Amicus House Aims to Tackle Alcoholism Through Stoic Program
Robert C. Wayne runs Amicus House on State Street, a two month halfway residence for alcoholics. The program combines life skills sessions, individual counseling, family involvement, and AA follow up with goals to cut drinking and rebuild self worth. Wayne estimates annual costs at 57000 with residents paying modest weekly contributions and reports 3 discharges so far.
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Jack Atzinger
Robert C. Wayne
Amicus House
Wayne
State Street
Alcoholics Anonymous
Emmett Garbett
State Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation
Ellwood City Seeks Ways to Fill 242000 Budget Gap
Ellwood City Borough Manager Cam Caldwell outlined 1977 budget projections to cover a 242000 gap in the 1976 2.9 million budget due to errors and unbudgeted costs. Overtime has been cut, federal funded workers may be shifted, and a grant for a sanitary sewer line to the treatment plant is being sought for up to 75 percent.
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Ellwood
Cam Caldwell
Caldwell
Ellwood City Forge Co
New Castle FBI Agent Transferred to Cleveland Division
FBI Special Agent James E. Pickerill will leave New Castle on July 12 for reassignment to the Cleveland division and Canton office in Ohio. He has spent six of seven years in New Castle after a year in Tampa and awaits a replacement amid possible territory changes. Pickerill and his wife, three children, reside at 25 Buena Vista Way.
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FBI
James E. Pickerill
New Castle
Cleveland
Canton
Ohio
Pickerill
Tampa, Fla
Pittsburgh
Beaver Falls
Buena Vista Way
His
Beaver Valley
Myers
Seven-foot gorilla Kongo travels with Hoxie Brothers Circus
The 450-pound seven foot gorilla named Kongo tours with the Hoxie Brothers Great American Circus. He performs at Mt. Jackson Elementary School with a 40-foot cage and a 76 degree truck. The Mohawk Area Bicentennial Committee sponsors the stop with multiple acts and a nine month touring season.
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Kongo
Hoxie Brothers Great American Circus
Mt. Jackson
Viking landing delayed as scientists seek safest Mars site
UPI reports Viking scientists will decide Thursday where and when the life seeking lander will touch down on Mars. Project manager Jim Martin canceled the July 4 descent citing safety, with Al site on Chryse plain under study and two other locations, including Northwest Territory, considered.
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Pasadena
Calif
UPI
Viking
Mars
Jim Martin
Columbus
Martin
Jet Propulsion
U.S
Plain of
Chryse
Northwest Territory
Plain of Chryse
Myers 1975 financial report shows $42,447 unused funds
U S Representative Gary A. Myers reported 1975 office funds totaling $298,409.57 with $42,447.27 unused and $26,597 to revert to the Administration Committee. Of the unused amount $5,666.98 may be used in 1976 and several lease and equipment expenditures are detailed.
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U. S
Gary A. Myers
R-Butler
House Administration Committee
Myers
Mass stranding of dolphins shocks Maui shores
In Kihei Maui more than 20 deep sea dolphins washed ashore with seven dead or dying. Sea Life Park and Smithsonian officials said they were investigating causes of death. Dr Edward Shellenberger reported 17 dolphins spotted inside the reef with four recovered. one healthy dolphin swam in park tanks. An oceanographer noted unusual mass strangling and possible parasite impact on navigation.
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Honolulu
UPI
Kihei
Maui
Sea Life Park
Smithsonian Institution
Edward Shellenberger
Guns at White House Arrests Prompt Warns for July Fourth
Four tourists were arrested in the White House tour line for carrying guns, all claiming protection as the U.S. attorney notes tourists from states with looser gun laws. Officials fear more arrests over the July 4 weekend due to Washington’s stricter gun rules.
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Washington
UPI
White House
U.S
Bette Uhrmacher
Pennsylvania Higher Ed Spending Ranking Corrected
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports a statistical error in a Carnegie Foundation study. Pennsylvania ranked 48th for higher education spending as a share of the state budget due to $68 million in state scholarships omitted from the 1974 75 total, per Janet Royle of the Center for Research and Development in Higher Education.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pennsylvania
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of Teaching
Janet Royle
Center of Research and Development In Higher Education
Groups sue Rizzo over July 4 Philadelphia protest
A coalition of dissident groups filed a $1 million federal suit against Mayor Frank L. Rizzo Police Commissioner Joseph O Neill and Inspector George Fencl alleging a climate of fear and tension surrounding a planned July 4 demonstration. The suit seeks an injunction to stop officials from labeling the group as planning disturbances and from making inflammatory statements.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Frank L. Rizzo
U. S. District Court
Rizzo
Joseph O'Neill
George Fencl
Police
Former Sonora police chief indicted in marijuana smuggling ring
A former Sonora police chief and a Democratic candidate for Pima County sheriff are indicted for allegedly running a marijuana smuggling ring moving more than five tons monthly from Mexico to the United States. Mexican authorities also seek Francisco Arellano Nobleda who fled to the U S. Seven adults and a juvenile, including Reynaldo Robles, 32, were arrested on grand jury indictments.
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Tucson, Ariz
UPI
Sonora
Pima County
Mexico
United States
Francisco Arellano Nobleda
Reynaldo Robles
Senate considers busing funding fight for HEW plan
The Senate resumes debate on a $57.1 billion Labor HEW bill funding the departments and funding two federal agencies. Sen. Jesse Helms introduces an antibusing amendment prohibiting HEW use of funds to require race based classifications or arrange students or teachers by race. The amendment aims to stop race based district actions and record keeping.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Departments of Labor and Health
Education
Jesse Helms
R-N.c
Helms
HEW
London cash robbery suspect named in $3.6 million haul
Scotland Yard identified a suspect in the weekend theft of 3.6 million dollars in foreign currencies from a London airport. The former Purolater Services security manager is sought with another man after a lunchtime Saturday robbery, the biggest in Britain since 1963.
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London
UPI
Scotland Yard
Britain
Purolater Services
Pony Express Run Through Ohio to Bicentennial Celebration
In WILLSHIRE Ohio UPI reports locals join a non stop Pony Express relay to Valley Forge Pa for the Bicentennial. The relay began June 22 in Mt Vernon Washington with a pouch of letters to be delivered nationwide. Ohio riders enter at 2 15 am in Van Wert County and ride about 24 hours crossing five to ten mile segments transferring the pouch every ten miles.
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Willshire
Ohio
UPI
Pony Express
Valley Forge
Mt. Vernon
Wash
van Wert
West Virginia
Steubenville
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KDKA
Bill Currie
Ed Shaughnessy
Hoxie Brothers Circus
Signior
Alberto Zoppe
Zoppe
Miss Carla
Giovanni
India
Myrtle
Rick Paska
Mohawk Area
Kongo the Gorilla
Myers Financial Report
Sue Rizzo
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