Teamsters Strike Across Nation Shuts Trucking Lines
A nationwide Teamsters trucking strike began today with thousands on picket lines and swift shutdown risks to interstate commerce. Negotiations resume at 9:30 am after a recess as wages and cost-of-living issues remain disputed. Ford and GM warned of immediate production effects, and police report scattered violence on picket routes from Connecticut to Colorado.
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Arlington Hight. T
Teamsters
W.J. Usery Jr
Ford Administration
Taft-Hartley
Connecticut
Georgia
Colorado
Michigan
Michigan 50
Interstate 96
Detroit
Richard Haupt
Ford Motor Co
No-Fault Auto Insurance Bill Faces House Hurdles
National no-fault auto insurance advocates move to the House after a Senate defeat that returns the bill to Commerce Committee for study. Sen. Frank E. Moss says the fate now rests with the committee, which has shown no plan to hold hearings. Opponents warn states should decide on no-fault without federal pressure. supporters see it as a major consumer issue. The White House and lawyers oppose due to higher legal fees from auto accidents.
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Washington
House
Senate
Frank E. Moss
Utah
Commerce Committee
White House
Moss
House Commerce Committee
Wholesale Price Up In March Despite Farm Price Drop
Washington reports that overall wholesale prices rose two tenths of a percent in March after two months of decline, driven by higher processed foods and industrial goods. Farm product prices fell by 1 percent, with seasonal adjustments affecting the comparison to earlier months in 1975.
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Washington
Labor Department
Petition Presented in Blairsville Drug Case
Blairsville physician Dr. William S. Woods aged 67 was bound over to Indiana County court on four charges after an hourlong hearing before District Magistrate Louis Nocco. His colleague Dr. Samuel Cohen was bound over previously. both face multiple counts tied to non narcotic weight reducing drugs dispensed without proper medical examination as police and Drug Control Bureau investigated sign bearing residents backing their characters with a 43 page petition.
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Blairsville
Indiana
Louis Nocco
William S. Woods
Angelo Cravetta
Samuel Cohen
Biaiaville
State Bureau of Drug Control
Black Lick
Dr. Woods
Woods
Cohen
R. Woods
John F. Kradel
Latrobe
Dr. Cohen
Richard Gallaway
Greensburg
Chief Tammy Hawk Forecast Turns Cold Tonight
The forecast calls for cold weather with lows in the low to mid 30s. Friday should stay chilly with show flurries likely and highs in the upper 30s.
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Tammy Hawk
Obituaries of Local Residents Departed in Recent Notices
Deaths reported for John Xensey 81 of Lucerne Mines and Stanley D Lasher 24 of Punxsutawney R D 1. Mary J Neff 36 of Strongstown R D 2 and Louis Spino 92 formerly of Clymer now Detroit. Ralph L Wensel 66 of Creekside and Thelma Jane Condrick Blairsville R D 2.
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Lasher
Stanley D
Punxsutawney
Neff
Mary J
Strongstown
Spino, Louis
Detroit, Mich
Clymer
Wensel
Ralph L
Creekside
Pennsylvania Teamsters begin strike picketing without violence
Teamsters truck drivers in Pennsylvania walk off the job as a national contract talks stall. Officials vow orderly action and to protect essential shipments while warning that laws will be enforced. The strike disrupts interstate deliveries mainly of manufactured goods with limited impact on supermarket supplies.
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Associated Press Teamsters
Pennsylvania
Teamsters
Kenneth Moore
Philadelphia
Ernest Kline
Richard Peluso
Pittsburgh
National Union
Pocono Truck Plaza
Interstate 80
Bartonsville
Commonwealth
Kline
National Guard
Shapp
Tom Crane
Inter
Elderly Woman Victimized in Elderton Burglary
An 82 year old woman Elea nor Montgomery of Elderton was victimized in a planned burglary by three unidentified white females two miles east of Elderton along Route 422. The trio entered Wednesday between 9 30 and 10 30 a m while one woman rummaged the house and two kept the victim occupied to obtain water. Undetermined cash was reported missing.
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Elderton
Shelocia RD
Kittanning
Eleanor Montgomery
Route 422
House Tries Again On Pennsylvania Budget Passage
Harrisburg AP reports the Pennsylvania House reconvenes to reconsider a general state budget after an 89 to 81 defeat. Democrats argue they have enough votes to pass it, despite GOP complaints the process moves too quickly and lacks adequate funding. Senatorial action remains pending after House amendments.
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Harrisburg
GOP
Ivan Stkin
Allegheny
James J. Manderino
Fineman
Raba ‘A. Asee
Colwma
Reagan Faults Ford Policy In National Speech
Ronald Reagan continued his attack on the Ford administration foreign policy calling the nation dangerously inferior in military strength and aimless abroad. He cited Kissinger as saying the U.S. should accept a second place position, a quote Kissinger’s aide denied as false.
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Associated Press
Ronald Reagan
California
Ford
Henry A. Kissinger
Reagan
Kissinger
United States
New York
Wisconsin
Georgia
Jimmy Carter
Washington
Henry M. Jackson
Arizona
Morris K. Udall
Oklahoma
Fred Harris
Manhattan
Hubert H. Humphrey
Jackson
New York City
Harlem
Communications Workers of America
New Haven
Connecticut
Elia Grasso
Connecticut Public Information Network
Udall
Carter
North Carolina
Well Endowed Chambermaid Saved By Bust
TEIGHNMOUTH England AP A well endowed chambermaid Anna Mingo aged 18 used her bust to save herself when stepping on wood over a 16 foot drainage shaft at a hotel. The floor tilted and she slipped, becoming stuck until two men hauled her out. Her chest measurements are cited as 42 24 38.
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Teighnmouth
England
Anna Mingo
Fingerprints Found In Robbery Van In Montreal
Police probing the 2.8 million Brink's heist report fingerprints in the two vans and in the hijacked armored truck. A match is hoped within 24 hours as authorities review intelligence from a year earlier about a planned Brink's robbery. Investigators seek five men connected to the St James branch hijack, the largest cash robbery on record in North America.
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Montreal
Tony
Jean Claude Rondou
Montreal Criminal Investigation Bureau
Quebec
Ontario
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
U.S
Federal Bureau of Investigation
North America
Royal Bank of Canada
St. James St
Financial
Gazespy and Cage Stars All Star Teams Named
Blairsville’s Dalf Cavalancia named Player of the Year as Gazetteland’s basketball selections name three all star teams. Close voting left only a few ballots separating first and second team berths among area voters. A total of sixteen players honored across three squads.
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Cage Stars
Gazetteland
Blairsville
Dalf Cavalancia
Agee
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Trucking Employers Inc
Two Lick
Shakin
Xensey, John
Lucernemines
Condrick
Thelma Jane
Blairsville RD
Hall Motor Transit
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Teamsters Union
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