Fortas nomination to be chief justice eyed for week of Sept
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said Abe Fortas will likely face a full Senate vote the week of September 23. The Judiciary Committee awaited Fortas's reply on returning for more questioning about his ties to Lyndon B. Johnson and his views on obscenity.
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UPI
Mike Mansfield
Abe Fortas
United States
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Fortas
Capitol Hill
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Goodwin
Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Treasury
Joseph Barr
W. Devier Pierson
Daniel Yergin
New York Magazine
Robert Griffin
R-Mich
Supreme Court
Executive Branch
Judiciary
Mansfield
Today Show
NBC
North American Rockwell plant resumes after 11 day strike
The Transmission and Axle Division returns to full operation after an 11 day strike. Local 4194 and the United Steelworkers of America and the company accepted a court order issued by Judge Howard W. Lyon following a two day hearing. The company filed a petition.
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North American Rockwell
United Steelworkers of America
Howard W. Lyon
Order ends injunction as plant workers return to 7 am shift
An injunction against the union ends the picketing at the plant with about 550 workers to return to the 7 am shift. Pickets were removed by 5 pm yesterday and workers returned today without incident. The strike termination does not affect the union's bid for decertification from USW. The local seeks to leave USW to bargain independently.
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Richard I. Davis
USW
Rockwell Strike With USW Leads to Local Administratorship
Local 4194 struck Rockwell over unequal benefits as five plants bargain. A contract with a 90 percent three year package was rejected as the local sought to leave USW. A National Labor Relations Board ruling on decertification is pending after a two month hearing. President Theodore Bohizic and others were suspended. administrator John B Minnocci oversees the local.
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National Labor Relations Board
Theodore Bohizic
John B Minnocci
US urged to admit spying on North Korea by Pueblo crew
Commander Lloyd Bucher told a North Korea press conference that the Pueblo was on a spying mission in North Korean waters when seized on January 23. The North Korean agency urged U.S. apology as a first step for crew repatriation, noting eight months of detention.
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Albert E. Kaff
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UPI
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Pueblo
North Korea
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North
Bucher
Lloyd Mark Bucher
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Pyongyang
Lan
Guardian
Evacuation of Suez Civilians Amid Rising Middle East Tensions
Egypt evacuates 25 000 of Suez's 65 000 remaining civilians as War Minister Fawzi briefed Nasser on preventive defense measures. Jordanian King Hussein calls for general Arab mobilization while UN mediator Jarring fails to avert renewed hostilities. Across the canal Israeli and Egyptian forces clash near El Kantara as the Security Council adjourns without action.
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Jordan
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
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Sinai Peninsula
Amman
Husein
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Gunnar Jarring
New York
United Nations Security Council
Jarring
Western Pennsylvania Weather Update and River Stage
Mostly cloudy and cool with scattered light showers in the north and mountains. Highs near 60s and a clear cooler night with lows around 40s. Friday fair and not so cool. 24 hour stats show a max 70, min 47, .16 inch rain. Shenango River stage 5.15 feet.
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Shenango River
Gunman fires rifle at police cruiser in Crown Heights
A hidden gunman on a rooftop fired two or three rifle shots into a patrol car on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights Brooklyn. Sgt. Peter Kunik and patrolman James Rigney were treated for cuts and released. The incident follows August shotgun ambushes and recent clashes between police and Black Panthers at a Panther storefront.
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UPI
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Crown Heights
Peter Kunik
James Rigney
Kings County Hospital
Black Panther Party
Panther
Brooklyn Criminal Court
Gun control bill seen passing in four or five days
Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield predicted early next week that a gun control bill would pass in some shape or form. The measure would extend federal limits on pistol sales to rifles and shotguns and bar interstate mail order and certain sales to the impaired. House action had already approved a weaker version.
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UPI
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
House
Today Show
NBC
Father gives up after manhunt
Lee Bresee of South Creek hid in woods with four children for six days to escape a minor traffic crash. He surrendered at his sister’s home near the state line. The family was treated for exposure at Sayre hospital while police investigated abandonment charges against Bresee’s wife.
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Towanda
Lee Bresee
South Creek
Bresee
Wellsburg
N.Y
Ralph Bellinger
William Jones
Robert Packer
Sayre
Arlene
Bertha
Lanny
Cassilee
Bradford County
Justice of the Peace
Elwin Wrisley
Lawrence County Building Activity Exceeds 5.8 Million
A state report shows Lawrence County spent 5.87 million on 636 general construction projects in the past year across 18 municipalities. Residential work accounted for 2.86 million with 177 projects and 184 new families, while nonresidential activity reached 2.46 million across 240 projects.
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Harrisburg
Lawrence County
State Department of Labor and Industry
Defense bill tops House agenda as $72.2 billion request faces vote
The $72.2 billion defense appropriation, the largest in Congress history, moves to passage with no changes expected. An effort will seek to trim initial funds for anti ballistic missile deployment. About $28.6 billion funds Vietnam efforts for the new fiscal year beginning July 1.
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Defense Department
House
Glenard P Lipscomb
Calif
Lipscomb
GOP
Defense Appropriations
Pentagon
Baltimore
Chicago
Notable Obituaries and Notices From City Ledger
Perretti reports multiple deaths and notices on Thursday September 12 1968 including Adison Joseph Davis 49 of 842 Savannah Rd Mrs William Evans 45 of Mercer and Mrs Natalie Lagana 90 of Ellwood City reflecting local obituary entries and memorial notices.
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Adison Joseph Davis
Savannah Rd
William Evans
Mercer
Natalie Lagana
Ellwood City
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