Price restraint advisers urge wage and price guidelines
Washington AP reports Johnsons top economic advisers urge mutual short term sacrifices by business and labor to accept new voluntary wage and price restraints. They propose raising the long term 3.2 percent guideline to a little under 5 percent for 1969 while holding 1968 price rises near 4 percent.
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Washington
Johnson
Cabinet Committee
United States
Council of Economic Advisers
Budget Bureau
Congress
End Draws Near for Peyton Place
Hollywood AP report on Peyton Place ending its TV run at season close. Creator Paul Monash laments decline yet defends five year run and notes ratings driven network shifts. He cites audience erosion and the show’s increasingly tangled plots as core problems.
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Bob Thomas
Associated Press
Hollywood
Peyton Place
Paul Monash
ABC
Monash
Economic Growth Seen in 1969
The National Industrial Conference Board forecast a 6.5 percent GNP growth for 1969, reaching about 915 billion, down from 9 percent in 1968. Economists expected no mass unemployment or mini-recession, though a Vietnam truce could create adjustment challenges and inflation was seen easing to about 3 percent.
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New York
National Industrial Conference Board
Board
Economic Forum
Forum
Vietnam
Cardinal Beran Celebrates 80th Birthday in Rome
The Communist press in Prague publicized Cardinal Josef Beran’s 80th birthday while noting his exile in Rome. His career began as Prague archbishop in 1946 and ended with imprisonment and house arrest after the 1948 communist takeover. he left Czechoslovakia four years ago.
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Prague
Josef Cardinal Beran
Czechoslovakia
Rome
Lidova Demokracie
Ministry of Culture
Cardinal Beran
Navy Pilot Bell Serves Aboard USS Hancock In Vietnam
Lt. Cmdr. Arthur G. Bell of Mazon serves as avionics officer and A-4 Skyhawk pilot with Attack Squadron 164 aboard the USS Hancock in the Gulf of Tonkin. He has flown 100 missions and earned nine Air Medals and the Navy Unit Commendation. Pfc. Ronald W. Strait, 20, assigned to the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam, is the rifleman husband of Peggy Strait of 431 E. Washington.
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Navy
Arthur G. Bell
Gordon Bell of
Mazon
Uss
Hancock
Gulf of Tonkin
Vietnam
Mazon Township High School
Cmdr
Bell
Ronald W. Strait
Frank Strait Jr
Pleasant St
101St Airborne Division
Airmobile
Peggy
Washington
Driver licenses revoked and suspended in Coal City area
William C. Bloomfield of 818 Second Ave has his driver's license revoked for driving while intoxicated. Three Coal City drivers Robert R. Bastin 360 Mazon St Joe H Freels 102 E First St and Edward M Pacchetti Jr 140 Garfield St have licenses suspended for three violations. Joe H Freels receives a probationary permit at 1025 E First St.
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William C. Bloomfield
Second Ave
Paul Powell
Coal City
Robert R. Bastin
Mazon St
Joe H. Freels
E. First St
Edward M. Pacchetti Jr
Garfield St
Clayton Kirkpatrick Named Editor of the Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO AP Clayton Kirkpatrick 53 appointed editor of The Chicago Tribune succeeding retiring W D Maxwell. Kirkpatrick has been executive editor for a year and joined the Tribune in 1938 after starting as a police reporter. Maxwell led as chief news executive since 1955 after Col Robert R McCormick’s death.
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Chicago
Clayton Kirkpatrick
Chicago Tribune
W. D. Maxwell
Kirkpatrick
The
Tribune
Maxwell
Robert R. McCormick
City News
Waterman
University of Illinois
England
100Th Bombardment
8Sth
Chicago Tribune Company
$20,000 Theft at Shea Stadium
Police said three men robbed the Diamond Club at Shea Stadium after the Jets AFL title win in front of 62,500, slipping away with $20,000 in receipts. Five employees were present as two armed men and a companion carried out the holdup.
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NEW York
Shea Stadium
New York Jets
Robins Stay Put in Milwaukee Winter Count
Milwaukee bird watchers counted 51 robins during the annual winter tally for the U S Fish and Wildlife Service despite a 5 inch snow cover and teens temperatures.
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Milwaukee, Wis
Milwaukee
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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Roy McCawley
Pioneer Lumber
Robert Wood
McCawley
Charles Eddy
Bucss
Conley
Leach Coleman-Hundt
Illinois
Arta Casualty and Surety Company
Peery
Swift
Armour
Nau Tsao
Arn Saka
Pats
Wadddan
Adelle
Oscar Mayer
Stokely Tomato Juice
Stokely
King Oscar Sardines
U.S. No. 1
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