Raymond Union Accepts Three year Wage Pact
The Raymond Division of Associated Spring Corp workers voted to return to work after a seven week strike. Production workers approved 248 to 55 and skilled trades 26 to 5 under a new three year contract with wage increases and improved benefits. Negotiations produced changes to cost of living, holidays, insurance, and grievance arbitration, with total company cost exceeding 70 cents at peak.
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Raymond Division
Associated Spring Corp
Rex Theatre
UAW
Ross Bailey
William Helmintoller
Joseph Pitcavage
Lyle Chase
Alfred McAvoy
Bert Williams
Walter Hill
Ray Beagle
Derna Ficcardi
Lyle Johnson
Ernest Allen
Donald Gates
Robert Curry
Three Arrests After Kidnapping Of Boy In Illinois
In Oak Brook Illinois FBI agents recovered a seven year old boy unharmed after he was kidnapped as he got off a school bus Wednesday. Authorities say the child was held for a ransom of 125000. Three suspects two men and a woman were arrested in connection with the kidnapping.
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Oak Brook
FBI
Airliner Hijackers Hit Again
An Eastern Airlines Boeing 720 with 32 passengers and 7 crew aboard was hijacked en route from San Juan to Miami and diverted to Havana. FAA Miami reported the jet veered southwest toward Cuba at 9:12 a.m. EDT, with no radio contact. FBI later identified a Chicago kidnapping case involving a 7 year old boy, Hillard Willis Marks, held for ransom with suspects described as Pieter, Marin, and Marin's wife. details show the case connected to a ransom demand of 125000 and ongoing investigation in Chicago suburbs.
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MIAMA
Via.al
Eastern Air Lines
Havana
San Juan
Miami
Nassau
Bahamas
Cubs
Paul Boatman
Federal Aviation Administration
Jose Marti
Boatman
Cuba
Bill Wooten
Wooten
W. T. Babbitt
W. J. Richardson
Eastern
State Department
EAL
Key West
Chicago
FBI
Hillard Willis Marks
South Side
Daniel C. Pieter
Robert 8. Marin
Marin
Ethel Marie
William E. Marks
Marylou
Marks
Monroe
Hinsdale
Safety Memos on Ford Stereo Tapes for Safe Driving
AP reports 1969 Ford models will include sandwich between songs safety reminders on optional stereo tapes. Messages urge buckling belts and responsible driving, with Ford President Lemon E. Knudsen stating these recordings aim to improve safety and driving tone.
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wiGrnout
Henry Mancini
al Hirt
Ford
Lemon E. Knudsen
Chopped-Up Aid Bill Heads To House Action
Washington AP report on a lean $1,619-billion aid bill moving from the House to the Senate after swift passage. The measure is slashed from President Johnson’s request, with deep cuts in development loans foreign military aid and South American grants, while party lines show votes split 178 to 139.
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Washington
House
Senate
Johnson
Appropriations Committee
South
War protesters besiege Humphrey in Boston rally
During a Boston street corner event Humphrey faced hundreds of antiwar hecklers who he called people of hate while Nixon spoke to a closed circuit audience in Springfield, promising a Cabinet with diverse figures and predicting a Nixon victory. Wallace raised over 250000 at Montgomery events for his third party bid as Kennedy urged calm after assassination impact.
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Associated Press
Richard M. Nixon
George Wallace
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
Boston
Nixon
Wallace
Montgomery
Ala
America
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Kennedy
Robert
Springfield
Gallinp
Sioux Falls
SL. D
George S. McGovern
Ill
Edmund 5
Muskie
Maine
World Heart Transplants Mark 50th Milestones
Surgeons performed the world 50th and 651st heart transplants. The 50th occurred at University of Michigan Medical Center Ann Arbor the first in Michigan. The 651st happened at Methodist Hospital Houston where 14 prior transplants have occurred. Barnum 49 of Kalamazoo received a heart from a 37 year old stroke victim and is in satisfactory condition. Pfohl 57 of Jacksonville Fla received a heart from a Baytown Tex donor and is in satisfactory condition. Ten Houston recipients survive and 16 year old Yugoslavian donor recipient Vinco was reported in good condition after Wednesday surgery.
