did his residency at Altoona Hospital before joining St. Francis in 1957. Sister Mary John served 25 years at the hospital.
The New Castle labor market shows 6.1 percent unemployment with about 2,200 jobless since April 15 and 33,900 employed. Pennsylvania statewide hits 5.8 percent as 298,000 unemployed in seven years high, while youth entry boosts figures and Nixon weighs tax cuts and a $5.4 billion public works bill.
In New Castle yesterday the heat failed to fry or soft boil an egg. Photographer Ken Eckler used his car roof as a makeshift pan while Ann Martin notes the attempt shows the old weather-egg cliché is unfounded as even peak 96 degrees yielded only a semi-broiled blob.
Alfred F. Barnes longtime Laurel School district administrator since 1955 resigned from his post as superintendent. The board accepted the resignation and will seek a successor via the personnel committee chaired by Moulton Ferguson. Barnes helped form the first union district in the area and oversaw key school additions and program innovations.
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