Mine rescue blocked by flood in Kocher Coal Portertunnel
Eighteen rescue workers reached the Porter tunnel in Kocher Coal Co. mine but four to five feet of water and a debris jam blocked access to nine men believed trapped. A rescue team planned to blast the logjam while air remained fresh. one miner died and nine were reported missing amid the flood that swept 5,000 feet through the main channel.
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Tower City
UPI
Pennsylvania
Porter
Kocher Coal Co
John B. Shutack
Federal Mines Enforcement Safety Administration
Shutack
Gary Clinger
Hegins
Brookside Mountain
Walter Vincinelly
Kocher Coal
Porter Tunnel
Vincinelly
Shenango China Workers Vote to Strike Over 3-Year Contract
United Steelworkers Local 3125 rejected Shenango China’s latest contract, prompting a union picket and federal mediator involvement. About 700 of 750 members attended as dissatisfaction centered on wages pensions and vacations. The offer included a 35 cent hourly raise each year.
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United Steelworkers of America
USW
Shenango China
John Masi
County officials named in civil suit over child welfare case
Judge Henderson and Child Welfare director Fediaczko are named as defendants in a federal civil complaint filed in Pittsburgh. The suit, brought by the ACLU and NECLC, alleges due process denial connected to the Feb 25 suspension of caseworker Fred Prochaska for insubordination and failure to prepare a court ordered referral. Prochaska seeks reinstatement and back pay, plus more than 10 000 in damages. The case cites five day suspension following actions around a 15 year old girl ordered to institutionalization and contested referral handling.
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John F. Henderson
John E. Fediaczko
U. S. District Court
Pittsburgh
U. S
Maurice B. Cahill
Pitt
Sburgh
Anne Nelson
American Civil Liberties Union
Paul D. Boas
National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee
Fred Prochaska
Prochaska
State Civil Service Commission
John A. Meehan
Thomas A. Shumaker
Fedraczko
Fediaczko
Henderson
Army Field Band to Perform Free Concert in New Castle
The U S Army Field Band will give a free concert at The Cathedral at 8 p.m. May 16 as part of a Salute to The Right Place. Sponsored by The New Castle News and AASR Valley of New Castle, the band tours nationwide and beyond, presenting a mix of classical and popular band music.
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U.S. Army
New Castle
U.S. Army Field Band
The
New Castle News
Valley of
Right Place for American Ground Forces Band History
The story recounts Gen. Devers creating the Army Ground Forces Band, later renamed the U S Army Field Band in 1950 as the army’s official touring musical representative. It notes early global performances in London Paris Berlin and in Austria Belgium and France, a 1954 all 48 states tour, Washington DC concerts for foreign dignitaries and NATO ministers, five Presidential inaugural parades, and Maj Samuel J Fricano as fifth commander and conductor from June 1974.
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Devers
Army Ground Forces Band
U.S. Army Field Band
U.S. Army
Royal Festival Hall
London
Luxembourg Gardens
Paris
Olympic Stadium
Berlin
Austria
Belgium
France
Rocky Mountain States
Washington, D. C
Greece
Ireland
NATO
Samuel J. Fricano
County officials clash over child welfare review
Commissioner Shumaker proposes that county child welfare director John Fediaczko personally review all institutions serving Lawrence County children. Parents Linda Lambert and Helen Wojciechowski press for background checks and broader accountability while Prochaska faces suspension for alleged insubordination.
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Thomas A. Shumaker
John Fediaczko
Lawrence County Court
Shumaker
Linda Lambert
Fediaczko
Lambert
Helen Wojciechowski
Fred Prochaska
Lawrence County begins Section 8 housing subsidy program
The Lawrence County Housing Authority started a subsidized rental plan for low income residents. Four landlords with elderly tenants have agreed to participate, two in New Castle and two in Ellwood City. The program lets tenants pay 15 to 25 percent of income, with HUD subsidizing the rest to meet fair market rents.
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Lawrence County
Housing Authority
U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Kraus
Military draft could resume
Ellwood surprise and a 7 county report headline the page. Coverage notes potential resumption of the draft and regional updates, with additional items on birth control and Mohawk girls in a brief digest.
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Ellwood
Weather Map Forecast Rain Snow Across Central Plains
Wednesday night will bring snow across the central Plains upper Mississippi Valley and Lakes region with rain or showers along the north Pacific coast and into parts of the Tennessee and Lower Mississippi valleys. Mostly fair elsewhere with record highs and a Shenango River stage at 9.18 feet.
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Central Plains
Mississippi Valley
Lakes
North Pacific Coast
Tennessee Valley
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Dallas
Denver
Duluth
Houston
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Schuylkill County
United States Army Field Band
Army Band
Army Field Band
Field Band
United States
Europe
Far East
Central America
Canada
Field
U.S. Army Ground Forces Band
Jacob L. Devers
Frank A. Vitril
Vitril
Jerome Miller
Miller
Office of Children and Youth
News Digest
Areaa
News Index
Jacob L. Dausen
Ellwood City
David M. Toma
Marion Atwell Remley
Lowellville
Ohio
Shenango River
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