Israeli Jet Fighters Bomb Arab Artillery Battle Across Jordan Front
Israeli dive bombers attacked Arab artillery as forceful clashes stretched 65 miles along the Jordan River truce line. Jordan declared a state of emergency and large numbers fled Irbed. Israel reported casualties and claimed civilian harm minimal amid ongoing fighting and troop movements.
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Israel
Jordan
Sea of Galilee
Jericho
Amman
Tel Aviv
Jordan River
Beisan
Irbed
Syria
Monessen Man Turned Over To Fayette County
A Monessen man named John Galayda 38 was turned over to Fayette County authorities after a hearing in Allegheny County was canceled He is held for a gangland style slaying of Anthony Schotchell 33 of Morgantown Virginia whose body was found Jan 25 in a Bald Aviena motor lodge truck with a gunshot wound to the head
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Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Fayette County
John Galayda
Allegheny County
Galayda
Anthony Schotchell
Morgantown
Bald- Aviena
Ead
Security Council Urgently Convenes Over Israel Jordan Clash
The United Nations Security Council was called to an urgent session early Saturday after renewed hostilities between Israel and Jordan. Jordan requested the meeting accusing renewed Israeli aggression, followed by Israel's claim of Jordanian violations of the 1967 cease fire.
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United Nations, N.Y
United Nations Security Council
Israel
Jordan
Somerset County Industry Reviewed For Year 1966
An industrial report from the Pennsylvania Department of Internal Affairs summarizes Somerset County manufacturing and employment in 1966. It lists number of establishments and production workers by municipality including Addison Benson Berlin Boswell Central City Confluence Hooversville Meyersdale Rockwood and notes continued industrial growth with 1967 data forthcoming.
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Somerset County
Pennsylvania Department of Internal Affairs
Somerset
Addison
Benson
Berlin
Boswell
Central City
Confluence
Hooversville
Meyersdale
Rockwood
Mild Weekend Weather in Western Pennsylvania
Western Pennsylvania expects sunny and mild Saturday with highs 57 to 65. Sunday will be warmer with highs 66 to 73 and variable cloudiness. Winds from the west to southwest at 10 to 20 mph Saturday and 10 to 20 mph Sunday.
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Pennsylvania
Dumbauld Named Alternate Delegate to Democratic National Convention
Peter T. Dumbauld former State Assemblyman representing Somerset County received word the Democratic State Committee selected him as an alternate delegate at large for the Democratic National Convention to be held in Chicago August 26. In November he is the Somerset County Democrats general assembly candidate.
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Peter T. Dumbauld
Somerset County
Democratic State Committee
Chicago
Dumbauld
General Assembly
Maple Queen Sally Miller Crowned at Meyersdale Ceremony
Sally Ann Miller of Friedens was crowned Queen Maple XXI by Willard F. Rockwell Jr. at Meyersdale Area School as part of the 21st annual Pennsylvania Maple Festival. Judge Thomas Lansberry praised the event and the festival’s tradition as attendees highlighted the Maple industry.
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Willard F. Rockwell Jr
Sally Ann Miller
Friedens
Maple
Meyersdale Area High School
Sally
Gale Suzanne Romesberg
Berlin RD
George Gore
Pennsylvania
Meyersdale
Lester Miller
Thomas F. Lansberry
16Th Judicial District of
Judge Lansberry
Lansberry
Meyersdale Area School
London
Somerset Area High School Orchestra
Chester Singer
Maple Sally
Williard Rockwell Jr
Queens Gale
Rockwell
Sally Miller
John C. Cross
Meyersdale Rotary
Keim
Kamp
West Salisbury
Edna Keim
George Keim Sr
Anthony Schmidt
Somerset Maple Festival Offers Family Activities in Meyersdale
Community event schedule details a maple street carnival bus tours to maple camps pony rides at Meyersdale Playground and a full lineup at the Somerset County Fairgrounds including home builders show antique car parade and a Maple Queen pageant with cash prizes and musical performances.
