Taft-Hartley move may avert Avco strike
Washington sources say the federal government will invoke the Taft Hartley Act to head off a possible strike by United Auto Workers at Avco Lycoming Stratford if a new pact is not reached by midnight tonight. Six hours of talks ended with no progress as union representatives refused further negotiations and pressed for terms already offered.
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Labor Department
Washington
United Auto Workers
Avco Lycoming
Stratford
Willard Wirtz
Lycoming
Vietnam
Howard Johnson Motor Inn
Union to Meet Sunday Over Moving Van Contract Dispute
Teamsters plan a 2 p.m. Sunday meeting at their local headquarters to consider a strike vote in contract renewal talks with local moving firms Meyer's West End and Bridgeport Storage Mayflower. The present contract expires at month’s end and calls for a 75 cent wage rise over three years and a four day work week.
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Teamsters
Meyer's
West End
Bridgeport Storage
Mayflower
Weather summary for Bridgeport and vicinity
Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and possible thundershower today. Highs 60 to 65 inland and upper 50s to around 60 at the coast. tonight lows mid 40s. Sunday partly cloudy and mild. Winds south to southwest 5 to 10 mph increasing to 15 to 24 mph with gusts. Probability of showers 69 percent today and 56 percent tonight.
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Dridgeport
Peavey
Powell Inquiry Begins as Justice Department acts
The Justice Department says it has begun an unlscale inquiry into alleged wrongdoing by Adam Clayton Powell, moving beyond initial inquiry as the House ponders his case. Republicans accuse inaction and link the Powell matter to Democratic leadership, amid partisan tensions and public scrutiny.
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Powell
Justice Department
House
Washington
Adam Clayton Powell
Department
J. Herbert Burke
R-Fla
Justice
Harlem
House Select Committee
Rep
Clark McGregor
Minnesota
McGregor
Melvin
Laird
Wisconsin
Republican Policy Committee
Dr. Thomas F. Davis Dies in Hospital
Dr. Thomas F. Davis M D aged prominent Fairfield physician and former Fairfield School board chairman died at St Vincent's hospital after a week as a medical patient. Funeral services are set for Monday at 9 15 a m at Malins and Redgate funeral home and 10 a m at St Peter's church in Trumbull.
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Thomas F. Davis
Brooklawn Avenue
Fairfield Preparatory School
Fairfield University
Fairfield School Board
St. Vincent's Hospital
Malins
Redgate
Main Street
Gorham Place
Trumbull
St. Peter's Church
Classifieds and Features Page Highlights
A compact rundown of daily page contents including Classified Ads, Comics, Dear Abby, Editorials, Fashions, Financial News, Jacoby on Bridge, Obituaries, Theater News, TV and Radio, and Women's News. The listing notes page numbers for each section and hints at crossword puzzles and sports coverage.
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Dear Abby
Financial News
Jacoby On Bridge
U S Refuses Soviet Bid for Groton Built Midget Sub
The United States rejects an informal Soviet proposal to buy a Groton built midget research submarine capable of 2000 foot dives. Navy uses one off Key West under charter. General Dynamics in Groton built the subs and was told the sale would threaten U S security. State Department and Munitions Office logistics blocked export as a potential weapon.
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Washington
United States
Soviet Union
U.S. Navy
Key West
Fla
Electric Boat Division
General Dynamics
Groton
General Dynamics Corp
State Department
Frankfurt
West Germany
Munitions Control Office
Carl Bartch
Munitions Office
Defense Department
Cincinnati Man Gets 20 Days for Leaving Scene of Accident
Rowland Gaessler, 41, was sentenced to 20 days in the workhouse after leaving the scene of an auto accident. A Cincinnati patrolman reported a woman fell from Gaessler’s car, and police chased the vehicle for three blocks before it stopped. The woman was Gaessler’s wife.
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Cincinnati
UPI
Rowland Gaessler
Gaeessler
Gaessler
Heavy Trading Spurs Market Gains on Friday
The stock market rose in heavy trading in New York with the Dow up 10.91 to 59.74 and the AP 60-stock average up 2.8 to 919.3, the NYSE index up 50 cents. Volume reached 8.62 million shares as investment funds boosted buying. notable gains included Anaconda, Eastman Kodak, General Electric, General Motors, United Aircraft, and Westinghouse.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
Associated Press
Eastman Kodak
General Electric
General Motors
United Aircraft
Westinghouse
Ceiling Collapse at City Hall Print Shop
Part of a plaster ceiling fell into the City Hall basement print shop during a dynamite blast nearby on Route 25 construction. No injuries reported. Insurance reps plan to vet repairs for ceiling damage and wall cracks from months of remodeling since 1965.
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City Hall
Johnson in Surinam Dutch Guiana stop on Dallas trip
President Johnson made a brief festive refueling stop at Zanderij International Airport in Surinam Dutch Guiana on his return from the Punta del Este summit. He praised racial harmony and the hemisphere’s example of peace and democracy before resuming the 3,800 mile journey to Texas.
