Pay Pact Breaks Copper Strike Gains Pace
SALT LAKE CITY AP Many copper producers including Kennecott Copper Corp reached settlements ending the nationwide strike. The agreements call for a 92 cent hourly rise over three years with Kennecott providing 60 cents the first year and 16 cents in years two and three. Magma Copper Co and Miami Copper Co also settled. About 32,000 workers had walked off 26 days earlier seeking a 1.07 hourly raise. remaining major talks involve Phelps Dodge Anaconda and ASARCO. Return-to-work plans were announced for Magma workers and Kennecott crews are expected back within days.
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Salt-Lake City
U.S
Kennecott Copper Corp
United Steelworkers Union
Kennecott
Phelps Dodge
Anaconda
American Smelting and Refining
Asarco
Cass Alvin
Los Angeles
Apollo 15 set to begin lunar surface drive and mountain search
AP reports Apollo 15 explorers wakened before dawn at Cape Kennedy to begin the mission, aiming for the first live driving on the moon surface and a search among towering lunar mountains for clues to the solar system’s violent birth. Also notes global observers in Brevard County for the launch and the moon voyage.
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Fila
Fla
Globe
Brevard County
America
Summer Rec Program To End Friday
The Mexico Recreation Program ends Friday per recreation director Maj. Joe Bailey. Summer playgrounds and baseball programs close that day, while swimming and wading pools stay open longer. Hardin Park pool hours 1 to 4 p.m. weekdays until Aug. 13. Plunkett Park and Garfield pools run through Aug. 25.
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Mexico
Maj
Joe Bailey
Hardin Park
Plunkett Park
Garfield
Sea Otter In Comeback Along Big Sur Coast
Monterey California AP reports an amazing comeback of sea otters along California's Big Sur coast. The species once ranged from Baja California to Alaska and Japan before near extinction by 1911 due to fur pelts selling for up to 3000 dollars. Marine biologist Paul Wild estimates 1200 to 1500 otters remain and continuing to increase.
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Monterey
Calif
Pacific
California
Big Sur
Baja California
Alaska
Japan
Paul Wild
California Department of Fish and Game
South Vietnamese forces enter Cambodia in new operation
A force of 2,500 South Vietnamese troops moved into southeastern Cambodia in a fresh operation, marking another widening of regional actions.
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Saigon
A Shau
Cambodia
Bike Checks Under Way At Park
All Mexico bike riders can have bicycles checked this week at the Summer Bicycle Safety Program sponsored by the Mexico PTA Council and the Mexico Summer Recreation Program. The program began this morning at 9 30 a m at Lawrence Shelter in Plunkett Park with Miss Debbie Davis in charge. Mexico police will inspect bikes for safety and review rules while children practice riding skills each morning from 9 30 to 11 30.
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Mexico
Mexico Pta Council
Lawrence Shelter
Plunkett Park
Debbie Davis
Zoos Competing For Panda Under Trade Easing
New York AP The Nixon administration eased trading with China triggering a stampede among major U S zoos to obtain a giant panda. Bronx Zoo director William G Conway says almost every major zoo is seeking a panda and a dealer offered 60000 for a healthy animal while Conway urges a cultural scientific exchange rather than price. Several zoos already housed pandas before the ban that ended with the 1953 Brookfield Zoo panda death.
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New York
China
U.S
William G. Conway
Bronx
Peking
Conway
Brookfield
Chicago
Five Million Two Hundred Thousand for Cannon Dam
Washington AP tentative list shows Army Engineer and Reclamation Bureau projects in a public works appropriation bill. Key items include Clarence Cannon Dam and reservoir at 5,200,000 with identical President’s budget, plus Missouri Chariton basin 350,000, Chariton River 583,000, and Missouri projects like Dry Fork East Fork 50,000 reserve, Truman Dam 18,000,000 with 17,400,000 recommended, several lake land acquisitions, and Union Lake road relocation 1,000,000.
