Auto workers strikes push Detroit area layoffs to 106 thousand
The AP reports 135000 idled workers due to GM foundry walkouts parts shortages and load disputes across Michigan Ohio and New York. GM laid off 60300 more workers bringing total to 106700 with 11200 on strike at foundries. Chrysler and AMC also face plant shutdowns and production hiccups amid UAW negotiations and a demand for a company paid washup period before lunch.
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Jury Finds Both Sides At Fault In Two Civil Trials
In Lubbock district courts two traffic cases reached jury action. A judge weary after deliberations returned a verdict that both parties were at fault in a Brownfield Highway and Salem Avenue collision. Jurors awarded no final amount in the Johnson case as deliberations continued in the 98th District Court.
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Ruth Johnson
Jan Johnson
Martha Denison
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Slaton
Howard C. Davison
Charles Smith
Randall County
Othel B. Chambers
Chambers
Verna Lee Munger
Kidnapping Pair Face Sentence in Oklahoma
Two Texans arrested in Oklahoma face a formal sentence onFeb.5 after pleading guilty to kidnapping Dallas motel clerk George Drayton Hooper 52 who was slain. Mitchell 26 formerly of Lubbock and Hohenberger 29 of Fort Worth abducted Hooper June 1. his body found Jan.4 in the trunk of a car towed toward a Miami Oklahoma service station.
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Oklahoma
Dallas
David Emmett Mitchell
Lubbock
Letha Faye Hohenberger
Fort Worth
George Drayton Hooper
Hooper
Miami
Regents Back Stand on Rally At UT Campus
REGENTS UPHELD disciplinary measures against six students for an unauthorized April rally on the Austin campus. The six named students faced probation for violating orders against holding a rally during Vice President Humphrey’s Austin visit. The board also advanced actions on military recruiting, grade policy, campus construction, and campus security.
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University of Texas Board of Regents
Austin
John Lefeber
Alice Embree
David Mahler
Richard Reavis
Tom Smith
Gary Thicher
von Discipline
Hubert Humphrey
Students For A Democratic Society
Frank C. Erwin Jr
Regents
Student Union Board of Directors
Erwin
Maryland judge rules on 58 year old's conflict case
A 58 year old Maryland resident faced a second bid for conflict of interest charges in a USS District Court. Judge Re Dorsey Watkins delivered a verdict as the court climaxed proceedings on Friday.
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Former congressman Johnson guilty in bribery case
The five year case started with a 1962 indictment. Judge Watkins postponed sentencing to Tuesday at Jolinsons request. Johnson faced a 1962 verdict of six months in prison and a $5,000 fine. The government alleged he took 17,500 from Edlin to influence the Justice Department. Edlin, a Miami savings operator, later pleaded up and served five months. An appeals court granted a second trial by ruling a speech was privileged. Frank Boykin was fined 45,000 and pardoned later. Johnson showed no emotion and did not comment on an appeal.
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J. Kenneth Edlin
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House of Representatives
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Oswald Widows Grand Jury Subpoena Ordered
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison ordered E. (Lee Harvey) Oswald widow to appear before the grand jury. A hearing on the subpoena was tentatively set for late next week as legal channels proceed. A man named Wade, wounded in a shooting, described a 35 minute phone call before the attack.
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