San Francisco Strikes Freeze City Services and Transit
A citywide strike by Municipal Railway workers and allied unions cripples health care, sanitation, and public transport in San Francisco. About 500000 daily riders lose cable cars buses and trolleys while airport taxi and limousine service halts at times. Hospitals run on limited staff as talks with the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Alioto attempt a resolution over a 16 million dollar pay package amid sewage and health hazard concerns.
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San Francisco
UPI
Afl-Cio Teachers Union
William Hansen
San Francisco General Hospital
Board of Supervisors
Mills says Nixon tax probe shows resignation cause
Rep. Wilbur Mills says a Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation review of Nixon 1969 72 returns could push resignation claims. He cites likely unanimous findings of taxes owed and gift deduction issues. Newsweek reports IRS criminal fraud probe into 1969 return with two aides warned as subjects.
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Mills
Little Rock, Ark
UPI
Nixon
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Joint Committee On Internal Revenue Taxation
Washington
White House
Newsweek
IRS
Federal probe begins into immigration van crash deaths
Federal investigators arrived in OCOTILLO California to probe a border patrol van crash into a parked truck that killed 13 people including the van driver and 12 Mexican nationals. Six Mexicans were injured after Friday’s collision as arrests for illegal entry from Mexico were reported.
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Ocotillo
Calif
UPI
Border Patrol
Mexico
el Centro
Chula Vista
Leonard Speer
Albert Field
Holtville
Speer
Interstate 8
Here
Federal Highway Safety
Three charged with abduction plot in Los Angeles
FBI said a quartet of suspects including two county inmates and a young ex-prostitute planned to abduct a foreign envoy for 250000 dollars and safe passage to Sweden. Investigators halted the plot before any kidnapping occurred and identified targets as consulates of Canada Germany France among others.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Sweden
FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hollywood
Maria Theresa Alonzo
Miss Alonzo
Garrett Brock Trapnell
Robert B. Hedberg
Canada
Estonia
France
Germany
Haiti
Paraguay
Switzerland
Uruguay
Trapnell
Hedberg
California farm labor bill seeks secret union elections
Three liberal Assembly Democrats propose a measure to end farm labor strife by holding secret elections for union representation. Backed by AFL-CIO and Cesar Chavez, the bill is co sponsored by John Burton Richard Alatorre and Alex Garcia. Teamsters oppose but see potential. Growers offer no comment pending protections against strikes.
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Sacramento
UPI
Liberal Assembly Democrats
California
Afl-Cio
United Farm Workers Union
Cesar Chavez
John Burton
San Francisco
Richard Alatorre
Los Angeles
Alex Garcia
William Grant
Teamsters Union
California adults split on daylight saving time poll results
A California Poll finds 51 percent favor year round daylight saving time while 36 percent back Standard Time and 13 percent have no opinion. Among 1,179 respondents 58 percent say DST saves not enough energy to justify it totaling. Fifty one percent of parents with school age children would not vote to revert to Standard Time if given the chance.
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San Francisco
UPI
California
Tribune refuses SLA demand to publish all Hearst kidnapping communications
Oakland Tribune editor Joseph W. Knowland says news outlets will not print SLA messages in exact form. He condemns extortion by the Symbionese Liberation Army while expressing sympathy for Patricia Hearst and her family amid the ongoing kidnapping.
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Oakland
UPI
Patricia Hearst
Oakland Tribune
Tribune
Joseph W. Knowland
Symbionese Liberation Army
SLA
Russell Little
Joseph Ramiro
Marcus Foster
Knowland
William Knowland
Miss Hearst
Hearst
Randolph A. Hearst
San Francisco Examiner
Hearst Corp
Piercing Ears Linked to Hepatitis Cases
Chicago report notes seven hepatitis cases traced to ear lobe piercing with unclean needles. Dr. Carl J Johnson leads Jefferson County Health Dept findings. calls for autoclave sterilization or 20 minute boiling, or use of disposable instruments to destroy the virus.
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Chicago
UPI
Carl J.johnson
Jefferson County Health Department
Lakewood
Colo
Johnson
Journal of the
American Medical Medical Association
Lower meat price explained by supply and demand shifts
An ample beef supply and falling consumer demand drive price drops. Alpha Beta previews 10 cent cuts for T-bone and porterhouse steaks and 21 cent cuts for rump roasts. Cal Santaro of the Western Meat Packers Association notes sales are down about 15 percent as shoppers pull back. Arnold Kind of Ralph's agrees on past price surges during strikes.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Alpha Beta Market
Cal Santaro
Western Meat Packers Association
Arnold Kind
Ralph's Grocery Cemeat Division
Brown backs teachers collective bargaining and strike right
Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. urged the California Federation of Teachers to support collective bargaining and the right to strike arguing it helps teachers win higher wages and better benefits. He noted buyers adjust as beef demand changes and predicted steady to low beef prices ahead despite industry concerns.
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Sacramento
UPI
Edmund G. Brown Jr
California
Brown
California Federation of Teachers
King
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Princeton
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Gallup
U.S
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East Chestnut
Lompoc
Jewelers
Lompoc Plaza
Steamco
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