Trucker vote on compromise plan fuels steel strike
Truckers across eight states vote on a compromise to end the steel shipment stoppage. Local ballots show mixed results with Cleveland area approving while Somerset and Pittsburgh regions lean against. The plan would pay independents $13.70 per hour after four hours waiting with firms receiving $2.70. earlier two hour free waiting time with $10 after.
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Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Somerset
David Haugh
Pennsylvania
Haugh
Hart
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Teamsters
Gary
Ind
Pentagon antiwar march to stage near Defense Department
AP reports up to 170000 protesters planned to march on the Pentagon as part of a weeklong antiwar series. Authorities flew in 6000 troops with 20000 more on standby to ensure peaceful demonstrations while draft cards were presented to the Justice Department but not accepted. Reverend William Coffin Jr. criticized the response as derelict and urged peaceful conduct.
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Washington
Pentagon
Defense Department
U.S
Vietnam
Justice
Justice Department
Department
FBI
William Coffin Jr
Yale University
Dave Dellinger
Warren Christopher
War on Poverty Bill Shifts Control to Local Governments
House Education and Labor Committee approves a two year extension of OEO antipoverty programs at 2.06 billion while adding a local control amendment designating state or local governments as official distributors of funds. An additional measure would bar antipoverty workers from voter registration drives. Months of committee strife suggest further debate when the full House acts in two to three weeks.
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Washington
House Education and Labor Committee
Office of Economic Opportunity
House Committee
OEO
Edith Green
D-Ore
OFO
House
Governor Intervenes to Reopen Boy's Popsicle Stand
Florida Governor Claude Kirk orders a health-restricted reopening of Billy Churchill's sidewalk popsicle stand in Satellite Beach. He will be present Tuesday after a telegram from Billy and his father accusing the county health director of discrimination. The issue centered on lack of a permit and no separate toilet facilities for customers, with Billy having earned 27 dollars.
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Satellite Beach
Fla
Florida
Claude Kirk
T Want
Billy
Kirk
William ¥. Churchill
T. Paul Haney
Brevard County
Health Department
Sally Church
Bombers Hit North Vietnam as Elections Loom
U S Navy bombers sank four torpedo boats near Thanh Hoa river mouth in North Vietnam. In South Vietnam, allied forces reported heavy fighting with about 300 enemy casualties and multiple engagements around Quang Tri and Quang Nam as voting approached for the new 17 member House of Representatives. Air power focused on gun positions and storage facilities while Marine outposts near Con Thien saw limited shelling and B 52s continued strikes.
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Saigon
Thanh Hoa River
Kuural
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Quang Nam Provin
House of Representatives
Panhandle
Demilitarized Zone
Air Force
Mu Gia Pass
Ho Chi Minh
Laos
Dmz
U.S
Con Thien
Wrap Up of Strike Ending Auto Pact Progress Report
Detroit AP reports UAW and Ford neared finishing a 45 day strike ending contract with large gains likely to be the richest in auto history. Key unresolved is the cost of living escalator. Reuther aims for a 1 dollar hourly value from the escalator and seeks 5.6 percent wage gains over three years.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers Union
Ford Motor Co
UAW
Walter P.reuther
Reuther
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
State Nabs Land Swiftly But Payoff Not So Swift
The State Highway Department swiftly acquired land along the Route 6 bypass but delayed compensation. Earl and Mrs. Cherry agreed to $6,000 for front-yard frontage in Franklin. They sent payment forms in October 1966, but checks never arrived. multiple follow ups by June 1967 produced little action. The case remained unresolved as reporters pursued the delay.
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State Highway Department
Route 6
Highway Department
Harrisburg
Earl Cherry
West
Columbus Avenue
Cherry
W. Glenn Rough
State Highway Departent
Franklin
William Troxell
Troxell
Cherrys
Bernard Porter
Spring Creek
Rough
Gov. Shafer
Won't Shave Beard, Teacher Resigns in Pennsylvania
Randall Stephens, an English and humanities teacher in the Shikellamy School District for four years, quit his job after a September suspension for refusing to shave a summer beard and mustache. The school board accepted his resignation at a Thursday meeting.
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Sunbury, Pa
Randall Stephens
Stephens
Shikellamy
Vietnamese Vote On Representatives In Saigon
In Saigon 1200 candidates compete for 137 seats in the new House of Representatives as 20 contenders contest some districts. Campaigns end by law at noon in four provinces and voting runs 7 am to 4 pm Sunday with results likely only by late Sunday night.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
House of Representatives
Train Clips Bus. Children Escape Injury Near Ulmers
An eight train clipped the rear of a school bus crossing tracks on a dirt road near Ulmers Friday but all a dozen children aboard escaped injury. Sheriff Strickland reported about a foot of the bus’s rear was sheared off. The children sat toward the front.
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Ulmers
A. L. Strickland
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