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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1975
Page
3
Texas Labor Day weekend fatalities totaled 33, with 28 from traffic crashes, under the 42 projected by the Department of Public Safety. The holiday period also saw four people fatally shot, one burned, and one drowned, compared with 51 traffic deaths in 1974.
The Houston Chronicle reports that FBI agent James Hosty told Dallas Police Lt. Jack Revill that Oswald could kill Kennedy. The Dallas police kept Revill’s confidential statement hidden for five months and alerted to Warren Commission members. Curry, Shanklin, and Hosty disputed parts of the tale. the commission dismissed it as a disagreement.
At a Chicago APA convention, social scientists warned that recession drives higher crime and illness, including more thefts, suicides, infant murders, hospital admissions, and heart disease, with costs surpassing those of job programs. Dr Hannah Levin of Richmond College cited lag effects over one to three years.
Congress faces stiff public opposition to striking public workers as postal and labor legislators push bills to grant government employees the right to strike. House postal subcommittee chair Charles H. