Auto industry starts 76s long term layoffs to drop
US automakers push 1976 model production to lift the industry from a 23 month downturn. Long term layoffs are set to fall below 9,000 by next week as plants resume output and unemployment rolls shrink. GM Ford and Chrysler announce various plant closures and shifts while American Motors plans to recall more workers for the Pacer.
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Dockworkers strike threat in Houston and grain sales debate
In Houston dockworkers refused to load ships amid a government dispute over grain exports to the Soviet Union. A Corpus Christi judge extended a restraining order to additional ships and will hear more Monday. Meany and Dunlop planned talks as unions seek favorable terms, with concerns over U.S. food prices and Farm Bureau actions.
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George Meany
Russia
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Kansas Farm Bureau
National Labor Relations Board
Earl Butz
Ford
Dunlop
Meany
U.S
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Carl T. Curtis
Bill Jarvis
Oklahoma Farm Bureau
Chicago
Teay
Auto Outlook Predicts Smaller Cars and Foreign Factories
A 1982 forecast from UPI cites U.S. car market shifts with 9 percent of domestic cars built by foreign firms in U.S. plants and subcompact models dominating sales by 1980. Predictions include gasoline above $1, Volkswagen assembling in 1979, Volvo US plant in 1977, and ongoing battery tech changes shaping production.
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Larceriziy
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Volvo
Chesapeake
Weekend Guests and Local Travels Near Omaha
Omahans hosted weekend visitors with a mix of distant and local connections. Vernon Peterson hosted Mrs. John Youngbeck of South Dakota and Diane Peterson with Ea Hanaler of Omaha. Jack Burger and Jerry Holan met in Omaha and Tempe plans followed for the Chicago traveler. several boys visited relatives in Denver before heading to Tempe to resume studies at Arizona State. Dr and Mrs Bruce Cowgill returned home, Nancy Zingler from Spearfish visited. Nina Delamore and Gertrude Ward aided Mabel Towslee at the Rest Home for her 90th birthday. John W Vitam returned to New Jersey after a stay with his mother.
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Vernon Peterson
John Youngbeck
South Dakota
Diane Peterson
Ea Hanaler
Omaha
Jack Burger
Jerry Holan
Chicago
Kirk Burger
Jerry Hannan
Tempe
Arizona
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Denver Coo
Bruce Cowgill
Nancy _ Zingler
Fernoon
Nina Delamore
Gertrude Ward
Mabel ‘Towslee
John W. Vitam
New Jersey
Murrell
Western Electric Omaha Works to Cut Jobs by Month End
Western Electric expects about 1 000 fewer employees by month end from 4300 current staff, following declines in orders for key products. By February the payroll was 3200 and a further 100 positions will be eliminated. About half of the 900 cuts have occurred. workers may apply for layoff and receive separation pay as the electromechanical switching gear and cable orders fall.
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Sid
Lepine
Jury begins Kent State deliberations
A Kent State civil trial jury of six men and six women weighs liability for 27 former Ohio National Guard officers and University officials over the May 4 1970 campus shootings that killed four and wounded nine. Testimony spanned 11 300 pages. closing arguments cite disputes over who ordered or failed to prevent the violence.
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Wuegewand
UPI
Kent State
Rhodes
R. Brooke Alloway
Kether
U.S. Senate
Kelner
Kent
Arthur Krause
Pittsburgh
Canterbury
Sylvester T. del Corso
Brown
Clarence Darrow
Stanton native judge Wenke Stanton native in Nebraska
The California Superior Court judge who ordered the reopening of the Kennedy assassination inquiry, Robert Wenke, 48, is a Nebraska native and University of Nebraska College of Law graduate, class of 190. He is the son of the late Wenke, a Nebraska Supreme Court justice from 1943 until his death.
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