Mine, Union Officials To Start Bargaining
The Somerset County Court ordered Solar Fuel Company and United Mine Workers of America to bargain Monday at 10:30 a.m. after 155 pickets were arrested at Solar Mine 4 Wilbur, later released on bail after a preliminary hearing.
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Solar Fuel Company
United Mine Workers of America
Somerset County
Thomas F. Lansberry
Solar Mine
Wilbur
Norman Walker
Somerset
Greensburg
Uniontown
Bedford
Hollidaysburg
John Lease
District 2
UMWA
National Labor Relations
Washington, D. C
Lease
The
U.N. Talks Quiet Pueblo Crisis Between U S and Soviet
Soviet Ambassador Morozov and U S Ambassador Goldberg held talks at the United Nations amid the Pueblo crisis. Informants say Canada organized a possible U S Soviet meeting to defuse tensions and enable time to arrange Pueblo’s return and the crew.
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Platon D. Morozov
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
Canada
U.N. Security Council
North Korea
Western Pa Miners Strike Paralyzes Coal Fields
Thousands of United Mine Workers began a midnight strike in Western Pennsylvania coal regions amid protests over state police enforcement. Picket lines formed at mines in Fayette and Greene counties including U S Steel Robena. arrests of pickets continued as Governor Shafer faced anger over trooper involvement.
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Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers
Pennsylvania
Fayette
Greene
U.S. Steel Corp
Robena
Greene County
The
Solar Fuel Co
Raymond Shafer
Head Man In Britain's Great Train Robbery Returns
Charles Frederick Wilson 37, a ringleader in the 1963 Great Train Robbery, is flown back to Britain under heavy guard after arrest in Canada. Police seek the missing $7.5 million, with about $792,000 recovered. Wilson to serve a 30 year sentence at Parkhurst.
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Britain
England
Associated Press
London
Scotland Yard
Charles Frederick Wilson
Wilson
Ies
Montreal
Parkhurst
Isle of Wight
Discovery Off Greenland Finds Likely Bomb Fragments
Air Force officials doubt an intact hydrogen bomb will be recovered near Thule. recovery crews comb the ice for fragments while four chutes and other parts are found near the crash site of a B52 carrying four devices. Generators and supplies are ferried to the region to sustain a months long search.
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Joseph E. Mohbat
Thule
Greenland
Air Force
Arctic
North Star Bay
Pentagon
Richard O. Hunziker
Strategic Air Command
United States
Body Found At Yough Dam Still Unidentified
An unidentified man was found unclothed and dead in the snow near the Youghiogheny Dam area on a farm near Addison. State Police and a medical examiner examined the body, but identification had not been made by Sunday night. Burkett alerted the authorities after discovering the scene and the body was moved to Humbert Funeral Home for further investigation.
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Yough Dam
Paul E, Fuller
Somerset County
Robert Burkett
Addison
Burkett
Skyles Montague
Addison RD 1
Robert H. Halverson
Township Road
Route 40
Youghiogheny
Yough Estates
Humbert Funeral Home
Confluence
Somerset
Des
Marines Kill 151 Reds In Battle Near Khe Sanh Road
U S Marines engaged a dug-in North Vietnamese force a mile from artillery positions along Highway 9 near Khe Sanh. The 22 hour battle left 151 enemy dead, 19 Marines killed, 90 wounded. Air support and Marine gunships aided the defense after Tet cease-fire began.
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Khe Sanh Road
Saigon
U.S
Khe Sanh
Leathernecks
Highway 9
da Nang
United States
Somerset Borough Maple Tapping Project Sets S Apil Plan
The Somerset Junior Chamber of Commerce plans to tap street and other maple trees with property owner approval. Trees will hold one to four buckets, requiring at least a ten inch trunk diameter. Sap will be sold to Mountain Meadow Farm Central Evaporator near New Baltimore to fund community improvements.
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Somerset Junior Chamber of Commerce
Somerset
Shade Tree Commission
Jaycees
Tom Calvert
Pennsylvania
Maple County
Mountain Meadow Farm
New Baltimore
South Korea rejects swap for Pueblo in North Korea clash scare
South Korea dismissed any exchange of captured infiltrators for the U S intelligence ship Pueblo and its crew as outrageous. U S troops repelled North Korean raids with no American casualties and limited North Korean losses, amid ongoing armistice line violence near Seoul.
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Seoul, Korea
South Korea
South
Pueblo
Foreign Ministry
New Delhi
India
U.S
U.S. 2Nd Infantry Division
North
Seoul
Chung Hee Park
World’s first double heart valve transplant reported
Johannesburg General Hospital announced a woman patient underwent what is believed to be the world’s first double human heart valve transplant. The patient, unnamed, was reported in satisfactory condition after the 74 hour operation performed by a team from the hospital and University of the Witwatersrand.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Johannesburg General Hospital
United States
Britain
New Zealand
Cape Town
Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
University of the Witwatersrand
Messin With Dynamite At ConCon Convention
Delegates debate residual local powers at the Constitutional Convention. Philadelphia magistrates seek broader judicial powers while a Philadelphia official defends the system amid criticism. Local Government Committee tentatively approves a residual powers proposal. See more on page 2.
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Philadelphia
Judiciary Committee
Louis Vignola
Hearts-for-Business Canvass Set in Somerset Area
Local business people will join a Hearts-for-Business solicitation in February to support the 1968 Somerset County Heart Fund Campaign. Volunteers will visit offices across Somerset Borough. kits due by February 25. Campaign leaders include Mary L. Iron and Edgar K. Gardner with several assistants named in Somerset and Glencoe.
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Hearts-For-Business
Heart
Mary Irons
Heart Fund
Edgar K. Gardner
Mary L. Iron
Somerset County Heart Fund
Somerset
Irons
Edgar K
Gardner
Jean Kowaleski
Harrison Avenue
Elizabeth Lytle
Bernard W. Petrosky
Shaffer Street
James H. Ryan
West Union Street
Harold B. Nibert
R. D
Glencoe
Weather Forecast for Western Pennsylvania
The forecast calls for a cloudy pattern with continued mild temperatures and occasional light rain. Highs will reach the mid 40s to low 50s. Expect a cooler Tuesday with rain ending.
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Pennsylvania
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FHA
Carol
Jan
Robert McWilliams
Jon Shultz
Indiana University
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U.N
William N. Oatis
United Nations, N.Y
United Nations
Western Pa
Birmingham
Demilitarized Zone
Marine Combat
Camp Carroll
Robert D. Ohman
Swap
Lve
Messin
Hearts
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