Postal and telephone unions reach tentative labor pact
Washington AP tele phone workers prepared to return to work under a proposed contract after 36 hours of bargaining with the U S Postal Service. The two pacts cover over 1 million workers and include a Bell System strike ending with a three year deal for 400,000 CWA members nationwide.
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Washington
U.S. Postal Service
Postal Service
Post Office Department
Bell
Communications ’ Workers of America
Joseph A. Beirne
CWA
New York
Beirne
United Transportation Union
Southern
Union Pacific
Bell System
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Communications Workers of America
Ohio
Ohio Bell Supervisory
General Fund
Front and Weis Sts
Goose Creek
Spring St
LHS
Loomis
Cooler Air Brings Rain Across Nation
A cooler air mass triggered thunderstorms across the nation Monday night into Tuesday. The intermountain West and South saw storms while a 1,200 person evacuation occurred along the Licking River in Kentucky as floodwaters rose behind a partially built dam. Wind damage was reported near Tucson and Albuquerque with gusts up to 50 mph.
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Texas Panhandle
New England
Licking River
Kentucky
Tucson
Ariz
Albuquerque
N.M
Grubby Sidewalk Days Spark Logan Outdoor Bazaar
Downtown Logan hosts a two day sale with over 50 stores transforming Main St into an outdoor bazaar. More than 700 dollars in prizes. Mystery Gal clues broadcast on WLGN and in the Logan Daily News with escalating rewards. Merchants prize displays and dress up by clerks. winners receive cash prizes from 5 to 25 dollars.
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Main St
Logan Retail
Logan Daily News
Wlgn Radio
Logan Trade Club
Harry Smith
Lawrence Webb
Lee Hamilton
Worthington Park
Shine Appleman
Merchants
Trade Club
Policy Deadlock Delays Logan School Guidelines
Logan city school board and Logan Education Association remain split over certificated personnel guidelines. Attorney Neal Dillon will provide an opinion by August 16, with a plan to meet a week before the regular meeting. The board seeks timely policies as school begins.
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Logan City School Board
Logan Education Association
LEA
Logan
Neal Dillon
Don Young
Dan Long
Dillon
Carl Risch
Long
Young
Ohio Education Association
Board of Education
Logan Education
Logan Eucation Association
Apollo 15 Countdown Under Way for Lunar Mission
On the second anniversary of the moon landing the Apollo 15 crew began the countdown at Cape Kennedy Florida with a 6 30 am EDT start and a planned 9 34 am launch of the Saturn 5 next Monday. Astronauts David Scott James Irwin and Alfred Worden will fly to the moon with Scott and Irwin to walk the surface for up to 67 hours and Worden in lunar orbit conduct experiments. The crew is in simulators as countdown schedules halts for crew rest and checkups.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
David R. Scott
James B. Irwin
Alfred M. Worden
City Council Approves 1.2 Million Budget
City Council approves a 1,246,129.29 dollar operating budget for 1972 after a public hearing with no attendees. Expenditures exceed 1971 by 9,493.32 and year end balance is projected at 51,235.37. Mayor Merril Haney and staff prepared the plan, breaking with prior practice.
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Merril Haney
Laurelville Centennial Opens With Sing Along and Firemen Beauty
Laurelville celebrates a five day centennial with a start tonight featuring an area church choir sing along led by Rev. Lynn Summers. The schedule includes a Wednesday children’s beauty contest at 7 30 p m and an Adelphi band concert.
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Laurelville
Lynn Summers
Adelphi
Ross County
New Housing Brightens U S Economy In Brief
U S housing starts rose to 1.982 million annualized in June from 1.959 million in May signaling the brightest spot in the recovery. DEMOCRATS seek a compromise general education bill to replace Nixon's desegregation aid plan amid potential court issues. Senate votes to end funding for the Subversive Activities Control Board failed 40 to 47. House passes bill expanding VA addiction treatment for service members. New York analysts note modest stock gains amid slow trading.
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Commerce Department
Washington
House
Nixon
South
Supreme Court
U.S. Senate
Subversive Activities Control Board
Draft Lottery Set for Aug 5 1972 Morning
The 1972 draft lottery will be held August 5 at 10 a.m. in the Commerce Department auditorium Washington. Selective Service Director Curtis W. Tarr announced the event amid doubts Congress will renew the draft law before September.
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Washington
Congress
Selective Service
Curtis W. Tarr
Commerce Department
Contingency Plans Included A-Bomb Contingency Plans Included
The National Review claims secret Vietnam documents show the U S Defense Department planned a demonstration nuclear drop in Indochina as early as 1954 and proposed escalated measures in 1962 and 1965. The report ties to Joint Chiefs memos and a 1954 study on possible U S action in Indochina. In Saigon, U S B 52 bombers dropped 600 tons on suspected DPR positions near the DMZ after renewed attacks.
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New York
The
National Review
Vietnam
U.S. Defense Department
Indochina
Pentagon
New York Times
Washington Post
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
William S’. Buckley Jr
Joint Chiefs of Staff
McNamara
North Vietnam
Haiphong
Sihanoukville
China
Red River
Arthur W. Radford
Charles E. Wilson
U.S
Dien Bien Phu
John Foster Dulles
Bernard B. Fall
Ile
Dulles
Georges Bidault
Adm
Grant Sharp
Pacific
Sharp
Moscow
Peking
Haiphong Harbor
Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Sudan Coup Elevates Pro Communist Ruling Council
Beir ut AP reports Sudan's new seven member Revolutionary Council led by Maj Hashem el Atta moves the nation leftward. Atta named vice chairman and army commander while promising autonomy for southern blacks and lifting bans on labor youth and student groups. Massive student protests accompany the shift.
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Beirut
Sudan
Africa
Hashem el Atta
Col
Babikr al Nur Osman
Farouk Osman Hamdalla
Atta
Osman
Tamdalla
Sudanese Communist Party
Hamdalla
Omdurman Radio
Communist Party
The
Federation of Labor Trade Unions
Students’ Federation
Youth League
Women’s League
Socialist Revolution
Alta
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