Ottawa Steel Workers Strike Leaves Plant Locked In
Teamsters Local 838 votes 87 to 13 to strike Ottawa Steel plant of Gulf & Western at 415 Dundee effective at midnight after a Friday meeting with company and federal mediator. 170 hourly workers with average wage $4.28. wage demand was $1 per hour per year for three years. Authorities hope mediator-facilitated talks next week as doors reopen Tuesday with 7 a.m. shift.
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Gulf & Western
Dundee
Ralph Crane
Ottawa Steel
Roy Stapnic
Kansas City
Art Chamil
Detroit
Gene Roach
Crane
Post Office Seeks Rate Hike Amid Better Finances
Washington AP The Postal Service plans to raise rates next year despite its strongest financial position since the 1971 reorganization. Board of Governors is set to propose raising the first class letter rate from 13 to 15 or 16 cents early in 1978. Bailor notes an improved condition but says inflation and labor costs require action.
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Washington
Postal Service
Postal Service Board of Governors
Ben
Jamin
Congress
Board of Governors
Postal Rate Commission
Neutron Bomb Backers Confident After Senate Debate
After a secret three hour session Sen. John Stennis predicts the Senate will approve funding for the neutron bomb but require presidential use veto power. Backers won two key votes by narrow margins and avoid final action amid a looming filibuster. Sen. Mark Hatfield calls the debate historic despite an inconclusive result.
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Washington
Senate
John Stennis
D-Miss
Congress
Stennis
Armed Services Committee
Mark Hatfield
R-Ove
290 Agenda for U S C Board of Education Meeting
The regular meeting agenda for the U S C Board of Education at 7 30 p m Tuesday includes election of a chairman and vice chairman appointment of a director clerk and treasurer for the four district vocational cooperative and consideration of its name and financing Consideration of payment of cooperative appointees Establish mileage allocation for board members and employees.
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Board of Education
Widespread Manhunt For Gun-Toting Killers
Oklahoma City AP report says all points bulletins issued across Arkansas Texas Oklahoma and Louisiana for two gunmen linked to multiple slayings and disappearances. Marshal Marvin Richie 42 and Opal James 58 were killed. Ranger David Small 27 wounded. James found dead near a Corps pickup. a Purcell taxi driver James Short 40 missing. FBI ties to two Louisiana deaths.
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Arkansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Marvin E. Richie
Magazine, Ark
Opal James
Havana
Ark
Army Corps of Engineer Ranger
David Small
Corps
Small
Richie
James
Magazine
Logan
W.C. Hamilton
Hamilton
Oden
Purcell
Okla
James M. Short
FBI
Alton Wilson
Ray Jones Sr
Franklinton
Bogue
Chitto River
Ku Klux Klan to hold cross burning in Plains
In Carter’s hometown Plains Georgia the Ku Klux Klan plans a cross burning rally tonight after its organizers filed for a meeting permit as a bluegrass festival permit. Police report the city council was unaware of the Klansmen’s plan until Friday. The protest targets President Carter’s actions including the halt of B1 bomber production.
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Americus, Ga
Carter
Plains
Bill Wilkinson
Invisible Empire
Wilkinson
Rains come in time for holiday in Kansas
In central and eastern Kansas the Fourth of July weekend began wet with McPherson 1.79 inches, Salina 1.54, and Niles 1.75. By mid morning Salina dried, western areas cleared, but the forecast called for hot humid weather with scattered late afternoon storms.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
McPherson
Salina
Niles
McPherson's County Sheriff's
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