State Hospital Budget Sets 1968-69 Costs at 2.54 Million
The Somerset State Hospital operating costs for 1968 69 are set at 2 542 056 by the State Department of Public Welfare. Bed capacity 663 units with an average daily census of 626. Construction under way to add 230 beds in 1968. One new position proposed to reach 385 staff. Operating funds compare to 1967 66 level of 2 013 077. Revenue from patient care goes to the general fund.
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Somerset State Hospital
State Department of Public Welfare
Legislative Appropriations Committee
Department
Somerset
Texas Tornadoes and Heavy Rain Cause Six Deaths
Severe weather across Texas brought up to a foot of rain and dozens of tornadoes. Six people died as floods and road closures crippled cities from Dallas to Corpus Christi, with train derailment near Athens and widespread property damage including Midland and Tyler.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Rockies
West
Houston
Rockport
Corpus Christi
Gulf of Mexico
Midland
Texas City-Galveston
Port Arthur
Louisiana Line
Athens
Bids Open For White Cross Building In Somerset County
F R Brant of the Somerset County Development Council announced low bids for the White Cross project. William H. Garlock and Sons, Connellsville, general contractor, 498300. Electric Service Company, Uniontown, electrical, 55400. Hinkle Plumbing and Heating, Johnstown, 36150. Blaw Knox, Pittsburgh, sprinkler contractor, 47430.
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F. R. Brant
Somerset County Development Council
White Cross
William H. Garlock and Sons
State Hospital Open House at Somerset State Hospital
Somerset State Hospital invites the public to inspect its new one story facility from 1 to 4 30 p m today and tomorrow at the east end of the grounds The open house theme is The Changing Role of the Public Mental Hospital A slide film on rehabilitation will be shown in the day room several times each afternoon The milieu therapy approach uses the entire hospital as a therapeutic environment An interior decorator helped create a home like setting Bernard Thorn unit coordinator describes the new building as unique locally
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Somerset State Hospital
Bernard Thorn
Second Heart Transplant in France Dies
In Montpellier France 65 year old Elie Joseph Reynes died 59 hours after receiving a heart from a accident victim on Wednesday He never regained consciousness and brain damage is suspected The donor was Jean Claude Amarger 35 who died in a workplace accident The first French transplant patient Clovis Roblin 66 died 5142 hours after surgery
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Montpellier
France
Elie Joseph Reynes
Reynes
Jean-Claude Amarger
Clovis Roblin
Pa Official Replies To Dumbauld Call For Pitt Probe
Peter T. Dumbauld of Somerset sought an investigation into anti American feeling at the University of Pittsburgh. He had written to Gov Shafer and Attorney General Sennett after reading an ad in Pitt News. The official response was reported in the newspaper.
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Pennsylvania
Peter T. Dumbauld
Somerset
University of Pittsburgh
Dumbauld
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Raymond P. Shafer
William Sennett
Pitt
Pitt News
Trapped Miners Rescue Delayed By Water Filled Trough
Fifteen miners remain alive in a flooded West Virginia coal mine as water in the passageway delays rescue efforts. A long trough separates the trapped workers from a dry exit while pumps inch forward to lower the water level. Relatives and mine officials wait through the night as hopes rise and fall over continued pumping and planned exits.
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Holger Jensen
Associated Press
Hominy Falls
W. V
Lee B. Todd
Frank Davis
Fighter bombers pound Saigon suburb in heavy fighting
U S fighter bombers hit a half mile square area of homes in Saigon's southern suburbs as Viet Cong fighters remained in rubble. The attack followed helicopter gunships unable to silence snipers, with civilians fleeing amid rising food prices and shortages. Since Sunday allied forces say nearly 3,000 enemy troops have been killed.
