Fifth Day of Strike in Wisconsin Over Bell Telephone
The nationwide Bell telephone walkout entered its fifth day with about 6,600 CWA members off duty in Wisconsin and roughly 900 more honoring picket lines. Picketing focused on three Milwaukee sites, with 32 sites planned to resume today. Union leaders urged strikers to pursue other work as the strike may extend, yet there were few service disruptions and no violence reported.
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Milwaukee
UPS
Bell Telephone System
Wisconsin
Communications Workers of America
CWA
Wisconsin Telephone Co
Julian Modjeski
Modjeski
Community Service Committee
Highway Toll Sees Ten Die in Wisconsin Crashes
Wisconsin weekend traffic toll climbs to 294 with ten fatalities including John Flint 22 of Duluth and Lawrence Pearsall 19 of Eagle River. Victims details span Superior Rhinelander Casco Madison Madison West Allis and other locales. A separate fatality involves Mrs Werner Henning 45 in Menomonee Falls after a domestic incident.
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Wisconsin
John Flint
Duluth
Minn
Superior
James E. Olson
Cloquet
Lawrence R. Pearsall
Hagle River
Rhinelander
Linda Straad
Joseph Straad Jr
Kewaunee
Casco
Green Bay
Milwaukee
Allie Elam
Milwaukee Street
Winnie F. Nicholson
Madison
John C. Betta
de Soto
Wisconsin-Iowa
Crawford County
Marinette
Alma Koster
Phone Strikers Defy Back-to-Work Orders
The AFL CIO Communications Workers defied court injunctions in Alabama and Kentucky as a nationwide telephone strike enters its fifth day. President Beirne blasted orders as antiunion. AT&T reported service largely maintained. Western Electric installers join the walkout, with 23,000 on strike across about 40 states and New Jersey booths hit by bullets and cables slashed.
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Washington
FL Cio
CWA
Joseph A. Beirne
Southern Bell Telephone Co
Alabama
Kentucky
Bell System
Bell
Western Electric Co
Western Electric Telephone
Western Electric Manufacturing
Buffalo
N.Y
Western Electric
New Jersey Bell Telephone Co
New Jersey
Afl-Cio International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Afl-Cio Communications Workers of America
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Wiraphota
UN warns DPRK after DMZ firefight with US troops
U N command officers condemned North Korea for the latest DMZ raids that killed eight allied soldiers since Easter. A U S second Infantry Division patrol east of Panmunjom fought North Korean troops, leaving three North Korean dead and several Americans and South Koreans wounded. The UN warned of defensive action and sought a joint investigation, while a Korean Armistice Commission meeting was likely Tuesday.
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Seoul
Space Rescue Pact Signed by Major Powers
In Moscow the Soviet Union the United States and Great Britain signed a rescue agreement to recover astronauts and return space equipment that lands outside the origin country. Signatories included Andrei A Gromyko Emory C Swank and Peter Dalton with Michael Stewart and Mikhail Smirnovsky signing the British copy in London. Additional nations signing at a second ceremony included Austria Australia Czechoslovakia Bulgaria Iceland Italy Hungary Laos East Germany Norway Romania Ghana Sierra Leone Poland Finland Somalia Nepal and Mongolia.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
United States
Great Britain
Andrei A. Gromyko
U.S
Emory ‘C. Swank
Peter Dalton
London
Michael Stewart
Mikhail Smirnovsky
Austria
Australia
Czechoslovakia
Bulgaria
Iceland
Italy
Hungary
Laos
East Germany
Norway
Romania
Ghana
Sierra Leone
Poland
Finland
Nepal
Mongolia
Silent Sentry in front garden guards eight children
Mrs. Jean Buckland of Banbury, mother of eight, invented a giant blackboard in the front garden to track her children's visitors and daily activities. The device, a practical solution born of necessity, is dubbed Blessed Silence.
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Banbury
England
Jean Buckland
New Attack Prep Looms for Saigon Amid Viet Cong Threats
Viet Cong sources warn of a major Saigon assault as South Vietnamese and U.S. forces tighten defenses. Across the region, fighting near the capital kills 123 Communists, with additional clashes around Khe Sanh and coastal areas where several hundred North Vietnamese troops are reported killed. U.S. jet bombers mount heavy missions into North Vietnam, while a high ranking defector reportedly revealed plans for a large follow up to Tet. Police in Saigon seize Viet Cong arms hidden under vegetables and aboard a bus, and a colonel from the Vietnamese army allegedly defected, signaling potential strategic shifts.
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Saigon
UPS
U.S
Khe Sanh
Panhandle
North Vietnam
Capital Military District
Pham van Thach
Nixon Leads Poll Yet GOP Leaders Seek Rockefeller Rising
United Press International reports Nixon ahead in a national Gallup poll, with margins over Kenne dy and McCarthy and Humphrey. Yet Sen Thruston Morton and William Miller rally support for Rockefeller across the Midwest. Johnson may reconsider a 1968 run, while McCarthy calls for Hoover resignation and Rusk’s exit. Muskie favored as a Democratic favorite son in Maine.
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United Press International
Richard M. Nixon
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Nixon
Montana
Robert F. Kennedy
Eugene J. McCarthy
Huberth
Humphrey
Thruston B. Morton
William E. Miller
Midwest
Rockefeller
Kentucky
Miller
Barry M. Goldwater
Johnson
John B. Connally
Texas
Meet the Press
NBC
Connally
LBJ
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Issues and Answers
ABC
McCarthy
Hoover
Maine
Democratic State Committee
Sen
Edmund
Muskie
Chicago
Two Die in Ladysmith Air Crash Near Wisconsin
FAA investigators probed a Sunday crash near Ladysmith Wisconsin that killed two men from the area. Victims were James W. Moore Jr. 40 and Joseph M. Garstka 38, both from Ladysmith. Moore’s father serves as Polk County sheriff at Balsam Lake. The single engine two seater lurched upward then nosedived into trees.
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Ladysmith
Wis
Residents Pay $1.37 for Each $1 Federal Aid
Wisconsin residents paid 1.37 dollars of federal taxes for every 1 dollar in federal aid received in 1967. The state had 216.4 million dollars in grants as part of a 14.6 billion national total. New Jersey paid the most for 1.70, Alaska 0.21, Missouri broke even.
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Madison
Wisconsin
New Jersey
Alaska
Missouri
Plans for New Twin Lakes Scout Office Building
A 8 by 16 foot sign will mark the future Twin Lakes Council Boy Scouts office site per council president A Duffy Meyer. Ground breaking, delayed by a telephone workers strike, will occur within two to three months with eight interior sections planned including reception lounge conference and council offices plus garage and storage.
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Twin Lakes Council
Boy Scouts of America
A. Duffy Meyer
Copps Department Store
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Marie Marschner
West Allis
Dennis M. Barton
New Brighton
Douglas
Menomonee Falls
Werner Henning
Gilmer
Beirne
North Korea
Phew
Col Thach
North Vietnam Army
Tan Son Nhut
Winnebagoland
Dean Rusk
Cheyenne
Wyo
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