Wage Hike Ends Bell Phone Strike
Philadelphia AP The Bell Telephone Co and the Pennsylvania Telephone Union reached a three year contract raising wages by 3.50 to 5.50 for about 7800 workers ending a week long strike. The pact includes a wage reopener clause and maintains dues for members who join and later withdraw.
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Philadelphia
Bell Telephone Co
Pennsylvania Telephone Union
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Afl-Cio
Bell
W. W. Kinkel
J. E. Franz
Margaret White
Pittsburgh
Snowstorm Triggers Three Car Crash on East Columbus
A morning snowstorm reduced visibility and iced roads, sparking a three car crash on East Columbus Avenue. Injured Grant L. Johnson 21 of 318 West Church Street suffered a cerebral concussion and a cut and was taken to the hospital. Damage totaled about $2,500 with Trisket and Schuster's cars costing about $1,000 and $50 respectively.
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East Columbus Avenue
Frank Carnegie
Carnegie
Richard L. Trisket
Columbus
East Columbus
Skat
Grant L. Johnson
West Church Street
Johnson
Trisket
Gerard Schuster
Corry
Schuster
Found At Last A Man Who Will Storm The Wall
Wendell Gage, owner of the Gage Music Store, buys a brick wall and adjacent lot on East Main Street north of Maple Avenue. He plans to remove brick facing, patch, and replace it, at an estimated cost of 3900 dollars by June 1. He will also grade the lot, control weeds, and may add parking for customers, aiming to beautify the area and win a chamber award.
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East Main Street
Maple Avenue
Chamber of Commerce
Wendell Gage
Gage Music Store
Gage Establishment
Gage
Theodore ‘Swanson
Tor
Lavison and Son
Youngsville Contractors
Coliseum
Rome
Nero
North Korea accuses U N of kidnapping defector in Panmunjom
North Korea charged the United Nations Command with kidnapping Lee Suk eun, an official at the North Korean Central News Agency, who defected to South Korea from Panmunjom. US officials denied the claim saying Lee acted on his own and that free citizens may choose where to live.
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Panmunjom
Korea
North Korea
U.N. Command
US. Army
George F. Shartin
Reel Command
Lee Sookeun
Central
South Korea
Charlton
Han Chu-kyong
Lee
Armistice Commission
U.S
Donald E. Chomson
Jamestown Board of Education Sees No Candidates
Jamestown faces five weeks to the annual school board election with no declared candidates for vacant posts. Incumbent Dr. Gordon Sanctuary has not announced re election plans amid widespread talk that John F. Tordoff and other prominent locals may seek the seat. In Pittsburgh, Point Park College announced it will buy the Sherwyn Hotel for about four million dollars to convert into classrooms dormitories and offices.
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Jamestown
Jamestown Board of Education
Gordon Sanctuary
College
Pittsburgh
Sherwyn
Point Park College
Community Good Friday Services Planned Here
The Corry Area Community Good Friday Service will be held in the First Presbyterian Church from noon to 3 p.m. Rev H Kenyon Leishman presides with organist Florence Flowers. Meditations on The Seven Words from the Cross will be given by pastors including Rev Ivan G Hunsberger Rev Marlin Klingenswith and others with choral interludes. Receipts support the ministerial association and church treasuries. A Children's Good Friday Service is set for 10 a.m. at the Assembly of God Church with Rev Ivan G Hunsberger presiding.
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Corry Area
First Presbyterian Church
H. Kenyon Leishman
Florence Flowers
Ivan G. Hunsberger
Marlin Klingenswith
James C. Grove
Walter J. Thoms
Walter W. Gilliland
Virgil P. Endsley
Elmer A. Ortnet
Columbus
Community
First Presbyterian
St. Paul's Lutheran
Assembly of God Church
NY Banks Move to Cut Prime Rate Across Nation
Morgan Guaranty Trust Co cuts its prime rate from 5% to 5% for top customers, signaling a possible second wave of rate reductions within two months. Chase Manhattan had already been at 5% since Jan 27, with First National City Bank reviewing the change pattern as others like Wells Fargo and Bank of California also lowered rates.
