Dallas Dial-a-Bus Sees Low Ridership in North Dallas
Dallas Transit System reports only 27 riders daily for the new door to door minibuses begun July 7, with capacity for 375 during rush hours. DPS official Jerry Johnson notes the toll. Other items cover Fort Worth gambling probes on pull-tabs, Amtrak track upgrades cutting travel time, a Syracuse priest's Human Rights Commission bid, a Tulsa jailhouse claim, a Farmers Branch child found wandering, Merle Haggard concert cancellations, Betty Ford plans for an unstructured day in Helsinki, and Lloyd Bentsen's UN withdrawal bill.
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Dallas Transit Sytem
DTS
Jerry Johnson
Hoffa disappearance spurs Bloomfield police probe
Police searched today for former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa who vanished after his car was found in Bloomfield Township. Authorities say there are no clues to his whereabouts and consider foul play possible, though no motive or suspect has been determined. Hoffa's last sighting was 2 p.m. Wednesday outside the Machus Red Fox Restaurant, with his Pontiac left unlocked. his son James Hoffa filed a missing person report.
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Teamsters Union
Jimmy Hoffa
Hoffa
Bloomfield Township
Curt Grennier
Oakland County
L. Brooks Patterson
Jimmy
Teamsters Local 299
Detroit
Teamsters
Frank E. Fitzsimmons
Michigan
Anthony Giacalone
Giacalone
Associated Press
James Riddle Hoffa
Fox Restaurant
Grenier
James P. Hoffa
First two garbage women join San Francisco crew
In San Francisco the city’s first two female garbage workers, Frances Burton and Nadean Alexander, work beside men at $5.90 an hour. They joined through the Women in Apprenticeship program, adjust to tough dirty lifting, and say coworkers and neighbors react with mixed surprise but support. Burton notes sociological insight in what trash reveals about residents.
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San Francisco
Golden Gate Disposal Co
Frances Burton
Sonoma State University
Nadean Alexander
Boston schools to have muscle
Riot trained federal marshals FBI agents and 2100 Boston police will back the new integration plan as schools open in fall. In Kentucky Judge Gordon orders desegregation of Louisville area schools by busing 22600 students with 12 to 40 percent black enrollment targets. Louisville ruling ends four years of civil rights suits. Boston plans include a strong federal and local security presence to deter violence on opening day.
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Boston
Kentucky
Louisville
U.S. District Court
James F. Gordon
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Sue Connors
Concerned Parents, Inc
Peter Meade
Kevin H. White
Justice Department
Wealthy beggar’s fortune drains under mental commitment
Robert Friedman 43 stored $24,087 in small bills after police stopped him for panhandling near a Chicago bus station. A judge ordered commitment to a mental hospital with high daily costs and legal fees, a process lawyer Edward Benett says reflects a troubling pattern of lifelong independence erased by court ordered treatment. Benett appeals the commitment as unsupported by sufficient evidence.
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Robert Friedman
Drimes
Friedman
Edward J. Benett
Benett
DePaul University
Lawrence L. Genesen
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