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Codia
Punta del Este
U.S
Ecuador
Lyndon Johnson
America
Uruguay
Otto Arosemena Gomez
Paramaribo
Surinam
Johnson
Texas
Dutch Guiana
Zanderij International
South America
Amazon
White House
Manhattan
Westmoreland warns of long war as pacification grows
General Westmoreland says the Vietnam War may last longer than expected with no clear end in sight. He cites rising Communist attacks on pacification teams and insists victory requires political and military pressure, including intensified bombing and crushed Viet Cong morale.
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Westmoreland
Vietnam
Korea
Hanoi
Penn student posts plea to marry for a year
A Daily Pennsylvanian ad by 19 year old Liz Freedman asks for a one year marriage to escape dorm life. She seeks an apartment and a friendly serious student as her husband while planning to remain a junior.
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Philadelphia
Daily
Pennsylvanian
University of Pennsylvania
Penn
Liz Freedman
Miss Freedman
Fairfield Schools Set Storm Makeup Days
Fairfield public schools will not close until June 26 and 27 to makeup snow days. Kindergarten through grade nine finish on June 26 while grades 1 through 12 end on June 27. Commencement at three junior highs is set for June 26 and at two high schools for June 27.
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Fairfield Public Schools
Board of Education
Prade
Blinking police lights ordered in Stamford nights
Stamford police will keep red dome lights blinking on squad cars during night hours to create a sense of security and reveal police presence. Chief Joseph Kinsella said the experimental program aims to reassure the public after five hold ups in the past week.
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Stamford
Joseph Kinsella
Kinsella
Mammoth Antiwar Rallies Planned Coast to Coast
Massive demonstrations against the Vietnam War loom across New York and San Francisco with up to 500000 participants expected. Police riot experts prepare for potential clashes as organizers from Spring Mobilization Committees lead marches from Boston to Harlem to Central Park and Kezar Stadium.
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New York
San Francisco
David Dellinger
United States
Vietnam
Atlantic
Pacific
Boston
Ing
Central Park
John F. Conway
Communist Party
The
Worker
New
John V. Lindsay
Wasp
Lindsay
Navy
Manhattan
United Nations
King
Congress of Racial Equality
Floyd McKisygick
Stokely Carmichael
Harlem
Marshalling Point
Kezar Stadium
Senate backs Ribicoff tax relief for college costs
The Senate voted 53 to 26 to add a Ribicoff plan to a tax bill providing up to 325 dollars a year as a credit against college expenses including tuition fees books and equipment for families with income under 57 500. The proposal faces administration opposition and likely House conference resistance.
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Washington
Senate
Abraham A. Ribicoff
D-Conn
Treasury
Senate House
Ribicoff
Winston L. Prouty
R-Vt
Prouty
Night Raid Error Kills 41 in South Vietnam
Two U S Air Force F100 jets on a preplanned night mission near Qui Nhon 23 miles northwest in Binh Dinh Province dropped ordnance on ARVN troops. Forty one soldiers were killed and 50 wounded in the incident the worst of its kind since March 2. An investigation is under way with no further details disclosed.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U.S
Qui Nhon
Air Force
North Vietnam
North
Binh Dinh
Army of the
Laos
U. S. Offic
Ky Orders Fortified Barrier Built Between Vietnams
South Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky said work has begun on a fortified barrier south of the demilitarized zone. The line will run from the South China Sea to the mountains in Quang Tri Province's eastern sector.
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Bien Hoa
South Vietnam
SAP
Nguyen Cao Ky
South China Sea
Quang Tri Province
Rookie Bosox Pitcher Narrowly Misses No-Hitter
Bill Rohr a 21 year old rookie made his first major league start for Boston and held the Yankees to one hit until two outs in the ninth. He walked five and an error allowed a runner before Elston Howard lined a single to right to spoil the no hitter and the bid for a 3-0 Boston win.
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NEW York
Bill Rohr
Boston
New York Yankees
Rohr
San Diego
Calif
Elston Howard
Charley Smith
Tunner
Labor Secretary Halts Chicago Trucking Strike
The Chicago trucking tieup ends at midnight Friday as Teamsters Unions and employers agree to halt the strike at the request of Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz. Trucks resume at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. Leaders discuss Washington talks aimed at reconciling a 70 cent national raise with a Chicago 50 cent package. The tentative national deal would affect about 450,000 drivers and warehouse workers.
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Chicago
W. Willard Wirtz
W. Eugene McCarron
Washington
McCarron
Louis Peick
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S.C
Dr. Davis
Wrep
Fairfield U
School Board
Hubby
LBJ
William C. Westmoreland
Vietna
New Rochelle
N.Y
Fairfield
N. Y
Bosox
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