Thousands Are Jobless Week After Steel Strike
Five days after a new steel contract ended the threatened walkout, tens of thousands of steelworkers have been laid off or idled in inventories. Officials differ on impact while company spokesmen expect callbacks to lag on weak orders. In Pittsburgh area alone about 47,000 workers face layoff or idle time as unions and managers assess demand and benefits.
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Associated Press
Aflcio United Steelworkers of America
Pittsburgh-Western Pennsylvania
Francis Stark
USW International
Cleveland
Names Vary in Big Eight Commissioner Search
Kansas City AP reports growing list of candidates to replace Wayne Duke as Big Eight seeks a successor. Names mentioned include Mickey Holmes, Brice Durbin, Chuck Nevias, and Bud Wilkinson, with a four member screening panel likely to guide the process. Faculty representatives hold final approval.
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Kansas City
Big Eight
Wayne Duke
Brice Durbin
Kansas State High Sschool Activities Association
Chuck Nevias
Walter Byers
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Oklahoma
Duke
Byers
Reaves Peters
Charles Oldfather
University of Kansas
Kansas Highway Patrol Seeks 13 Trooper Recruits
The Kansas Highway Patrol seeks 13 trooper applicants for this fall. Men aged 21 to 35, at least 5 feet 8 inches, with a high school diploma or GED are eligible. Civil service tests occur in September in several cities, with applications to the State Personnel Division in Topeka. No prior law enforcement experience is required. a 10 week training program at Salina is provided.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas Highway Patrol
Patrol
Salina
Man Indicted In Bank Holdup In Kansas City
Federal grand jury in Kansas City, Kansas, indicted Robert Edwin Robinson, 34, for the $67,050 Parklane National Bank robbery in Wichita. Robinson, sought by Tulsa police for a September 1970 grocery-store heist, faces murder charges in Houston and is jailed in Dallas County after a June 24 attempted North Central State Bank robbery foiled by three bankers.
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Kansas City, Kan
Robert Edwin Robinson
Wichita
Bridge work announced for Arkansas River span
Washington AP Senators Dole and Pearson announced that the Arkansas River bridge on U S 281 south of Great Bend will be replaced under the Federal Highways Act of 1970. The project cost and exact funding details were not disclosed.
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Washington
Bob Dole
James B. Pearson
Kansas
Arkansas River
U.S. 281
Great Bend
Five Guardsmen Hurt In Collision At Camp Ripley
Five Kansas National Guard members on two weeks of active duty at Camp Ripley Minnesota were injured Thursday night in a jeep collision. Capt Joseph L Tropansky Wichita chaplain 1st battalion 137th Infantry Pfc Melton Kerr Wichita the chaplain's driver Sgt Nicholas Gingery Pfc Philip R Young and Pfc Mark A Dennis all of headquarters company 69th Infantry Topeka were listed in satisfactory condition at the base dispensary. Gov Robert Docking planned to spend today in the field observing unit operations of the 4500 Kansas Guardsmen.
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Little Falls
Minn
Kansas National Guard
Camp Ripley
Joseph L. Tropansky
137Th Infantry
Wichita
Melton Kerr
Nicholas Gingery
Philip R. Young
Mark A. Dennis
69Th Infantry
Topeka
Robert Docking
Kansas
Sisco Confident On Opening Suez Canal Talks
AP reports Joseph Sisco, Washington's peace envoy, left Tel Aviv confident an interim Suez Canal agreement remains possible despite no decisive breakthroughs after nine days of talks. He met with Dayan and Eban, urged Mrs. Meir to back a reopenings amid Israel Egypt tensions to maintain calm and spare regional loss of life.
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Tel Aviv
Washington
Middle East
Joseph J. Sisco
Suez Canal
Sisco
Israel
Egypt
Golda Meir
Defense
Moshe Dayan
Abba Eban
Nixon
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