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Robert D. Ohman
Associated Press
Saigon
U.S
Kinh Doi Canal
Paris
9Th Division
Hanoi
Red
Central Highlands
4Th Division
Dak
Three Killed In Chemical Car Explosion At Warren
A railroad tank car loaded with a chemical used to make tear gas exploded at Warren Car Co killing Ralph Strauser Earl Johnson and Russell Littlefield and critically injuring Philip Lauffenberger and Raymond Grubbs. Two escaped unharmed including firm president Harry Lanman.
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Associated Press
Warren, Pa
Warren Car Co
Ralph R. Strauser
Warren
Earl F. Johnson
Tdioute
Russell Littlefield
Irvine
Warren County
Philip Lauffenberger
Raymond Grubbs
Clarendon
Warren General Hospital
U.S. 6
Harry Lanman
Jack Luppa
Czechoslovakia Reports Soviet Warsaw Pact Maneuvers
Prague radio said thousands of Soviet troops near the Czechoslovak Polish border are engaged in planned Warsaw Pact maneuvers, with Prague informed in advance. Romanian sources in Bucharest reported concentration of Soviet infantry and tanks along the Danube and in Bukovina to pressure Nicolae Ceausescu as he defies Soviet leadership.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Bucharest
Russia
Danube River
Romanian
Bukovina
Nicolae Ceausescu
Europe
PSEA Sanctions Erie School District Over Procedures
In Harrisburg AP report the Pennsylvania State Education Association imposed sanctions on the Erie School District for improper procedures. PSEA president Joseph Standa said the board ignored numerous suggestions for improvements in policy procedures and organization.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania State Education Association
PSEA
Erie
Joseph Standa
Erie School Board
Boswell teen-ager named Miss Marines candidate for Armed Forces Week
A Boswell area teen-ager, Wanda Darlene Spory, was chosen as Miss Marines among eight candidates for the Armed Forces Week queen in Johnstown May 12 to 18. Spory, a Jenner-Boswell High School graduate, will report to Paris Island May 22 after enlisting in the Women Marines. The event includes a static military equipment display and the selection of Miss Armed Forces, with eight candidates representing local units and Bill Wilson as master of ceremonies.
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Boswell
Armed Forces
Johnstown
Wanda Darlene Spory
A. J. Spory Boswell
R.D
Marines
Marine Corps
Miss Spory
Jenner - Boswell Joint High School
Woman’s Marine Corps
Parris Island
S. C
Johnstown- Cambria County
Mechanicsburg
Washington
United States Navy
Company B
Showers Weather in Western Pennsylvania Saturday Warm and Cloudy
Mostly cloudy and warm Saturday with showers spreading across the district. Sunday showers end and cooler air moves in. Saturday highs reach the upper 50s to 60s with easterly winds 10 to 15 mph.
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Pennsylvania
Testimonial for Lewis Baumgardner at Oakhurst banquet
A large crowd gathered at a testimonial banquet for Lewis Baumgardner retiring county superintendent of highways. He received a plaque from the State Department of Highways Hollidaysburg district for years of service. Baumgardner also served as Somerset County Commissioner. A report will appear in Monday's Daily American.
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Lewis Baumgardner
Oakhurst
Baumgardner
Whe
State Department of Highways
Hollidaysburg
Somerset County
Daily American
Bell Telephone talks break off after 25 hours
Marathon contract talks aimed at ending a 16 day strike against Bell Telephone Co of Pennsylvania ended in deadlock over whether to install all underground cables or outsource. Bell says the union rejected its farm out proposal while both sides reported agreement on wages and benefits. The dispute centers on keeping buried wire work with union workers versus contracting it out.
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Philadelphia
Bell Telephone Co
Pennsylvania
Bell
Federation of Telephone Workers of Pennsylvania
W. W. Kinkle
Kinkle
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Tyler
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Lubbock
White Cross Construction
Brant
Somerset Country Development Council
East Main Street
C.E. Richardson
South Vietnam
Leatherneck
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U.S. Command
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Ussr
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Walter Lusko
Indiana
Wanda D. Spory
Miss Marines
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