Boyle urges return of striking coal miners in six states
United Mine Workers locals meet to decide whether to heed union president Boyle’s call to end the 85,500 miner strike sparked by a federal court ruling removing Boyle as trustee of the UMW Welfare Fund. Some West Virginia locals already vote to resume work. five Consolidation Coal mines with 1,500 workers prepared to return.
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Charleston
W. Va
UPI
United Mine Workers
Lumw
W. A
Tony” Boyle
West Virginia
Boyle
UMW
Consolidation Coal Co
Butler youth settlement approved for 150000 injury case
An 18 year old from Butler County获得 a 150000 settlement after a 1969 crash on U S 19 in Muddy Creek Township. Samuel L. Hamilton Jr. was unconscious a month and suffered brain damage double vision coordination loss and tremors. Defendants include Donald R. McCoy and Motor Express Inc. Claim was presented to Butler County Judge John C Dillon by attorney William C. Robinson.
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Butler
Samuel L. Hamilton Jr
Poertersville RD
Donald R. McCoy
Savannah Gardner Road
New Castle
Motor Express Inc
Cleveland
U.S. 19
Muddy Creek
Butler County
Donald Mahoney
Hamilton
William C. Robinson
John C. Dillon
Man outlasts life insurance policy payout
Robert A. Eckles, 96, of 307 E. Edison Ave, outlived the normal life expectancy after buying a $5,000 Northwestern Mutual policy in 1924. Instead of keeping the payout, he directs the full amount to his two sons in Connecticut and North Carolina. Northwestern will continue forwarding dividend checks to him.
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Robert A. Eckles
E. Edison Ave
Northwestern Mutual
Northwestern
Eckles
Connecticut
North Carolina
Mill St. Central Area renewal plans announced for 1972
Project by NCCAR calls for spring initiation on Mill St from North St to Sycamore Way with commercial stores on the land. Existing tenants Danish Pastry Shop A W Meek Jewelers and New Castle Drug remain. other blocks await later development as parcels A B C unfold.
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Mill St
Central Area
Robert A. Weingartner
New Castle Central Area Renewal Inc
Unccar
North St
Sycamore Way
Danish Pastry Shop
A.W. Meek Jewelers
New Castle Drug &Co
Weingartner
E. Washington St
Neshannock Creek
City Redevelopment Authority
Neshannock Village
Neshannock Ave
East St
City Council
Redevelopment Authority
NCCAR
Secret Vietnam war study drafts may exist beyond final copies
Washington officials say preliminary drafts of the Vietnam war study could still exist apart from the 15 final copies. The FBI seeks how The Times obtained its near-complete copy of the classified 1968 report. Only Clifford holds the nonfinal copy. McNamara commissioned the study and Reston linked the Times to possible drafts.
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Washington
UPI
New York Times
FBI
The
Times
Defense
Robert 8. McNamara
Clark M. Clifford
the Times
James Reston
Reston
Pentagon
Clifford
Government asks court to obtain Pentagon report
The federal government moves in U.S. District Court to compel The New York Times to surrender copies of a secret Pentagon report used as the basis for a five part Indochina series. Judge Murray Gurfein set a 10 am hearing to decide why the Times should not hand over the material and extended a temporary injunction blocking the last two installments.
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New York
CPI
New York Times
Pentagon
U.S
Indochina
Murray Gurfein
the Times
Gurfein
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
Critics Lose As War Ends In Symbolic House Move And Draft Hit
In Washington action, war critics in both chambers faced defeats. Senate opponents led by McGovern and Hatfield failed 55 to 42 to cut U S combat funding in or over Vietnam after December 31. A rival push by Lawton Chiles to set a June 1 1972 deadline failed 52 to 44.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
House
Senate
George S. McGovern
Ds.d
Mark Q. Hatfield
U.S
Vietnam
Lawton Chiles
D-Fla
Picketing Halt Sought at Four Jones and Laughlin Mines
District Judge Barron McCune was to hear Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp petition to stop an alleged illegal work stoppage at four J and L mines in Washington and Greene counties. He ordered roving pickets at Gateway mine and three other mines to cease interfering with work resumption, after which 3,100 workers were kept from 10 mines.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
USS
Barron McCune
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
Washington
Greene Counties
McCune
Gateway
J and L
Vestaburg
Washington County
Bobtown
Greene County
Space factories eyed for orbit manufacturing in space
Soviet cosmonaut predicts space factories with 50 to 100 workers orbiting Earth to manufacture precise ball bearings and metal plastic alloys. Flight of the Salyut space station sparks comment on space based industry and future economic use of space. University Park Pa Dr John W Oswald Penn State president hospitalized under observation at Hershey Medical Center with undisclosed ailment. Oswald, 53, inaugurated as 13th Penn State president at graduation on Saturday.
