UMW Free Medical Care Cut Back Amid Fund Strain
United Mine Workers members will pay up to 250 annually for their medical bills starting July 1 as free care ends due to financial strain from wildcat strikes. Pension life insurance and sick and accident payments stay unchanged. The move follows Arnold Miller’s reelection as union president and statements from rival Harry Patrick before the June 14 vote.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
United Mine Workers Union
UMW
Arnold Miller
Harry Patrick
Pittsburgh father awaits first hugs after heart transplant
Jim Mercuri, 29, of Castle Shannon near Pittsburgh, remains in a glass isolation room at Stanford Medical Center after receiving a donor heart on May 28. Doctors report a slight tissue rejection but ongoing recovery with injections, while his wife Diane, his two sons, and his mother coordinate visits and support from Pittsburgh area followers who raised over 37,000 for medical bills.
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Palo Alto
Calif
UPI
Jim Mercuri
Pittsburgh
Ercuri
Castle Shannon
Stanford University Medical Center
Mercuri
Louise
Jim
Diane
Jimmy
Jeffrey
Diane Mercuri
Stanford
Bernard Hrico
St. Winifred Church
Mt. Lebanon
Hrico
Louise Mercuri
Six Million Suit Denied in Homer Case
Allegheny County Common Pleas Court dismissed a $6 million lawsuit by former state Rep. Max Homer. He claimed Michael Ciamacco of Pittsburgh and his two sons framed him by persuading witnesses to testify against him on federal extortion and perjury charges. Homer accused the Ciamaccos of running gambling operations.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Allegheny County Common Pleas Court
Max Homer
Homer
McKees Rocks
Michael Ciamacco
Ciamacco
Philadelphia’s Neumann to be First U S Saint
Canonization of Bishop John Neumann to be announced by Pope Paul VI on June 19 marks a milestone for the United States. Neumann, born in 1811 in Prachatitz, built and led Philadelphia’s vast diocese, aided immigrants, founded the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, and shaped parochial schooling.
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Joseph Bernardin
Cincinnati
John Neumann
Neuman
Bernardin
Neumann
Paul VI
Philadelphia
United States
Prachatitz
Czechoslovakia
Philadelphia Catholic Herald
Michael O’connor
Pittsburgh
Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis of
Oblate Sisters of Providence
America
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Duquesne
Mt. Washington
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Pennsylvania
Flagstaff Hill
Washington
Congregation of Rites
Vatican
Benedict XV
Dorothy Day
Mother Teresa
Bool
John Nepomucene Neumann
St. Peter’s Church
Ato
Hills
Morgantown
Monongahela Boulevard
Star City Bridge
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