Knotty legal question blocks reserve guard merger plans
Washington officials say Congress probably can block the Pentagon plan to fold the Army Reserve into the National Guard. The process will be slow with details still pending, aiming to complete the reshuffle in 16 months and create an expanded all volunteer 550,000 man National Guard.
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Washington
Congress
Pentagon
Army Reserve
National Guard
Armed Services Committees
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Duke of Windsor to undergo delicate abdominal surgery
In Houston the 70 year old former king will have an aortic aneurysm removed in a 60 to 90 minute operation at Methodist Hospital. Dr Michael DeBakey will lead the team with two to three assisting surgeons as Queen Elizabeth seeks daily updates on her uncle's condition.
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Houston
Tex
Duke of Windsor
Michael DeBakey
DeBakey
Italian Crew Launches San Marco Into Orbit
At Wallops Island, an Italian space crew launched the 254 pound San Marco spacecraft into orbit around the earth. NASA officials announced success less than two hours after a four stage Scout rocket, 72 feet tall, lifted off at 3 20 p.m. The mission aimed to place San Marco 1 between 135 and 420 miles up, marking the first orbital launch by a foreign crew from the United States and making Italy the third nation to achieve an orbital launch.
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Wallops Island
Space Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States
Italy
Soviet Union
U.S
Somerset to Get New Employment Security Office
Officials say federal approval is awaited for a downtown Somerset site to replace the city’s rented employment security office. The General State Authority approved a 124,981 allocation for site acquisition 106,981 and construction 18,000 the Somerset HQ would cover 4345 square feet.
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Bureau of Employment Security
State Department of Labor and Industry
Somerset
Bureau of Employment of Labor
Somerset Employment Security
Federal
Congress
Long Thin Lot Bought Unseen in Midtown Manhattan
In New York at a public auction an 150 foot long and 6 inch wide lot was sold for 25 dollars to Edward Horowitz aged 81. He said he bought it on a whim and might sell to a neighbor or place a sign there even though he has never seen the property.
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New York
Manhattan
Edward Horowitz
Horowitz
Scranton sees his role in party dropping after he leaves office
Gov William W Scranton says his influence in the national Republican party will wane after his January 1967 departure. He named potential successors to Dean Burch including Ray Bliss Charles Percy Robert Taft Jr Walter Judd Robert Smylie John Anderson Wayne Hood Robert Forsythe Robert Galvin and others. He doubts Pennsylvania GOP chairman Craig Truax would head the national committee, citing his ties to Scranton’s presidential bid.
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Scranton
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
William W. Scranton
National Republican Party
Barry Goldwater
Dean Burch
John Scotzin
Ful
Ohio
Walter Judd
Minnesota
Robert Smylie
Colorado
John Anderson
Kansas
Wayne Hood
Wisconsin
National Committee
Robert Forsythe
Robert Galvin
Chicago
Percy
Taft
Bliss
Judd
Burch
Lieve
Craig Truax
Truax
Roof repairs reveal structural rot at Old Christ Church
In Philadelphia a 25 000 roof project at Old Christ Church uncovered rotting wooden beams wall cracks and spreading walls. Trusses were needed to stabilize the structure with total repairs estimated at 150 060 dollars, according to Rev. Ernest A Harden.
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Old Christ Church
Ernest A. Hardin
Buddhist Monks and Nuns Begin 24 Hour Fast in Saigon
Five hundred Buddhist monks and nuns began a 24 hour protest fast in Saigon calling on Premier Tran Van Huong to change his government. Thich Tam Chau accused Huong of dictatorship with foreign influence at stake. The fast aimed to pressure reforms amid resignations rumored in the education ministry and flood relief aid planned by Giac.
