Defense unit defends cost cuts amid combat readiness claims
The Defense Department says its 14 billion dollars in savings from prudent spending did not harm combat potential. A spokesman notes deployment of 350000 plus troops to Southeast Asia and asserts no reserves were called up and no wage or price controls used while the budget remains low relative to national income. Subcommittee findings say savings were significant but some claims were exaggerated and potential harms were not detailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ly Jed Stout
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Porter Hardy
D-Va
McNamara
Union school chief Wendell E. McColgin dies at 50
Wendell E. McColgin 50 of 444 Winter Rd. chief administrator of Union Area School District died at 9:25 a.m. in Jameson Memorial Hospital after becoming ill at home. A Westminster College 1938 graduate, he had led Union four years and previously served as supervising principal of Townville Joint Schools and as principal at Meadville High School and Freedom-New Sewickley. Survived by wife Florence, two daughters, and a son. arrangements by Leyde Tanner Mortuary.
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Wendell E. McColgin
Winter Rd
Union Area
Jameson Memorial Hospital
McColgin
Union
Townville
Crawford County
Meadville
Freedom-New Sewickley
Vandergrift
Westminster College
University of Pittsburgh
Florence
Neshannock Township
Leyde- Tanner Mortuary
Highland
Winter Avenues
Gemini 12 set to lift after Gemini 11 data roll
Astronauts Conrad and Gordon report scientific data from Gemini 11 mission while a Titan 2 booster sits ready for Gemini 12. NASA officials praise film of Gordon's space walk and plan to release more footage from Gemini 11 soon.
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Cape Kennedy
Upi
Charles Pete Conrad
Richard F. Gordon
Conrad
Gordon
Merritt Island
Moonport
Alan B. Shepard
Houston
James Lovell
Edwin Aldrin
The
Space Center
NASA
Ed White
UPS
Richard Gordon
Gemini
Agena
Pope Plans Campaign for Peace
Vatican sources say Pope Paul VI will launch a new campaign of prayers and appeals for world peace in response to the Vietnam war. He is not considering mediation or a peacemaking trip, and a worldwide prayer call is viewed as more likely than statecraft. He is expected to act after returning tonight from Castel Gandolfo.
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Vatican City
UPI
Paul VI
Viet Nam
Vatican
Paul
Castel Gandolfo
Western Pennsylvania Weather Forecast Today
Today sunny with little temp change highs 65 to 73. Tonight mostly cloudy cool with low 40s to 50s. Sunday cloudy and cooler with a slight rain chance in the south. 24 hour stats show max 68, min 35, no precipitation. Shenango River stage 4.4 ft. pollen 16.8 grains per cu yd.
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Pennsylvania
Shenango River
St. Francis Hospital Laboratory
Dirksen Plans Showdown on School Prayer Amendment
Sen. Everett Dirksen moves to force a vote on a constitutional amendment to support voluntary school prayer. A Senate compromise may replace the measure with a nonbinding sense of the Senate resolution endorsing a daily moment of silent meditation. Birch Bayh expected to offer the substitute, while Dirksen seeks a two thirds majority to pass his amendment.
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William Theis Washington
UPI
Everett M. Dirksen
Senate
Dirksen
Birch E. Bayh
D-Ind
Judiciary
Illinois
GOP
Supreme Court
Naval air and gun strikes raise Vietnam fighting
U S forces bombard North Vietnam with B52s fighters and ships along the DMZ in staged raids. Air units report 14 MIGs sighted and one shot down by a Sidewinder. Ground combat intensifies as the 101st Airborne clashes with a Communist force 250 miles northeast of Saigon.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
7Th Fleet
Dmz
Army
101St Airborne Division
U.S. Navy
U.S.S
South Viet Nam
U.S. Air Force
Bernard D. Giere
Chicago
Henry J. Krock
Akron
Ohio
Nguyen Cao Ky
Strike ends for PA Engineering workers after contract approval
United Auto Workers Local 1259 voting two to one approved a new two year package ending a 17 day strike. The deal raises wages by five cents an hour, adds pension gains, hospital coverage up to 730 days, sick and accident pay of 73 dollars weekly for 39 weeks, and includes a 230 percent vacation increase next January and a seven cent wage rise next September.
