Council Votes Pay Hike Amid Veto Eying Mayor
City Council approved a 40 dollar monthly across the board raise for full time workers with a 4-2 vote and a 71 dollar raise for the deputy city auditor. An additional 5 per fire call payment was approved for regular firefighters. Mayor Merril Haney criticized the measure as inequitable and considered a veto. Several council members debated returning the ordinance to committee for study and adjusting the deputy auditor’s pay.
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Fritz Huls
al Ganoey
Lawrence Ellinger
Jim Irvine
Ed Dalton
Robert Schultz
James Stewart
Merril Haney
Haney
Ganoey
Hull
Dalton
Finance Committee
Counciman Irvine
Gano
Virginia Gano
Vivian Shaw
Ganocy
Ellinger
Schultz
Irvine
Fllinger
Snowstorm Disrupts East Coast Travel With Snow Clearing
A 12 hour storm dumped up to two feet of snow from Virginia to Vermont delaying New Year events and closing airports. Washington DC area saw its heaviest snowfall in four years as roads remained blocked and parades were postponed. Railways and highways faced closures, later reopening as snowplows cleared arteries and temperatures rose into the 40s.
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Virginia
Vermont
District of Columbia
National
Dulles
Washington
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
International
Maryland
Moon
Flanagan
Nixon Signs Major Bills After Bowl Holiday Signings
President Nixon signed 66 bills in a holiday session, including a $2.9 billion housing and urban growth law to rebuild blighted cities, create public housing and expand subsidies. Other measures extend auto exhaust standards, keep excise taxes, fund interstate construction through 1976, and authorize $2.5 billion in foreign aid and arms sales.
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Washington
Nixon
Camp David
Tricia
Edward F. Cox
Harvard
White House
H.R. Haldeman
John D. Ehrlichman
Roger Johnson
Congress
Means Committee
South Viets Escort Cambodian Oil Shipments Amid Blockade
In Saigon the South Vietnamese government said it will provide armed escort for tanker ships and oil trucks bound for Phnom Penh to ease fuel shortages caused by blocked access to Kompong Som. The move allows Cambodia to import petroleum from South Vietnam via the Mekong. Meanwhile, fighting flared near the DMZ as South and North Vietnamese forces clashed for about 10 hours, with five South Vietnamese soldiers wounded by a mine.
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Saigon
Cambodia
Interior Ministry
Kompong Som
Phnom Penh
South Vietnam
Mekong
Vietnam
Associated Press
Holger Jensen
da Nang
Dmz
Abel Raps High Profits in Inflation Fray
United Steelworkers President I. W. Abel says wages lag prices and inflation stems from business profits and Nixon policies. He calls for fair 1971 settlements as contracts for containers aluminum nonferrous and basic steel near July expirations. Edwin H. Gott warns of potential large demands and a strike threat.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers of America
I. W. Abel
Abel
USW
Edwin H. Gott
U.S. Steel Corp
Kingsize
Two Outdoorsmen Survive Five Nights On Mt Hood
Dr Latham Flanagan and Dale Moon, both from Eugene, endured 87 hours in a snow cave on Mt Hood at 10 000 feet after storms trapped them. They were rescued near Timberline Lodge and listed in good condition at a Portland hospital.
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Timberline Lodge
Ore
Mt. Hood
Latham Flanagan
Dale Moon
Park Department
Eugene
Portland
14 Die In Plane Crash Near Tripoli Airport
Cairo AP reports fourteen bodies found after an Egyptian airliner en route from Algiers to Cairo crashed while approaching Tripoli airport in Libya, officials said.
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Cairo
Algiers
Tripoli
Libya
Walnut Hills Seventh Presbyterian Fire Sparks Family Meeting
The 85 year old Walnut Hills Seventh Presbyterian Church suffered a three alarm blaze early Friday causing 540000 dollars in damage with chapel and sanctuary gutted. Pastor Rev Allen Beach said the congregation will hold a family talk at College Preparatory School on Sunday to discuss rebuilding. Separate: in Greenville Ohio fire heavily damaged the former Catholic Burkettsville school in Mercer County late Friday night.
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Cincinnati
Seventh Presbyterian Church
Allen Beach
College Preparatory
Walnut Hills
Greenville
Ohio
Burkettsville
Mercer County
Here
91st Congress Nears Adjournment Amid SST Dispute
Washington AP reports the 91st Congress nears a late afternoon adjournment with the SST funding and adjournment resolution as final hurdles. Proxmire signaled support for a three month subsidy, paving passage of funding and other measures before the new session.
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Washington
Congress
Transportation Department
Neighborhood Police Teams Start Community Relations Drive
Sixteen hand-picked patrolmen led by Sergeant William Ambrose begin the first phase of the neighborhood police teams in Brooklyn's 77th Precinct. The program gives beat officers greater authority to assist residents, with Ambrose acting as the self-described Little Police Chief guiding shifts and decisions.
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NEW York
77Th Precinct
Brooklyn
Bedford- Stuyvesant
Set
William Ambrose
Ambrose
Edward Smith
Egypt Iran Soviet union plan to isolate United States and Israel
Egypt says it has been offered unlimited military and political support by the Soviet Union in a joint effort to isolate the United States and Israel. The report quotes Moscow's full understanding of Egypt's military needs and aid to counter American supplied Israeli systems. Egypt vows tough stance at upcoming Arab Israeli peace talks in New York and rejects Israel's demand for a cease fire timetable.
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Associated Press
Egypt
United States
Israel
Ali Sabry
Moscow
Cairo
al Ahram
Kremlin
Middle East
Soviet Union
America
New York
U.N
Gunnar V. Jarring
Mohammed Hassan el Zayyat
Tel Aviv
Abba Eban
Jarring
Iban
Mideast
Sohio Workers Resume Talks In Ohio Contract Talks
About 1000 Sohio workers at an asphalt plant and five refineries in Ohio resume negotiations after the two year contract expired at midnight Thursday. Workers remain on the job day to day as company and union negotiators recessed pending recall by either side.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Standard Oil Co
Ohio
Sohia
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union
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Wilbur Mills
D-Ark
Sohio
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