End Strike in Memphis Ends After Abernathy Call
A 12 week strike against St Joseph hospital in Memphis ended after union leaders and rank and file voted to return to work on Monday. Rev Ralph David Abernathy announced the strike’s end Friday on the steps of the criminal courts building. He chairs the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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Memphis
St. Joseph Hospital
Ralph David Abernathy
Criminal Courts Buiding
Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership
Joseph [Purick
Rotman Catholic
Tennessee
London Hospitals Go Emergency as Flu Surges
London hospitals shift to emergency status with 186 flu and bronchitis admissions on Christmas Eve and 107 on Christmas Day. A spokesman warned against drawing conclusions from holiday figures while noting only those in true need would be hospitalized. Government reports show Britain lost 204 people to the disease in the week before Christmas, with 52 the prior week.
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London
Britain
Slaying Charge Ties Carbondale Man to 3 deaths
Illinois authorities pursue Joe Kenneth Rogers, 26, charged with murdering his wife and two others after a holiday-length murder spree. Rogers was arrested in Covington Tennessee and extradited to Illinois while a bloodstained car yielded a handwritten note claiming the killings.
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Carbondale, Ill
Illinois
Miss Case
Hagers
Carterville
Miss Levering
Carbondale
Rogers
Richard Richman
Jackson ‘County
Tenn
Tennessee
Jerry Simmons
Tennessee 14
Covington
Kenneth Roger
Riptey
Lewis Gitchell
Lisa Lever¢ing
Barb
Dwelling Condemned Fire Claims Six Lives in New Jersey
A mother and five of her nine children died when a blaze engulfed their one story apartment in Berkeley Township New Jersey. Fire officials say an exploding kerosene space heater sparked the fire as inspectors noted the dwelling was under condemnation for inadequate sanitary facilities.
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Berkeley Township
N. J
Alfreda Small
North’ Carolina
Charles Griffin
Polite
Daley Praises Youth Amid Fashion and War Critique
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley voiced sympathetic views toward young people and their styles in a television interview. He attributed youth alienation to the Vietnam era and urged understanding and patience. Separately, amateur musicians in the United States are mostly over age two, with 18.8 million under 21 among 43.2 million total, per the American Music Conference.
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Chicago
UPI
Richard Daley
Christ
Abraham Lincoln
Aelevision
Amaeur Musicians
United States
American Music Conference
Patterned kitchen linens charm with Didlifs in Iawels
Pattern 512 features six motifs for transfer with Didlifs and Lazydaisy towels to brighten kitchens. Includes 15 cents extra for each pattern for tsi class mailing and Special Handling. Send 0 Laura Wheeler at The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Needlecraft Dept, Box 161, New York NY 10011 with pattern number name address and zip.
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Filly Contein
Laura Wheeler
The
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Needlecraft Dept
Old Chelsea Station
New York
N.Y
Debate on Flying Saucers Divides Scientific Minds
Boston AP report covers a symposium of the American Association for the Advancement of Science where astronomers Dr. Donald Menzel and Dr. J Allen Hynek clash on UFOs. Menzel cautions against government funding for UFO studies while Hynek calls for careful scientific scrutiny of reports and photos.
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Boston
Congress
Hynek
Brandt assails East German treaty proposal as harmful
Bonn Chancellor Brandt denounces a proposed East German treaty as an attempt to formalize Germany's division. He reiterates a willingness to keep dialogue with East Berlin, including in his forthcoming state of the nation address to the parliament on January 14.
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Bonn
Brandt
Germany
East Berlin
Believable Notoriety St. Louis Clerk Staged $10,000 HoldUp
Fred Wittrock, a meek St. Louis store keeper, staged a $10,000 hold up of the St. Louis and San Francisco Lessies. In a letter to a newspaper he claimed the act was to gain notoriety and police recovered his gun and equipment at the hiding place.
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Fred Wittrock
ST. Louis, MO
ST. Louis
San Francisco
Freight Derailment Blocks Lines Near Montour
A North Western freight train derailed about one mile east of Montour at 3 a.m. wrecked cars sank in a pond formed by river backwaters. Four cars sank while main lines were blocked, and officials said the incident involved cost, bank, and freight cars.
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Montour
North Western
Derailment Disrupts Eastbound Line Near Montour
A derailment in western Tama County halted the eastbound line with hopes it could reopen late today. Montour is the nearest town, and officials had not yet confirmed the cause or a definite recovery timeline.
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Montour
Tama’ County
Two Die in Rescue Bid in Nikko Japan
In Nikko Japan a double tragedy occurred when two students were killed while attempting to rescue eight others trapped by an earlier avalanche. The eight students later freed themselves.
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Nikko
Japan
UPI
Public Hearing Notice on Property Sale and Easement
Legal notice announces a public hearing regarding a property described as parcel 00 and a scenario involving a highway and a public street. It lists the case file, hearing date, and publication venue Cedar Falls Cedar Rapids area newspaper.
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USA
Wiley
Peron
Janecer
Delee
Notice of Probate and Estate Proceedings
The District Court of Iowa acknowledges a probate matter for the estate of Ray, with executor named and notices to creditors. The document lists deadlines for claims, publication dates, and court actions, including the appointment of an executor and sale or administration steps. It references multiple dates, notice requirements, and involved parties in the probate process.
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Conan
Howe
Ea Gasman
Vais
Clr
Mur
Br Fowetday Suinens
District Court of the State
Awa
Hert da Cnet
Tuna
Pao
Coort
Steffan
Ilfsian
Dave 7
Soinkatar
Aida
Ballas
Smith
Esuc
Keaton
Itinen
Goaaring Carwenter
Hater
Tedor Rapids
Early Lead to Sato in Japan Election Breaks Early
Tokyo AP reports Liberal Democratic Party leaning pro American and stability taking early lead in national elections. NHK projected 274 seats with 65 percent turnout among 89.7 million eligible voters. Socialists 26, Democratic Socialists 1, Komeito 3, Communists 2, independents 4.
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TOKYO
Kisaku Sato
Liberal- Democratic Party
Japan Broadcasting Corp
NUR
NHK
House of Representatives
Democratic-Socialists
Komeito
Clean Government Party
Japan
Crisis Fund Drive Set by Lutherans
Minneapolis reports a five month program by The American Lutheran Church to raise 1.5 million dollars in 1970 through Project Neighbor. Funds target nearly 12,000 congregations from Ash Wednesday Feb 11 through June 1976 for urban social services scholarships minority student aid housing seed money. Haiti population nearly four million in 19,700 square miles described by UPI.
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Minneapolis
American Lutheran Church
Project Neighbor
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