Communities Feel GM Strike Effects
The second week of the nationwide United Auto Workers strike against General Motors cuts production and triggers layoffs in several states. A AP survey notes 17,000 local plant demands remain unsettled. industry wide output drops from 150,924 to 88,762. Union officials in Kansas City and Fremont express concern as wage checks arrive but families feel the pinch.
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General Motors
Boxwood Road
Wilmington
Del
United Auto Workers
Gene Schroeder
Detroit
UAW
Ford
Chrysler
New York
Indiana
Connecticut
Ohio
Michigan
Imore
Wall Street
Alpena
Mich
Draser Products Corp
Buick
Kansas City
Charles Tyler
Chevrolet
Dockworkers Ordered Back To Work At 7 P M
The International Longshoremen's Association directed 60 000 dockworkers at Atlantic and Gulf ports to resume work by 7 p m New York time after a federal court halted the strike for 10 days in the national interest Judge Frederick van Pelt Bryan set a hearing on a Taft Hartley Act cooling off period of up to 80 days with continued talks to avert new action The judge said the order aimed to remove a peril to national health and safety.
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New York
International Longshoremen's Association
Afl-Cio
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Frederick van Pelt Bryan
ILA
Thomas W. Gleason
Bryan
Chrysler Airtemp Strike Hits Dayton Plant Over Conditions
About 2,200 members of Local 768 IUE strike the Chrysler Airtemp plant in North Dayton Ohio over working conditions. Officials say this is the last sticking point in contract renewal talks. The plant makes heating and air conditioning equipment.
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Dayton, Ohio
International Union of Electrical Workers
Chrysler Airtemp
Dayton
Mob Demolishes Police Car Amid Berkeley Demonstration
In Berkeley 3500 students defied UC officials to protest a fundraising ban. Police arrested non student Jack Weinberg for trespassing as a crowd toppled and wrecked a patrol car while others blocked Sproul Hall.
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Berkeley
Calif
University of California
Jack Weinberg
Weinberg
Sproul Hall
Cold front brings showers and cooler weekend weather
An approaching cold front will cause more general showers across the state tonight. Winds shift to northwesterly tonight and Saturday bringing cooler, partly cloudy conditions. Yesterday’s high was 80 and today’s may reach only the 70s. Today’s low near 58 will fall to 52 tomorrow.
Vatican moves toward easing mixed marriage pledges
Vatican Ecumenical Council nears end of third session and will study marriage issues including impediments in Catholic weddings and dissolution processes. Bishops question the requirement for non Catholics to pledge Catholic child upbringing. Possibility of blessing by non Catholic ministers discussed.
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Vatican City
Vatican Ecumenical Council
Paul VI
United States
John C. Heenan
Supreme
Tribunal of Catholicism
Vatican
McComb Bomb Suspects Face Death Penalty
Three white men arrested in a wave of racial bombings in McComb Mississippi face charges under a 15 year old state explosives law with a maximum penalty of death. The Pike County grand jury will consider charges for bombings targeting the homes of a Negro minister and a civil rights worker. The suspects Paul Dewey Wilson Ernest F Zeek and Jimmy P Wilson were detained after interrogations by state and federal authorities and held without bail. Authorities identified the men and said one was arrested after officers spotted weapons in a car as he moved from McComb toward Jayess. The arrests were announced by FBI Director J Edgar Hoover and Governor Paul B Johnson.
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Pike County
Magnolia
Paul Dewey Wilson
Ernest F. Zeek
Jimmy P. Wilson
Wilsons
Jackson
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Washington
Paul B. Johnson
R. R. Warren
Paul Wilson
Wilson
McComb
Jayess
Today's Chuckle: politicians share odd bedfellows
A quip notes that political alliances shift and settle into familiar partnerships. The columnist wryly observes the ease with which unlikely allies become regular collaborators in the political arena.
Baker Case Resumed By Committee
Senate Rules Committee kicks off new testimony on the District of Columbia stadium contract. Witnesses include District Armory Board officials while no principals face the payoffs charge raised by Senator Williams linking contractor Matthew McCloskey to a 25 000 to 35 000 overpayment and a 1950 Kennedy Johnson fund transfer via Baker. McCloskey denies any excess payment beyond billed amount.
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Washington
Bobby Baker
Senate Rules Committee
District of Columbia
District Armory Board
John J. Williams
R-Del
Philadelphia
Matthew McCloskey
Williams
Senate
McCloskey
Don B. Reynolds
Kennedy-Johnson
Baker
Democratic National Committee
Ireland
John F. Kennedy
Reynolds
Resignation of Senate Secretary Ties to Johnson Era
Baker resigned nearly a year ago as secretary to the Senate's Democratic majority amid questions about his outside business dealings. He had been closely allied with President Johnson while Johnson led the Senate Democrats.
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Baker
Senate
Johnson
Detroit wrestler Leapin' Larry Chene dies in I-80 crash
Arthur L. Bauchene 35 known in wrestling as Leapin Larry Chene was killed when his car left Interstate 80 north of Ottawa and rolled over. Police found a speeding ticket in his car charging 92 mph on a highway near Atkinson, issued five hours earlier.
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Ottawa, Ill
Detroit
Ottawa
Arthur L. Bauchene
Leapin
Larry Chene
Atkinson
Ill
Declaration's Signer At Peace By Jack Stillman
A Georgia bone dispute ends as Button Gwinnett is reburied in Savannah. Augusta mayor says the issue is settled and no longer pursues interment with Georgia's other signers, Walton and Hall. State officials had funded a monument, and Savannah remains the final resting place.
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Atlanta, Ga
Button Gwinnett
George Sancken Jr
Augusta
Savannah
Gwinnett
Georgia
Gwinett
Arthur J. Funk
Christ Church
Funk
Sancken
Savanah
Improved Techniques Locate Submarines Wreck
Washington AP reports new underwater search gear pinpointed the submarine Threwer wreck in 8,400 feet, confirming rapid flooding from piping failure as the cause. The April 10, 1963 sinking 220 miles east of Cape Cod claimed 129 lives. remains of crew not recovered per inquiry.
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Washington
Threwer
Navy
Cape Cod
Mass
Refugees Flee As Hurricane Hilda Moves Inland
Hurricane Hilda veered northward toward Louisiana coast with 150 mph winds threatening marshlands. Evacuations ordered in Morgan City and Franklin as tides rise and offshore oil rigs take a beating. coast guard tracks a distant merchant ship while forecasters predict strong tides and shifting path.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Cameron
Audrey
Mississippi River
New Orleans Coast Guard
Louisiana Coast
Coast Guard
New York City Bus Service Reopens After Suspension
Mayor Wagner announced that Children's Bus Service, Inc. would resume transporting about 87 000 of New York City's 92 000 daily school pupils after a four day slowdown sparked by mechanical failures and safety concerns. The move ends a union jurisdictional dispute and followed hours of talks with the company the union and the Board of Education.
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NEW York
Robert F. Wagner
Children’s Bus Service, Inc
Board of Education
Wagner
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Ann Landers
Society
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By Bennet M. Bolton
Heenan
Mississippi
Jim Prinzton Wilson
Ernest F. Zeech
ED McCusker
Dist. Atty
Joe Pigot
Zeck
James Baker Sr
Ayiene Quin
By Jack Stillman
Hilda
CST
Werther Bureau
Marsh Island
Morgan City
Franklin
St. Mary
Paris
U.S
Weather Bureau
Galveston
Tex
Mobile
Ala
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