Middle class rise sparks travel and politics for Syrops
Iron worker Harry Syrop and wife Fay recount a lifetime of lean years and now enjoying travel in a gold Chrysler and Caribbean cruise. They credit better pay and union benefits for their renewed freedom while critiquing taxes and welfare. Syrop recalls labor history from the 1930s to 1950s and notes current costs and politics.
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New York
UPI
Harry Syrop
Fay
United States
Caribbean
Syrop
Fresh Meadow
Queens
mid-Manhattan
New York City
Hoboken, N.J
Bethlehem Steel
Syrops
Albuquerque
N.M
Poisoned love ends in murder charge in New Paris
In Goshen Indiana 24 year old Shirley Rock is indicted for first degree murder in the May 25 death of her 26 year old husband David Rock at Elkhart General Hospital. Prosecutor C Whitney Slabaugh says she poisoned him gradually by arsenic in drinks over several weeks after marital problems and a looming divorce. She confessed after a grand jury handed up the indictment.
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Goshen
Ind
UPI
David
Shirley Rock
New Paris
Here
Union Center Church of New Brethren
Mrs. Rock
Elkhart General Hospital
Elkhart County
C. Whitney Slabaugh
Casino cheaters put price on Hicks head
John Hicks, indicted for murder, hides in a Los Angeles motel after being told a $25,000 bounty is placed on his head by a casino cheating ring. Police say members contributed $1,000 each to hire a killer, as Hicks faces arraignment in Las Vegas for murder and related charges.
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Las Vegas
Nev
UPI
John Hicks
Los Angeles
Hicks
Justice Department
Organized Crime Strike Force
Robert Lee Murphy
Murphy
Hitchcock dreams of a single item plate at buffet
In Boston Hitchcock jokes about walking a buffet party with one item on his plate a shrunken head to provoke gluttonous guests. In Stockholm Shirley Temple Black forms Earths Better Half to boost womens environmental influence. In Lexington Ford is hospitalized with a back injury from hydroplane regatta incident. In Washington Velma Johnson nicknamed Wild Horse Annie wins Interior Departments Public Service Award for west wild horse and burro campaign.
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United Press International Boston
UPI
Alfred Hitchcock
Stockholm
Shirley Temple Black
Washington
Velma Johnson
Annie
Interior Department
Public Service
West
Interior
Rogers C. B. Morton
Johnson
Reno, Nev
County MHMR feud prompts open discussion call
County Commissioner Frank A. Vitril seeks an open discussion with MHMR board presidents to inform the public about problems in the Mental Health-Mental Retardation program. He criticized a recent decision to contract with the MH Clinic and suggested county wide radio coverage for the debate.
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Frank A. Vitril
Arthur R. Zarone
J. Fred Rentz
Mental Health Clinic Board
Vitril
Rentz
Mh-Mr
Dominic J. Lynch
Thomas A. Shumaker
U S Jets Hit North Vietnam Bridges and Rail Link
UPI reports over 340 air strikes inside North Vietnam on Thursday as U S fighter bombers avoided Hanoi during Podgorny’s visit. Attacks targeted bridges trucks and airfields with the Ninh Binh rail and highway bridge 54 miles south southwest of Hanoi damaged. The pause near Hanoi coincided with Podgorny’s arrival, seen by observers as possibly easing Paris peace talks.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S. Command
North Vietnam
Washington
Hanoi
Nikolai V. Podgorny
U.S
Ninh Binh
Podgorny
Paris
Kissinger Talks With China May Help Vietnam Peace Efforts
Kissinger's discussions with Chinese leaders in Peking could aid a peaceful settlement in Indochina, but officials say no new peace formula emerged. Podgorny's Hanoi visit and Moscow summit offered no joint Soviet American strategy.
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Washington
UPI
Henry A. Kissinger
Vietnam
Peking
Kissinger
Nikolai Podgorny
Hanoi
Moscow
Judge orders new UMW election by year end
Federal Judge William B. Bryant voided the 1969 UMW presidential election and directed a new vote by Jan. 1, finding Landrum Griffin violations in the contest. In Cleveland UTU filed suit in Washington to protect 6,000 Penn Central workers’ jobs.
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Cleveland
UPI
United Transportation Union
UTU
U.S. District
Washington
Penn Central Transportation Co
Mills dreams ticket with Kennedy for VP role and future top post
Rep. Wilbur Mills proposes a Kennedy ticket and would consider a vice presidential nod if drafted at the Democratic convention. In separate items, James Anderson’s trial ends without verdict on seven vehicular homicide counts in Youngstown. Army officials fear bombing disclosures delay Abrams as Army Chief. two youths drown in Pa. 66 embankment crash near Leechburg.
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United Press International
Wilbur Mills
Edward Kennedy
Mills
House
Ways and Means
Sen
Kennedy
Youngstown
Ohio
UPI
James Anderson
Anderson
Mahoning County
Washington
UPS
U.S
North Vietnam
Creighton W. Abrams
U.S. Army
Abrams
Vietnam
William C. Westmoreland
Westmoreland
Leechburg
Kiski
John A. Summerville
Vandergrift
Westmoreland County
Tim la Place
Apollo RD
Armstrong County
Andrew Crossan
Citizens General Hospital
New Kensington
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Wendell H. Ford
Owensboro
Ford
Robert W. Rogers
Rogers
Donald L. Short
Short
New Castle News
UMW
Harrisburg
Senate
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Indiana
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Butler County
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Allegheny County
Barbara Lou Verlander
Miss Moffitt
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