Railroad Strike Delayed as Agreement Nears
A nationwide railroad strike is postponed as negotiators near a tentative agreement. Union leaders and company officials monitor talks to avert service disruption and protect workers’ pay and benefits.
03 Dec 1969
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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1969
Page
1
A nationwide railroad strike is postponed as negotiators near a tentative agreement. Union leaders and company officials monitor talks to avert service disruption and protect workers’ pay and benefits.
Neshannock Township keeps a five mill property tax and one per cent real estate transfer tax for 1970 with a proposed budget of 240 874 dollars, up about 8 000 from 1969 and on display at the township building ahead of adoption in about 20 days. Income matches expenditures with 130 000 cash balance and 73 100 from property tax.
Obituaries list Samuel Smith Sr aged 61 of Ellwood City Harry W Nagel 72 of Ellwood City RD 2 Mrs John Louise Butcher 69 Ellwood City Infant John Griffith New Middletown RD 1 Ohio Pete Bentel 76 Ellwood City.
Pfc Larry L Fowler 21 of New Galilee RD 1 was killed in action Thanksgiving Day in Vietnam. He served with the Army 101st Airborne Division and was a Beaver Falls High School graduate. Survived by parents, a twin brother, a brother and a sister, funeral details set at Sutton's Funeral Home Koppel with service Friday in Mt Carmel UP Church Aliquippa and burial in Grandview Cemetery Big Beaver.
Cloudy and windy today with a chance of light snow or flurries. Highs in the 30s and tonight turning colder with lows in the teens to low 20s. Mostly cloudy and windy Thursday with a chance of snow flurries and highs in the 20s. Friday partly cloudy north and mostly sunny south with easing cold. Lake Erie gale warnings in effect with west to northwest winds 30 to 40 knots.
Six hundred fresh North Vietnamese troops attacked a South Vietnamese outpost near the Cambodian border, but 160 defenders with US air and artillery repelled the four hour assault. 108 attackers were killed and six captured. six government troops died and 27 were wounded. Additional shelling hit Bu Prang and Duc Lap camps as US forces reported light casualties elsewhere and predicted further attacks around Christmas.
Democratic sponsors push for an $800 million federal fund to clean up polluted waters urging President Nixon to approve. Sen. Muskie cites $10 billion needed for full facilities, while House and Senate leaders compromise on $800 million under the omnibus public works bill. Ellender plans bipartisan appeals to Nixon with governors pressed to back the measure.
The Senate weighs two tax cut proposals, an $8.8 billion Democratic plan and a $12.8 billion Republican plan, both boosting personal exemptions from $600 to up to $800, with timing varying by plan. Nixon backs a fiscally responsible approach. Gore and Percy differ on implementation. The plans offer relief for poor taxpayers and near poor, affecting about 12 million people.
Susan Atkins, jailed as a Tate murder suspect, testified that Charles Manson led a hypnotic group believing the Sharon Tate estate slayings were a symbol of rejection. Atkins described Manson as a “very beautiful man” and said he planned further murders amid a wave of unsolved slayings in the area.
A Trans World Airlines Boeing 707 on a San Francisco to Philadelphia flight was hijacked to Cuba by a knife wielding man. The plane landed at Philadelphia International Airport at 5 30 a m after a Miami stop. It carried 20 passengers and seven crew. Passenger R Kallman said the hijacker left in Havana and the captain was praised for handling the incident.
City police and county authorities raided an apartment on Highland Ave late yesterday and arrested six persons for violation of the drug device and cosmetic act. All six pleaded innocent at arraignment today at 3 30 a.m. before Alderman Howard B Hanna. A hearing was set for 2 p.m. next Wednesday. Ronald R. Bradley 23 of 137 E Moody Ave released on 1000 cash bond. Release on 2000 property bond were James S Hannan 18 of 815 McCleary Ave Bruce Pickel 24 of 1810 Highland Ave Eleanor Grimes 22 of 8 N Lee Ave and Marlene J Pagley 24 of 760 Harrison St. Theodore J Thompson 22 of 321 Bell Ave confined to county jail in lieu of bond. Details on the raid are sketchy.
The YM YWCA hosts the third drug education class tomorrow at 7 30 p m featuring a film and discussion on marijuana A panel includes Lt Harold Rice from the state police sub station H W Phelps a local druggist and a physician The public is invited
The Columbus Citizen-Journal reported that President Nixon personally invited Woody Hayes to become US Selective Service director after Hayes declined a prior indirect offer to Hershey. Hayes denied the offer and planned to stay with Ohio State football, while the White House denied he was under consideration.
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