Troops on standby as schools integrate
National Guardsmen and police in Boston and Louisville stay ready to keep desegregation busing peaceful after a weekend of protests. In Louisville antibusing activists urged more parents to keep children home. Attendance rose from 59.2 to 69.1 percent then dipped to 68.4 percent as the week progressed.
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Boston
Louisville
National
William Kellerman
Citizens Against Busing
South Boston High School
Charlestown
First week of desegregation praised by school chief
National scene Marion Fahey described the opening week of citywide desegregation as a wonderful week and pleased with progress. She declined to discuss the low white pupil attendance. Data show a majority of public school pupils were nonwhite, with 23,953 whites and 28,109 blacks and other minority children in school Friday.
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Marion Fahey
Miss Fahey
Postal Service promises equal or better first class mail service
The Postal Service announces that starting Oct 11 domestic first class mail will receive service equal to or better than airmail. It will fly most first class mail for next day or second day delivery, narrowing the gap with airmail. A separate priority mail and international airmail remain unchanged. After Sept 22, airmail stamps can be exchanged for ordinary stamps.
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Washington
Postal Service
Air Parcel Service
Priority
Agreement Near In New York City Teacher Strike
Representing teachers union and Board of Education say a ratification vote on a new contract could come as early as Tuesday to end New York City week long walkout. Chicago teachers meanwhile push toward a 13th day off with no immediate end in sight.
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Associated Press
New York City
Teachers’ Union
Board of Education
Chicago
Albert Shanker
New York
United Federation of Teachers
UFT
Shanker
Robert Christen
San Jose
Calif
Pennsylvania
Women priests celebrate communion in Cleveland
In Cleveland, six women priests defied Episcopal bishops by participating in communion at Emmanuel Church. The rector Rev Dalton D Downs faces possible church trial for defying orders from Bishop John Burt. The six women include Merrill Bittner, Alison Cheek, Suzanne Hiatt, Carter Heyward, Jeanette Piccard, Betty Scheiss, and Betty Rosenberg joined at an afternoon service. The action jeopardizes an $11,000 annual diocese grant used for inner city aid, with Diocese Council to decide on continued funding.
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Cleveland
Dalton D. Downs
Emmanel Church Episcopal
Episcopal Church
Suzanne Hiatt
Downs
John
Burt
Merrill Bittner
Rochester
N.Y
Alison Cheek
Annandale
Miss Hiatt
Carter Heyward
Cambridge
Mass
Jeanette R. Piccard
Minneapolis
Betty B. Scheiss
Syracuse
Betty Rosenberg
Washington, D.C
Rail plan backed to reorganize bankrupt U S railroads
Rep Brock Adams, on the House transportation panel, endorsed a Conrail style plan to merge Northeast and Midwest lines into one company and finance rehab with federal support. He urged rate reforms, cost-based pricing, and a fuel tax funded rail trust, warning a government investment now saves long run nationalization costs.
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Washington
Brock Adams
House
Transportation and Commerce
Northeast
Midwest
U.S. Railway
Adams
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ford Administration
Conrail
Washington Democrat
American Paper Institute
Cold grounds lying Granny Marian Hart grounded by cold
Marian Hart the 83 year old solo transatlantic flyer from Washington DC was grounded in Dublin with a bad cold after arriving from the United States. She said she would stay indoors to recover and offered no new plans but dismissed her Atlantic flight as a small trip. The veteran aviatrix with thousands of flying hours arrived at Shania Airport aboard a 14 year old Beechcraft and is cited as possibly the oldest woman to fly solo across the ocean.
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Dublin
Ireland
Marian Hart
Washington, D.C
Atlantic
Aviatrix
Middle East
Hart
Shania
U.S
Ocean
Mob figures face quiz in Hotta case
A federal grand jury may subpoena three mob figures tied to Detroit’s underworld in the James R. Hotta disappearance inquiry. Names include Joseph Zerilli Raffaete Jimmy Quasarano and Peter Vitale with ties to Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons. Subpoena status for Vitale and Quasarano is unclear.
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Detroit
Teamsters
James R. Hotta
Joseph Zerilli
Raffaete
Jimmy" Quasarano
Peter Vitale
Vitale
Quasarano
Frank Fitzsimmons
Michigan
Fitzimmons
Vitale and
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