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Associated Press
University of Michigan Medical Center
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Methodist Hospital
Houston
Philip T. Barnum
Kalamazoo
Michigan Hospital
Barnum
Bernard E. Pfohl
Jacksonville
Fla
Robert Gordon Muir
Baytown
Tex
Pfohl
Dusan Vinco
Elemir
Yugoslavia
Cong Driven Back In One Battle But Also Hurt Allies
Almed forces repelled two large North Vietnamese attacks northwest of Saigon and killed 67 enemy fighters at the cost of nine South Vietnamese militiamen and 31 wounded. Other clashes south of Da Nang and in the Mekong Delta inflicted significant U.S. and South Vietnamese losses, with 24 Americans, 16 South Vietnamese dead and many wounded. U.S. pilots downed a MIG for the first time in seven weeks. an F105 was shot down and the pilot missing. Northwest of Saigon, a 300-strong North Vietnamese force attacked a U.S. camp near Tay Ninh, yielding 32 enemy bodies. A separate assault near the Cambodian border left 35 enemy dead with nine militiamen killed. In Da Nang area Marines and Americal troops reported heavy fighting and higher enemy casualties. The Mekong Delta action continued with further clashes reported.
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Saigon
da Nang
Mekong Delta
U.S
North Vietnam
Cambodia
U.S. 25Th Infantry Division
Tay Ninh
U.S. Americal Division
di Nang
Death Penalty Veteran Judge Named To Handle Sirhan Trial
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan will be tried before Judge Herbert Y. Walker, LA’s veteran jurist and death penalty supporter, with trial set for November 1. Walker, 89, dean of LA criminal judges, was appointed 1953 by Gov. Earl Warren and has ruled death penalty constitutional, including a 12 day ACLU hearing in 1967. He helped decide major capital cases and is known for firm standards of justice.
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Los Angeles
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan
Robert F. Kennedy
Herbert Y. Walker
Los Angeles County
Walker
Daryl Chessman
Chessman
Earl Warren
U.S
Criminal Courts Bar Association
American Civil Liberties Union
Geral Gottlieb
ACLU
San Francisco
University of Southern California Law School
Dist
Fred N. Howser
Swerves To Miss Dog Trucker Kills Two Boys
Franklin Pennsylvania AP report describes Gary and Terry Sanford, ages five and seven, playing near their front yard when a panel truck swerved into the yard striking them. Driver Donald Van Vol reportedly cannot talk, and authorities say he should not be disturbed.
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Trucker
Franklin, Pa
Gary
Terry Sanford
Frenklin
Donald van Vol
Mother of 15 Slain With Infant in Bradford Home
Bradford Pennsylvania police charged 21 year old Edward Lee Frederick with murder after a teenage mother Stepheny Ann Frederick and her infant daughter were found dead in their living room. Frederick, a boyfriend of Miss Spack, had been questioned yesterday. Police described the incident as the victim hit on the head with a baseball bat and stabbed in the abdomen with the bat splinter. The infant died of suffocation.
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Shadford, Pa
Bradford
Edward Lee Frederick
Stepheny Ann
Settbed
Frederick
Rixford
Miss Spack
Sparta and Corry Merged Talks Face Hard Decision
The Corry Area School join ture offers a compromise to entice Sparta Merged Schools into a proposed merger. The Sparta Merged School Board will decide Tuesday night if the plan can survive amid state rules. If Sparta rejects the compromise, Erie County’s entire reorganization could fail under Act 1245 with an 80 day deadline. The joint committee pursued a middle ground while noting the 4,000 pupil rule and noting the need for near that figure to gain state approval.
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Bill Eaton
Corry
Sparta
Erie County
State Board of Education
Harrisburg
Corry Area Joint School Committee
Corry Jointure
Atend Corry Area High School
John Mohr
Mohr
Kenneth Frantz
Frantz
Vince
Spartansburg
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