State Strike Could Shut Parks Hospitals and Offices
AFSCME members threaten a statewide strike next week affecting PennDOT Somerset facilities Somerset State Hospital and DPW offices. Up to 350 hospital workers may walk out closing parks delaying services and halting new admissions with some patients sent home and park facilities largely closed.
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Somerset State Hospital
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes Union
Afscme
State Park
DPW
Somerset
Department of Public Welfare
Pennsylvania Social Services Union
State Bureau of Employment Security
Energy Park Concept Faces Heavy Criticism in Pittsburgh Meeting
At a Pittsburgh session of the Governor's Energy Council, critics challenged the energy park idea tying oil coal and gas plants with nuclear units on a 10 000 acre site. Dr Terry Ferrar questioned water use landscape impact and clustering of plants while Lt Governor Kline denied official promotion of the concept.
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Pittsburgh
Governor’s Energy Council
Westmoreland
Fayette
Donegal
Terry Ferrar
Center For the Study of Environmental Policy
Penn State University
Ernest Kline
Shapp
Ferrar
Subsidized Somerset Gardens Housing Plan Heads to Commission
Plans for Somerset Gardens, a federally subsidized low income complex in Somerset, will go to the Borough Planning Commission. A $515 000 Farmers Home Administration loan funds two story buildings at Garrett Street and Franklin Avenue with 24 two bedroom and eight one bedroom units. Rent rises from 20 percent of adjusted income, with example subsidies cited for a $7500 adjusted income. monthly rents estimated at 125 to 164 dollars. Construction slated for next fiscal year pending approval.
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Somerset Gardens
Somerset Borough Planning Commission
Richard Lahman
Farmers Home Administration
Garrett St
Franklin Ave
Lahman
Somerset
Planning Commission
Manhattan jeweler and math expert charged in espionage case
FBI says Sarkis Paskalian 36 and Sahag Dedeyan 41, both Lebanon natives, conspired to obtain national defense information for the Soviet Union. Paskalian held in NYC on 100000 bond. Dedeyan in Baltimore on 20000 bond for failing to report illegal photos of defense data.
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Sarkis O. Paskalian
New York City
Sahag K. Dedeyan
Rockville
Baltimore
National Defense
Lebanon
FBI
Paskalian
Dedeyan
United Nations
Applied Physics Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University
Silver Spring
Operations Research Inc
Defense Department
U.S
NATO
Berlin Man Killed in Rt 160 Crash
Clifford Martin Jr 19 of Berlin Road 1 died from head injuries after a one vehicle crash on Route 160 Friday night. He was pronounced dead at Somerset Community Hospital after arriving at 10:30 p.m. Coroner Wilbur D Miller cited massive head injuries. Martin worked for Phillippi's Sunoco Service in Somerset and lived with his parents Clifford and Marion Martin. Further details were not immediately available.
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Rt. 160
Clifford Martin Jr
Berlin RD
Martin
Somerset Community Hospital
Somerset County
Wilbur D. Miller
Phillippi
Sunoco
Somerset
Clifford
Marion Martin
Nixon breaks Watergate silence in grand jury testimony
Former President Richard M. Nixon testified 11 hours under oath to a California grand jury in connection with Watergate. The public disclosure was requested by Nixon, saying the testimony was voluntary and not under subpoena. The session occurred near his San Clemente home with Henry S. Ruth and aides present.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Watergate
Grand Jury
California
Nixon
Library of Congress
Henry S. Ruth
U.S. Coast Guard
San Clemente
May Unemployment Hits Five Month High in Cambria Somerset Area
Employment in the Cambria Somerset labor market rose to 96 900 in May with 6 600 unemployed or 6 4 percent of the labor force. Local manufacturing provided 23 000 jobs led by durable goods slippage while non manufacturing firms added workers.
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Cambria- Somerset
Altoona
Pittsburgh
Indiana County
Bedford
Weather outlook for Laurel Mountain area on Saturday and Sunday
Partly sunny and warm Saturday with highs in the low to mid 80s and a 10 percent rain chance. Saturday night will be fair with lows in the low 60s followed by sunny and warm Sunday with highs in the mid 80s and light variable winds. Don’t just sit there Howard do something as groceries thaw.
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Laurel Mountain
Howard
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Rita Sherman-Steinberg
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