Philadelphia Plan under Attack Across Sides
The Philadelphia Plan sparked fierce debate as black workers and civil rights groups challenge its gains in minority hiring on federal construction. Nate Brown, a 27 year old plumber apprentice, and others say the plan overstates progress while unions and contractors claim it amounts to quotas and hurts qualified workers. The program targets six trades in five counties and has faced enforcement, coordination, and transparency criticisms amid ongoing disputes over its effectiveness.
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Philadelphia
Nate Brown
Williams
Labor Department
Norristown
Carleton C. Smith
Urban League
Smith
America
Brown
Robert Robinson
Negro Trade Union Council
Widow Dirksen Urges Political Wives To Adjust To Washington
Louella Dirksen widow of Everett Dirksen advises politicians wives to adapt to husbands' schedules in Washington. She writes that flexibility faith and loyalty sustain marriages in politics and suggests seeking guidance from colleagues wives to handle press scrutiny and public life.
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Louella Dirksen
Illinois
Everett McKinley Dirksen
Washington
Three Die On Oklahoma Roads In Weekend Crashes
A pickup camper carrying 19 Mexican passengers overturned near 135 and Gene Autry Road in Carter County killing two Miguel Aleman youths Hegadio Cantus 4 and Ros dell Ivan Cuellar 9 months. The weekend toll rises to five and the year total to 419 with another fatal two vehicle crash near Alva killing Joseph Park 54 Cordell. All but four survivors were treated at Ardmore Memorial Hospital.
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Associated Press
Gene Autry
Carter County
Miguel Aleman
Mexico
Hegadio Cantus
Rosdell Ivan Cuellar
Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Ardmore Memorial Hospital
World in 1971 offer enclosed with address request
Reader is invited to enclose payment for The World in 1971 at 4.95 dollars each and send to a named address in city state. The fragment requests the recipient's name address and location.
New York Gangland Death Probed in Brooklyn Slaying
Police investigate the killing of Mafia figure Thomas Eboli in Crown Heights Brooklyn. The 61 year old was shot five times as he sat in a car, with a stolen truck and an unshot machine gun found nearby. Detectives question Carlo Gambino as a possible boss figure in the ongoing underworld war.
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New York
Thomas
Tommy Ryan
Eboli
Crown Heights
Brooklyn
New Jersey
Manhattan
Joseph A. Colombo Sr
Profaci Cosa Nostra
Little Italy
Joseph
Joe” Gallo
Genovese
Tommy
Vito Genovese
Carlo Gambino
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U.S. Labor Department
General Building Contractors Association
City Human Relations Commission
Robert Williams
U.S. Supreme Court
High Court
Office of Federal Contract Compliance
Enforcement Agency
OFCC
Atlanta
D.C
San Francisco
St. Louis
Overland Mail
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Miss Zip
Judy Dyson
Postal Service
Burlington Northern
Norman A. Ator
Burlington
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Pony Express
Washington (Ap
Dent Roosevelt
New
Everett
Joseph Park
Cordell
Alva
National Bank
Raulston Furniture
City
State
Lawton Publishing Co
Third and
Ave
Lawton, Okla
DIAL
James H. Bushart, M.D
the Association of
Richard J. Allgood
M.D
Great Plains Surgical Clinic
Gore
Southwest Carpet CO
Duncan
S. Sheridan
Lawton
Foual Housing Lender
Gore Blvd
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