GM labor deal inflates costs by $5.8 billion
GM officials labeled the tentative UAW contract inflationary saying it will lift labor costs by about 5.8 billion dollars and raise the average hourly wage by roughly 3.75, pushing total hourly labor costs above 15 dollars by 1979. The three year agreement ends the industry’s shortest strike as 390000 GM hourly workers return to work after an all night bargaining session.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
General Motors
George B. Morris Jr
Ford
Chrysler
Recovery of dead miners brings calm to Owen Fork
In Owen Fork Kentucky the eight month wait ends as 11 miners killed in Scotia Coal Co mine explode are recovered from the tomb of coal. Families plan funerals and an on site MESA and state probe into the cause will run months. Nearby Whitesburg residents attend a football game as the community begins healing.
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Owen Fork
Harvey Sturgill
Sturgill
Hazard
Federal Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration
MESA
State Department of Mines and Minerals
Scotia Coal Co
Letcher County
Whitesburg
Fire Arson Suspected In Occidental Tower Blaze Downtown Los Angeles
An early Friday blaze on the 20th floor of Occidental Tower was ruled arson. Investigators found flammable fluids in a sub basement of another complex building, with leads toward suspects. About 300 firefighters battled the first fire for over two hours, 1.5 million dollars in damage, 10 offices destroyed, 25 damaged. 4,800 people work in the complex.
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Los Angeles
Transamerica Financing Corp
Occidental
Emoff murderer sentenced to death in Ohio
Albert Lee Scott Jr. was sentenced to die in the electric chair for the kidnapping murder of Dayton businessman Lester C. Emoff. Judge Stanley C. Phillips ruled no mitigating factors warranted delaying the sentence. An appeal must be filed within 30 days.
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Dayton
Ohio
Montgomery County Common Pleas Court
Friday
Albert Lee Scott Jr
Lester C
Emoff
Stanley C. Phillips
Common Pleas
Scott
David C. Greer
Joseph Buchanan
Hamilton County Common Pleas Court
Cincinnati
Phillips
Weekend Snow Chance Fades Into Clouds and Cold
Skies stay cloudy tonight and Sunday with a 20 percent chance of snow tonight and 40 percent Sunday. Tonight lows in the mid 20s, Sunday high in the upper 30s. Extended outlook shows possible snow Monday and then fair skies Tuesday and Wednesday.
Hearst Freed on Bail Lives with Parents in Nob Hill
Patricia Hearst is released on $1.5 million bail and placed under court conditions to live with her parents in a Nob Hill apartment guarded by security. She faces federal appeal of a seven year prison sentence for bank robbery and state charges, with trials set for January.
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San Francisco
Patricia Hearst
Nob Hill
Miss Hearst
Symbionese Liberation Army
U.S
William H. Orrick
Hearsts
Los Angeles
Orrick
California
San Fancisco
Husky Burns
Hearst
Feeling heart dog helps elderly patient speak after 26 years
In Millersburg Ohio a huskie German Shepherd therapy dog enabled a Castle Nursing Home resident, unnamed, to speak for the first time since 1950. Administrators and experts credit pet therapy with aiding withdrawal, noting dogs’ role in making patients feel needed and more engaged. The program spans Castle facilities with 800 patients under psychiatrists and psychologists researchers.
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Millersburg
Ohio
Castle Nursing Home
Samual A. Carson
Biophysics
Ohio State University
Carson
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Eola
United Auto
Hamilton Fisher Body
Fairfield
UAW
Leonard Woodcock
American Motors
Irving Bluestone
South
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Bluestone
Morris
Hearst’s
Nob Hill Pad
Federal Building
Catherine
Patty Hearst
Donald D. Dehass
Nursing Home
Castle Nursing Homes
Thomas Graham
Massillon State Hospital
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