Prisoners on Death Row Await Ruling After California Court Decision
In San Quentin Charles Gardner and 84 other death row inmates face a tougher wait as the California Supreme Court upholds the death penalty. The ruling allows appeals and new penalty trials, with executions not expected before summer. The decision bans excluding anti death penalty jurors unless opposition bars death verdicts.
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San Quentin
Calif
UPI
Charles Gardner
Gardner
California Supreme Court
California
U.S. Supreme Court
United States
Louis B. Nelson
Robert L. Massie
James W. L. Park
Park
Robert Page Anderson
Frederick Saterfield
Dart leaves board to become principal
City school director James M. Dart resigns from the board to take a principal post at Rose Ave. and Lockely elementary schools in New Castle, a move approved 6 to 1 with protest. Opponents argue an outsider should not assume district leadership and call for internal candidates.
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James M. Dart
Dart
William R. Reed
Mary Elliott
Rose Ave
Lockely
Reed
New Castle
Evans City
Joseph Chill
Albert Russo
James Daley
Instructional Materials Center
Daley
Lippincott
Russell L. Herchler
Horchler
Ellwood City Obituaries Note Two Residents
Musa Zoriff and Alexander Cioca Sr. are remembered in Ellwood City on November 19 1968 with brief notices noting ages 85 and 78 and their local addresses.
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Musa
Sam) Zoriff
Ellwood City
Alexander Cioca (Choco) Sr
Delaware Ave
Weather lows and highs across mainland U.S. towns
The U.S. Weather Bureau reported the day’s lowest mainland temperature as 6 degrees at Minot North Dakota, excluding Alaska and Hawaii. Monday’s high reached 88 degrees at West Palm Beach Florida.
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New York
Shafer tax sharing plan dies in state Senate
In Harrisburg the Senate dropped Gov. Shafer s tax sharing proposal and a House approved convention resolution to seek a constitutional amendment on federal revenue returns. The chamber also advanced a plan for a single state board to govern 13 state colleges and Indiana State University and set a conference to resolve differences on local autonomy for 14 state institutions. A salary relief bill for teachers in Scranton and Pittsburgh faced delays amid anti strike law concerns and possible vetoes by Shafer.
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William Edenburger
Harrisburg
UPI
Raymond P. Shafer
Senate
Congress
U.S
Shafer
State Colleges
Indiana State University
House
Recovery program to aid former mental patients in New Castle
A new aftercare program named Recovery will begin in New Castle on December 11 at 7 30 p.m. in the public library lower level. Mrs Francis Hawk is named local Recovery director after a recommendation by the Lawrence County Mental Health Clinic. The program uses self-help techniques from Mental Health Through Will Training by Dr Abraham A Low and is endorsed by St Francis Hospital the Mental Health Clinic and Dixmont State Hospital.
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New Castle
Delbert Jolley
Mental Health Association of
Lawrence County
Francis Hawk
New Castle Public Library
Hawk
Lawrence County Mental Health Clinic
Sharon
Chicago
Abraham A. Low
St. Francis Hospital
Mental Health Clinic
Dixmont State Hospital
Fat cats shun rat chasing in Japan study
Dr Shiro Nakagawa of Ueno Zoo Hospital says cats in northern Japan are too fat and out of shape to chase rats. He blames high protein diets and lack of exercise for obesity and diabetes, urging owners to feed less meat to revive hunting instinct.
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Tokyo
UPI
Shiro Nakagawa
Ueno Zoo
Japan
Nakagawa
Battle near Da Nang escalates as allies clash with communists
UPI reports intensified fighting south of Da Nang with at least 62 guerrillas killed in four days of battles. U.S. Marines suffer seven wounded as Viet Cong activity, including alleged recruitment and forced village loans, gains pace amid a reported refugee village raid.
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United States
North Vietnam
Phu Vinh
Saigon
da Nang
U.S
Vietnam Press Agency
Today
Huong
Vung Tau
South Vietnam
Vietnam
Commissioners OK airport aid after long delay
County commissioners approved a 15000 allocation to the New Castle Airport Authority after a six month delay to repay a 200000 loan overdue at Lawrence Savings and Trust. One vote against came from Commissioner Frank A. Vitril who questioned the airport’s audit and Castle Aviation operational costs.
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New Castle
Frank A. Vitril
Lawrence Savings & Trust Co
Charles H. Dlugokowski
Castle Aviation
Weather Pittsburgh area cold with snow flurries today
Western Pennsylvania sees cloudy windy cold conditions with snow flurries through tonight and snow squalls near Lake Erie. Expect highs in the 30s and lows in the 20s to low 30s.
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Pennsylvania
Lake Erie
House to curb power on school integration in Harrisburg
In Harrisburg the House moves toward a final vote on a bill to strip the state Human Relations Commission of authority to order school integration. Rep. Joseph W. Dorsey objects to committee amendments but favors an advisory role that highlights racial imbalance and asks boards to correct it. He says the bill is a start and will seek further changes next year.
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Scranton
Pittsburgh
Preston B. Davis
Northumberland
Davis
Shafer
New Castle
Donald W. Fox
R—Enon Valley
Senate
Pennsylvania
Allen
Ed Hartman
New Castle Area
Christian Youth Council
Harrisburg
UPI
House
State Human Relations Commission
Joseph W. Dorsey
Delaware
Dorsey
Basic Education Committee
Human Relations Commission
Starmaker Walter Wanger Dies in New York Hotel
Walter Wanger veteran film producer and talent scout for Valentino Garbo and other stars died in his Hotel Stanhope apartment on Manhattan's East Side at age 74. An autopsy was planned amid a 43 year career that included Cleopatra and helping develop Clara Bow Greta Garbo and Hedy Lamarr. He was married to Justine Johnson and later to Joan Bennett who he helped reshape for fame.
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New York
UPI
Walter Wanger
Rudolph Valentino
Greta Garbo
Hollywood
Wanger
Stanhope
Manhattan
Fashionable East Side
Valentino
Cleopatra
20Th Century-Fox
Clara Bow
Claudette Colbert
Charles Boyer
Henry Fonda
Madeleine Carroll
Hedy Lamarr
Marx Brothers
Justine Johnson
Joan Bennett
Auto registration fee hike killed in Harrisburg impasse
In Harrisburg the 1968 session failed to muster 51 votes to double auto and station wagon fees and raise truck fees by 30 percent. The plan, projected to raise 65 million annually for highway projects, stalled after Republican and Democratic leaders could not reach agreement.
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Harrisburg
UPI
State Highway Commission
House
Highways Department
Joseph F. Bonetto
D-Allegheny
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Premier Leone resigns amid Italian government crisis
The five month caretaker government led by Premier Giovanni Leone resigned, aiming to push coalition talks with the Socialists. The move leaves Christian Democrats unable to pass reforms in a hostile Parliament and triggers nationwide unrest as nearly one million railway workers teachers and civil servants strike halting trains mail and schools.
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Rome
UPI
Giovanni Leone
Italy
Leone
Giuseppe Saragat
Christian Democratic Party
Socialists
Christian Democrats
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