New Rates Start Publishers Lose Mail Hike Appeal
The Supreme Court refused to block postal rate increases set to take effect today after publishers argued the rates were illegal and would cost newspapers and magazines $850,000 weekly. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger led the denial in a ruling that leaves the higher charges in place.
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Washington
Supreme Court
High Court
Warren EF
Burger
U.S. Postal Service
Independent Postal Rate Commission
Rate Commission
The
Postal Service
Walk for Mankind ends as 1500 trek to finish line
Long city walk concludes with 1500 participants completing a 20 mile course through Middletown. Leonard Gannon and Dennis Daley led early, while the final tally showed many finishers after a day of blisters and effort. Officials expect about 25,060 dollars raised with 60 percent to Project Concern and 40 percent to local drug rehabilitation efforts.
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B. C. Huselton
Middletown Area
Rail Union In More Talks
In Washington the railroad and the signalmen's union opened fresh negotiations on a Saturday session aimed at averting a nationwide strike set to begin Monday morning. Assistant Labor Secretary J. W. Usery arranged the talks after all government steps under the law to stop a rail traffic tie-up had been exhausted.
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Washington
Signalmen’s Union
Asst
Secretary of Labor
J. W. Usery
Blisters Too Leaders Edge 45 Minutes in 20 Mile Walk
Dennis Daley 18 and Leonard Gannon finished the 20 mile Walk for Mankind with a lead of over 45 minutes. They met as strangers, grew together at checkpoints, and endured blisters yet stayed upbeat about sponsors and causes. Dennis plans to work at a restaurant and earn about 60 cents a mile. Leonard eyes a paper route and rest.
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Walk
Alan Cooper
Middletown
Larry White
Checkpoint 5
Lafayette
Main
Sgt. White
Don Gloeckler
Middletown High
Gloeckler
Dianne Cooper
Miss Cooper
Banks
Dennis Daley
Leonard Gannon
Dennis
Fenwick High School
Leonard
San Diego
Calif
Spring warmth returns with sunny weekend forecast
The warm spell continues with highs in the mid 70s and nights around the 50s. Monday is expected to mirror today with no rain forecast for either day.
Blacks Forming Third Force for 1972 Elections
Twenty five black politicians met privately in Chicago on May 7 to discuss a national black political strategy built around a third force rather than a third party. Participants, including Rev. Jesse Jackson and Percy Sutton, stressed realism and coalitions with other groups to influence the two party system and consider a black presidential candidate.
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Washington
Chicago
Alabama
George Wallace
Calvin Morris
Morris
Jesse Jackson
Manhattan
Percy Sutton
T. R. M. Howard
Mississippi
Sutton
New York
Wallace
Cleveland
Carl Stokes
California
Mervyn Dyman
Nixon Backing Cuts in Europe Faces Bipartisan Support
Nixon denounces unilateral U S troop cuts in Europe and backs NATO stability. A bipartisan list of 24 former top officials from Eisenhower, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations endorses his stance. Senate showdown on Mansfield proposal to cut troops to 150,000 looms.
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Nixon
Florida White House
Europe
NATO
East
United States
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
U.S
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harry S. Truman
John F. Kennedy
Johnson
Forest Fire Still Raging in BWCA Near Ely Minn
Fire raged out of control across 12 000 acres in the Superior National Forest near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area 25 miles northwest of Ely as evacuees fled. Whitney Lever of the Forest Service said the blaze began Friday in a wilderness area that houses cabins and resorts and warned residents to evacuate.
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Ely, Minn
Superior National Forest
Whitney Lever
Forest Service
Ely
Boundary Waters Canoe Area
BWCA
Lever
Inside Carville Leprosy Hospital Changing The Image
A look at Carville Louisiana the only continental United States leprosy hospital and its efforts to change the public stigma. Also notes Barbara Tuchman on World Leadership and Hugh Downs weighing future TV work.
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Carville
United States
Barbara Tuchman
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Second Avenue
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Hamilton
Carmody Boulevard
Airport
Carmody
Germantown Road
REACT
Project Concern
Niddies
Giveckler
Tim Smith
Rail Union
Leprosy Hospital
Hugh Downs
Norman Peale
the Tenn
Thomas Collins
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