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Pennsylvania Engineering Corp
United Auto Workers Local 1259
Girl Hurt in Mishap Involving Car Door
Lenore Rich a 16 year old of 2019 Martha Street is in good condition at St Francis Hospital with a fractured right leg and multiple contusions and abrasions to the right forearm and both legs. She was thrown from a car when the door flew open and arrived at the hospital at 8 20 a m yesterday. Police had no report of the accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lenore Rich
Martha Sr
St. Francis Hospital
Internal China Clash Over Red Guard Purges Surface
A Peking Radio broadcast reports powerful factions within the Chinese Communist Party opposing Mao Zedong's Red Guard movement and purges. The piece cites Red Flag editorials and Lin Piao warning of bourgeois elements and revisionists while Hong Kong Times notes suicides of ex mayor Peng Chen and ex army chief Lo Jui-Ching in prison.
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Kim Willenson
Tokyo
UPI
Peking
Communist Party
Red Guard
Mao Tse-Tung
Mao
China
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Times
Peng Chen
Lo Jui-Ching
Peking Radio
Red Flag
Redguard
Lin Pao
Lin
Methodist bishop calls for change to compassion in divided world
Bishop Frederick Buckley Newell of the Pittsburgh area urged a shift from complacency to compassion at the Grove City Bishop's Breakfast. He warned of three world blocs the free world, the communist world, and small nations fearful of communism, urging aid to the starving and critique of inequality. He challenged American arrogance and noted high domestic wealth against global poverty, urging the church to preach redemption aligned with modern science.
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New Castle News
Frederick Buckley Newell
Pittsburgh
Grove City
John G. Johnson
Donald Whetsel
The
Methodist Church
Pittsburgh Area
Newell
America
United States
Deaths in Ellwood City and nearby areas
Obituaries list nine individuals with ages and residences, including Abbie M. Hughes of Ellwood City and Linda M. Cortez of Wampum. Also named are Bertie M. Poplar in Cleveland Arnold E. Fraser in Wilkinsburg James E. Faichney John R. Barron George I Ike Fulwood and Wendell Eugene McColgin with their respective ages and home locations.
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Abbie M. Hughes
Ellwood City
Linda M. Cortez
Wampum
Bertie M. Poplar
Cleveland
Arnold E. (Friz) Fraser
Wilkinsburg
James E. Faichney
Buena Vista Way
John R. Barron
Volant
George I
Ike) Fulwood
Ridgecrest
Calif
Wendell Eugene McColgin
Winter Rd
New Castle Gridders Win 19-7 Over Ambridge at Taggart
New Castle High defeated Ambridge 19-7 at Taggart Stadium earning their second straight victory and first Midwestern Conference win under Lindy Lauro. Wilmington High boosted its Tri-County League streak to 25 with a 13-7 win over Mohawk.
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New Castle High
Ambridge
Taggart Stadium
Lindy Lauro
Wilmington High
Mohawk
Laurel
Northwestern
Ellwood City
Butler
Woverines
Westminster College
Salem
W.va
Neshannock
Union
Two youths sought in $30 gas station theft
City police pursue two about 15 year old youths who took $30 in change from a bag in a back room at the Claude Humble service station located at 201 South Jefferson Street at 6 25 p m yesterday.
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Claude Humble
S. Jefferson St
Dirksen Sees 1966 Civil Rights Bill Die in Senate
Senate GOP Leader Everett Dirksen says the 1966 civil rights bill will die in the Senate, and he expects Republicans to gain in November. He warns against party backlash and supports halting the bill via a second cloture vote Monday. The measure would curb housing discrimination and empower the attorney general to sue across state lines.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Dirksen
Cock Robin
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Ex deputy sheriff indicted on 38 counts in embezzlement case
A grand jury charged former county deputy sheriff Donald A. Dinsmore with 38 counts of fraudulent conversion and embezzlement totaling 9333 dollars over five years. Dinsmore, fired after the loss was found, faced testimony from ex sheriff Frank L. Coen and county Controller Robert E. Focht. Also, a charge of maintaining a public nuisance against East Side motorcycle dealer William F. Estock was dismissed, but an injunction was urged to stop engine noise. Other indictments included Mike and Beverly Radkowski for assault. some charges were dismissed.
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Donald A. Dinsmore
Court St
Dinsmore
Dist
Kenneth FE. Fox Jr
Frank L. Coen
Robert E. Foct
George S. Sigler
East Side
William F
Mike and
Beverly Radkowski
Steinbrink Way
Woman charged after chain crash involving bus near New Castle
State police will file a reckless driving charge against Gladys M. Harlan 37 after a crash on Princeton Church Road at 345 p.m. yesterday. A Laurel district school bus carrying 30 children was struck after her car rammed a stopping vehicle and collided into the bus. None of the children were injured. Harlan suffered a minor cut and was not treated.
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Princeton Church Rd
Laurel District
Gladys M. Harlan
Evergreen Ave
New Castle
Richard J. McFall
Ellwood City RD
George Pontius
Harlansburg Rd
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