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Malcolm W. Browne
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Tran van Huong
Phan Tan Chuch
Buddhist Institute
Thich Tam Chau
Huong
Ngo Dinh Diem
United States
Hung
Thich Ho Giac
Viet Nam
Giac
Giao
Weather outlook for Western Pennsylvania
Cloudy conditions in the north and partly cloudy in the south for Wednesday with warmer temperatures. Highs range from 32 to 42. Thursday brings cloudy skies and occasional rain, possibly starting as light snow in the north Wednesday night. Low temperatures dip to the 30s Wednesday night.
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Pennsylvania
Rusk Pushes Allied Nuclear Command Amid France Clash
Paris AP report says Secretary of State Dean Rusk advances plans for a NATO allied nuclear command despite French opposition. He urged concrete aid for South Vietnam as France presses for its own atomic arsenal, amid talks with President de Gaulle and NATO ministers debating a multilateral force and sharing nuclear strategy. France rejects U S control while Britain backs integration and a vetoed command structure.
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NATO Confab
Dean Rusk
Giusseppe Saragat
Paris
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
South Viet Nam
Rusk
Charles de Gaulle
France
de Gaulle
U.S
United States
Free World
Southeast Asia
Britain
West Germany
Italy
Holland
Sees
Patrick Gordon Walker
Gerhard Schroeder
Atlantic
Gordon Walker
Maurice Couve de Murville
Steel Union and industry start contract talks in Pittsburgh
Labor contract negotiations opened between United Steelworkers AFL CIO and 11 major steel producers in Pittsburgh. About 300 union and management representatives discussed local plant issues as top-level talks on wages pensions and insurance will follow. A potential strike window opens May 1 if no agreement is reached.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers Union
United Steelworkers
Aflcio
U.S. Steel Corp
Bethlehem
Jones & Laughlin
Republic
Inland
Great Lakes
Colorado Fuel & Iron
Wheeling
Armco
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
U.S
U.S. Steel
U S. Steel
J. Warren Shaver
James Griffin
SW District 26
Ohio
USW
Bethlehem Steel
Joseph Molony
Buffalo
N.Y
David J. McDonald
R. Conrad Cooper
Blaze Levels Quaint Hill Side Hotel in Madison
A fire destroyed the Hill Side Hotel in Madison Indiana killing one guest and injuring nine others. The blaze burned for six hours in a three story forty room structure perched on a bluff above the Ohio River. Estimated damage reached five hundred thousand dollars as guests evacuated by jumping from windows and Marines aided in room to room searches.
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Madison, Ind
Ohio River
County Jury Returns Not Guilty In Assault
Somerset County jury finds Ray Laugherty not guilty of assault and battery after trial that ran Monday through Tuesday. Costs are to be shared equally by Laugherty and the Commonwealth. Linwood Daniel is found not guilty of driving during license suspension in a separate non jury trial. Four men charged with failures to appear face arrest processes. Canty and McGee posted bonds. Other cases postponed or not prosecuted include Wallace Clark and two men charged with license suspensions.
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Somerset County
Ray Laugherty
Rockwood
R.D
Commonwealth Linwood Daniel
Philadelphia
Wade Haigh
Kingwood
W. Va
Tony Likovich
Windber
William H. McGee Jr
Trenton
N. J
Zilwest Canty
Harrisburg
Wallace B. Clark
Acosta
George A. Ross
Chambersburg
R.D. 2
Donald L. Pugh
Gray
Somerset County Refund Gains State Liquid Fuels Share
State Department of Revenue approves $64,830.97 for Somerset County from liquid fuels tax refunds for the six months ending December 1. Funds must be spent within county roads and bridges by the county commissioners. allocations to townships and boroughs within the county are at commissioners’ discretion.
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Somerset County
State Department of Revenue
Department of Revenue
Congo Elections May Be Put Off
Congo elections first scheduled for early February may be delayed three months due to northeast rebellion. Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo had set February 1 15 for elections to Leopoldville government chambers and provincial assemblies.
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Leopoldville, the Congo
Congo
Godefroid Munongo
Leopoldville
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