Scranton Quietly Visits Gettysburg For Eisenhower Dinner
Gov. Scranton met former President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Gettysburg at a private dinner on Tuesday ahead of a Wednesday conference in New York with Sen. Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon. The gathering at attorney Carlos W. Wolf's New Oxford home drew Eisenhower MilMil Eisenhower Lt. Gov. Shafer and other GOP figures. The event appeared social but fueled speculation about Republican moderates.
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Scranton
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Sen
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Richard M. Nixon
Robert Schulz
Goldwater
Nixon
New York
Ernors
GOP
Carlos W. Wolf
New Oxford
Here
Milton Eisenhower
Johns Hopkins University
Raymond P. Shafer
George S. Bloom
The
Commonwealth
Wolf
Adams County
Plamn Desert
Calif
Harrisburg
Absentee Ballot Reform Pushed By Blatt In Hearing
Genevieve Blatt urges absentee ballot reforms and a ban on sitting judges filing non judicial nominations. The Advisory Commission on Elections and Election Laws reviewed the code and heard proposals from officials, county commissioners, and election groups.
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Harrisburg
Genevieve Blatt
Pennsylvania Association of County Commissioners
National Election Service
Advisory Commission On Elections and Election Laws
Walter E. Alessandroni
Miss Blatt
County Commissioners Association
Don Farmer
Philadelphia
League of Women Voters
Allegheny County Nonpartisan Registration Committee
Baker Pal Refuses To Answer Questions On California Bank
Senate investigators traced a link between Bobby Baker and a longtime pal's effort to obtain a California bank charter in 1962. Wayne Bromley refused to answer about a $5000 check bearing their endorsements 41 times invoking the Fifth Amendment. Bromley said Baker cashed the check to hide expenditures including a $2500 payment on a $3000 bill at Carroll Arms. The panel eyed the bank charter amid a separate probe into a $25000 alleged payoff to the 1960 Democratic campaign fund.
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Senate
Bobby Baker
California
Wayne L. Bromley
Baker
Redwood National Bank of
Bill Scott
Bromley
Carroll Arms
Scott
Lennox P. McLendon
Reynolds
Don B. Reynolds
Matthew B. McCloskey
Howard Gittis
Philadelphia
McCloskey
Gittis
Silver Spring
Viet Cong Kill Four U S Servicemen In Vietnam Fighting
Viet Cong guerrillas killed four U S servicemen and left another missing as fighting raged across Vietnam. Nine Vietnamese soldiers died with three Americans in defense of an outpost in Kien Giang Province. An American helicopter gunner was killed and another adviser missing near An Lao Valley in Binh Dinh Province. The U S death toll rose to 230, with the battle at An Lao Valley continuing Tuesday night as Viet Cong mortar fire hit district headquarters.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Kien Giang
Binh Dinh
Viet Nam
U .S
An Lao
A .S
Marxist Leads in Guyana National Assembly Vote
Official counts from 25 of 35 districts show Cheddi Jagan with 79,547 votes to Forbes Burnham's 75,119. A majority to govern is unlikely, prompting expectations of a coalition led by Burnham with the United Force to form a bare assembly majority.
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Georgetown
British Guiana
Cheddi Jagan
People’s Progressive Party
National Assembly
Jagan
People’s National Congress
Forbes Burnham
Burnham
United Force
Big Bonanza Tomorrow at Somerset Daily American
The Thursday Christmas Bonanza edition of the Somerset Daily American offers gift certificates worth over $500. Prizes from the certificates will be drawn December 12 at 8 p.m. on the diamond with many gift ideas and bargains.
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Somerset
Daily American
Meyersdale Council Seeks Truck Purchase and Time Change
Meyersdale Borough Council plans to buy a one ton truck after reviewing bids from H J Beamer Ford Sales and Baker Chevrolet. The council also votes to shift meeting times to 7 p m in January and clarifies janitor access to the water office.
