Congress Pushes Action After West Coast Dock Walkout
In San Francisco AP reports 13,000 longshoremen resumed a 24 West Coast ports strike driving ships to Ensenada Seattle Vancouver and East Gulf ports. White House seeks congressional remedy stating legislative action may be needed to end the walkout and resume work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Washington
Ziegler
Congress
Seattle
San Diego
Harry Bridges
The
Ternational Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
West Coast
Ensenada
Mexico
Vancouver
B.C
East
Gulf Ports
Nixon
ILWU
Pacific Maritime Association
PMA
J. Curtis Counts
Bridges
New Mass Of Cold Air Enters U.S.
A fresh polar air mass moved into the northern Rockies and Plains triggering cold wave alerts in several states and travel warnings elsewhere. Early readings suggested the surge would be less severe than last weekend's record subzero cold, while warming winds to the west produced 40s and 50s temperatures in many areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Rockies
Plains
Weather Summary for Hocking Valley and Plains
It is 45 degrees under overcast skies in the Hocking Valley at 11 a.m. today with a high of 40 yesterday and a low of 39 overnight. Light rain is forecast tonight and Wednesday with highs in the low 50s. Cold warnings extend from Montana to the Dakotas and Nebraska, while travel advisories include eastern Wyoming with gusts up to 55 mph and blowing snow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hocking Valley
Great Plains
Midwest
Montana
Continental Divide
North Dakota
Nebraska
Wyoming
Rhodesia Violence Continues in Gwelo Demonstrations
Roving mobs in Gwelo set fire to a movie house and welfare center as tens of thousands protested the British Rhodesian accord. Police used tear gas and dogs to disperse a crowd of more than 8 000 while other protesters stoned vehicles and vandalized property. Troops with bayonets escorted a passenger freight train as rioting persisted with no reported deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gwelo
Rhodesia
Congress Opens With Civil Rights and Foreign Aid Agenda
The 1972 Congress session begins with civil rights bills and actions on foreign aid. Senate plans a broad job discrimination measure extending EEOC powers, plus a high education funding bill. Debates on busing and voting rights for Guam and Virgin Islands delegates accompany House actions on foreign aid and campaign reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
House
Guam
Virgin Islands
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
EEOC
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Tough Trade Talk Signals Shift in U S Europe Dialogue
In Washington Rep. John W. Byrnes says the United States can no longer be a patsy in trade and must revise rules to treat Europe as a peer. In Brussels Britain and the European Common Market reach agreement on terms of entry into the customs union with Heath to sign.
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Washington
Europe
United States
Legislative Party
John W. Brynes
Wisconsin
Byrnes
House
Ways and Means Committee
Paris
Brussels
Britain
European Common Market
Denmark
Ireland
Norway
Drums of Death Threaten Cornish Waters
British authorities rush teams in protective gear to southwest England to locate and neutralize up to 1,000 drums from the Spanish freighter Gemania sunk off Cornwall. Chemicals include sodium cyanide and toluene di isocyanate.
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London
England
Cornish
Germania
Cornwall
Devon
Union Carbide
Belgium
Bank bombing suspect acquires passport in San Francisco
The FBI reports Ronald Kaufman, charged in nine bank bombing cases, obtained a San Francisco passport in the week of December 20. The wanted poster photo matches a passport issued under the alias James Edward Jensen used at Army enlistment on August 10.
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Chicago, Ill
FBI
Ronald Kaufman
San Francisco
Kaufman
James Edward Jensen
MIGs clash near Laos border as US planes strike
North Vietnamese MIGs fired three missiles at two U S F 4Phantoms near the Laotian border within 100 miles of Hanoi but missed. U S jets conducted more than 250 strikes targeting supply routes, depots and troop locations as Viet Cong attacks continued in South Vietnam with casualties and downed helicopters reported. Rep Bella Abzug urged Congress to censure Nixon over withdrawal date language from a 1971 act.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
Hanoi
U.S
Qui Nhon
Washington
Bella S. Abzug
D-N.y
Congress
Nixon
Indochina
United States
Chipmunk Creator Ross Bagdasarian Dies
Beverly Hills California April reports Ross Bagdasarian 52 creator of the singing chipmunks died Sunday His stage name was David Seville and his work included the 1958 hit single that sold four million copies in seven weeks He also collaborated with cousin William Saroyan on Come On A My House
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Ross Bagdasarian
Bagdasarian
David Seville
William Saroyan
Logan School Board Approves Educational TV Service Pact
The Logan school board voted to hire Educational Television for Southeastern Ohio to serve 2755 students in seven schools from Jan 31 to June 2 1972. The program will broadcast lessons over WOUB TV with curriculum advisory committees and staff training for teachers.
