Swift's Workers Back on Jobs After Seven-Week Strike
CHICAGO UPI A seven week strike against Swift and Co ended as 17 000 workers at 37 plants returned to work Union leaders said members ratified a new agreement during weekend meetings The contract provides an immediate eight cent raise plus sixty four cents later per year Southern plants will receive eighty four cent raise over two years The company cited wage differences between Nether and Southern Swift employees as due to competitive conditions in the South
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Chicago
UPI
Swift & Co
United Packinghouse Workers
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Southern
Skin Divers Recover Relics From French Ship
Hartford Gillmen and allied divers hauled more than 1940 pounds of relics from a sunken French prison ship near Ft Adams. The finds include a 1000 pound ship bell a 430 pound anchor and ropes. Navy Coast Guard and city crews aided with a crane barge during rough seas.
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Newport, R.L
Navy
Coast Guard
Lee Prettyman
Hartford Group
F. Adams
Halloween party at Town Hall hosted by PTA
Richmond notes report an annual PTA supervised Halloween party at Town Hall from 6 30 to 9 pm with a 10 cent donation to the witch for protection against curses. Contests will award prizes for meanest track o lantern spookiest funniest and most original costumes. Fellowship notes mention a weather postponed workday and swimming at Pittsfeld YMCA. Several local residents and visitors from Wellesley Hills Upper Montclair McLean Manchester and McLean are listed as weekend guests or visitors.
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Richmond
PTA
John Rowland
Wellesley Hills
Deland Kelley
George H Fay
Chifford
Upper Montuan
Kenneth Preston
Manchester
Phiaup H Southwick
Lucius Kingman
McLean, Va
Soccer Coach Dies at 41 Mil an Milan Club Leader Passes
Eliot C Van Zand, 44, coach of the Milan Soccer Club based in Hot Springs Ath, died on a plane Sunday en route to China for a distant operation. The incident was reported by UPI and highlights the loss of a prominent local sports figure.
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Milan Daly
UPI
Eliot C van Zand
Hot Springs Ath
Milan
Chinaga
Ex Athlete Maurice Dillon, 52, Dies in Torrington
Maurice J. Dick Dillon, 52, longtime standout football and basketball player in Torrington, Conn., died Sunday at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital after a brief illness.
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Torrington. Conn
UPI
Maurice J
Dick) Dillon
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital
Soviet Schools Teach Service Says U S Priest
Providence Rhode Island United Press International reports Rev Georges Bissonette a former Catholic chaplain in Moscow from 1953 to 1955 argues Soviet education emphasizes public service while the United States should teach five times more social science than physical science. He notes American education values individual happiness and fulfillment and cites Moon rockets. Father Bissonette teaches at Assumption College Worcester Massachusetts.
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Providence, RS
UPI
Moscow
Georges Bissonette
United States
Father Bissonette
Associated Alumni of
Rhode Island
Assumption College
Worcester
Mass
Elvis Presley Hospitalized With Throat Infection In Germany
FRANKFURT Germany Elvis Presley hospitalized with a throat infection in an Army hospital progress is satisfactory spokesman said he is expected to be discharged by week’s end Doctors reportedly decided against removing Presley’s tonsils he had a similar illness four months ago lasting about a week
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Frankfurt
Germany
UPJ
Elvis Presley
Presles Stan
Dusen
Prester
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