Last Hour Move Averts Transit Walkout in NY
New York City averted a second major transit strike in two years after 39 hours of talks. The TA and TWU reached a two year contract giving 3000 workers pay raises totaling 11 percent and a pension plan with half pay after 20 years for workers 51 and older. The deal keeps the 20 cent fare for now and involved a mediation panel led by Theodore W. Kheel.
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Averts Transit
New York
UPI
City Transit Authority
Transport Workers Union
TWU
Lindsay
Theodore W. Kheel
Matthew Guinan
Veterans of Foreign Wars Steak Dinner Set at Post 1753
The Veterans of Foreign Wars announces a steak dinner on Tuesday January 2 at 7 p.m. at Post 1753 home 705 Las Vegas Blvd North with honored guest Commander in Chief Joseph A. Scerra on a national tour. Members are urged to attend with their wives.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Post 1753
Las Vegas Blvd North
Joseph A. Scerra
Four New Members to Join Westminster United Presbyterian
Dr J Whitfield Sloan announces the Westminster United Presbyterian Church will welcome four new members at Tuesday's meeting. The appointees are Mrs Robert McNutt Dr Ben Mason Dr Robert Smith and Richard Nuthey who will receive assignments when admitted.
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Westminster United Presbyterian Church
J. Whitfield Sloan
Robert McNutt
Ben Mason
Robert Smith
Richard Nut- Hey
Bitter Cold Topples Records Across U S
Bitter cold swept the United States from the upper Midwest to the Appalachians, snows blanketed the northern Plains and western Great Lakes, and record low temperatures were set in cities from Green Bay to Cleveland. A separate storm brought heavy snow to western New York and Montana while warm Los Angeles air allowed the Tournament of Roses parade to proceed despite chill.
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Ilinois Gas Co
Wero
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iMinn
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Minn
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Grand Teton
Jackson Hole
Pasadena
Calif
Million See Yearly Procession In Pasadena Rose Parade
More than a million people lined a 514 mile long route as the 79th Tournament of Roses Parade unfolded. The event featured 60 floral floats 21 bands and 250 equestrians over two hours with millions watching on TV. Grand marshal Sen Dirksen led the festivities as floats from multiple nations and U S states were honored. Spectators camped along the route braving 40 degree highs while fans awaited the Rose Bowl game between USC and Indiana University.
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Calif
UPI
Rose Bowl
University of Southern California
Indiana University
Lakewood
Sen
Everett Dirksen
Illinois
Louella
Jordanians Israelis Trade Shots Across River
Israeli and Jordanian troops fired for about two hours across the Jordan River. Israeli shells hit a refugee camp, killing three civilians and wounding six others, per a Jordanian spokesman. An Israeli mine injury near Gaza wounded a soldier.
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UPS
Jordan River
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Wadi Yahes
Jordan
Kfar-Rabbin
Beisan
Day-Lewis Named British Poet Laureate
Queen Elizabeth II named Cecil Day-Lewis as Britain's new Poet Laureate succeeding John Masefield who died at 91. Day-Lewis 43, an avant-garde poet and critic, teaches at Oxford and wrote detective novels as Nicholas Blake. He is closely linked with W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender.
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London
UPT
Masefield
Day-Lewis
W. H. Auden
Stephen Spender
Oxford University
Lec
Nicholas Blake
Pallintubber
Ireland
Wadham College
Oxford
Sailors Quit Ship Over Vietnam War Protest
Four U S sailors jumped ship amid protests against Vietnam policy after watching bombing over the North Vietnamese coast. Michael Lindner 19 from Mount Pocono Pa described horror in an interview with the Vietnam peace committee as the men stayed with committee members Richard Bailey 19 of Jacksonville Fla John Barilla 20 of Catonsville Md and Crag Anderson 20 of San Jose Calif.
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UPS
U.S
Vietnam
Michael Lindner
Mount Pocono
Vietnam Peace Committee
Lindner
Richard Bailey
Jacksonville
Fla
John Barilla
Catonsville
Crag Anderson
San Jose
Calif
Peace Committee
Where I Stone reveals quirky license humor and civic critique
A fragment from a town column critiques license fees and politics with jokes about bootblacks white shoes and Chevrolet tax comparisons. It notes the pattern of failed candidates gaining regulatory posts and hints at 1967 age discrimination law public law 90-202, ending with a timely remark on civic progress.
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Paul Taddey
Las Vegan
Muriel
Bernie Rothkopf
the Fiddler
Sammy Cohen
Spring Mountain
Sammy
Romney and Gandhi Hold Near Hour Meeting in New Delhi
Gov George Romney met Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for 49 minutes in New Delhi to discuss Indian US relations economic development and international issues of mutual concern. He toured Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University Pantnagar and spoke with a farmer about buying a car.
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UPI
George Romney
Michigan
Indira Gandhi
India
Illinois
Romney
Joseph Faggett
University of Ilinois
American Motors
Uttar Pradesh State
Watch The Windshield
A Longview police officer found a note on a car windshield in a no parking zone. The note apologized for trespassing saying the driver had circled the block ten times to keep an appointment or risk losing their job. The officer responded with a joking note about circling the block twenty years and not giving a ticket.
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Longview
Tex
UPI
Lown
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