Atlanta Transit Strike Talks Continue As City Rides Plummet
Atlanta faces a transit shutdown as management and labor resume negotiations over 61 points in a strike that halted all streetcars and buses. The AFL union demands include a 15 cent hourly wage hike and a pension plan while the company offered a raise to 1.35 dollars per hour. Mayor Hartsfield criticized the strike as unnecessary and warned against further fare increases.
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Atlanta
Georgia Power Company
Amalgamated Association of Street Car, Electric Railway and Motor
Coach Employes Union
AFL
William B. Hartsfield
Power Company
Local Events Report: Sales Return and Church Meetings
A A Tonight the Rahm Clothing Company and J M Sears resume After Supper sales. Dr Henry M Edmonds of Birmingham arrives Monday to begin meetings at Westminster Presbyterian church. Mr and Mrs Milton Lipscomb and Mr and Mrs George Wallace motor to a dance in Tuscumbia. Progress claims one of Decatur's ancient landmarks, Captain John W Jones residence at Oak and.
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J. M. Sears
Henry M. Edmonds
Birmingham
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Milton. Lipscomb
George Wallace
Tuscumbia
Decatur
John W. Jones
Oak
North Alabama Civitan
T. Stratton Jones
Jones
Russellville
Lafayette Streets and Local Road Work Meeting
A meeting is set for Thursday at seven in the morning on Bank Street to organize a day’s repair work on the Courtland road. The editorial notes suggest frugal political funding to keep parties humble. Carolee McCalla Speake announces her daughter’s engagement to Captain Louis Simmons Stickney with a June 11 wedding at First Presbyterian Church.
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Bank Street
Courtland Road
Carolina .McCalla Speake
Carolee
Louis Simmons Stickney
United States Army
First Presbyterian Church
Polio Victim Saved as Spouse Uses Can Opener to Run Pump
A polio victim, Mrs. Shirley Palmer, 27, reached Briggs Memorial hospital alive after a 10 hour hand pumped operation when her electric iron lung pump failed. Her husband Bob Palmer, 31, fashioned a beer can opener into a pump handle to keep the device running during the cross country trip from Encino to Ithaca. The couple and their art student origin in Newark New York were en route via North Platte and Omaha for a replacement unit, with fire department coordination and a planned air pump switch.
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Ithaca
N.Y
Union Pacific Flyer
Shirley Palmer
Western Plains
Briggs Memorial Hospital
Bob Palmer
Palmer
North Platte, Neb
North Platte
Omaha
Biggest Atlantic passenger load carried to date
Mobile, May 3. The largest passenger load ever to fly the Atlantic is aboard a Globemaster C-47 en route to England. Seventy five Air Force men plus a 12 member crew left Brookley Air Force Base to replace oversea personnel, with Bermuda and the Azores stops planned.
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Atlantic
Mobile
Ala
England
Air Force
Berlin
Brookley Air Force Base
United States
Bermuda
Azores
Military Air Transport Service
Brookley
Murder Charges Filed in Slaying of Accused Kinsman
Eldridge Kervin, 30, of Andalusia, Alabama, faces murder charges after a shooting described by the sheriff as self defense. Authorities say Kervin shot Berry following a knife attack, with no prior reported trouble between them before the incident.
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Andalusia
Ala
Eldridge Kervin
Berry
Rent Increase Formula Divides Landlords by Size
The government issues a new rent raise formula for landlords two groups small with one to four units and large with more than four. It defines gross income and net operating income and shows steps for calculating increases to reach targeted percentages, with examples of a small and a large landlord and notes on petition timing.
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Jones
Rent Increase Appeal Process Explained by Office Officials
A proposed rent hike requires approval by the area rent office before the decision can take effect. Affected parties may appeal to the regional office and subsequently to the national office for review and resolution.
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Area Rent Office
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