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Moscow
UPI
Salyut Space Station
Yevgeny V. Khrunov
University Park, Pa
John W Oswald
Pennsylvania State University
Oswald
Milton
Hershey Medical Center
Hershey
Penn State
Eric Walker
Aluminum Company of America Alcoa
Pittsburgh
Negotiations Resume in Pittsburgh Press Strike Talks
Negotiations between 400 striking printers and management at the Pittsburgh Press Co. adjourned with little progress after a three hour session. Federal mediator Arthur Wellman said talks bring the sides closer, as the six week strike has closed the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Press. Talks will resume next Wednesday with continued union negotiations underway.
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Pittsburgh
OPI
Pittsburgh Press Co
Arthur Wellman
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Wellman
Scripps-Howard Owned
Press Co
Apollo 15 flight tests delayed by lightning strikes
UPI reports a one week delay in Apollo 15 readiness tests after lightning struck the Saturn V umbilical tower twice this week. Officials say the delay will not push back the July 26 Moon launch date while the final readiness hours shift to next Wednesday. three strikes Monday and one Tuesday caused no reported damage. Pittsburgh brief notes Gladieux Food Service workers under a federal court order to stay on the job through midnight pending wage talks with Teamsters Local 249, with a resumption of talks planned and a possible strike after 12:01 a.m. if no agreement is reached.
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Cape Kennedy
UPI
Space Agency
Pittsburgh
Gladieux Food Service, Inc
Greater Pittsburgh
USS
Barron McCune
Teamsters Local 249
Gladieux
McCune
Local 249
Surviving Canberra Twins Begin Feeding At 100 Hours
The two surviving babies of nine born Sunday to a Canberra mother passed 100 hours in life and began feeding today. A Sydney hospital bulletin noted one boy received a blood transfusion Wednesday night while both babies’ conditions otherwise remained unchanged in the last 24 hours.
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Sydney
UPI
Canberra
Sydney Royal Women’s Hospital
U.S. Steel Closes Edgar Thompson Plant Over Slump
U.S. Steel pauses Edgar Thompson works in Braddock due to fewer mid summer orders. About 2,000 of 3,000 workers will be idle. President E B Speer says operations will resume when demand increases.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
U.S. Steel Corp
Edgar Thompson
Braddock
U.S. Steel
E.B. Speer
CWA Sets July 14 Strike Date Against Bell
The Communications Workers of America votes to strike Bell Telephone on July 14 if no contract is agreed. Beirne warns of major service disruption across the industry while 205,432 to 82,009 approve the strike. Bell offers 17 percent raises over three years, workers seek 25 percent.
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Joseph A. Beirne
The
Communications Workers of America
Bell Telephone System
Beirne
CWA
Kansas City
BELL
Bell Telephone
UPI
Kansas City, Mo
UPD
New York
Joseph A. Beime
Ma Bell
Municipal Auditorium
Western Electric and
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Bell System
United States
63 Soldiers Killed in Surprise DMZ Raid
Saigon says a North Vietnamese battalion of about 600 attacked a South Vietnamese company of 160 near the DMZJust east of Phnom Penh fighting marked day seven of a wider push by North Vietnamese forces Cambodian units fought back from river gun boats and air power South Vietnamese casualties listed as high with nine Marines killed and seven wounded Communiques also report mortar and rocket exchanges around Phnom Penh with limited damage and unknown Communist deaths
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Saigon
UPI
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Phnom Penh
Khe Sanh
Mekong
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Madrid
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Robert S. McNamara
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