Steel Industry Modernizing Amid Wage Hikes and Demand
The U S steel industry launches a broad modernization drive to cut costs and boost output as labor wage gains and high demand push planned spending toward about 2 billion in 1966. Upgrades include oxygen furnaces, continuous casting, and computer controlled mills, with Bethlehem’s Burns Harbor project cited as the largest private construction effort. Payrolls rise with output, July employment at 613000, up from 594000 five years earlier.
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Parolee Charged in Gang Murder in Greater Boston
Robert A. Lucey 29 a Cambridge parolee charged with murder in one of 23 gangland slayings over 19 months. He was arrested in a Cambridge apartment raid for the shooting of Edward Crowell 39 found in Burlington woods July 17. Lucey held without bail with case continued to Sept. 21. State Trooper transfers include Garvin to Turnpike and Stevens to Pittsfield Lennon to Lynnfield.
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Tape admission in Kerrigan habeas hearing shocks court
In U5 District Court Boston a secret tape recording from Cambridge police headquarters dated May 18, 1961 was admitted as evidence in the habeas corpus hearing of John J. Kerrigan the Cambridge patrolman slayer. Judge Francis J Ford ruled the interview admissible despite its secret origin.
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