Skylab Crew Ready for Earth Return After 28-Day Mission
Skylab 2 astronauts Charles Conrad Jr Joseph P Kerwin and Paul J Weitz wrap up a record 28 day orbit at Space Center Houston preparing to re enter Friday. They disconnect the lab load transfer film tapes and equipment and await splashdown in the Pacific aboard the carrier Ticonderoga with 33 minutes from splash to hatch.
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Space Center, Houston
Space Station
Earth
Charles Conrad Jr
Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
Ticonderoga
Pacific Ocean
San Diego
Calif
Kerwin
Royce Hawkins
Skylab
Postal unions set to ratify two year wage pact
Leaders of the APWU and the National Association of Letter Carriers say they will push ratification of a new two year contract raising wages and benefits about 15 percent with yearly cost of living boosts. The pact would raise the average postal worker's pay above 11 thousand dollars annually and take effect July 20.
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Washington
Francis Filbey
American Postal Workers Union
APWU
Filbey
James H. Rademacher
National Association of Letter Carriers
U.S. Postal Service
National Rural Letter Carriers Association
Laborers International Division
Cost of Living Council
Elmer T. Klassen
Postal Rate Commission
Illinois IEA bargaining bill dies in Senate vote
In Springfield the Illinois Education Association bid to grant teachers collective bargaining rights failed in the Senate 26 to 12, falling four votes short of the 30 needed. Sen. Philip Rock urged action as Mitchler criticized IEA tactics. two related House bills face subcommittee study with little chance of movement.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois Education Association
Senate
Stright
Philip Rock
Chicago
House
Senate Committee On Industry and Labor
Robert W. Mitcher
R.oswego
IEA
Curtis W. Platt
Statehouse
Mitchler
Julie Nixon Eisenhower backs Nixon amid Watergate coverage
Julie Nixon Eisenhower the President's daughter emerges as a public defender of her father. She headlines Teen Age Republican events and White House sessions, answering questions in a press conference style East Room session while hinting at future activity in her father's administration.
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Washington
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Julie
Pat Nixon
White House
GOP
Eisenhower
California
David
Nixon
Lisbon Notes Briefs Highlight Local Family Visits and Events
Mrs Gunda Erickson of Hanley Falls Minn visited her niece and husband Mr and Mrs Leonard Heggen this weekend. Rockford hosted the 25th wedding anniversary of Rev and Mrs Laverne Runnestad at their home last Sunday with attendance from the Knutsons, Aarestads and others. LaVeta Knutson and nursing student plans in Moline, Randy Hanson visiting grandmother, local hospital returnees Jonas Mikkelson and Ralph Akre, and several gatherings including Stanley Johnsons and Hall family members marked Father's Day observances and Sunday visits.
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Gunda Erickson
Hanley Falls
Minn
Leonard Heggen
Halvor Kaldheim
Grundy County
Robert Knutson
Laurel
Ruth
Roberta
Josiah Hohnson
Orliss Runnestad
Randy
Mokena
Karl Aarestad
Florida
Laverne Runnestad
Rockford
Runnestad
Barbara Aarestad
LaVeta Knutson
Moline
Randy Hanson
Gardner
Selma Sorensen
Jonas Mikkelson
Ralph Akre
Ralph Johnson
Stanley Johnson
Stanley Hall
Donald Anderson
George Hall
Randolph Chally
Grundy County seeks deputy sheriff applicants
Grundy County Sheriff William Button announced applications are open for a deputy sheriff at the Grundy County Sheriff's Department 111 E. Washington St. Applicants aged 21 to 40 will be placed on the eligibility list and screened through LEADS NCIC and the FBI. A law enforcement test will be given if accepted and applications are due by 4 p.m. July 2.
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Grundy County
William Button
Have an Apartment to Rent Classified Ad
Want ads offer apartment rental placement service with a phone number 942-3221 for placing results oriented ads.
Family stays together on Montana farm
The Hilger siblings Bryan Susan Dan and Amelia run about 85 cows and land totaling near 10 000 acres along the Missouri River at Wolf Creek Montana. They share ranch chores and a self sufficient life while facing aging land and possible sale to development across the river.
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Jim Klahn
Associated Press
Wolf Creek
Mont
Hilger
Bryan
Susan
Dan
Amelia
Missouri River
Nicholas Hilger
Hilgers
Helena
Missouri
Babe
Bertha
N.D. Hilger
Hilger Valley
Conduct fine incorrectly reported
Correction to a prior Morris Daily Herald item states Florenzio Carrizales was fined $220 plus costs after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct. Sheriff William Button signed a June 6 complaint charging Carrizales with a breach of the peace by making improper advances toward an eight year old minor.
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the Morris
Ill
Daily Herald
Morris Daily Herald
Florenzio Carrizales
Robert Wren
Carrizales
William Button
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Foch
New York
Lisbon
Sunol
John I. Giem
Ames Research Center
Sacramento
NASA
Montana
Devotion
Karastan
Fitzgerald Furniture Company
W. Washington St
City of Morris
City OF
Morris
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