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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1976
Page
2
Rep Robert Sikes, reprimanded by the House over finances, won renomination in his northern Florida district, virtually guaranteeing a 19th term. The 31-year veteran defeated 96-year-old John Benton Jr. in the Democratic primary.
The national race shows Mary and Sikes on track for November ballots with strong support. Sikes exceeds 75 percent in early returns after a July reprimand over potential conflicts of interest related to his chairmanship on the military construction appropriations subcommittee. In Boston, a city bus was stoned in South Boston as tensions rise ahead of court-ordered school integration, injuring five officers and the driver, all treated for minor injuries.
DETROIT The United Auto Workers and Ford Motor Co. recessed another contract bargaining session Tuesday with no significant strides reported toward avoiding a nationwide strike next Tuesday. Ford hinted at a future sweetening of its initial offer, but UAW and Ford officials said no changes were made Tuesday.
The Dutch royal house faces a looming abdication of Queen Juliana in favor of Princess Beatrix amid a scandal surrounding Prince Bernhard. Government sources say tightening monarchy controls and the Lockheed bribery probe will reshape ties with the public.
Former White House aide John Ehrlichman was ordered by U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gessell to report to the federal prison camp at Safford, Arizona on or before September 17 to begin a 20 month sentence for his role in the White House plumbers case. He has been free on bond since 1974 while appealing related convictions.
Former Beatle George Harrison was found by U S District Judge Richard Owen in New York to have infringed copyright by using the melody of He's So Fine in My Sweet Lord in 1970. Owen ruled the act amounted to infringement though not deliberate plagiarism. Muskopf imposed fines and a suspended license. Horton earlier received early release for good behavior.
Carol Lester of Sausalito champions a bill with John L Burton to curb goose imports pointing to French farming methods. She notes geese are force-fed to enlarge livers by up to ten times, with confinement and metal neck collars amid animal welfare concerns.
Charles Kirwan McHarry longtime New York Daily News columnist On The Town died Tuesday at New York Hospital at age 62. He joined the News in 1936 as a copy boy and rose to police reporter before an Army stint. He served as a copy editor of Stars and Stripes during World War II before discharge.
Philip Abrams of San Francisco offers Lipservice a one man service charging five dollars for a single message to convey love hate good wishes or insults to someone across the room He can arrange deliveries in various languages and even offer a back calling reply option for seven fifty and three messages for twelve Abrams says the service provides tone appropriate delivery and frames it as a modern go between with light humorous competition cited against Henry Kissinger.
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