Windber Wins HUD Grant for New Recreation Center
The HUD approves 476000 toward Windber’s new two story community center on Graham Avenue near 17th Street. Local officials expect construction to start by spring with total project about 600000 and 125000 to be raised locally for matching funds. The center will host Senior Citizens Head Start day care and a large all purpose hall for dinners and meetings.
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DeBiase
Windber
Rec
Graham Avenue
17Th Street
Robert Weiser
Neilan Engineers
Johnstown
Nixon Firehouse Plan Drives Borough School Board Appeal
Meyersdale Borough officials fear their dilapidated firehouse floor may fail under trucks and ask the area school board to sell land from the Grant Street elementary to build a new station off Route 219 at Dale St. The school board, while sympathetic, forms a committee to study the proposal and cautions no sale until buildings are unused.
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Meyersdale
Area School Board
Grant Street
Dale St
Carl Hay
Frank Lucente
Lucente
Soroptimists Ask Council to Study Downtown Lounge Plan
Somerset Soroptimist Club seeks a feasibility study for a municipal lounge behind Alexis Park with a $15 000 to $20 000 cost, $5 000 earmarked by the club, and a pledge from local business owner George Lichty to help fund the project. The group cites a deteriorating current facility and past discussions with borough officials. The council also tabled a parade ordinance and approved a $32 322 sewer payment while enacting pension and barricade protection measures.
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Somerset Borough Council
Somerset Soroptomist Club
Alexis Park
Helen Critchfield
George Litchty
George
Lichty
West Main Street
North Center Avenue
Old Somerset Borough
West Union Street
Center
Bill James
Mild Tuesday With Sunny Start Then Cloudy Look Ahead
The forecast calls for mostly sunny and mild conditions in Western Pennsylvania Tuesday with highs in the 50s. Tuesday night will be cloudy and not as cool with lows in the upper 30s to mid-40s. Wednesday brings more cloud cover and a chance of showers, with highs in the 60s and northwest winds around 10 mph. Tuesday precipitation chance near zero percent, rising to about 20 percent Tuesday night.
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Pennsylvania
Nixon outlines executive privilege limits amid Watergate probes
Nixon pledges to provide information through informal contacts to preserve separation of powers as Senate Judiciary Committee seeks John Dean testimony on Watergate. He adds three new guidelines to a 1969 memo, including that former aides normally should decline formal congressional appearances.
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Nixon
Senate
Judiciary Committee
White House
John Dean
Committee
Patrick Gray
FBI
Dean
Congress
Ziegler
Fetterolf mining permit approved in Somerset County
Harrisburg AP The Environmental Hearing Board approves a strip mining permit for M. F. Fetterolf Coal Co Inc in Somerset County It rejects Meyer s dale Municipal Authority appeal claiming risk to Sand Spring Reservoir water source citing lack of proof The decision notes no proof to support the allegation
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Harrisburg
Environmental Hearing Board
M. F. Fetterolf Coal Co, Inc
Somerset County
Meyersdale Municipal Authority
Sand Spring
Lawmakers Mull Appeal of Pay Board Ruling
Harrisburg lawmakers debated appealing a Pay Board decision that cut expense accounts to 5.5 percent of a 15 600 salary. They may seek more time. the Feb 28 ruling affects 2 500 expense accounts and could raise questions about a second increase to 5 000.
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Harrisburg
Senate
Thomas Lamb
Allegheny
Lamb
Grace Sloan
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Windber Rec Center
Howard Hall
American County
Washington
Department of Housing and Urban Development
James DeBiase
Thomas Panetti
Panetti
U.S
J. Irving Whalley
HUD
Dick Cartwright
Red Cross
Nick Snitzer
Peoples Bank and Trust
Ronald Bockes
First National Bank of
W.J. Brown
Philson
National Bank of Berlin
Charlies Kaufman
Somerset
U.S. National Bank
Earl Miller
Augie Simone
Dale Waite
Ities
Ronald L. Ziegler
President Nixon
Fetterolf
PAG
Ann Landers
Staueeave
Jovee Brothers
Pdark Bein Iit
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