Ford Wage Guarantee Talk Moves amid Ford UAW Bargaining
Detroit AP report says Ford and United Auto Workers are in serious good faith bargaining with subcommittees addressing technical issues. A source notes Ford hinted at a guaranteed annual income, while the union reportedly dropped a clause against compulsory overtime at the local level. The strike has idle 160,000 Ford workers for 41 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. F. Mahan
Detroit
Ford Motor Co
United Auto Workers Union
Associated Press
UAW
Ford
United Rubber Workers Union
WRC Approves Shoreline Erosion Projects in Three Cities
The State Water Resources Commission approved shoreline erosion projects in Fairfield Milford and Stamford with costs of 100000 150000 and 40000 dollars respectively. Additional projects at Prospect Beach West Haven 50000 and McCook Point East Lyme 90000 were also approved. The next WRC meeting is set for November 20.
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Fairfield
Milford
Stamford
Hartford
State Water Resources Commission
Associated Press
Pine Creek
Silver Sands State Park
West Beach
WRC
Prospect Beach
West Haven
McCook Point
East Lyme
Bridgeport and Vicinity Weather Forecast Summary
Considerable cloudiness and mild today with high 63 to 70. Rain likely tonight and tomorrow with 30 percent today and 60 percent tonight. Winds southwest 10 to 15 mph. Temperatures: high yesterday 70, low 53. Precip yesterday 0.00, month 0.35. Almanac notes sunset 6:10 p.m. Tuesday October 17.
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U.S
Bridgeport
Soviet Spy Boss Defects as Two West German Rings Are Crashed
In Bonn a KGB official, Lt. Col. Yevgeniy Runge, defected to the United States, enabling German authorities to arrest four Germans linked to two spy rings. One ring operated in the West German Foreign Ministry and another in the French Embassy. a secretary in Bonn later killed herself in her cell. The rings reportedly supplied Russia with high level secrets, while Suetterlin and her associates faced charges and investigation continued.
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Bonn
Germany
United States
Foreign Ministry
State Department
Washington
Yevgeniy Yevgeniyevich Runge
KGB
Runge
U.S
West Germany
Leonore Suetterlin
Heinz
Leopold Pieschel
Martin Margerat
Pieschel
Ludwig Martin
Karlsruhe
Martin
Suetterlin
Stratford Council Rejects Buy Option on Teen Center
The Stratford Town Council with an 83 Republican majority rejected Craig Realty’s offer to sell the old Post Office building at Main and Broadbridge for 180000 to become a teen center. The panel authorized the purchase of the Roberts Rouge plant on Longbrook Avenue up to 166000 for possible Police Court and senior housing use.
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Stratford Town Council
Craig Realty Company
Main Street
Broadbridge Avenue
Richard E. Blake
Roberts Rouge
Longbrook Avenue
Longbrook Park
Police Building Committee
Stratford Housing Authority
Police Committee
Housing Authority
Town Hall
Harry B. Flood
Chapel Street
Wooster Junior High School
Housatonic Community College
Study Pushes on Cutting Cop Residence Rule
The Common Council, by resolution from Aldermen Paul K. Ryan and Edward E. Lesko, asks the Civil Service commission to reduce the patrolman residence requirement in Bridgeport from three years to one. The Council backs a Stratford partnership to fix Silver Street drainage, creates 13 new jobs in Police and Education, and approves 87 street lights including 66 for downtown.
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Common Council
Paul K. Ryan
Edward E. Lesko
Civil Service Commission
Bridgeport
Stratford
Silver Street
Curran
Ryan
Lesko
Joseph T. Kasper
Wesley Cronk
Bond Case Pair Indicted on New Plotting Charge
Two New Haven men already charged with transporting stolen bonds across state lines face a new indictment for conspiracy. Gennaro Coppola, 55, and John Connell y, 48, were linked to a $2 million securities theft from Newburger and Loeb in October 1966. Court records show the追加 conspiracy count alongside ongoing trial proceedings.
