Holiday Inn Motel Opens For Business
Somerset opens a luxurious Holiday Inn motel with 80 rooms and an 120-seat dining room. Robert Oremland serves as temporary manager while Jack Furrh rehab’s after an auto accident. The hotel features Spanish styling, extensive staff and amenities.
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Holiday Inn
Somerset
Robert Oremland
Holiday Inn Motel
Washington, D.C
Motel Management, Inc
Holiday Inns
Oremland
Jack Furrh
Kidd Keith
Cuba Charges Soldier Shot By Americans
Havana reports a Cuban sentry Luis Ramirez Lopez was killed by rifle fire from a truck near a perimeter post at the Guantanamo Bay base. Cuba claimed two hours of rifle fire from inside the base. U S officials denied the charges.
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Havana
U.S
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Luis Ramirez Lopez
Armed Forces Ministry
Ramirez
Armed Forces
Washington
Navy
Pentagon
Fidel Castro
United States
Stockpile Food Plan Seems Buried by Congress
Washington AP reports President Johnson’s proposal for a national food stockpile appears dead for this session as rural Congress members oppose a permanent reserve. Agriculture official and Rep. Quie warn farmers would fear a price control tool, while supporters call reserves insurance against shortages and emergencies.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Agriculture Department
Albert H. Quie
R-Minn
Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Freeman
Weather Outlook for Western Peninsylvania
Sunny and warmer Monday with highs in the 70s. Tuesday brings variable clouds and warmer conditions with scattered showers or thundershowers.
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Peninsylvania
Ky Regime Moves To Crush Rebels In Da Nang
In Saigon the Ky regime pressed to crush Buddhist rebels in Da Nang as riot troops kept demonstrators in check in the capital. U.S. forces reported Viet Cong losses and B52 strikes occurred southeast of Da Nang while U.S. diplomats sought an end to civil strife amid war.
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da Nang Rea
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Nguyen Cao Ky
U.S
da Nang
Henry Cabot Lodge
Lodge
Sto
Associated Press
Bob Poos
St. Louis
Tim Page
McNamara defends campus protests amid Viet Nam debate
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara defended student protests as free discussion on U S campuses even as he said protests give comfort to the enemy. He spoke at Cha tham College commencement where about 130 pickets demonstrated outside Carnegie Music Hall and his daughter Kathleen graduated. The demonstrators criticized McNamara and Wall Street influence while McNamara emphasized the essential freedom of dissent.
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Pittsburgh
Robert S. McNamara
U.S
Viet Nam
McNamara
Chatham College
Sen. J. W. Fulbright
Hanoi
Scranton Arrives in Saigon Begins Vietnam Tour
Governor William W. Scranton of Pennsylvania arrives in Saigon and meets Gen Westmoreland for a briefing before visiting Cam Ranh Bay Chu Lai Pleiku and Kitty Hawk in a multi site tour of U S Vietnam forces. He stays with Ambassador Lodge and plans to fly home via Tokyo.
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Saigon
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Cam Ranh Bay
Viet Nam
U.S
William C. Westmoreland
Westmoreland
Scranton
U.S. Air Force
U.S. 1St Marine Division
Chu Lai
da Nang
U.S. 7Th Fleet
South China Sea
Kitty Hawk
North Viet Nam
Pleiku
25Th Infantry
Henry Cabot Lodge
Tokyo
Clarion State chooses Dr James Gemmell as graduation speaker
Dr James Gemmell president of Clarion State College will address the graduating class on May 23 at 8 p m in the high school auditorium with the topic The Road Ahead He was born in Scotland earned his doctor s degree at New York University in 1946 and taught in public schools before a Penn State professorship prior to assuming the Clarion presidency in 1960 He has written two textbooks and contributed to journals He has received awards from Finland and Helsinki and served in international education roles He chairs projects on educational television and economic education with other honors noted The invocation will be by Rev Robert Doyle, with Howard Trexel introducing Gemmell and diplomas presented by school officials The processional and recessional will be conducted by Chester Singer, and the high school chorus will perform Let There Be Music and One World
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James Gemmell
Clarion State College
Scotland
Gemmell
New York University
Pennyslvania State University
Clarion
State Department
Commission On Economic Education
Finland
University of Helsinki
Finnish Olympic Gymnastic Federation
Genmell
United States Air Force
Swedish School of Economics
Helsin'i School of Economics
Robert Doyle
Calvary
Howard Trexel
Donald Rininger
Clyde E. Will
Somerset Area Board of Education
Robert C. Platt
Chester Singer
John Dice
Williams
O'Hara
Living Faith Theme For Baccalaureate
Reverend Warren K. Alnor told Somerset High School seniors to face life with a living faith. He urged intelligent seniors to seek a real faith as some may soon face death in Vietnam. The sermon was delivered to 260 graduates and their families in the Senior High School auditorium.
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Dorothy Kantner
Warren K. Alnor
First Evangelical United Brethers Church
Somerset High School
Amor
Viet Nam
Ambulance Service Fund Drive To Open In Somerset Area
The Somerset Community Ambulance Service fund drive committee meets to finish plans for a campaign to raise 22500 for equipment and staff. Heads are Thomas J. Schultz and George S. Cook with others including James A. Bochy and Col. George Cassett. Memberships and gifts aim to fund ambulances for 700 to 900 residents, with family 5 and individual 3 annual rates plus a 25 non member fee. Drive ends July 31 with re opening in 1967 for new residents.
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Somerset Community Ambulance Service
Somerset
Somerset and
Rockwood
Schultz
Thomas J. Schultz
James A. Bochy
Robert Antram
Richmond Barner
Floyd Heiple
Nancy Knepper
van Berkley
George S. Cook
Thomas F. Lansberry
George Cassett
Ambulance Association
Ambulance Association Board
Rest Homes
Edward Barnett
Dwight Coleman
Robert McClure
Ndman
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Secretary of Agriculture
Thich Minh Chieu
Defense Secretary
Gov. Scranton
S. Viet Nam
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Jenner-Boswell
Berlin-Brothersvalley
Armed Builies
Set
James W. Kimmel
James Ro
Ethel Kimmel
Stoystown
Albert Vachere
Living Faith
Ambulance Service
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