Oil Pact Ending Looms as Demands Cut
Oil industry workers reduced wage demands near contract expiry. The Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union cut 30 cents an hour from the three year proposal, while seeking a catch up 50 cents. A. F. Grospiron warned a possible industrywide strike but pressed for movement to avert a stoppage.
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Denver
Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union
A. F. Grospiron
Grospiron
Texaco
Gulf
Exxon
Shell
Atlantic- Richfield
Mobil
Phillips
Continental
the Standards
Senior Center Building Endorsed at Manitowoc Hearing
At a Manitowoc Common Council session a public hearing backed a new multi purpose senior center on Custer Street. About 50 residents attended the 30 minute meeting to discuss Housing and Community Development Act funding and project priorities for low income housing and economic opportunity initiatives in Wisconsin communities under 50 000 population.
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Manitowoc
Wisconsin
Custer Street
Elmer Johansen
Committee On
Johansen
Storm Forecast And Wisconsin Weather Update
The National Weather Service predicted a deteriorating storm system with Gulf moisture cut off by high pressure, bringing rain and fog across Wisconsin then clearing to sun in the southeast. A winter storm watch was issued for southern and central Wisconsin Tuesday night as temperatures drop to upper teens to 20s with northwestern lows around 28.
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National Weather Service
Wisconsin
Gulf of Mexico
Georgia
Belm
Manitowoc
Racine
la Crosse
Jos
Navy Enterprise group sails from Subic Bay not heading to Vietnam
The Defense Department announced the Enterprise and escort ships left Subic Bay at Batangas aiming southwest, with destination not set for the South Vietnamese coast. Maj. Gen. Winant Sidle confirmed the maneuver as a routine movement from the Philippines base.
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Washington
Defense Department
Enterprise
U.S. Navy
Philippines
South
Subic Bat
Bataan
Winant Sidle
Pentagon
Wagner to marry Mrs Cerf in late June
Former New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner and Mrs Bennett Cerf plan to wed at month end. Wagner 64, widow of Random House founder’s son, details of Mrs Cerf’s age unavailable. Wagner’s previous wife Susan Edwards died in 1963 and his second marriage ended in divorce.
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NEW York
Robert F. Wagner
Bennett Cerf
Random House
Wagner
Susan Edwards
Barbara Joan Cavanaugh Wagner
Ceri
Brown Succeeds Reagan in California Governor Inauguration
Edmund G Brown Jr was inaugurated as California governor replacing Ronald Reagan. The 36 year old Democrat, son of former governor Pat Brown, took office in a ceremony before a joint legislature session and statewide television audience.
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Brown
Reagan
California
Sacramento
Ronald Reagan
Santa Barbara
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Senate Panel Urges CIA Compliance With New Law
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged the CIA to promptly comply with a new law restricting covert operations abroad. Senator John Sparkman said the committee will likely not pursue his plan to investigate domestic CIA spying.
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Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
John Sparkman
D-Ala
Sparkman
United States
Inflation lessons from the 1770s and a Virginia peanut tale
The piece contrasts historic inflation in 1779 Philadelphia beef prices with Washington era warnings about currency value. It also recounts a Hampton Virginia reader noting a Manitowoc County grandmother who grew peanuts, recalls rye bread shortages, and ends with weather and classified ad blurbs from Manitowoc.
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Philadelphia
George Washington
Valley Forge
Washington
Dennis Hernet
Wisconsin
Virginia
Herald- Times-Reporter
Viola Thor
Hampton
Herbert Hardrath
Elmer
Arlene) Cizek
Arlene
Manitowoc
Ford Eyes Fuel Program and Auto Sales Slump
Detroit and New York dispatches report 1974 U.S. auto sales down 23 percent year over year with December slipping 25 percent from the prior year as plants close and layoffs rise. Chrysler prepares rebates of 200 to 400 dollars while Ford and GM executives forecast mixed 1975 outcomes amid energy and inflation pressures. Simon forecasts a bold energy program with personal sacrifices and possible tax cuts to aid recovery.
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Detroit
U.S
New York
Chrysler Corp
Wall Street Journal
Chrysler
Journal
General Motors
Mack Worden
Ford Motor Co
Henry Ford VI
Washington
Treasury
William 5
Simon
Ford
Alan Greenspan
Greenspan
Council of Economic Advisers
Joint Economic Committee
New Orleans
American Farm Bureau Federation
Overrides Veto On Residency Ruling To Be Appealed
Manitowoc city officials authorized an appeal to the Wisconsin State Supreme Court of a compulsory residency ruling affecting police patrolmen. The Common Council voted 9 to 3 to override Mayor Dufek’s veto. Aldermen Musial Kaufman and Kapitz opposed sustaining the veto. The appeal follows a December 16 council vote and a ruling by Circuit Judge Allan Deehr denying a vacate request.
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Manitowoc
Paul Lawent
Police Dept
Wisconsin State Supreme Court
Common Council
Anthony V. Dufek
Thomas G. Musial
George P. Kaufman
Arnold Kapitz
Lawent
Allan Deehr
Atty
Edward Hales
Racine
Hales
Supreme Court
Deehr
Only 900 Men Seek Amnesty in clemency campaign
The Presidential Clemency Board says only 900 of 100,000 eligible draft evaders and deserters have applied for clemency. It urges radio and TV stations to broadcast reminders of the January 31 deadline using tapes by Gen. Walt, Rev. Hesburgh, and Aida Casanas O Connor.
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Washington
Charles E. Goodell
Goodell
Lewis W. Walt
Theodore M. Hesburgh
Aida Casanas O'Connor
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