Edison Collins Station nets two Crusade awards in 1977 drive
Commonwealth Edison Collins Station near Morris won two company awards for Crusade of Mercy contributions. The Mercy Award honored the greatest increase in donations and the One Percent Award recognized the highest percent of employees pledging one percent of salary. Collins Station saw a 39 percent rise in donors, while 17 percent gave one percent. Dresden Station near Morris earned the One Day's Pay Award with 68 percent of staff contributing one day's pay, setting a company record over $840,000.
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Commonwealth Edison
Collins Station
Morris
Edison
Collins
Dresden
Deer Prefers Rides to Walk In Forest Incident
Newell Jensen of Tawas City was driving to work when a 150 pound buck wandered from the Huron National Forest and climbed into his Gremlin. Deputies Charles Bublitz and partner moved the deer from the car to their patrol, where it settled in the back seat as the heater was turned on.
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Tawas City
Mich
UPI
Huron National Forest
Newell Jensen
Jensen
Josco County
Sauerkraut Pizza Venture Heads to Egypt from Iowa
DES MOINES IOWA UPI Joe Whitty founder of Happy Joe’s Pizza and Ice Cream Parlor chain expanding to 86 franchises in 16 states planned a Sunday diplomatic trip to Egypt to introduce sauerkraut pizza. Whitty, a Minot North Dakota native who began with one family shop, was encouraged by Egyptian officials after tasting his pizzas. They said no real pizza exists there and expressed interest in Americanizing their cuisine.
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Des Moines, Iowa
UPI
Joe Whitty
Whitty
Davenport
Iowa
Egypt
North Dakota
Minot
N.D
Cassini to design carpeting in Galaxy Carpet Mills line
Oleg Cassini, famed for popularizing the turtle neck, joins Galaxy Carpet Mills as a carpet designer in Chicago. He aims to elevate taste with original designs while noting the paradox of needing both design and name to succeed. He cites Italian Renaissance study and Native American inspirations as sources, and recalls earlier fashion work for Jacqueline Kennedy and Peter Lawford.
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Chicago
UPI
Oleg Cassini
Cassini
Galaxy Carpet Mills Inc
Galaxy
Jacqueline Kennedy
Peter Lawford
Casini
Florence
Italy
Gallup
N. M
Manslaughter charges filed over order on alcoholism
Bridgeton New Jersey UPI reports a scrap metal broker Meyer Lahn 55 faces manslaughter charges in the deaths of his wife Dale 43 and their 6 year old daughter Lynda after a fire caused by a short circuit from a wet shirt near a lamp. Lahn had been ordered to hire a paid housekeeper when away due to his wife's alcohol problem.
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Bridgeton
N.J
UPI
Meyer Lahn
General Commodities Corp
Lahn
Dale
Lynda
Richard Gauntt
Steven Kleiner
County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court
State Division of Youth and Family Services
Counterculture millionaires emerge from holistic entrepreneurship
Robert Schwartz predicts 10 000 new counterculture millionaires in two years as ecologically minded businesses gain traction. He cites figures from The Whole Earth Catalogue to Celestial Seasonings, Erewhon, and movements like transcendental meditation. He describes motives as achievement driven, entrepreneurial zeal, and a mission to reshape economy and society.
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Leroy Pope
UPI
New York
Internal Revenue Service
United States
Robert Schwartz
Tarrytown House
Hudson
Schwartz
Executive
Cornell University Graduate Business School
Alexander
Werner Ehrhardt
Stewart Emory
Scientology
Sun Myung Moon
Unification Church
Harvard
Joseph Schumpeter
Michigan town to fire five police officers over pay raise
Grayling officials will disband the police force after Teamsters Local 214 won a 15 percent raise to salaries around 10 010 a year. The mayor says the three year pact will trigger tax increases, while the union argues the town could keep the raises if other city workers are not granted raises. The union plans to seek legal action to block layoffs.
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Grayling
Mich
UPI
Teamsters Union
Teamsters Local 214
Derek McEvers
Paul Gully
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