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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1966
Page
1
The tentative settlement in the 39 day airline strike is subject to a vote by 35,400 striking workers on five major airlines. Assistant Secretary of Labor James J. Reynolds announced the agreement and said unions must approve it through their ballots.
AFL CIO Machinists strike talks yielded a three year contract nearing $90 million in cost with a wage around $3.52 an hour top pay plus fringes, and a living wage escalator. Union president Siemiller said meetings would be held to explain terms and vote. Reynolds called it a memorandum of understanding not final until ratified by members.
In South Viet Nam two more mistaken attacks killed five villagers and wounded 15 in the Mekong Delta and killed four and wounded 35 in the DMZ area. A U.S. spokesman said casualties may result from South Vietnamese ground forces with supporting air and artillery. Authorities are investigating and the origin of the strikes remains unclear.
The 1st Cavalry Air mobile Division clashed with North Vietnamese forces in the Chu Pong Mountains near the Cambodian border, 18 miles southwest of Pleime. The exchange began Sunday and ended around noon today with light American casualties reported, enemy losses undetermined. U.S. air power continued strikes, with 108 missions flown against petroleum depots antiaircraft sites cargo barges and rail targets.
Mostly cloudy with a thundershower and humid conditions tonight. A high near 90 is forecast for Tuesday with a low around 70. Temperatures in the days ahead run about 4 degrees above normal. Rain likely Friday. Yesterday’s high was 84 and overnight low 71. Today’s high reached 80. Middletown recorded 0.52 inch of rain over the weekend.
A successful merchant lamts that he hoped his son would inherit the business but says the Government beat him to it. The remark reflects frustration over state action affecting family enterprise and succession plans.
In Chicago, hundreds of whites clash with police after civil rights marches. At least 16 injured and 21 arrested across four incidents near Jefferson Park and Marquette Park as crowds harass officers and vandalize cars with rocks and bottles.
Apparent settlement of the 39 day airlines walkout clears the way for a vote on a strike halt measure. House leaders had hoped for floor action this week as negotiators decide on the contract before the Rules Committee. Senate debates housing and mass transit bills while planning further action this week.
Onetime patent medicine purveyor Dudley J. LeBlanc, turning 72, sought a major victory in Louisiana's primary as Rep. Edwin Willis urged retirement. Willis led early, forcing a runoff with LeBlanc and two challengers after Guidry's 21,487 votes. LeBlanc, once Hadacol's founder with $20 million sales, faced a long political arc from 1924 onward.
Yale biologist Dr. Clement L. Markert cautioned at the American Institute of Biological Sciences meeting that world population could rise from three billion to 150 billion in two centuries unless voluntary birth control and cultural shifts reduce growth. He warned of famine pestilence and war as possible limits if births outpace deaths.
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