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64 pages — 7 sections Vol. 112 — No. 283
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LINE OF MARCH
Sanders vows to keep on fighting
Ali funeral slated for Louisville
By KEN THOMAS Associated Press
By BRUCE SCHREINER, CLAIRE GALOFARO and BOB BAUM
LOS ANGELES — With the primary season near its end, a defiant Bernie Sanders declared Saturday that the Democratic presidential process should not be decided by party leaders and elected officials, predicting a contested summer convention against rival Hillary Clinton. Speaking to reporters three days before the California primary, Sanders showed few signs of surrender, vowing to take his bid to the Philadelphia convention in July. He urged news organizaBERNIE tions not to anoint SANDERS Clinton as the presumptive nominee through a combination of pledged delegates and superdelegates. “It is extremely unlikely that Secretary Clinton will have the requisite number of pledged delegates to claim victory on Tuesday night,” Sanders said. “Now I have heard reports that Secretary Clinton has said it’s all going to be over on Tuesday night. I have reports that the media, after the New Jersey results come in, are going to declare that it is all over. That simply is not accurate.” Sanders said by the end of the primaries on June 14 neither candidate would have enough pledged delegates to declare victory and would be dependent upon superdelegates to reach the magic number. “In other words, the Democratic National Convention will be a contested convention,” he said. Clinton currently leads Sanders among pledged delegates by a count of 1,769 to 1,501, an edge of 268 pledged delegates. An Associated Press count of superdelegates shows Clinton leading 547 to 46. Clinton is currently 67 delegates short of clinching the nomination through the combiContinued on Page A-8
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FIRE AND rescue equipment moved down Salt Street in Saltsburg on Saturday during the parade for the town’s annual Canal Days celebration. Canal Days continues today with music throughout the day and the duck race at 3 p.m.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Muhammad Ali crafted the plan for his final tribute years ago, long before he died. On Friday, his family will honor him just like he planned, with a global celebration in his hometown. A procession will carry his body down an avenue in Louisville that bears his name, through his boyhood neighborhood and down Broadway, the scene of the parade that honored the brash young man — then known as Cassius Clay — for his gold medal at the 1960 Olympics. A day after Ali died at age 74 from complications of Parkinson’s disease, a family spokesman outlined plans for Ali’s funeral as people from Manila to Louisville to his adopted home of Arizona mourned the boxing great’s passing. The family “certainly believes that Muhammad was a citizen of the world ... and they know that the world grieves with him,” spokesman Bob Gunnell
said at a news conference in Scottsdale, not far from Ali’s home in his final years. Family members will accompany Ali’s remains to Louisville within the next two days. A private funeral will be held Thursday. After the Friday procession, a memorial service open to the public will be held at the KFC YUM! Center. Eulogists will include former President Bill Clinton, comedian Billy Crystal — who has done a masterful impression of Ali — and sports television host Bryant Gumbel. The ceremony will be led by an imam in the Muslim tradition but include representatives of other faiths. Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch will represent Mormons. “Muhammad Ali was Continued on Page A-8
INSIDE • Columnist Carl Kologie remembers one of the boxer’s early fights in Pittsburgh./Page A-3 • Why Muhammad Ali mattered./Page C-1
Airport fest to feature pair of WWII planes By RANDY WELLS rwells@indianagazette.net
A pair of World War II airplanes representing types that were adversaries in the South Pacific and later became important props in TV shows and movies will headline the attractions next weekend at the annual Indiana County/ Jimmy Stewart Airport Festival. One of the warbirds represents the U.S. Marines’ top WWII fighter, and the other is a reproduction of the Japanese torpedo bombers that attacked Pearl Harbor and sank American
aircraft carriers later in the war. The Dixie Wing of the Commemorative Air Force at Peachtree City, Ga., is flying in its FG-1D Corsair. Built by Goodyear Aircraft Corporation at Akron, Ohio, in April 1945, this particular Corsair never went into combat. But it did have extensive stateside service before leaving Navy duty in 1957. The Corsair was the U.S. military’s first plane to exceed 400 mph and was originally designed for aircraft carrier service. The U.S. Navy rejected it for that role and the plane went on to be
used effectively by Marine Corps pilots flying from crushed coral airstrips on Pacific islands. Corsair pilots racked up a kill ratio of about 11 to 1 against Japanese planes. Corsairs were featured in the 1970s NBC television series “Baa Baa Black Sheep,” based loosely on the escapades of the Marine Corps’ best-known WW II pilot, Maj. Gregory “Pappy” Boyington. Mike Schneider, a coordinator with the CAF and the group’s Corsair historian, said the Corsair was sometimes Continued on Page A-8
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THE FG-1D Corsair, above, was built in 1945 in Akron, Ohio. At left is a replica of a World War II Japanese Nakajima B5N “Kate” torpedo bomber.
Crowdfunded beer pipeline to help protect medieval city By RAF CASERT Associated Press
BRUGES, Belgium — The idea may have seemed mad, but after all, the beer is called the Madman of Bruges — or Brugse Zot in Dutch. With the help of crowdfunding efforts
among some 400 Madman fans, the dream of building a beer pipeline through the Belgian city of Bruges is becoming real. “You have to be a bit crazy — like the beer — to do such a project. I just had the money for that, and I liked it. So I went crazy and gave the money to the brewery,” said restaurant owner Philippe Le Loup,
who poured $11,000 into the pipeline. Brewer Xavier Vanneste got the idea four years ago to pump beer from his Bruges brewery to a bottling plant outside of town in a pipeline instead of having hundreds of trucks blighting the cobblestoned streets of the UNESCO-protected medieval city. What at first seemed like an outrageous
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dream, began to seem possible when Vanneste started talking to local beer enthusiasts. Jokes were coming in fast, with people saying “we are willing to invest as long as we can have a tapping point on the pipeline,” Vanneste said. Continued on Page A-8
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Obituaries on Page A-4 COFFMAN, Marlyn M. “Mikie,” 81, of Massachusetts, formerly of Indiana McCLELLAND, Edna M., 96, Indiana Late death GORMLEY, Gail C. (Thompson) Sterner, 91, Ashland, Ohio, formerly of Blairsville
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