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Maple Street
Meyersdale
Paddytowners
Linda Underdonk
al Homburg
Meyersdale Area
Center Street
Meyersdale Area Saddle Club
Acme
Meyersdale Home Builders
Somerset County Fairgrounds
Meyersdale Fairgrounds
Maple Queen
Meyersdale Area High School
Jaffa Shrine Divisions Key Maple Parade Lineup
Three divisions from the Jaffa Shrine Temple Altoona headline the Somerset Maple Festival parade in Meyersdale Saturday at 6 30 p m along with Farmers Agricultural and Saddle Club entries and multiple marching groups. High school bands from Allegheny Cumberland Meyersdale Salisbury Somerset and county areas join the procession as ROTC units and drum corps perform.
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Jaffa Shrine
Altoona
Somerset County
Meyersdale
Farmers’ Agricultural and Saddle Club
Pennsylvanaa
Sally Miller
Jaffa
Kenneth D. Magill
Duncansville
Marshall Russell F. Burchfield Jr
Raymond D. Long
Alleghany High School
Cumberland
Berlin
Salisbury
Somerset
Allegheny Band
Maryland
Winchester
Esquire
Irwin
Tarentum Vfw Red Knights
Free States
Butler Meridian
Butler
Windber
Kittie Kadets
Potomac State College
Keyser
W. Va
IMF opens as 9 nations reject France bid on gold price
The United States and eight other leading financial nations declined France's proposal to discuss raising gold prices at the IMF meeting in Stockholm. France supported the bid while observers watched clashes between police and antiwar demonstrators.
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Carl Hartman
Associated Press
Stockholm
Sweden
United States
France
International Monetary Fund
IMF
Henry H. Fowler
the Treasury
William McChesney Martin Jr
Board of Governors
Federal Reserve System
Russians Form 4 Mile Line To View Gagarin’s Ashes
Russians formed a lengthy queue to see the urns of Yuri A. Gagarin and Vladimir S. Seryogin in Moscow’s Red Banner Hall. Brezhnev Kosygin Podgorny stood by the urns as mourners passed, while Gagarin’s widow and children wept nearby. The ashes will be placed in the Kremlin wall facing Red Square.
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Moscow
Yuri A. Gagarin
Red Banner Hall
Gagarin
Vladimir S. Seryogin
Radio Moscow
Kremlin
Red Square
Soviet Union
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Brezhnev
Yelena
Ilya
Valentina Nikolaeva-Tereshkova
Alexei Leonov
Seryogin
Novoselovo
Date Set For Pittsburgh Teachers To Cast Ballots
Judge Hester sets April 24 for Pittsburgh teachers to vote on which union will represent them in bargaining with the school board. The election follows an 11 day strike by about 1,000 PFT members as a rival 2,000 member association participates, while legality hinges on pending state legislation.
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Associated Press Pittsburgh
Jon P. Hester
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers
PFT
Pittsburgh Teachers Education Association
Fuchs
Hester
Association
John W. McCarter
PTEA
Fondy
King Plans Memphis Unity Meeting After Riots
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. cleared his schedule to organize a Memphis unity gathering after violence during a sanitation workers march. National Guard troops kept uneasy peace as one youth died, 60 injured, and 282 arrested in the ravaged city. King blamed a small militant group for the outbreak.
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Jay Bowls
Associated Press
Memphis, Tenn
Martin Luther King Jr
King
National Guard
Washington
Ures
Memphis
Spring Danger Grass and brush fires rise in dry weather
Fire danger rises as dry windy weather grips the area and debris burning by camp owners and residents fuels fires. Debris burns require supervision and cooling, with forested areas needing a forest lookout notice and fire department help to prevent blazes.
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Pennsylvania
Charles S. Merroth
U S F111A Bombing Claims Stir Hanoi Reports
Hanoi radio claims a missing F111A was shot down and that another group of F111As struck the southern North Vietnamese panhandle. A U.S. spokesman questioned the claim, noting no enemy action near Dong Hoi and no evidence of the Hanoi report.
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Saigon
U.S
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Panhandle
Ha Tinh
Dong Hoi
North
South Vietnam
Quang Binh
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Larry Stufft
Gale Hornig
Joan Kretchman
Donna Harvey
Cynthia Wagner
Wendy Woods
Patricia Robertson
James Kamalsky
John Kamalsky
Richard Berkley
Phillip Reich
Judd Landis
Mark Arnold
Wayne Petenbrink
Duane Drenner
Robert G. Long
Karen Boger
Homer S. Boger
University of West Virginia
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Vietnam
Michel Debre
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Jerry Fuchs
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