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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1971
Page
3
Local 89 of the International Union of Operating Engineers accepted a new three year agreement with Athens Bottling Co on Route 50K ending a three month strike. Company officials request returning workers contact the payroll by Sept 7 to schedule their first shift back.
Robert Paul, business manager for the local union, says a new contract grants yearly wage increases and fringe benefits including paid holidays vacations and insurance. He notes wage raises depend on lifting Nixon’s 90 day wage price freeze and adds overtime terms time and a half for Saturday and double time for Sunday. The agreement covers seniority job bidding and union security.
Athens City School District officials announce a free and reduced price lunch policy for students unable to pay. Applications with income and family details determine eligibility. Appeals are handled by the assistant superintendent. policy copies are available at schools and the clerk’s office. A note on raccoon etymology follows in a separate trivia line.
Congressman Clarence Miller announced ARC approval of a $270,619 grant to the Ohio Valley Health Services Foundation in Athens. The funds back a third year of a speech hearing and vision program serving seven counties: Athens Gallia Jackson Lawrence Meigs Vinton and Hocking.
Sarah Krasnoff a 74 year old Cleveland woman who flew daily with her 14 year old grandson across the Atlantic died in a hotel where she had been ordered to rest after a minor heart attack. Her son in law Leonard Gelfand said she died in her sleep at 1 am. The pair vanished July 9 prompting questions from attorney Gerald Chattman about missing funds and travel. Airline officials later confirmed a flight from New York to Amsterdam aboard KLM where suspicions arose over their nearly nonstop trips.
Delegates representing about 50,000 UAW members attend Athens sessions for the union’s summer leadership institute. Participants come from UAW Region 2-A covering southern Ohio and parts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia to study collective bargaining press relations union finances political action and related topics. The program opens with Ohio University official remarks and ends with Friday graduation as discussions focus on the Nixon economic plan and 90 day wage price freeze.
American Insurance Association estimates property losses from tropical storm Doria and related tornadoes at 6.295 million dollars. New Jersey leads with 1.85 million, followed by New York 1.5 million and Connecticut 1.2 million in state damage.
Relatives and friends visit in several towns including Aberdeen Zanesville Mount Vernon Cairo and New Lexington. A Methodist church reception honored Rev and Mrs Rollins with 39 attendees. Sunshine Senior Citizens planned Ohio State Fair trip. Radio TV ratio notes 86 TV sets per 100 radios in West Germany.
A group of Ohio House Republicans known as the 1219 Caucus offered to mow the statehouse lawn for Gov. John Gilligan if equipment was provided. In a letter they also urged welfare recipients to pick up their checks to save $100 million over the two year session. The signees included Rep. Robert Netzley, Rep. Donald Fraser, and Rep. Richard Reichel.
Washington reports the Cost of Living Council uses a poem to classify seafood for price controls. The verse says fish are not subject to the freeze until shelled shocked skinned or scaled, implying raw fish remain outside the cap as raw agricultural product.
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