Health and Welfare Fund grows for members in 1968
Oscar G. Lee reports a $25.00 per day member health and welfare benefit up from prior levels while dependents remain at $12.50. Local 177 members filed 1967 claims totaling $52,813.57 and negotiations continue across houses with a Lodge strike in Newport, Kentucky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles D. Ballard
Schaefer
Lodge
3Rd and
York Sts
Newport
Ambrose Bonacini
Holmes Hospital
Clarence Proffitt
Deaconess Hospital
Top Apprentice Bricklayer Contest at Courter Tech High
Thomas Buschle receives plaque from Jim Murphy of the Masonry Association as Oscar Willingham and Ronnie Hollstein look on. The Greater Cincinnati Bricklayers Joint Apprentice Committee sponsored the event at Courter Tech High School with seventeen competitors from the area. Bonds totaling 100 dollars were awarded by Allied Contractors Association, while Bricklayers Local 18, Ohio gave cash prizes totaling 65 dollars and sponsors a trip to the Cleveland State Contest March 9 and 10, 1968 for the three winners and Instructor Jerry Richmond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Buschle
Jim Murphy
Unit Masonry Association
Oscar Willingham
Kergs
Ronnie Hollstein
Greater Cincinnati
Allied Contractors Association
Bricklayers Local 18
Ohio
Jerry Richmond
Cleveland Auditorium
Bricklayers
Distillery Workers Chronicle Notes and Personal News
A union digest covers Audrey May’s son Randy May surviving the Saigon embassy battle reports from Life and Newsweek. It also notes traffic concerns at Nat’l Dist with possible $5000 light cost, plus traffic-light hopes at Paddock Road exit. Mentions birthdays, anniversaries, new grandchild, and members returning to work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Audrey May
Saigon
Audrey
Pfc
Randy May
Capitol Hotel
Life
News Week
National Distillers
Paddock Rd
Section Rd
Anthony Wayne
Nat'l Dist
Paul
Charlie
Bill
John Topmiller
Robert Johnson
Myrtle Louda
Eleanor Fruechtemeyer
Margaret Meyers
Mae Shelley
Harvey
Wilma
Owens
Helen Clayborn
Helen
Nellie Jenkins
Nellie
Marcella Calhoun
the Chronicle
Fantis Arms
Kay Goetz
Birdie Haggard
Ethel Harris
Almeda Keneman
Mary Medley
Shirley Rainey
Lucille Sparkman
Mardina Story
Charlene Thompson
William C. Spaw
Chronicle
Closing note to readers and a horse betting quip
The message wishes shut ins a complete and speedy recovery and previews next week’s issue. It ends with a playful line about windows and a race track and signs off for now.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Oscar G. Lee
Catering Industry Employee Magazine
Painters’ District Council
Gilligan
Lausche
U.S. Senate
Labor
Cooks’ News
By Irven Grathwohl
Roe de Sapeune Cigar Makers Union
Cincinnati
Colerain Ave
Masury
Dupont
Sanitas
Plainfield Rd
Silverton
Kenwood
Chrysler
Plymouth, Inc
Imperial
Plymouth
Montgomery Road
Kenwood Plaza
Ford
4Th St
P.O
Ford, Inc
Pres
State Avenue
MT. Airy Newport
North Bend Rd
York Street
Price Hill
Glenway Ave
Covington, KY
Madison Avenue
Spring Garden Savings & Loan Co
Delhi Hills
Delhi Road
Bridgetown
Harrison Ave
Church Lane
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