Steel Firms Back Wages Plan for 50 000 Workers in Equal OpportUnit y Drive
About 50,000 steel workers will receive 31 million dollars in back wages under an industry wide plan to end racial and sex discrimination. Nine major firms and the United Steelworkers Union signed a consent decree in U S District Court establishing goals and timetables for minority hiring and plant wide seniority. Women will be hired at a rate of one for every four men added to the payroll, with back pay ranging from 250 to 1,000 dollars per worker and an average around 600 dollars.
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Washington
U.S
United Steelworkers Union
Equal Opportunity Commission
Justice and Labor Departments
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem, Republic
Jones & Laughlin
National
Armco
Wheeling-Pittsburgh
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Allegheny Ladium Industries
Harlow Leaves White House Counselor Post
Bryce N. Harlow has ended his role as White House counselor. He left the job Sunday after originally joining in January 1969, departing in June 1970, and returning last June to aid President Nixon through Watergate and other issues. He resumes as vice president at Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Co.
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Harold Strait
S. Olive Sr
Key Biscayne, Fla
Bryce N. Harlow
White House
Harlow
Nixon
Proctor & Gamble Manufacturing Co
KC Schools Reopen On Wednesday Amid Negotiations
Kansas City school district will reopen 100 schools on Wednesday as teachers show interest in returning despite union demands. Superintendent Medcalf notes teachers contacted principals to come back. union leaders defend negotiable salary proposals and push for higher terms.
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Kansas City
Board of Education
Robert L. Medcalf
Benton at 85 Keeps Working On New Country Music Mural
Artist Thomas Hart Benton, aged 85, defies birthday celebration and continues painting. He is now creating a mural for the Country Music Foundation in Nashville about the origins of country music. Preliminary sketches will be done at Martha's Vineyard and Connecticut, with painting in the fall, featuring Appalachian hymn singers, fiddlers, dancers, and railroad and riverboat imagery. Benton has long studied regional music since the 1920s in the Great Smoky Mountains.
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Kansas City
Thomas Hart Benton
Rita Benton
Benton
Truman Library and Museum
Country Music Foundation
Nashville
Tenn
Martha’s Vineyard
Connecticut
Fords Relax At Palm Springs Estate
Vice President Gerald R. Ford and his wife enjoy warm sun at Walter Annenberg’s Palm Springs estate in California. They arrived Saturday and will return to Washington next Sunday. Ford will speak at a senior citizen project dedication and is expected to golf on the estate’s private nine hole course.
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Palm Springs
Calif
Gerald R. Ford
Walter H. Annenberg
U.S
Great Britain
Fords
Washington
Ninehole
Vandals Cause $10,000 Damage at Southeast Elementary
In Kansas City AP report, vandals damaged Southeast Elementary in Platte County causing about $10,000 in damage. Four Park Hill District students were taken into custody and turned over to county juvenile court. Principal Eldred Barnes says seven of 23 classrooms sustained extensive damage and the teachers lounge and central office suffered major harm. Desks and filing cabinets were damaged.
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Kansas City
Platte County
Park Hill
Eldred Barnes
MEXICO Ledger page vandalism report Apr 15 1974
A Mexico Missouri Ledger page from April 15 1974 describes vandalism where contents were dumped on the floor ink smeared walls and doors movie screens slashed science projects and plants smashed and books and equipment stolen with police recovering some items and a real estate ad urges modern houses for sale in the classification.
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Auxvasse
Mexico
Martinsburg
Vandalia
Wellsville
Centralia
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Benton City
Paris
Laddonia
Farber
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Columbia
Perry
Cassville
Jonesburg
Bowling Green
New Florence
Thompson
Calvert
Bob
Calvert‘s
Calvert’s
Earth
Medcalf
Norman
Hudson
Teachers’ Union
Lehr
Jackson County
Jefferson
Libby
Kingsford Charcoal
Delmonte
Royal Guest
Tom Benton
Mrs. Ford
Monica
Harry Truman
Sears
Kager l’ Mower
Rotary
West Jackson
Sears and Save Phone
Sears, Roebuck and Coener
W. Jackson
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