Time running out as rail mediators push national settlement
Federal mediators pressed for a national rail settlement as UTU members planned to extend strikes to two more lines, threatening the Southern Pacific and Norfolk & Western. The walkout against Union Pacific and Southern railroad lines neared a week, while the Chicago & North Western reached a 42 month contract with a 42 percent wage rise.
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Associated Press
United Transportation Union
UTU
Southern Pacific
Norfolk & Western
Union
Union Pacific
Southern
Washington
Chicago & North Western Railway
C&nw
CRNW
Midwest
Communications Workers of America
Bell Telephone System
New York
Arizona
Florida
Michigan
CWA
Chicago
Ohio
Akron
Alliance
Bell
New England
Rocky Mountain States
Indiana
Georgia
Weather County Forecast for Saturday Showers Possible
Partly cloudy to cloudy through Saturday with a chance of scattered showers or thundershowers mostly this evening. Tonight low mid 60s, high Saturday in the 80s, precipitation tonight 30 percent, Saturday 20 percent. High Thursday 77, low today 66. Precipitation 24 hours 0.67 inch. Barometer 29.88.
Expect Area Increase In Phone Rates Across Plains States
Inflation and a new wage contract push telephone firms to seek higher charges. Southwestern Bell may request more in Missouri Kansas and Texas while excluding Oklahoma Arkansas and part of Illinois. Northwestern Bell seeks 15 million annually in Iowa and a unspecified raise in Nebraska. Ray Shockley, SWB vice president in St Louis, notes the three year cost of the new Missouri wage deal totals 86 million.
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Associated Press
Plains
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Illinois
Northwestern Bell Telephone Co
Iowa
Nebraska
Ray Shockley
Southwestern Bell
St. Louis
Rise in living costs hits six tenths in June
Washington AP reports the June CPI rose six tenths, the largest in 15 months, with grocery up nine tenths and transportation seven tenths. The index reached 121.5 from 1967 base 100, with earnings up $1.74 to $127.57 weekly while purchasing power rose seven tenths. About 41,500 workers gain small raises via COL clauses, and 4,500 face no further increases due to contracts.
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Washington
Nixon
Viet Cong assault hits Tay Ninh base in Cambodia drive
Viet Cong sappers attacked the Tay Ninh base used in the Cambodia operation, killing four South Vietnamese perimeter guards and wounding several others including American MPs. The raid damaged four barracks and two UH1 helicopters, with two attackers killed. The base lies south of the border near Highway 7 as fighting in eastern Cambodia continues.
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Saigon
Vietnam
Cambodia
Tay Ninh
U.S
18Th Infantry Division
Kansas Sets Horse Embargo Against Quarantined States
The state of Kansas imposed an embargo on importing horses from states under federal quarantine for Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis. The order, issued by Dr. John F. Huderson, Kansas livestock commissioner, bans equines from Texas Oklahoma Arkansas Louisiana New Mexico and other states with quarantines.
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Topeka
Kan
State of
Kansas
John F. Huderson
Kansas Livestock Commissioner
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
New Mexico
Miller says funding squeeze hinders Kansas drug war
Kansas Attorney General Vern Miller says his office is scrimping for money to attack drug dealers and will seek relief from the state Finance Council. He notes eight agents at the Kansas Bureau of Investigation are insufficient and requests doubling the force after statewide raids netted about 80 arrests in 13 communities.
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Topeka
Kan
Vern Miller
Kansas
State Finance Council
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Miller
KBI
Robert Docking
Reynolds Schultz
Laird warns draft may extend past deferments September
Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird said the government may need to draft men whose deferments have expired if Congress does not extend the draft authority. He cautioned that delay could not last much longer than September. In Cairo, Sudanese radio reported that coup leader May Hasem Atta and three aides were executed by firing squad, though an aide later said the sentences had not been carried out.
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Washington (Ap
Melvin R. Laird
Congress
Laird
Cairo
Sudan
May
Hasem Atta
Jaafar el Numeiri
City softball clash exposes racial tensions in Ottawa
A public Ottawa Recreation Commission meeting followed a Tuesday Forest Park melee between Black Express and Peoples National Bank players. Umpire recruitment, training, and racial prejudice dominate talks as officials fault lack of control, facilities, and funding, with calls for independent review and stronger leadership.
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Terry Ostmeyer
Ottawa Recreation Commission
Forest Park
Black Express
Peoples National Bank
Youth Center
Recreation Commission
Umps
Ump
Eddie May
Miller
The
Mark Robins
Jim Snider
American Softball Association
ASA
Snider
Ron Reusch
Bill Boucek
Boucek
Joe Wakefield
Franklin County Welfare Office
Commission
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Marty Waller
Dan Miller
Ray Booth
Wakefield
Ottawa
John Richeson
Orlis Cox
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Cox
Harold Matney Jr
Matney
Pye
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