Striking phone workers clash over security issues
La Crosse Telephone strike led by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 953 centers on union security and contract terms. Two clash incidents reported with no arrests. replacement workers hired as talks stall. Police log picket line pressures near La Crosse office and at a Midway Motor Lodge bar scene.
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Leo Haag
Gary Perleberg
Century Telephone Enterprises
Arthur Carroll
Century Telephone
Monroe
Carroll
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Jay Streets
Midway Motor Lodge
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Louisiana
Gunman calls arrest a cheap shot after hostage siege
Anthony G. Kiritsis, 44, held mortgage executive Richard Hall for 63 hours and released him unharmed, then was captured on felony kidnapping charges. Hall, 42, survived with minor injuries and was returned to his family while Kiritsis awaited arraignment on $250000 bond. Police found no dynamite, only string and weighted jugs near a false explosive setup.
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Richard O. Hall
Hall
Tered Kiritsis
City to appeal ruling on forced rehiring fireman
The City of La Crosse will appeal a Dec 20 Circuit Court order to reinstate Ronald B. Rayner, a fireman hired under EEA before CETA. Aldermen approved appealing to the Wisconsin Supreme Court and potential involvement of Congress and Labor Department as codefendants.
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Jerome Rusch
CETA
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Ferdinand Sontag
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Thomas Roellich
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Dennis Kaufmann
Wholesale prices rise in January amid cold weather impact
The Labor Department reports a five tenth percent January increase in wholesale prices driven mainly by farm products textiles and machinery. The rise precedes weather effects on crops and energy which are expected to push February and year end consumer costs higher though the January gains were modest overall.
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Washington
The
Labor Department
Florida
Error may invalidate 44 years of weddings
Island Lake Illinois church faces potential invalid marriages due to border license issues. McHenry County license required though church sits near Lake County line. Many couples since 1943 urged to check licenses and reverify marriages.
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Community Congregational Church
Illinois
Catherine Colligan
McHenry County
Lake County
Colligan
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