UAW Strikes Threat Looms as Big Three Hold Lines
Negotiations between the UAW and General Motors Ford and Chrysler show no progress toward a new contract as talks extend beyond three-year pacts due to end September 6. Strike votes have been authorized but no offers, with Ford eyed as a likely target amid broader labor leadership tensions.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
Geneval Motors
UAW
Douglas Fraser
Chrysler Department
Fraser
Walter P. Reuther
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Former Lubbock resident to teach English in Peru exchange year
Bill Beal, a 1951 Texas Tech graduate and former Lubbock resident, will spend a year in Peru teaching English at the Catholic University of Lima under a U S government exchange program. He departs the week of Aug 21 with his wife Marilyn and four children, funded by HEW grants and a family living allowance, and will be replaced at Reedley High School by Walter O. Reng.
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Lubbock
Peru
Bill Beal
Texas Tech
Beal
United States
Reedley
Calif
California
Walter O. Reng- Beal Ho
Lima
U. S S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Department of State
Nellie Beal
17Th St
Marilyn
Georgetown University
Washington, D. C
Catholic University of Lima
HEW
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Ica
Experts to press favorable税 news in tax fight
President Johnson’s team files upbeat economic data to back a 10 percent surcharge and delayed excise cuts. Key figures Fowler Ackley and Schultze headline hearings as inventories fall for the first time in six years, aiding the administration’s case amid Democratic pushback.
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Edmond Lebreton
Washington
Johnson
Congress
House
Ways and Means ‘Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry G. Fowler
Gardner Ackley
Council of Economic Advisers
Charles L. Schultze
Commerce Department
Johnson vetoes life insurance bill for federal workers
President Johnson vetoed a bill expanding life insurance for 2.5 million federal employees and urged Congress to keep pay raises to 4.5 percent. He argued the insurance cost is high and would raise deficits, inflation, and interest rates, threatening homebuilding while calling for priority funding for children the elderly and veterans in Vietnam. Proxmire countered that a tax increase could depress the economy and reduce tax revenues.
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Johnson
Treasury
Washington
Congress
Vietnam
Rare Ivory billed Woodpecker Found In Big Thicket
UPI reports that a conservationist says the ivory billed woodpecker, long believed extinct, has been found living in East Texas's Big Thicket. Senator Ralph Yarborough, sponsor of a Big Thicket National Park bill, notes the find reinforces urgency of preservation efforts.
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Washington
UPI
Big Thicket
Texas
U. S
Ralph Yarborough
D-Tex
Yarborough
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