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Washington
Army Engineer and Reclamation Bureau
House Appropriations Committee
Army
Missouri
Chariton
Little Chariton Basin
Chariton River
Clarence Cannon
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East Fork Lakes
Harry 8S
Truman
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Meramec Park Lake
Smithville
St. Louis
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Mercer Lake
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6 000 Expected For MFA Session
About 6 000 delegates and guests are expected for the Missouri and Midcontinent Farmers Associations annual convention in Columbia Missouri on August 9 Speakers include Senator Stuart Symington Representative Mark Andrews and E A Jaenke governor Farm Credit Administration Also MFA auxiliary groups meet Women’s Progressive Farmers Association and Junior Farmers Association Awards for Distinguished Service to Agriculture will be presented to Jaenke and Wayne Leeman long-time farm writer for the St Louis Post Dispatch
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Missouri and Midcontinent Farmers Associations
Stuart Symington
Jaenke
Wayne Leeman
The
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Elizabeth Taylor Becomes Grandmother in London
Elizabeth Taylor learns she is a grandmother as Beth Wilding, wife of Richard Burton's son, gives birth to a 7 pound 2 ounce girl in London. Wilding, 18, calls the birth quick and easy as Taylor and Burton cruise the Mediterranean aboard the yacht Kapizma.
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London
Elizabeth Taylor
Michael Wilding Jr
A &Pound
Wilding
Beth
Miss Taylor
Richard Burton
Mediterranean
Appointment On Agenda For Tonight
The Mexico City Council will hear the reappointment of Charles Cockelreas to a four year term on the Mexico Housing Authority at 7:30 tonight in City Hall. Also on the agenda is Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Co. proposals to relocate a line in public right of way from a substation on Kentucky Street. A public hearing and first reading on rezoning two lots at Clay and Western from commercial to industrial is planned, plus third reading and final approval to vacate the unused 8 foot Pearson Street between Clark and Washington Streets.
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Charles Cockelreas
Mexico Housing Authority
Mexico City
Clay
Western St
Pearson St
Clark
Washington St
John Wayne to Receive Iron Mike Award in San Antonio
John Wayne will receive the U S Marine Corps Iron Mike Award for Americanism at the corps 48th annual convention in San Antonio Aug 9 13 The presentation will occur at a banquet on Aug 13 honoring the actor known for portraying commanding roles of fighters and crews in films
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San Antonio
Panthers Take Guards As Hostages In New Orleans
In New Orleans two parish prison guards were taken hostage by about 30 inmates including several Black Panthers on trial for alleged attempts to murder five police officers. The inmates demanded a meeting with Mayor Moon Landrieu, Sheriff Louis Heyd, and Panthers’ lawyers. The guards were unharmed though the inmates held knives and improvised weapons. one Panther complained of a rat bite.
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New Orleans
New Orleans Parish
Moon Landrieu
Louis A. Heyd Jr
Panthers
Black Bear Goes To Jail In Fort Worth Roundup
Patrolman Jose Trujillo roped in Arlington officers to escort Judy a 500 pound Himalayan black bear to the city jail after a traffic stop revealed the driver owed Fort Worth tickets. The bear and man were refused a stay and jail staff chipped in the final 38 cents to release them.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Jose Trujillo
Arlington
Arisons
Judy
Trujillo
Bear
Concrete Paving Mostly Done in West Underpass Area
City Manager Neil Nielsen announced major concrete paving in the West Underpass Urban Renewal area is finished. Remaining work includes street tie-ins, drain box paving, and driveway approaches to be completed this summer by Richardson and Bass, Columbia contractors, while city crews resurface Webster Dr from Boulevard to Elm s Tree Dr.
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Neil Nielsen
Nielsen
Richardson
Bass
Columbia
Webster Dr
Boulevard
Elms Tree Dr
Vaughn Quits National Urban Coalition to Back Harris
Washington AP Jack H. Vaughn president of the National Urban Coalition says he is quitting to head a group supporting Senator Fred R. Harris for the Democratic presidential nomination. Vaughn, 50, has led the coalition since last October and previously served as Peace Corps director and U S ambassador to Colombia.
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National Urban Coalition
Jack H. Vaughn
Fred R. Harris
Vaughn
Fred Harris
Coalition
Peace Corps
U.S
Colombia
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