Job Outlook Brighter In Cambria Somerset Areas
Economic activity in Cambria and Somerset counties showed continued improvement into the second quarter with about 90 100 local jobs by June 25 200 or so in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing sectors. Manufacturing employment fell about 5 percent from 1967 monthly averages while nonmanufacturing stayed near a peak. steel layoffs loom nationally though a strike was avoided and 6 000 Johnstown steel workers face slow recalls as orders dictate.
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University Park
Somerset Cambria
Pennsylvania State University
Cambria
Somerset
Johnstown
Heaviest Viet Cong Attacks Hit Quang Tri Front
North Vietnamese forces launched three ground assaults and multiple shellings in Quang Tri Province ending a 42 day lull. At least 15 government troops were killed with 21 wounded and 26 enemy dead reported. U S advisers were initially listed wounded but later no casualties were confirmed. Cam Lo district headquarters bore the heaviest impact.
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Saigon
U.S
Cam Lo
Syria and Jordan sever relations amid border clashes
Beirut AP reports Syria cut diplomatic ties with Jordan after claiming Jordanian forces attacked Dar a across the border. Radio Damascus cited tank and armored car fire with four Jordanian tanks lost. Syria said no casualties. Jordan offered no comment.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Syria
Jordan
Hussein
Radio Damascus
Dar’a
Somerset 4-H Dress Revue Finalists Named
Kathleen Wable of Fort Hill and Eileen Barbera of Somerset are among five finalists in the Regional 4-H Dress Revue, with the state event set for August 26 at the Hetzel Union Building. Twenty five participants will be judged on posture garment construction and suitability to the wearer, with the statewide winner chosen by the contestants.
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Kathleen Wable
Fort Hill
Eileen Barbera
Somerset
Hetzel Union
Pennsylvania State University
Mountain View Inn
Greensburg
Catholics Flee South To Safety
Belfast and Londonderry saw street clashes and arson as Catholic civilians streamed toward Ireland seeking safety. The violence left a 24th death, while British troops struggled to restore order and round up IRA members. Prime Minister Lynch urged intergovernmental change in Dublin, and IRA figures warned of continuing campaign and possible new tactics.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Londonderry
Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Dublin
Jack Lynch
Irish Republic
IRA
Stewart Mackie
William McCracken
Brian Faulkner
London
Bogside
Officials Study Ways To Help Developers In Somerset County
Somerset County Commissioners and the Planning and Zoning chief met with officials from the state agriculture and environmental resources departments to cut red tape delaying residential industrial and recreational projects. The group heard that environmental safeguards on on site sewage systems and groundwater must be ensured, and noted developers often buy land before consulting agencies.
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Somerset County
State Departments of Agriculture and Environmental Resources
Albert Hay
Vernon Spangler
County Planning and Zoning Commission
George Morocco
Ron McAllister
Department of Environmental Resources
McAllister
Black Boycott Defeats New School Subsidy Proposal
In Harrisburg the House defeated a $38 million Philadelphia and $9 million Pittsburgh school subsidy plan 91 to 103 after a black Philadelphia Democratic boycott over demands for a black deputy State Police commissioner. The vote followed political bargaining involving Gov. Shapp, Speaker Fineman, Irvis, and GOP leaders, with potential links to a proposed 2.3 percent income tax.
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Harrisburg
House
Philadelphia
Shapp
Herbert Fineman
Pittsburgh
Fineman
Davis
Allegheny County
Irvis
May
GOP
Kenneth B. Lee
Cratic
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Rock N. Ireland
Marsha McMinn
Berlin
Daily American
Ron Pritts
Jim Weaver
New
Centerville
Central City
Garrett
Quang Tri
Jordan Dispute
Laos
5Th Mechanized Infantry Division
Quang
Tri
1St Infantry Division
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Spean Dek
Samray
Britain
Princess Anne
Somerset County Firemen’s Association
Richard Bumbarger
Acosta
Robert F. Glessner
Jennerstown
Don Glessner
Lester Miller
Friedens
Pennsylvania
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