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NEW Haven
Gennaro J. Coppola
John W. Connelly
New York
Connecticut
Wall Street
Newburger and Loeb
New Indlet
Moon Occults Saturn Visible Over New York at Night
A rare occultation hid Saturn behind the moon for about an hour over eastern skies. Hayden Planetarium astronomers noted the event was observable only with binoculars or a telescope from 7 47 p m to 8 53 p m Monday night above New York City.
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New York
Saturn
Hayden Planetarium
Shots Fired at Steel Hauling Truck on Pike
Westport police and state troopers hunted three men in a late model convertible after three shots were fired at the cab of a steel hauling truck eastbound on the Connecticut Turnpike. The driver was uninjured. the vehicle was en route from Sparrow Point Maryland to Waterbury. Authorities issued an all unit alert to locate the car and its occupants.
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Westport
Connecticut
Norwalk
Sparrow Point
Waterbury
Edly
Wordin Avenue Turnpike
Bridgeport
Youths Protest Vietnam War Across Nation and World
Americans demonstrated coast to coast against the Vietnam war with mass draft card burnings and efforts to halt inductions. In Boston 70 cards burned and 220 surrendered. 300 protested in New York. Jean Baez among those arrested in Oakland. demonstrations also in Philadelphia Ithaca London and Boston. The Viet Cong urged stronger U S protest and solidarity with antiwar groups.
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Associated Press
Joan Baez
Oakland
Calif
Jean Baez
New York
London
Boston
New England
V.C
Hanoi
Vietnam News
South Vietnam
U.S
New York City
All Weather Plane Raid Goal Sought
Saigon AP United States military leaders pressed to strike in any weather with a plan to turn loose targets in North Vietnam. 7th Fleet commander Vice Admiral Hyland said political factors limit full action though more targets are removed from restrictions. Navy jets hit Haiphong area barracks and near the Kien An bridge while B52s pummeled DMZ zones to aid Marines at Con Thien.
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Saigon
7Th Fleet
North Vietnam
U.S. Navy
Haiphong
Kien An
Adm
John J. Hyland Jr
South Vietnam
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Con Thien
Dmz
Pleiku City
Pentagon
U.S. Battle Dead in Viet This Year More Than Double S. Viet's Regulars
The report shows American casualties soaring past Vietnamese regulars this year. Through early October 1967, 1,092 U.S. troops were killed versus about 3,200 Vietnamese regulars, with the gap widening as the war unfolds.
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U.S
Viet
S. Viet
Regu
Saigon
Massive Fires Join Coast West of Los Angeles
Two large brushfires merged to form a 20 000 acre blaze stretching 10 miles northwest of Los Angeles. About 700 firefighters used bulldozers shovels and water dropping helicopters to fight the flames as residents evacuated homes in Ventura County Thousand Oaks and nearby areas.
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Los Angeles
Ventura County
Kevington
Thousand Oaks
Ientities
Meadows
Conejo
Los Angeles County Fire Department
Catholics Call to End Pledge For Children of Mixed Marriages
Vatican synod debate on mixed marriages drew strong denials and a push to drop the church demand. Bishops and lay leaders criticized the promises about children of mixed unions as irrelevant or worse and urged reconsideration.
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Vatican City
Christian Unity
Don- Justin
Darma Ingress
Indonesia
$2.85 Billion Budget Cut Approved
The House Appropriations Committee approved a $2.85 billion reduction in President Johnsons budget with Republicans pressing for deeper quicker cuts. The measure accompanies an emergency funding bill to cover a month for agencies awaiting regular appropriations.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Johnson
House
Senate
Frank T. Bow
Ohio
Melvin R. Laird
Wisconsin
House Republican Conference
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Portland
Oregon
Hook
Brent
By Peter Rehak
Berlin
Piesche
Council
Stratford ‘Buy’ of Teen Center
Telegram
Abby
Brandstadt
M.D
Peeteeee
Polly’s
Sylvia Porter Sheer
Pike
N. Viet
Navy
John T. Wheeler
Sai- Siete Leese
U.S. Army
Wavtes
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