Debt hike urged to avert US default
Treasury Secretary David M. Kennedy pressed the Senate Finance Committee to back a House passed 12 billion dollar debt limit increase to 377 billion dollars for one year. He warned the government would be unable to pay its bills within weeks without the increase.
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Norman Kempster
Washington
UPI
Treasury
David M. Kennedy
Congress
Kennedy
Senate Finance Committee
Nixon
Senate
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Scott
House
Eisenhower
Treasury Department
Decency rally in Miami draws 35000 teens and celebrities
Miami's Orange Bowl hosts a large decency rally organized by 17 year old Mike Levesque. Celebrities and clergy speak as teen advocates, including Gary Pike of The Lettermen, critique hippie culture after a Doors incident and Morrison indecent exposure charges. Gleason Anita Bryant and Ted Mack attend in antique cars. In Nashville James Earl Ray seeks a new trial in Dr King assassination case, with his brother Jerry stating plans and attorneys under consideration. A watershed meeting is set for Franklin to form associations and strengthen others.
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Miami
UPI
Jackie Gleason
Add
Gary Pike
Lettermen
Miami Springs
Mike Levesque
The
Doors
Jim Morrison
Morrison
Gleason
Anita Bryant
Ted Mack
Nashville, Tenn
James Earl Ray
Memphis
Ray
Jerry Ray
Martin Luther King Jr
Nashville Tennessean
Antipoverty supporters push early hearings on War on Poverty
Carl Perkins orders immediate hearings on the Economic Opportunity Act as child health experts led by Dr. Robert Frazier testify first on Head Start. The move signals rapid pace, with nongovernment witnesses and no cabinet voices at the outset, while Senate panels delay until after Easter.
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Arnold B. Sawislak
Washington
UPI
Friends of the War
Robert Frazier
American Academy of Pediatrics
Nixon
Office of Economic Opportunity
OEO
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
Perkins
Hindman
Executive Department
Perkins’ Panel
House
Senate
Senate Employment and Manpower
Wiretapping Bill Tops Pennsylvania Assembly Agenda
In Harrisburg a high profile wiretapping bill seeks court approved surveillance to fight crime as part of a busy week. Gov Shafer warned of a veto while supporters tout safeguards and broader state modernization moves like a transportation department and minimum voting age debate.
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Harrisburg
VPI
Pennsylvania
Raymond P. Shafer
Martin P. Mullen
Philadelphia
Senate
House
Shafer
Department of Transportation
Atty
William C. Sennett
State Liquor Control Board
Ter
Severe storm toll across Southeast with injuries and deaths
Thunderstorms with high winds heavy rain and hail walloped the Southeast causing power outages accidents and property damage from Arkansas to Georgia Tornadoes struck East Texas and western Louisiana injuring one in Hamshire and sinking a boat on Lake Travis with three drowned and another missing A private plane crash near Chattanooga left four unharmed.
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United Press International
Gulf States
St. Louis
Texas
Louisiana
Hamshire
Tex
Beaumont
Lake Travis
Austin
Elder Mountain
Chattanooga
Tenn
Mideast fighting resumes along Suez Canal frontline
Egyptian and Israeli artillery and tanks clash along a 72 mile stretch of the Suez Canal. Arab oil refineries burn as Egyptian positions are knocked out. fighting also erupts near the Sea of Galilee with a 70 minute machinegun duel. Assad and Jordan upheaval add regional tension as UN work toward cease fire renews.
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United Press International
Suez Canal
Sea of Galilee
Amman
Sinai Desert
Egypt
Qantara
Port Said
Suez City
Suez
Canal
United Nations
Jordan
Syria
Hussein
Middle East
Tragedy as 3 Year Old Dies in Fenelton House Fire
State police report a three year old girl Mary Beth Murray burned to death in a Fenelton six room frame house while her father and six brothers attended church services. The mother was at work when the blaze leveled the home Sunday.
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Butler
UPI
Mary Beth Murray
Fenelton
Here
Marines establish Khe Sanh outpost in northwest Vietnam
UPI reports a 3000 Marine task force with 100 tanks moved to reoccupy the Khe Sanh outpost on March 15 to block a North Vietnamese supply route from Laos. Headquarters cited 43 NVA killed and U.S. losses of 10 Marines killed and 64 wounded.
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Jack Walsh
Saigon
UPI
U.S
Khe Sanh
South Vietnam
Laos
Maine Crag
da Nang
Phan Rang
Kontum
Long Binh
LTV faces antitrust push over Jones & Laughlin stake
The Justice Department warned Ling-Temco-Vought Inc. of a test antitrust suit to force divestment of its 63 percent stake in Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. LTV planned private talks with antitrust chief Richard W. McLaren while vowing to vigorously defend the case.
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LTV First Conglomerate
J&l
Isabelle Hall Washington
UPI
Justice Department
Ling-Temco-Vought Inc
Nixon
LTV
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
Richard W. McLaren
Texas Company
Pittsburgh Corporation
Jones & Laughlin
Weather Outlook for Western Pennsylvania and Lake Erie
Cloudy windy mild in western Pennsylvania with rain today and tonight. Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s, Lows in the 40s. Tuesday cooler with scattered showers and highs in the 40s. Lake Erie gale warnings in effect with winds 10 to 20 knots rising to 25 to 35 today and 25 to 40 tonight. Rain likely with a brief thunderstorm this evening and a 24 hour record shows 0.02 inch precipitation.
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Pennsylvania
Lake Erie
Obituaries Briefs for Local Residents
Mrs. Samuel E. Gongaware 77 of RDG, Mrs. Sarah Josephine Cambaugh 86 of RDG, John Bodnar Sr. 79 of 512 Electric St, Mervin James Witte 45 of Ellwood City, Steven Hulick 92 of Ellwood City, and Bates of Kingswood Rd are listed in death notices for Monday March 24 1969.
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Samuel E. Gongaware
Cramer Burrows Bates
Kingswood Rd
Sarah Josephine Cambaugh
RDG
John Bodnar Sr
Electric
Mervin James Witte
Ellwood City
Steven Hulick
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