First Strike at Collins Plant Marks 36-Year History
Collins Cedar Rapids plant workers strike after three rejections of proposals. The walkout, the first in 36 years, affects defense radio equipment for Vietnam and may impact Navy orders depending on inventory. Government officials note wage concerns and absence of a cost of living escalator in the final offer.
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C.R. Plant
Collins
Cedar Rapids
Dallas
Navy
Ple
Hunter
Collins Strike Shapes Cedar Rapids Economy Impact
Collins Radio Co strike in Cedar Rapids affects 6 500 workers from a 74 540 metropolitan labor pool. Union leader John Hunter notes half the Local 1362 IBEW membership are women and many strikers are second earners. Relief includes conations of food and money. $25 weekly from the international union after 15 days. About 40 picket points, with shifts reducing to 24 hours.
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Cedar Rapids
Collins Radio Co
John Hunter
IBEW
Hunter
Collins
International Union
Local 1362
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Fiftieth Street
C Avenue
County Not To Finance a Strike in Linn County
Linn county board adopts policy stating the welfare department will not finance a strike. Applicants must show inability to secure own funds while department fulfills legal duty to aid the indigent. County attorney opinion sought on classifying strikers as indigent.
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Linn County Welfare Department
Welfare Department
Henderson
Scolaro
Department of Welfare
Enderson
Leck
Papakee charged in tavern break in St. Paul
Rudy L. Papakee 18 of 1443 Third street SE was arrested Sunday for breaking into the Barrel Inn at 227 Fourteenth Avenue SE. Officers found liquor and gum outside and eight packs of gum in his possession. He was arraigned Monday with a preliminary hearing deadline set for October 26.
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Rudy L. Papakee
Third Street SE
Barrel Inn
Fourteenth Avenue SE
Papakee
Third Avenue SE
Clark Gable Stars in Any Number Can Play on TV
Clark Gable headlines the Monday night movie on KCRG TV channel 9 at nine o clock. The film Any Number Can Play showcases his gambling role in a classic broadcast.
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Clark Gable
Kcrg-Tv
How to Read Faster and Retain More
An advertisement from a Chicago publisher promotes a rapid reading method that claims to double reading speed and retention. It offers a free booklet with self-training rules and asks readers to mail name, address, and zip code to the Diversey address in Chicago for the booklet.
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Chicago
Diversey
Dept
Educators from East Iowa To Visit Area Ten
About 125 staff members from area junior and senior high schools will attend a conference at Area Ten Community College on education opportunities. Su perintendents, principals, counselors and industrial arts teachers from seven counties will participate. Counselors will be briefed on Area Ten curriculum plans for 1968 69 and a state study on vocational education will be discussed. The program includes a 3 p.m. tour of Area Ten facilities, dinner at 5 30, and meetings from 7 to 9.
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Area Ten Community College
Area Ten
State Department of Public Instruction
Sixth Street Road
Dickinson Named Superintendent at Iowa Prison Hospital
Dr. John K. Dickinson at 36 named superintendent of the Iowa security medical facility in Anamosa effective immediately. Former assistant superintendent and clinical psychiatry professor at the University of Iowa, with service in the U S Public Health Service and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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University of Iowa
The
United States Public Health Service
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Waterloo Girl Is Honored By Student Nurses
Annette Moothart of Waterloo, student at Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, named Student Nurse of the Year by the Student Nurse Assn of Iowa at its Des Moines convention for a 1000 word theme on Challenge of Change. She becomes SNAI recruitment chairman and treasurer. Norma Frye of Independence was a runner up.
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Waterloo
Mercy Hospital School of Nursing
Student Nurse Assn. of Iowa
Des Moines
Annette Moothart
Merle R. Moothart
Moothart
SNAI
Mercy
Norma Frye
Independence
St. Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing
Republican governors split over Vietnam policies amid Romney and Reagan views
Governors aligned with Johnson's Vietnam policy face dissent as Romney airs bleak Vietnam outlook on Meet the Press and Reagan denies candidacy while urging military advice. Romney may announce candidacy within six weeks. cost of a governors cruise is $250 per governor plus staff charges, with others paying $200 to $400.
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Vietnam
Romney
NBC
Meet the Press
G.O.P
Johnson
Reagan
U.S
California
North Vietnam
Congress
Virgin Islands
Cedar Rapids Mayor Urges Commission Not To Tax Lots
Cedar Rapids Mayor Bob Johnson telegrammed the Iowa tax commission asking against taxing municipally owned parking lots. Two of three members had recently voted to skip the tax. Johnson argued the plan would burden taxpayers and motorists and noted support from mayors of Davenport Clinton Dubuque Waterloo and Iowa City.
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Johnson
Commission
Cedar Rapids
Bob Johnson
Iowa Tax Commission
Parker
Davenport
Clinton
Dubuque
Waterloo
Iowa City
Iowa
Public Invited To Hear Report On Vo Education
Cedar Rapids school board invites the public to tonight’s 7:30 meeting at the Board of Education building 346 Second Avenue to hear a special report on vocational education in junior and senior high schools. Arnold Salisbury says staff will detail cooperative on-the-job courses. the session starts with the report before regular business, and bids on industrial arts and home economics equipment will be considered.
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Cedar Rapids
Board of Education
Second Avenue St
Arnold Salisbury
China blast raises negligible radiation in the U S
Oak Ridge National Laboratory reports that 1966 atmospheric radiation stayed steady and below danger levels except for a slight November rise after an October 27 Chinese nuclear blast. The increase remained beneath U S danger thresholds.
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China
Oak Ridge, Tenn
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Dudley Henderson
Board of Supervisors
Anthony Scolaro
Social Welfare Board
Board of Social Welfare
Collins Facilities
C.R
Dickinson
Cornell College
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Rhodes
Vesta
Kentucky
Bourbon
Soc
Peoples
First Ave
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