Pittsburgh teachers end four week strike with pay raise
Pittsburgh public schools reopen after a four week strike by 2,000 of 3,400 teachers in the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers. The 23 month contract gives a 900 dollar annual increase, retroactive to Jan 1, with 86 new teachers to ease workloads. Principal reform talks continue with court action possible.
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John Brown recovers well after Cleveland Clinic operation
John Brown of 105 Smithfield St. is recovering quickly after open heart surgery at Cleveland Clinic Hospital last Monday. His wife Naomi reports discharge expected Thursday or Friday and notes he walked the hospital corridors by Saturday. The Rev. Manford Carter plans a John Brown Day at St. Luke AME Zion Church as the family faces a $7,000 to $10,000 bill. Bart Vanasco was installed president of the King Humbert Society by Mayor Carl A. Cialella Jr. and officers were named for several posts.
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Frank Cavell
Willie Nicoletti
Albuico Mareo
Inauguration of Milton Shapp to be biggest ever
Harrisburg UPI The Pennsylvania State Inaugural Committee plans a three day celebration starting January 17 for Gov elect Milton Shapp. Events include receptions dinners dances a 1.4 mile parade with about 75 000 visitors expected and two balls concluding the day.
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Jarring Returns to U N for Middle East Peace Talks
United Nations mediator Gunnar V. Jarring resumed briefings with Arab negotiators in New York on Israel’s peace proposals as fighting flares in Jordan between Palestinian guerrillas and Jordanian troops. Egypt warns of war while Sadat pledges to not extend the cease-fire unless progress toward settlement occurs.
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Apollo 14 crew enters brief quarantine before January moon launch
Cape Kennedy reports Apollo 14 astronauts begin a short quarantine to reduce illness risk ahead of the January 31 moon launch. Mission Commander Shepard and lunar module pilot Mitchell traveled to Cape Kennedy for three weeks of final preparations. Command module pilot Roosa stayed in Houston with a late arrival postponed by fog at Ellington Field.
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Americans’ cars damaged by vandals in Moscow
In Moscow three Russians threatened Pan American World Airways employee Joseph Markaroff and damaged five parked cars in a daylight spree near the Metropole Hotel. The attacks, tied to protests against U S Zionists, followed earlier threats to Pan Am staff and targeted the city’s tourist centers including Gorky Street and Lenin Hills.
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Laird Expresses Heartening Vietnam View and Troop Goals
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird said his assessment of Vietnam was heartening and troops’ morale was minorly affected. He predicted the Nixon administration would meet or beat the goal of 284,000 U.S. troops by May 1 and that ground warfare would be handed to Vietnamese units by then. Across Indochina heavy fighting and Allied casualties continued as 2,000 South Vietnamese troops pushed toward Phnom Penh while U.S. and South Vietnamese forces reported 142 Communist deaths in weekend battles.
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Hard times stalk Appalachia at Bottom Creek
Roving observer Rollo Taylor guides visitors to Bottom Creek near Welch West Virginia a crippled coal region settlement with about 50 families living in ramshackle homes along an unpaved street. Many houses lack siding coal cars smoke pervades the area and trash lines yards. Local poverty official Harold Cooper notes little has changed in seven years as federal anti poverty programs struggle to improve the area.
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Bolivian coup attempt and ship collision in English Channel outbreak
A Peruvian freighter sliced into the empty Panamanian tanker Texaco Caribbean in the English Channel during the early hours. Nine crew missing feared dead, twenty rescued as the Texaco Caribbean sank. Paracas towed salvage side. In Bolivia, President Juan Jose Torres says fascist rebels backed by outsiders attempted a coup, with WWII fighters strafing the Miraflores barracks and air force involvement reported.
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Picea Trio Walkaways Halts as Police Fire at Roadblock
Three men, William Zuschin, John Keller, and Dale Sprinkle, fled from a dairy farm job near Ravenna Ohio. police stopped their pickup at a roadblock at city limits. Zuschin leapt free and was shot in the leg but not seriously wounded. The trio, all in their early twenties, were unaccounted for since Saturday.
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Shapp Hosts Demonstrators for Coffee After Tax Protest
About 20 protesters visited Governor-elect Milton J. Shapp at his Merion home to air tax grievances. Shapp and his wife served coffee and cake, offering two demonstrators job leads. He warned state funds may run dry around February 25 and said he won’t know the full fiscal picture until after inauguration.
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Farm total down as U.S. farm count falls slightly
The United States is seeing a continuing farm decline but at a slower pace. Preliminary estimates place the 1971 total at 2,876,000 farms, down under 2 percent from 2,924,000 in 1970, with declines much smaller than the 1960s average of about 100,000 per year.
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Colleges resist cooperating with draft boards in 11 states
Washington UPI reports Selective Service Director Curtis W Tarr said Haverford and Swarthmore were among colleges that refused to cooperate with local draft boards trying to determine students academic status for deferments. Yale Harvard M T Wisconsin Massachusetts and several smaller institutions were also cited in Tarrs report.
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Chavez group to picket Oakdale Depot and other sites
Cesar Chavez leads a nationwide UFWOC protest plan for 30 Taik installations and federal buildings including Oakdale Military Depot near Pittsburgh. The group says they found lettuce from Bud Antle, Inc. used at 10 facilities and seeks a three year ban on Defense Department purchases in a Los Angeles federal suit naming Defense Secretary Melvin Laird.
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Linda Vaughn denies allegations linked to railroad loss
Linda Vaughn denies any wrongdoing in the Penn Central mismanagement case linked to Executive Jet losses. In a Riverside interview she calls claims invasive and says her 30 day engagement to ex Executive Jet president Lassiter was her only tie to the firm. The House Banking and Currency Committee cited the $21 million loss as an example of mismanagement leading to a bankruptcy petition.
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Dick) Lassiter
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Penn Central seeks court approval to market $110 million in certificates
Penn Central Railroad takes its plan to federal court to approve marketing $110 million in government backed certificates. Judge John P Fullam oversees the line's bankruptcy reorganization and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York would act as fiscal agent. The two issues total $130 million with maturities set for January 15, 197%, and January 15, 1988, with an early redemption option in 1981.
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