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Logan School Board
Educational Television For
Southeastern Ohio, Inc
Woub-Tv
Channel 20
Athens
Logan
Central
East
West Logan
West Elementary
West Annex
George M. Sarbalas
Green
Enterprise
Marion
Saribalas
Elaine Blosser
East School
Velma Boroff
West School
Dorothy Sirota
West Logan School
Fugitive Nabbed Near Nelsonville
Carl Kenneth Greene aged 36 charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution in a 1971 Springfield dairy store armed robbery was arrested on Route 33 near Nelsonville by FBI agents. He rode with Charles Edward Anderson 27 who faces harboring a fugitive charge. Greene appeared before a U.S. magistrate and was released to Springfield police for prosecution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Kenneth Greene
Springfield
Rt. 33
Nelsonville
FBI
Palmer M. Baken Jr
Central Ohio
Greene
Charles Edward Anderson
Gay St
Columbus
Clark County
U.S
Ernest Shull Seeks County Commissioner Nomination
Ernest C. Shull of Logan Route 1 filed his nominating petition with the Hocking County election board as a Democrat candidate for county commissioner in the May 2 primary. He faces incumbent Otto Shaw who is also circulating his petition. Three Democratic central committee candidates also filed petitions: Clay Rafferty, C. B. Chilcote, and Ronald B. Johnson.
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Ernest C. Shull
Logan Rt. 1
Hocking County
Kennedy withdraws from primary with broad Nixon critique
Sen Edward M Kennedy, declaring himself a noncandidate without qualification, criticized the Nixon administration in a National Press Club speech. He filed affidavits in Florida and Massachusetts removing his name from the presidential ballot and urged Americans to reject Nixon for failing to inspire and lead. He cited economic woes, urban violence, and the Vietnam war, noting 20 000 American deaths since Nixon took office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward M. Kennedy
Nixon
Kennedy
D-Mass
National Press Club
Washington
Florida
Massachusetts
United States
Vietnam
North
South
Industrial Production Gain Signals Economic Upswing
The Federal Reserve reports industrial production rose 0.7 percent in December after a 0.6 percent rise in November, reaching 107.8 percent of the 1967 base. The gain is led by manufacturing with strong output in steel textiles and paper, while coal snapback and auto production moderated overall growth.
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Washington
Nixon
Federal Reserve Board
Council of Economic Advisors
Soviet trawlers foiled in Bering Sea escape chase
A Soviet flagship Lamut and Kolyvan were seized by the U S Coast Guard near St Matthew Island for fishing in U S waters. The Lamut tried to break away as the Storis backed by orders fired a warning shot. No injuries reported amid a four hour chase in ice as ships headed toward Adak Alaska.
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Juneau
Alaska
U.S. Coast Guard
Coast Guard
Bering Sea
Lamut
Adak
Aleutians
U.S
Storis
Kolyvan
St. Matthew Island
Alaskan
Vladimir Artemov
Washington, D.C
Tri County CAA Trustees Set Reorganization Meeting
The Tri County Community Action Agency board of trustees will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Bristol community center off Rt. 93 between Shawnee and New Lexington. New members will be seated and officers elected for 1972. Public invited.
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Tri - County Community Action Agency
Board of Trustees
Bristol
Rt. 93
Shawnee
New Lexington
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European Economic Community
Laos
Chipmunk
East and West
Marjorie Price
Gibisonville School
Carolyn Ray
Maxville School
Patty Reeg
Marion — School
Carolyn Sheline
Rockbridge School
Patricia Tolliver
Enterprise School
Charlotte Walter
Ernest Shull
Sen. Kennedy
Robert L. Campbell
Tri-County
CAA
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