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New York
Morgan Guaranty Trust Co
Morgan
Chase Manhattan Bank
Pacific Coast Stock Exchange
Morgan Guaranty
First National City Bank
Philadelphia
First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Co
Philadelphia National Bank
Wells Fargo Bank
Bank of California
San Francisco
Milk dumping by NFO spurs vandalism at two Wattsburg farms
The National Farmers Organization milk dumping drive faced vandalism as fuel oil was dumped into bulk tanks at Richard and David Robinson farms in Wattsburg. Milk losses were reported, with detectives tracing footprints from road to barn. Other NFO actions include calls to deplete milk supply in Jamestown area and talks of price-pressure tactics.
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National Farmers Organization
NFO
Cropper
Kyanka
Corry
Richard
David Robinson
Wattsburg
David
Richard Robinson
Journal Today
Robinsons
Jamestown
N. Y
Chautauqua County
Donald Lowery
Waterford
Sherman
N. C
Mr. Big
Sealtest Corp
Lowery
Clymer Nfc
George Carutis
Chautauqua
Milk Holding Violence Continues Campaign Tactics Across Nation
A week of National Farmers Organization actions to push a two cent per quart price rise included dynamite blasts rifle fire milk dumps and public milk giveaways. Despite disruption there was little evidence of higher prices or shortages as mobs dumped milk nationwide with a 21 ton episode at Adams New York and a tanker explosion in Chapel Hill Tennessee.
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Chicago
National Farmers Organization
NFO
Adams
Watertown
N.Y
Chapel Hill
Tenn
Lafayette
Nashville
Warren State Hospital geriatrics center under threat of default
Gov. Shafer ordered the Warren State Hospital geriatrics building contractor Gevyn Construction Corp. of White Plains to remove deficient work and replace it to meet contract standards within 30 days or face default. If default occurs the contractor’s surety would complete the $8.4 million project at no extra cost to the state. The inspection followed complaints to the GSA as Robert L. Kunzig joined Shafer before his Washington Pa. trip.
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Warren State Hospital
Raymond P. Shafer
Associated Press
General State Authority
GSA
Shafer
Robert L. Kunzig
Washington
Edward Martin
Harrisburg
Gevyn' Construction Corp
White Plains
Hospital Refusal Story Retracted in Jamestown
The Warren Times Mirror and Observer retracted a report alleging WCA Hospital refused to treat a child accident victim in Jamestown. The paper published the retraction and the hospital administrator's account, noting wide nationwide circulation of the initial story.
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WCA
Jamestown
Yesterday
Warren Times Mirror and Observer
Warren
Senate inquiry cites cartel rigging quinine prices
Senate investigator Dr. John M. Blair told the Antitrust Subcommittee that an international cartel rigged and raised the price of quinine and quinidine vital to some 250 000 U S heart patients. The group controlled more than 80 percent of stockpiled quinine sold by the GSA from 1961 to 1964, with a Dutch firm paying about 21 cents per ounce while prices in later sales reached 2 or more dollars per ounce.
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Washington
Senate
Combine
U. S
John M. Blair
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee
Aices
United States
General Services Administration
GSA
South Vietnam
Blair
Subcommittee
Jury Indicts Clay Shaw in JFK Conspiracy
A grand jury in New Orleans indicts Clay L. Shaw, 54, on a charge of wilfully and unlawfully conspiring to murder President John F. Kennedy. Shaw headed for a highway trip to the Mississippi Gulf Coast with District Attorney Jim Garrison's approval. He has been free on a 10,000 dollar bond since March 1.
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New Orleans
Clay L. Shaw
John F. Kennedy
Shaw
Mississippi Gulf Coast
Dist
Atty
Jim Garrison
International Trade Mart
Garrison
Louisiana
France
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Long An
Mekong Delta
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Giotinh
Demilitarized Zone
Junction City
Warren Fireworks
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