Stiff Penalties Set For Antiwar Groups
House committee approves a bill to punish overt acts by antiwar groups with up to 20 years in prison and a 20000 dollar fine. Chief sponsor Rep. Joe R. Pool says he will stay to push the measure amid strongSpeaker McCormack support and uncertain Senate fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl P. Leubsdorf
Washington
House Committee On Un-American Activities
Johnson
Acts
Justice, Commerce and Treasury Departments
Over Acts
Edwin E. Willis
Pool
Joe R. Pool
D-Tex
Viet Nam
House
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
McCormack
Farmers Celebrate Somerset County Fair With Parade and Contests
The Somerset County Fair features Farmers Day events including a parade and high school band festival at 8 p.m. The day also includes a horse pulling contest, horseshoe elimination rounds, FFA and 4-H competitions, dairy and livestock judging, and tractor driving. Friday highlights include a Sixth Annual Home Talent Show at 8 p.m. and a second tractor pulling contest at 1 p.m. The baby beef and swine sale is set for 7 p.m. with a largest total purchase trophy donated by the 4-H Livestock Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerset County Fair
George S. Fisher
Kenneth W. Saylor
Rockwood
R. D
Cecil E. Jackson
Meyersdale
Philip J. Hershberger
H. G. Bender, Inc
Walter R. Rose
Somerset
Wiedner Farm Supply
James W. Ringler
Berlin
Cochran Farm Equipment
John E. Zehner
Summit Machinery, Inc
Ed Hollada
Meyersdale R. D
Opne
Elam Bender
Meersdale
Jay Espenshade
Greene County
Jane Welch
Roger Brecht
David Suder
Allen Baer
Dave Suder
Janie Welch
W. Gindlesperger
Weather Outlook for Western Pennsylvania
Western Pennsylvania weather shows Thursday and Friday partly cloudy and cool. Daytime highs reach 65 to 70s Thursday and 69 to 76 Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Power Shift Signals Rigid China Under Mao
AP dispatch reports Kang Sheng reassigned to the ruling Politburo and Lin Piao retaining strength, signaling a nationwide purge pushing Red China toward total autarky and isolation from foreign influence. The New China News Agency in Beijing disclosed the Politburo reshuffle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Roderick
Tokyo
Red
China
Kang Sheng
Joseph Stalin
Kang
Lin Piao
State Officials Visit Somerset County Fair Today
Two Pennsylvania officials visit the Somerset County Fair as events include a farmers parade and high school band festival. Secretary of Agriculture Lel and Bull arrives at 11 am with a lunch in Meyersdale. Lieutenant Governor Raymond P. Shafer arrives by helicopter around 7 pm for a 45 minute grounds visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerset County Fair
Secretary of Agriculture
Leland H. Bull
Raymond P. Shafer
Bull
Meyersdale
Shafer
Pennsylvania
County Fair Opens With Dignitaries and Large Crowd
The Somerset County fair reaches its peak day with Lt. Gov. Raymond Shafer and Agriculture Secretary Leland Bull visiting as 12 000 to 13 000 people enjoy livestock judging produce exhibits and carnival events. unscheduled moments include a heifer birth a dairy barn pipe burst and a penicillin search. Daily food intake runs about 1500 hot dogs 2200 hamburgers and 600 4 H dairy milkshakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerset County Fair
Raymond Shafer
Leland Bull
Milk Prices Raised In Pittsburgh Area
In Pittsburgh area the retail price of a quart of milk rises 1% to 30 cents for home delivery and 29 cents in stores starting Sept 1. Dairy farmers receive 55 cents more per hundredweight, to 6.15 dollars, after an emergency hearing and a temporary cap on consumer prices.
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Pittsburgh
State Milk Control Commission
Allegheny County
Greater
Rockwood youth wins grand at Somerset County baby beef show
Reed Luce of Rockwood R D Walked off with the grand championship in the baby beef contest at the Somerset County Fair. Forty seven animals entered with Luce returning as a seasoned winner and a past grand champion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reed Luce
Rockwood
R.D
Somerset County Fair
Luce
Fayette County
FFA
James Bochy
Fred Ream
Markleton
R. D
Illinois to Deploy National Guard for Cicero Civil Rights March
Gov. Otto Kerner ordered National Guardsmen to Cicero to preserve order during a planned civil rights march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The move follows past racial violence in Cicero and includes guardsmen and local police to bolster a suburb near Chicago.
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Springfield
Ill
Otto Kerner
Cicero
Martin Luther King Jr
Chicago
King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Associated Press
National Guard
Kerner
Guard
Cook County
Richard B. Ogilvie
West Elsdon
Mississippi
Ogilvie
Chicago Lawn
Chicago West Side
Marines Clash With Communists in Northern Viet Nam
U S Marines fought Communist forces in two engagements 90 miles apart in the north, killing 211 enemies. Marines overran a training camp near Da Nang, and Leatherneck units pressed a North Vietnamese force near the Cam Lo River. Casualties were light on the U S side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Cantwell
Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Hanoi
da Nang
Cam Lo River
North
South
Viet Nam
Water Board Grants Drainage Permits For Three Coal Mines
The State Sanitary Water Board approved drainage permits for three coal mines in Shade Township Champion and Brothersvalley Township. C and P Coal Company receives a 294 acre strip mine permit draining to Fallen Timber Run. William Schmidt Coal Company gets 33 acre permit draining to a Mill tributary and a 23 acre strip and auger mine draining to Mill Creek. All sites are in areas without prior coal mining operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerset American Harrisburg
State Sanitary Water Board
C and P Coal Company
Boswell
Shade Township
William Schmidt Coal Company
Champion
Southampton Township
North Branch
Brothersvalley
Real Estate Board Faces Dispute Over Housing Policy
Chicago real estate leaders warn the Chicago Real Estate Board could vanish if it tries to mandate members to rent or sell to Black buyers. Chairman Ross Beatty says as a voluntary group it cannot dictate social policy to members or clients. He argues agents reflect client choices and that owners retain right to sell or rent to whomever they choose.
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William J. Dill
Chicago
Chicago Real Estate Board
Ross Beatty
Beatty
Real Estate Board
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IFYE
Bilge Sezgin
Turkey
Irinee M. Barrion
Philippines
Suder
Senate
Aca
Co. Fair Today
State Hospital
Joseph Barr
Marion Finkelhor
Maurice Louik
Rockwood Area
Keith Snyder
Rockwood R. D
Johnstown Tribune Democrat
Sipe
FFA Angus
FFA Hereford
Barron
Suhrie
Hay
Friedens
David Welch
Friedens R
Rick Stutzman
Shanksville
James Hay
Somerset R. D
Hereford
Betty Lou Luce
Noretta Snyder
Jim Kretchman
Greg Croner
Berlin R. D
Sharon Shaffer
Hooversville
Illinois National Guard
Phuoc Tuy
U.S. 173Rd Airborne Brigade
Ation
Guam
Phuox Tuy
North Viet Nam
U.S. Air Force
Navy
Gulf of Tonkin
Baton Rouge
Nguyen Cao Ky
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