GM profits soar to a record 909 million in April June quarter
General Motors posted a quarterly profit of 909 million dollars for April through June, a 173 percent jump from a year earlier and the highest quarterly figure ever by an industrial company. Sales reached 12.5 billion, with 2.37 million vehicles moved, while analysts eyed a 935 to 950 million forecast.
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40 Percent of Nation's Miners Idle Amid UMW Strike
President Miller met secretly with West Virginia miners and union leaders as a 10 day wildcat strike spread to a fourth state. About 40 percent of the 150,000 soft coal miners are idle, with 105 Norfolk and Western mines affected and some Pennsylvania mines closing. The steel industry reports ample coal stock for about three months.
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Bethlehem Steel
United Mine Workers District 6
Cannery Workers Vote on Pact Slowdown at Airports
Across the nation air traffic controllers threaten a work by the book slowdown delaying flights as rubber, cannery, and coal strikes ripple through California Washington and West Virginia. The controller action follows a pay reclassification dispute and comes as rubber talks resume with limited progress.
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Washington
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Goodyear
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Great Loss Admitted After Northeast China Quake
The Chinese Communist party acknowledged great losses of life and property after a major quake in Tangshan and surrounding areas east of Peking. Details on casualties and damages were not provided, with aftershocks continuing and authorities urging relief efforts.
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Religious Schools Win In Top Court
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled 6 0 that state Board of Education standards violate religious freedom in cases involving six parents who kept children in a nonpublic religious school. The decision favors religious liberty when beliefs are truly held and state rules infringe on free exercise. The ruling may prompt separate standards for religious schools and could affect public school requirements and busing policy.
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Bradford
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Martin Essex
Essex
Unbalanced diets linked to cancer warns congress
Five scientists told Congress that imbalanced or excessive diets are linked with a large share of cancer cases, especially breast and colon cancer in women and men. They urged broad dietary modification while avoiding specific food brand judgments, and noted smoking remains the single clearest cancer risk.
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City still hauling as Athens faces landfill closure
Athens plans to end its landfill use but will continue garbage hauling as closure nears. County funds for County Road 23 bypass appear unlikely with Clyde Bronson citing a $1 million shortfall. Medicaid funding remains under study after lawmakers questioned Rhodes plan. State corrections seeks $7 million more by July 1 with scrutiny on facility recommendations.
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Clyde Bronson
Columbus
State Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections
Two Schoenfeld Brothers Arrested in Chowchilla Case
James Schoenfeld was arrested in Menlo Park as the Chowchilla kidnapping case expands with his brother already in custody. The report notes a separate federal court action blocking a $1.5 billion natural gas rate hike and mentions Viking Mars dirt being collected in Pasadena for life-detection analysis.
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James Schoenfeld
Menlo Park
Washington
Federal Power Commission
Weather outlook calls for light showers tonight
Partly cloudy conditions with a 30 percent chance of showers tonight and a 10 percent chance Friday. Lows will be in the mid 60s with Friday seeing highs in the mid to upper 80s. Page 17 Editorial.
Two-Month Rebuild Slated After Hudson Bridge Crash
An Ohio Turnpike official says it will take at least two months to rebuild a bridge destroyed in a flaming crash on Wednesday. The tanker driver, Robert Ainsley Jr., 32, of Cortland, died after his vehicle breached a guard rail and landed below the westbound span in Portage County. Police speculate sleepiness or vision issues may have caused the crash.
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Joseph Goray
Robert Ainsley Jr
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