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Meyersdale
Chamber of Commerce
Center Street
H. J. Beamer Ford Sales
Baker Chevrolet
Boose Heads Somerset County Bar Association Leaders
Robert I. Boose was elected president of the Somerset County Bar Association at the annual meeting. Officers include William S. Livengood Jr. as vice president and Robert W. Critchfield as secretary treasurer. Simon K. Uhl and William S. Kimmel join the executive committee to fill expiring terms.
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Robert I. Boose
Fike, Cascio and Boose
Somerset County Bar Association
Charles H. Coffroth
William S. Livengood Jr
Robert W. Critchfield
Simon K. Uhl
William S. Kimmel
Natanial Barbara
Wilbert Beachy
James O. Courtney Sr
Leland W. Walker
Robert M. Keim
Mariner Maintains Lead In Mars Flight Race
MOSCOW AP says Zond 2 was 1.5 million miles from Earth on Tuesday still behind US Mariner 4 in the race to Mars. Incomplete Soviet figures left a possibility Zond 2 could overtake Mariner 4, with no update on Zond 2’s status.
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Earth
Mars
Yule Hours Set At Somerset Post Office
The Somerset post office expands window hours to handle Christmas mail. From Dec 12 to Dec 23 the lobby opens 8:00 a.m. daily except Sunday, closing 5:30 p.m. with 5:00 p.m. on Dec 12 and 19. no Sunday service. Regular hours resume Dec 24, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturdays. Postmaster Cassett urges early mailing for on time delivery.
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Somerset
George Cassett
Cassett
Weather at a Glance in Southwestern Pennsylvania
Partly cloudy and slightly warmer Wednesday with highs in the 30s. Fair conditions continue Wednesday night with little change in temperature.
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Pennsylvania
Fidel Aide Shoots Self. Castro Dismissal Cited
Havana reports Labor Minister Augusto Martinez Sanchez shot himself after being told he would be dismissed for serious administrative mistakes. A communique signed by Fidel Castro and Oswaldo Corticos said he was near death. The note offered sorrow and defended the revolutionary cause while noting the rally for Antonio Maceo was canceled.
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Havana
Augusto Martinez Sanchez
Defense
Fidel Castro
Oswaldo Corticos
August Martinez Sanchez
Martinez Sanchez
Martinz Sanchez
Antonio Maceo
Western leaders seek path to nuclear defense reform
President Johnson and Prime Minister Harold Wilson concluded two days of talks in Washington on reshaping Western nuclear defenses. They urged ongoing discussions within the Atlantic Alliance to limit nuclear weapon proliferation while preserving safeguards and supporting peacekeeping and regional security in Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East.
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Washington
Johnson
Harold Wilson
Britain
Atlantic Alliance
Sions
Wilson
Middle East
Far East
Southeast Asia
Malaysia
Viet Nam
United Nations
Europe
Seville Surrender Ends Fulton County Jail Escape
Rodney Seville a 19 year old escapee from Fulton County Jail surrendered to state police at a deserted farm house near McConnellsburg after a multi state search. He fled after pulling a gun on Sheriff Fred Fisher and escaping with two companions from Somerset last weekend. One 12 year old and a 14 year old companion were pursued by Officer Ray Latshaw with a chase through Somerset.
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Fulton County
Somerset
McConnellsburg
Rodney Seville
Fred Fisher
Ray Latshaw
E. Union Street
Latshaw
Seville
Ten Thousand Negroes Sit Out Jacksonville Schools
More than 10 000 Negro pupils join a sit-out in Jacksonville to protest segregated schooling. Leaders say students suffer from a weak system as 53 percent stayed home Monday and 33 percent Tuesday, amid white and Negro protests over school funding and accreditation losses in Duval County.
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Jacksonville, Fla
Jacksonville
Duval County
Ralph N. Walter
Timber bid eyed for Jefferson Township forest tract
Ankney Brothers Lumber Company of Somerset submitted an unofficial high bid of 22 252 for timber on 204 acres in Forbes State Forest Jefferson Township. Five bids for the cutting were received with the low bid at 15 050 by Russell Leonard Chiopyle.
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Forbes State Forest
State Department of Forests and Waters
Ankney Brothers Lumber Company
Somerset
Department
Russell Leonard
Chiopyle
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