Labor Board meetings open with missing AFL CIO leaders
The two wage and price guideline boards for Phase 2 held their first meeting without three AFL CIO members. A federal panel ruled the Phase 1 90 day wage price rent freeze legal, while economic reports showed mixed results for the Nixon administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nixon Admin
White House
Pay Board and Price Commission
Nixon
Er Afl-Cio
Afl-Cio
Floyd Smith
International Association of Machinists
I.W. Abel
United Steelworkers
Leonard Woodcock
United Auto Workers
Prsident
Frank E. Fitzsimmons
The
Teamsters
UAW
George H. Boldt
Seattle
Dan C. Jackson Grayson Jr
Southern Methodist University
Business School
Plum Island opens briefly amid secrecy and alarms
A rare public tour of Plum Island in Long Island Sound reveals a U S Department of Agriculture lab housing dangerous animal diseases. Guards, strict decontamination, and prohibitions underline the island’s isolation and pestilence concerns while officials stress disease control research.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plum Island
Long Island Sound
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S
Civil rights attorney seeks end to racially identifiable neighborhoods
John Walker, a civil rights lawyer in Little Rock, argues that once racially identifiable schools were desegregated the city must also be resegregation free. He plans suits to halt racially targeted housing projects and push HUD to place developments citywide, uniting the community after busing and school integration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock, Ark
Little Rock
Walker
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Weather outlook for tonight and Sunday
Partly cloudy tonight with clearing Sunday. Lows around 50s and highs in the 70s.
Intercepted Letter Dear Cha
A fragmentary note complains about dishonesty and warns against teaching computers to cheat. The letter appears addressed to Cha and ends with a closing Yours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cha
Oakland man to stand trial in alleged theft of trade secrets
Hugh Jeffrey Ward 29 of Oakland faces grand theft charges after authorities say he used a special code and account number to obtain a $25 000 computer program from Information Systems Design ISD of Oakland He allegedly pirated the program over a telephone line from ISD and a state trade secret claim was certified to Superior Court for trial Ward was free on his own recognizance with a court date set for November 22 and ISD testified that Ward was a backup supplier to Aerojet General Corp of Sacramento
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Oakland
Calif
Hugh Jeffrey Ward
William R. Levins
Ward
University Computing Co
Palo Alto
Information Systems Design, Inc
ISD
Information Systems
Univac
Strellis
Levins
Aerojet General Corp
Sacramento
John J. Ford Jr
Aerojet
District editor explores four county notes this week
Dwight Wallingford compiles four county notes in this week’s column. He highlights local developments, community events, school updates, and public concerns across the region, providing concise briefs for readers.
Armistice Day Echoes Through Mound Valley 1918 Memorial
In Mound Valley Labette County on November 11 1918 crowds cheered as news of the war ending spread by telegraph and word of mouth. A platform on Main Street hosted speeches songs and a boy fired a shotgun in celebration. The piece notes Armistice Day evolved into Veterans Day and reflects on war’s continuing toll.
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Mound Valley
Placid Pumpkin Creek
Labette County
Valley of the Mounds
Effort Within Church to Go to the People
The Rev. Jerry Beat of St. Patrick's Church leads a push to bring church work to the public, favoring shared responsibility, pluralism of ministries, and varied worship. He notes tensions over celibacy, women ordination, and priest roles while stressing Christian examples beyond church walls. Beat chairs a priests association and engages in community work with Day Care Center PRIDE and youth programs.
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Rome
Father Beat
National Federation of Priests Councils
Beat
Earth
Odds and Ends: Garden Beans and Missed Calls
Jewel Clements, a gardener in Kimball, delivered 16 pounds of fresh beans harvested in October to a local supermarket at 15 cents a pound. In Neodesha, Mrs. Bland Cline was unexpectedly visited by guests Vesta Hoover and Bill Jones who left a note on her door and learned of a phone call she never received.
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Jewel Clements
Kimball
Tribune
Clements
Vesta Hoover
Fredonia
Bill Jones
Caribou, Me
Bland Cline
Neodesha
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George Meany
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Oth
Manuel Martinez
Randall Martinez
Ishmael Martinez
N. Garfield
Taboo Island
N.Y
John Walker
HUD
Yours
Spencer Strellis
By Dwight Wallingford
Katy
Frisco
Paris
John Rabe
Jerry Beat
St. Patrick’s Church
Galileo
Day Care Center
PRIDE
Drug Abuse Committee
Jaycees
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