Pope urges peace amid world agitations and wars
Pope Paul VI told about 3000 sick attendees in St Peter's Basilica that the world is unsettled by agitations and conflicts, urging true peace, sincerity, justice and freedom. He spoke after a Mass marking the Voluntary Center of Sufferance's 20th anniversary and received a golden chalice from the sick. He also condemned modern mass media for shaping public opinion and distracting minds.
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Wage Earners Struggle to Keep Up With Rising Prices
UPI reports the Labor Department’s first quarter 1968 wages prices and productivity figures show hourly earnings up about 6 percent from March 1967 to March 1968 yet lagging behind a 1.1 percent quarterly rise in consumer prices. Purchasing power grew only 0.9 percent as prices climbed and hours worked fell. The period saw the largest quarterly price gain in a decade and more union contracts featuring substantial cash wage increases in year one.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Latin American journalists honor Mims Thomason with plaque
The Guayaquil Journalists Association awarded a plaque named for Jules Dubois to Mims Thomason of United Press International for service to press freedom and understanding in Latin America. Thomason could not attend. W H McCall accepted on his behalf, praising UPI for promoting regional unity and truth in reporting.
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Fitzsimmons Says He Has No Retirement Plans
Teamster leader Frank E. Fitzsimmons, chosen to stand in for imprisoned Hoffa, says he has no plans to retire. The 60 year old general vice president told Teamster magazine he will remain in the union and continue in the job for years to come. Hoffa began an eight year prison term in 1967 for jury tampering and named Fitzsimmons as his stand in.
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UPI
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James R. Hoffa
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Haightus Ashburnus
San Francisco
Reason For Communist Vote In Italy Reviewed
In Italy the Communist front vote rose to over 16 million as voters grew cynical of government, citing slow reforms and corruption. Probes show nationwide discontent driven by northern prosperity contrasted with southern poverty, bureaucratic delays, and social strains.
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City bus drivers walk off over crime fears and shift to police protection
About seventy five percent of the city's bus drivers protested by walking off last night. They say carrying change invites robberies and they demand stronger police protection as bus crimes rise.
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Washington
UPI
Nevada Courts Modernization Under Study
Citizens conference in Reno and Las Vegas will study Nevada court modernization. About 200 invitees from Southern and Northern Nevada will discuss judge selection and tenure, compensation, retirement, discipline, court administration, and courts of limited and special jurisdiction.
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Harold O. Taber
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Citizens Conference
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