Meyersdale Youth Hurt In Motorcycle Car Accident
Brooke Folk an 18 year old Meyersdale resident was injured when his motorcycle collided with a car driven by Mary Ann Thomas 31 of Salisbury as she turned onto Large Street from Meyersdale toward Sand Patch. He was taken to Cumberland Memorial Hospital.
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Meyersdale
R. D
Brooke Folk
Sand Patch
Mary Ann Thomas
Salisbury
Large St
Brooke
Cumberland Memorial Hospital
Finalists Named For Co. Fair Queen Title
Miss Nancy Ann Miller Miss Susanne Barnett and Miss Nan cy Maust were chosen as finalists at a Somerset County Fair Queen contest dinner. They were picked from fifteen entrants with Miller 17 Barnett 19 and Maust 18 all Somerset High School graduates. Final judging will occur August 21 after the All County Vesper Service.
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Somerset Country Club
Susanne Barnett
Nancy Miller
Nancy Maust
Nancy Ann Miller
Miss Miller
Griffith Miller
Sunset Dr
Somerset High School
Miss Barnett
James S. Barnett
Nancy Lambert
Stoystown
Kathryn Ann Hay
Berlin
Bonita Clay
Somerset
Susan Metz
Rockwood
Judy Barkman
Connie Manges
Esther Ringler
Francis Snyder
Friedens
Cynthia Fisher
Boswell
Jo Ann Thompson
Meyersdale
Diana Faye Ream
Markleton
Ruth Menhorn
Somerset County
Credit and Higher Education Bills Hold Up 1966 Session
In Harrisburg AP report, the 1966 General Assembly stalls on consumer credit college funding and mental health laws amid election year politics. Senate and House cleared a $1.26 billion general appropriation, with a Sept recess looming and credit charge limits under debate in the Senate. Pittsburgh Pitt grant cut tuition to 450 dollars.
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Harrisburg
General Assembly
Senate
Democratic House
Pittsburgh
Pitt
Assembly
House
Scranton
Somerset County GOP to Host Shafer Campaign Picnic
The Somerset County Republican committee invites all to an ox roast picnic at Laurel Hill State Park, Area ONE, starting at 5 p.m. Tomorrow Lt. Governor Raymond P. Shafer, the gubernatorial candidate, is expected to attend, with Raymond J. Broderick and Assembly candidates Ken Halverson and George Dayoob also on hand. Judge Lansberry will MC.
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Somerset County
Republican Committee
Laurel Hill State Park
Trent Park
Raymond P. Shafer
Tepublican Party
William W. Scranton
Shafer
Raymond J. Broderick
General Assembly
Ken Halverson
George Dayoob
Thomas F. Lansberry
Council Decides To Hire Officer
Somerset Borough Council authorized the Civil Service Commission to hire a new patrolman for the borough police force. A test will be administered by the commission. The new police chief will not be appointed until the patrolman is hired.
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Somerset Borough Council
Civil Service Commission
Viet refugees flee Viet Cong near Da Nang by helicopter
Refugees from a Communist area about 30 miles southeast of Da Nang boarded U S Marine helicopters to escape Viet Cong and North Vietnamese pressure. They reported harassment demanding food shelter clothing and fighters in Operation Colorado. An elderly woman showed North Vietnamese currency given for food.
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DA Nang
South Viet Nam
Hanoi
Viet Nam
Quang Ngai
U.S. Air Force
U.S
USS. Coast Guard
NASA Hails Lunar Orbiter Test For Moon Photos
NASA officials in Pasadena say the Lunar Orbiter, built by Boeing and directed from Langley, completed a 20 minute test of television camera images of a moon model. The craft, 117 miles above the moon, will begin real image transmission Thursday as tests progress.
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Pasadena
Calif
Space Agency
Langley Research Center
Hampton
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lunar Orbiter
Earth
Union Officials Accept Terms To End Strike
Union machinists agreed to a three year contract with a cost of about 90 million dollars in wages and benefits. The tentative deal includes a cost of living escalator and will be mailed to members before a ratification vote.
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Tom Seppy
Washington
Afl-Cio International Association of Machinists
House Rules Committee
Labor Department
Eastern
National
Northwest
Trans World
United
Johnson
P. L. Siemiller
Siemiller
Federal Judge blocks HUAC hearings on Viet Nam dissent
A U S district judge issued a sunrise injunction halting a House Un American Activities Committee hearing series led by Rep Joe R Pool. The order targets Chairman Edwin Willis and eight committee members, with potential contempt for defying the court. The suit, filed by the ACLU, argues the hearings threaten civil liberties and free expression amid antiwar protests.
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Gardner L. Bridge
Washington
U.S. District Court
Congressional Committee
Howard F. Corcoran
Edwin E. Willis
D-La
House Committee On UN
Justice Department
U.S. Court of Appeals
Corcoran
Justice Dept
Pool
Americans For Democratic Action
Civil Liberties Union
UN - American Activities Committee
Joseph M. Hannon
U.S
Hannon
Arthur Kinoy
ACLU
New York
Supreme Court
Viet Nam
Midweek Weather in Western PA Warm With Tstorms
Western Pennsylvania mixed skies with warmth and humidity. Scattered thundershowers increase Tuesday then ease by Wednesday for sunshine and lower humidity. Highs reach 78 to 82 Tuesday.
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Pennsylvania
Funds Okayed For School Districts In ESEA Programs
Rockwood and Turkeyfoot Valley Area Schools receive 115000 from the Department of Public Instruction to continue Elementary and Secondary Education Act programs. Funds support reading art guidance and pupil services with new reading teachers a guidance counselor and a home and school visitor.
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Rockwood
Turkeyfoot Valley
Department of Public Instruction
ESEA
New York Herald Tribune Ends Long Newspaper History
New York Herald Tribune ceases publication after 114 days since its first issue ending a merger led World Journal Tribune Inc. Matt Meyer announces the death at a news conference amid labor disputes. He notes 800 jobs lost and 5 700 total staff on the three merged papers with hope for a Sunday edition continuing as World Journal Tribune.
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NEW York
New York Herald Tribune
Horace Greeley
James Gordon Bennett
History
World Journal Tribune, Inc
Morning Tribune
Afternoon Journal American
Wold Telegram & the Sun
Matt Meyer
Tribune
Corporation
New York City
Voice
the Herald Tribune
Meyer
the Tribune
The
World Journal
Herald Tribune
World Journal Tribune
Thomas M. Laura
Mailers
Pressmens
U.S. Forces Dig In After Losing Contact Near Ia Drang
In a monsoon, U S air cavalrymen dug in on a jungle mountainside near Ia Drang after losing contact with North Vietnamese troops. Both sides reinforced as a 24 hour battle continued with a rocket helicopter downed and its crew killed.
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John Cantwell
Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Ia Drang
Cambodia
Central Highlands
Ft. Devens
Mass
Chu Pong
Pleiku
Plei Me
Highlands
North Viet Nam
Calvary
Associated Press
Peter Arnett
Chu Phong
U.S. Air Force
Navy
Marine
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Guy Maust
Colleges and Health
John L. Taylor
Broderick Also
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Israel
Sea of Galilee
Sen
J.W. Fulbright
Peking
Congress
Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Air Force
NASA
HUAC
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
McCormack
American Civil Liberties Union
Berkeley
Walter D. Teague III
National Liberation Front
NLF
Allen M. Krebs
Free University of New York
By C. J. Schoener
North
Mekong River Delta
Guam
South
Demilitarized Zone
Delta
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