United Fund campaign launches in Lawrence County
The 1970 Lawrence County United Fund aims for a record 388,887 dollars with 70 of 150 teams already active and the rest to begin Monday. A Dutch-treat victory luncheon on Oct 30 marks the drive's culmination as 21 health and welfare agencies receive support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence County
United Fund
Charles H. Rhodes
Rhodes
American Red Cross
Boy Scouts
Beaver Castle
Obituary Notices for Five Local Residents
The notice lists the deaths of Mrs. Ethel L. Bessell Reithmiller age 59 of Cornell Ave Mrs. Alma Corene Musser Brady age 80 of Enon Valley RD 2 Mrs. Hattie Stotler age 85 of Ellwood City and William C. Thorman age 48 of RD6 with Thursday September 25 1969 as the publication date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel L. Bessell Reithmiller
Cornell Ave
Alma Corene Musser Brady
Enon Valley
Hattie Stotler
Ellwood City
William C. Thorman
Tragic bank holdup claims three women's lives
Cincinnati report details a Delhi Hills savings office robbery where three women Mrs. Joseph Huebner Henrietta and Luella Stitzel and teller Mrs. Walter DeWald were shot in a vault. Police detained Raymond Kassow 24 as a suspect with two others sought. Authorities called it a vicious crime and noted victims often banked before shopping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Delaney
Cincinnati
UPI
Joseph Huebner
Henrietta Stitzel
Luella Stitzel
Walter DeWald
Cabinet Supreme Savings and Loan
Delhi Hills
Raymond Kassow
Kassow
Stitzels
John Leigh
Waterson Johnson
McAlpins Department Store
Huebner
Nicholas
Inlaw
Henrietta
Paul Fricker
Hamilton County
Teachers proposals presented for union talks
The Union Area school directors plan to discuss a teachers association proposal on negotiations. Jay Hutcheson and Robert Gardner outlined goals to begin talks in October with meetings twice monthly and to have written agreements by February 1.
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Union Area
Teachers Association Negotiations Committee
Jay F. Hutcheson
Association
Robert Gardner
David Seamans
Gardner
Bill to convert land near YDC into industrial park
State representatives introduced a bill to transfer about 203 acres east of the Youth Development Center in Shenango Township to the Greater New Castle Development Corp. If approved, GNCDC would develop utilities and Daugherty Road for an industrial park costing around $100,000, with YDC retaining vacant land. The site has rail and utility access and is already zoned for industry.
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State Department of Public Welfare
Greater New Castle Development Corp
Thomas W. Georges Jr
Public Welfare
GNCDC
YDC
Shenango Township
Victor J. Andrew
Daugherty Rd
Andrew
Explosion at Donnelley plant kills four in Chicago
Four people die and dozens are injured when a printing press blast at R R Donnelley & Sons Co in Chicago tears through brick walls and props. Names of the dead include Sherman Winters and Vastilla Cornell. The firm prints directories magazines and catalogs.
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Chicago
UPI
R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co
Ray Szumski
Sherman Winters
Lawrence Martens
Park Forest
Bernice Nelson
Vastilla Cornell
Gary
TV networks defend cleaner violence free programming
Washington reports the television industry claims its schedules have been reformed since a presidential commission labeled it violence prone. CBS NBC and ABC executives cite revised Saturday morning formats and stricter violence depictions as evidence of a favorable trend and reductions in on air violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Goodman
ABC
Commission
State police hunt for escaped convict Hoss across three states
State police in New Castle and Lawrence County chase leads in the FBI manhunt for Stanley B. Hoss Jr., an escaped inmate from Allegheny County Workhouse. Reports place him near Weirton West Virginia and Wheeling West Virginia with kidnap and murder charges and a nationwide alert describing his appearance and a tattoo.
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New Castle
FBI
Stanley B. Hoss Jr
West Virginia
Panhandle
Harold G. Rice
Hoss
Lawrence County
United Press International
Louis Torchio
Weirton
W.va
Stanley Barton Hoss Jr
Weather Brief for Western Pennsylvania and Lake Erie
Mostly cloudy and cool today with highs mid 50s to low 60s and upper 30s to mid 40s tonight. Tomorrow cloudy with a bit warmer temperatures and a chance of showers. highs upper 50s to 60s. Lake Erie small craft warnings in effect with northeast winds today turning east to southeast tonight. Weather stats show 24 hour max 72 and rainfall .29 inches. pollen count 3 grains per sq cm.
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Pennsylvania
Lake Erie
Troops seize large arms cache from guerrillas near Saigon
U S troops deeper into the Saigon outer defense ring report capturing a two ton arms cache after a 30 minute battle. All 24 defending fighters were killed, 22 by air bombardment, with 75 rockets and 100 grenades found. 77 Viet Cong or North Vietnamese were killed, two U S soldiers died and seven wounded. A separate six ton rice cache was seized 66 miles north with no resistance. B52 bombers dropped hundreds of tons overnight as Marine units prepare for a pullout by mid December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Whitehead
Saigon
UPS
U.S
Dong Ha
U.S. 3Rd Marine Division
Nixon
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Ellwood City native dies after long illness in Pittsburgh
Mrs. Reithmiller, a kidney failure victim born Sept 1 1910 in Ellwood City, died 11:20 p m yesterday at Presbyterian University Hospital Pittsburgh. She lived in New Castle, then Economy, and was widowed from William Bessell before later remarriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel L. Bessell Reithmiller
Cornell Ave
Presbyterian University Hospital
Pittsburgh
Ellwood City
New Castle
Herman Milleman
Reithmiller
William Be
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