Farm Union Enters Into Contract With Schenley
The National Farm Workers Association and Schenley Industries signed a one year contract for 450 grape workers near Delano California. The pact raises the hourly wage to 1 75 and establishes a union shop and union hiring hall with 72 hours notice for needed workers. Cesar Chavez calls it a milestone while noting broader organizing efforts in pears apples and melons.
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Los Angeles
National Farm Workers Association
Union
Schenley Industries Inc
Delano
California
Schenley
Sacramento
Digiorgio Corp
Digiorgio
Cesar Chavez
U.S. Agriculture
Jim Drake
Pirate radio owner found dead amid station seizure off Kent
Reg Calvert 37 promoter of Radio City was shot in Whitstable area police said. A boarding party of 10 men and a girl seized the fort radio station at Shivering Sands while Calvert’s death prompted police to question Oliver Smedley and a woman.
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London
Britain
Reg Calvert
Radio City
Shivering Sands
Kent
Whitstable
Calvert
Oliver Smedley
Liberal Party
Smedley
Project Atlanta
British Waters
Staion
Screaming Lord Sutch
UKGM
United Kingdom
Good Music
Shelters Set Up for 60 in Stricken Area
In Hampton Virginia after a Marine jet crash that killed a woman and her infant, the Red Cross opened shelters at Buckroe Beach High School for about 60 homeless residents who instead stayed with relatives. AGA Intruder collided with a sister jet over Chesapeake Bay. one craft crashed into a yard, killing Mrs. Gallant and her year-old son Donald.
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Hampton
Red Cross
Buckroe Beach High School
Chesapeake Bay
Bay
Buckroe Beach
Virginia
Joseph Gallant
New President Elected for North American Division
Neal C. Wilson of Washington DC was chosen as president of the North American Division of the Seventh day Adventist Church at its 50th world conference in Detroit.
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Detroit
Neal C. Wilson
Washington, D.C
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Illinois Waterway May traffic led by Peoria Lock and Dam
The Illinois Waterway in May was led by the Peoria Lock and Dam with 2,225,978 tons. Dresden Lock and Dam ranked second with 2,002,583 tons, according to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers statistical report. Bituminous coal remained the top commodity passing through the waterway.
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Dresden Island Lock and Dam
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Illinois Waterway
Peoria
Dresden
Towed freight through Lockport volumes rise in 1900 era
The report notes tows with petroleum products grain sand and gravel. Lockport led with 521 tows and Dresden Island ranked third with 410, reflecting heavy traffic on the inland waterway system.
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Lockport
Dresden Island
Skidmore Owens Merrill Wins 1966 Design Award
Chicago firm Skidmore Owings Merrill earns the National Society of Interior Designers total design award for architectural plans at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle campus in Chicago.
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Chicago
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Total Design
National Society of Interior Designers
University of Illinois Chicago
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American Football League
Morris Dry Cleaners
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Norman Rockwell
New England
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Family Guy
Brunswick Pool Tables
Sony Portable Television
Jade East
Kroger
Hills Bros
Crisco
Caigon
Duz
Cascade
Comet Cleanser
Mr. Clean
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