Area Jobless Rate Lowest In Three Years
Johnstown Somerset Cambria area unemployment fell from 5.6% in April to 4.9% in May with seasonally adjusted rates at 5.5%. About 94,300 people were employed in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing. May 1973 figures were 5.4% unadjusted and 6.0% adjusted. Casale notes record low since 1971 and improvement in manufacturing hours and earnings averaging 192.92 weekly and 5.05 hourly. May employment reached 94.3% of the workforce. new residency-based unemployment measures aim to align local data with national figures.
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Johnstown Area
Somerset County
Joseph R. Casale
Somerset and
Cambria County
Casale
Johnstown
U.S. Department of Labor
Department
United States
Mount Davis Area Kicks Off JARI Gifts Fund Drive
JARI launches the Mount Davis phase of its Growth Fund drive at a noon Meyersdale kickoff with about 12 volunteers seeking pledges from small businesses. Thomas G. Cavanaugh named Mount Davis Community Chairman. he leads local chambers and civic groups and praises the campaign's potential for Somerset and the wider region. The drive aims to raise 250000 in Somerset County with Bethlehem Steel contributing 50 cents on the dollar, funds staying in county, to back an Economic Development Corporation and job creation goals.
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JARI
Mount Davis
Sustaining Gifts
White House
Meyersdale
Roger E. Kissman
General Telephone Company of Pennsylvania
Cavanaugh
Meyersdale Chamber of Commerce
Greater Somerset
Somerset County
Bethlehem
Bethlehem Steel
Cambria County
Somerset-Cambria
Economic Development Corporation
EDC
Cambria
Judiciary Votes to Release Impeachment Evidence Publicly
The House Judiciary Committee backed releasing a massive set of impeachment inquiry materials though timing and what will be public remain unsettled. Some materials may publish next week with full release targeted by July 15 ahead of impeachment articles debate.
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Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Peter W. Rodine Jr
D-N.j
Rodino
White House
Cambodia
Edward Hutchinson
Michigan
Rodine
Hutchinson
Wayne Owens
Utah
James D. St. Clair
Nixon
St. Clair
Owens
New Queen-Robin Lynn Barron Crowned Somerset County Queen
Robin Lynn Barron, daughter of Mrs. Barron of Somerset RD 6, represented the Bakersville Fire Department to win the Somerset County Queen title. Jane Krause of Berlin was first runner up and Donna Morocco of Somerset was second runner up. Eight girls competed. Central City was eliminated earlier for a rule violation.
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NEW Queen
Robin Lynn Barron
Somerset County
Miss Barron
A At Barron
Somerset RD
Bakersville
Jane Krause
Berlin
Donna Morocco
Somerset
Central City
Eyewitnesses Testify At Garrett Bank Trial
Eyewitnesses testified in the Garrett bank robbery trial of Donald Durst and William Thomson in Pittsburgh Federal Court. Tellers Brandt and Cook described the hold up by two masked men with a shotgun and a hammer type pistol. Investigators linked evidence found on Negro Mountain with the suspects amid camera images from the bank.
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Pittsburgh
First National Bank of Garrett
Donald Warren Durst
William Alexander Thompson
U.S. District Court
Hubert I. Teitelbaum
Robert Brandt
Guy Cook
Garrett
Cook
Lester Coslic
CPO
Vaught Rock Road
Negro Mountain
Ralph J. Brown
Salisbury
Hendershot
Durst
Thompson
Atkins
Nixon In Belgium NATO talks amid Moscow summit
President Nixon arrives in Brussels for NATO talks between trips to the Middle East and Moscow. He says NATO underpins peace and that a nuclear limit pact at Moscow is unlikely this week. Kissinger may travel post summit to sustain momentum. Weather in Laurel Mountain area expected showers and mild temperatures.
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Brussels
Belgium
Nixon
Atlantic
Middle East
Moscow
NATO
Baudouin
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Soviet Union
White House
Laurel Mountain
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Mt. Davis Drive
John D.ehrlichman
Daniel Ellsberg
Joseph Marazit
New Jersey
Henry Smith III
New York
Robert McClory
Illinois
William Cohen
Maine
Tom Railsback
Harold V. Froehlich
Wisconsin
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