Cannery workers approve three year contract ending California strike
The 60,000 cannery workers ratified a new three year pact by 2 to 1, retroactive to July 1, with hourly pay up 54 cents in years one and two and 52 cents in year three. Wages averaged 4.93 dollars per hour with 73 cents in benefits and one extra holiday. Production to resume as unions return to work in Oakland.
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Associated Press
California
Freddy F. Sanchez
Teamsters California Council & Food Processing Unions
Oakland
Calif
Sanchez
Wildcat
W.J. Usery
Monarchs blanket 20 acre grove on wintering grounds
Monarch queen Cathy Brugger of Mexico City is shown among monarch butterflies at their wintering site north of the city. Dr. Fred Urquhart, a Canadian zoologist, notes the orange and black insects cover every tree in the 20 acre area in a National Geographic feature dating back to his 1937 search for their hidden home.
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Cathy Brugger
Mexico City
Mexico
Fred Urquhart
National Geographic
Poison cloud forces evacuation in Seveso triangle of death
Officials ordered 400 inhabitants to abandon homes in the Seveso area south of Milan as a poisonous cloud from the Semesa factory explosion spread over 260 acres. A total of 600 evacuees, including earlier departures, seek hotel shelter while doctors conduct daily tests for long term effects.
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Seveso
Italy
Graziella Parravicini
Auxury
Milan
Semesa
Newspan
Viking 1 finds rust colored Mars soil akin to Mojave dust
Viking 1's first Martian soil analysis found iron calcium silicon titanium and aluminum in the crust. Scientists say Mars may be geologically younger than Earth and show low trace minerals compared with Amboy Crater desert dirt as a clue to its lack of heavy differentiation.
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Pasadena
Calif
Viking 1
California
Mojave
Viking
Mars
Earth
Priestly Toulmin
Toulmin
Benton Clark
Amboy Crater
Mojave Desert
Clark
Project
Gerry Soffen
Early Planetary Crust Lacked Plate Tectonics
The text suggests a planet with a crust that did not develop plate tectonics. It compares the planet to an older Earth still without continental breakup, subduction, or the associated large earthquakes and widespread volcanic activity at plate margins.
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Earth
Hillbillies a dying breed in Appalachia says professor
Dr Norman Simpkins, Marshall University sociology chair, says the Appalachian hillbilly may be an endangered culture as outside contact and education rise. He notes vocational enrollment climbs and crafts gain prestige while moonshine lore shifts nationwide.
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Huntington
W.va
Norman Simpkins
Marshall University
Yale
Appalachia
Simpkins
New Jersey
Senate approves tax breaks for insurers railroads airlines and shipping
The Senate backed about 750 million in tax relief over five years for life insurers railroads airlines and shipping. Railroads gain 86 million annually plus 20 million yearly from depreciation for tunnel bores and grading. Airlines receive 192 million over five years and life insurers 50 million to combine returns. The plan focuses on investment tax credits intended to reduce tax liabilities to zero for airlines and railroads in the next two years. A bid to end a double tax break for shipping failed 55 to 23 amid conservative opposition.
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Washington
Senate
Sen
Dale Bumpers
D-Ark
America
Weather and Tax News Include Weekend Forecast and IRAs
The forecast shows showers and thunderstorms with 70 percent likely tonight, clearing late with a low near 61 and a sunny Sunday reaching 79 with a 20 percent rain chance. The extended outlook calls for fair cool weather through Wednesday with 70s highs and 50s lows. Legislative actions include shipbuilding tax breaks and retroactive tax credits, plus proposed IRA provisions aiding nonworking spouses.
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Cannery
Rome
Red Planet
Rusty
Susan Forst
Orlando
Fla
Hillbillies
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