Bell strike threat looms as CWA pushes new offer
Kansas City reports the Communications Workers of America threatens a strike against Bell Telephone after a 3 to 1 union vote, with 205431 to 82000 in favor. Beirne says a strike date will be set Wednesday if Bell does not present a new contract offer. Labor seeks 25 percent pay raise, pension gains, city wage differentials, and job reclassifications.
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Kansas City
UPDA
Communications Workers of America
Bell Telephone System
Bell
Joseph R. Beirne
CWA
Beirne
Bell System
Western Electric
Cheasapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Vandals Target North Hill Station and Local Businesses
A Gulf Service Station at Highland and Boyles Ave suffers repeated vandalism with a 4 by 8 foot window broken and spray paint. Owner Philip P. Healy of Milsom Oil Co. reports ongoing harassment for three years, eight incidents, threatening closure and local business losses.
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North Hill
Gulf
Highland and
Boyles Ave
Philip P
Pat) Healy
Milsom Oil Co
Healy
Suspect sought in Detroit mass slayings
DETROIT four unidentified men are being sought in connection with seven killings and one critical wounding at a narcotics den on Detroit’s near Northwest Side. Police say the incident may link to about 50 underworld slayings this year among rival narcotics gangs.
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Detroit
UPI
Nine Infants Born In One Pregnancy Die One Survive
In Sydney the seventh of nine babies born to Mrs. Geraldine Brodrick died at Sydney Royal Women's Hospital. The birth set a world record for number of infants in one pregnancy with five boys and four girls, three others died within 24 hours and two were stillborn. The surviving boy and girl are extremely small. Mrs. Brodrick and her husband Len, both in Canberra, faced fertility drug warnings and described their wish for a son.
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Sydney
UPI
Sydney Royal Women's Hospital
Geraldine Brodrick
Brodrick
John Grenwell
English Hawthornes Bloom on Mercer Street Hedge
The Hawthorn trees on the Mercer Street Hoyt property are English hawthorn, thriving in this spring’s Englandlike climate. Flowers appear pink and white. the shrub is part of the Rose family and blooms in May, with later fruit colors varying by species.
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Mercer St
Hoyt Property
Hoyt Estate
Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts
England
Great Britain
Dayan warns war may resume in Middle East
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan warned that the resumption of war may be imminent in the Middle East. Speaking to Hebrew University students in Jerusalem he said Arab capitals lean toward renewed conflict after an Arab guerrilla attack on an Israeli bound oil tanker in the Red Sea.
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United Press International
Moshe Dayan
Middle East
Dayan
Hebrew University
Jerusalem
Red Sea
Teamsters vote on airport food service contract in Pittsburgh
About 108 members of Teamsters Local 249 vote tonight on an agreement reached with Gladieux Food Co. to supply in flight meals at Greater Pittsburgh Airport. Terms not disclosed pending ratification after a midnight strike deadline threat.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Teamsters Local 249
Greater Pittsburgh
Gladieux Food Co
Madison VFW Post Suspended Over Antiwar Actions
West Madison Memorial Post 10203 faces a 60 day suspension from the national VFW for antiwar resolutions and peace activities. Commander Mel Cohen says no charges notification has been received. State Commander Ara L. Fish confirms the suspension, approved by VFW Chief H.R. Rainwater, but declines to specify charges.
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H.R. Rainwater
Fish
Young railroad chief doubts rise in passenger service
Hays T. Watkins, president of Chesapeake and Ohio-B&O, says rail passenger travel will not grow as travelers prefer airplanes and cars. He questions Amtrak’s success and notes railroads work with the national system, while a future coordinated network remains unproven.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Hays T. Watkins
Chesapeake and Ohio
Baltimore and Ohio
Amtrak
Pakistani scholar Ahmad seeks FBI return of seized items
Dr. Eqbal Ahmad, one of eight defendants in an alleged kidnap bomb plot, files a motion in U.S. District Court claiming illegal FBI searches of his New York apartment during the case and possible rifling of his Chicago office during a student demonstration. He asks the court to order return of seized property and bar its use as evidence.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Eqbal Ahmad
New York
FBI
Chicago
U.S. District Court
Ahmad
Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs
U S Steel Sued Over Birmingham Water Pollution
The Justice Department files a civil suit against United States Steel Corporation for discharges into Opposum Creek in Fairfield District Birmingham Alabama. The case aims to improve regional water quality and signals further federal actions.
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Washington
UPI
Justice Department
United States Steel Corporation
Birmingham
Ala
Fairfield District
Shiro Kashiwa
Land and Natural Resources Division
U.S. Steel
Valley Creek
Black Warrior River
Clifford to have his day
The Nixon administration plans to meet with former defense secretary Clifford to explore his plan for freeing American POWs. Deputy State Secretary William Sullivan spoke with Clifford, and a Wednesday meeting may include other officials to assess his belief that a Dec 31 withdrawal would force Hanoi to release all POWs within 30 days.
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UPI
Nixon
Clark Clifford
Defense
Clifford
Hanoi
William Sullivan
Sullivan
State Department
Vietnam
United States
U.S
White House
Ronald Ziegler
William P. Rogers
Paris
Miners Strike Spreads Across Ohio and Pennsylvania
Miners walkout expands from Southern West Virginia to Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania in protest of court ordered removal of W A Boyle as United Mine Workers Welfare and Retirement Fund trustee. About 1 600 miners in Ohio and 2 200 in Pennsylvania join the action as the federation prepares to replace Boyle and neutral trustee Josephine Roche.
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Charleston
W.va
UPI
W.A
Tony” Boyle
United Mine Workers Welfare and Retirement Fund
Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Boyle
Washington
UMW
Josephine Roche
Gerhard A. Gessell
Chicago
Jackson trial begins in Pittsburgh murder case
Norman Jackson, 34, of Pittsburgh, faces murder charges in the slaying of David L. Wiley, 44, an Ellwood City reading teacher. Wiley’s body was found Feb 20 in Pittsburgh’s Strip District. Co defendant William H. Smith, 31, also of Pittsburgh, will be tried later. Judge Samuel Strauss presides. Indictments dated March 9.
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UPI
Norman Jackson
Ellwood City
Lawrence County
Allegheny County
Jackson
William H. Smith
East Liberty
David L. Wiley
Butler
Wiley
Smith
Samuel Strauss
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