Forced To Employ 500 Unneeded Workers Labor Harassment, Wage Demands Cause Tribune's End
New York AP report outlines the World Journal Tribune collapse after eight months. Owners cited labor pressure and a 21 percent wage pattern over three years, saying the union strategy and recent disputes forced 2,500 layoffs and made continuation impossible. The merger era paper had faced strikes and talent losses since its Sept publication.
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Bertram Powers
International Typographical Union
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Scripps-Howard
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World Telegram & the Sun
Journal-American
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Printers Union
Deaths Mrs India Pearl Desmond 76 Corry area resident
Mrs. India Pearl Desmond 76 of 17 West Church Street died yesterday at 3 20 p m at Corry Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. Born July 6 1890 in Bear Lake she lived in the Corry area most of her life. She attended Edinboro State College and worked as a private tutor then at Raymond Manufacturing Co. She married George H Fox who died in 1934 and later Robert R Desmond who died in 1966. Survivors include two sons Albert B Fox Columbus and Paul B Fox Corry a step daughter Mrs Lillian Slye R D 2 Corry a step son Robert R Desmond Jr Southfield Mich a sister Mildred Johns Lake City one granddaughter and several step grandchildren and a great granddaughter Funeral services will be at Bracken Funeral Home Monday at 2 p m with Rev Walter Thoms officiating. Cremation. Memorials to the Heart Fund.
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Corry
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Raymond Manufacturing Company
George H. Fox
Robert R. Desmond
Albert B. Fox
Columbus
Paul B. Fox
Victor
Lillian) Slye
R. D
Robert R. Desmond Jr
Southfield
Mich
Mildred Johns
Lake City
Bracken Funeral Home
Walter Thoms
Columbus Congregational Church
Heart Fund
World Journal Tribune shuts down in New York
The World Journal Tribune ends operations after a 21 percent three year wage increase pattern, cutting 2,600 jobs. Circulation was about 700,000 daily and 900,000 Sunday, leaving Manhattan with two morning papers, the Times and Daily News, plus the New York Post as the sole afternoon paper. The closure ends an era for Hearst and Scripps-Howard, once linked to William Randolph Hearst Jr., Jack Howard, and John Hay Whitney.
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Scripps-Howard Newspapers
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Scripps-Howard
Notre Dame Ends 125-Year Rule With Lay Leadership
Notre Dame today shifts governance from Holy Cross priests to laymen, first among major Catholic universities to place lay leadership at the helm, signaling a Vatican II influenced reform while stressing the institution remains non secular in nature.
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Catholic Commission On Intellectual and
Maryland
All Log Chapel
United States
Johnson Busy Weekend At Texas Ranch Amid Vacancies
President Johnson focuses on filling federal court and ambassadorial vacancies during a Texas weekend at his ranch. White House details include Ellsworth Bunker’s South Vietnam report and Lynda Bird Johnson’s Colombia assignment, while a Columbia newspaper report alleges injuries and camera damage by the president’s escorts.
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Texas
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Michigan
Vietnam
Texas White House
Lynda Bird Johnson
Colombia
Columbian
Miss Johnson
Foam Company Names Engineer at Corry Plant
Corry Foam Products announces the appointment of Hubert Ei George of Ian Hiv er Mass as maintenance engineer at the local plant. A Westfield Indiana native and Purdue electrical engineering graduate of 1950 he is married with four children and has been active in Boy Scouts and church affairs in Fall River.
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Warren Faces Crisis In Code Passage
Warren Borough Council plans Monday session to decide on housing, building, and plumbing codes amid FCC advisory CAC urging delay for more study. Civic unrest grows as residents threaten marches, and Urban Renewal funds hinge on code approval.
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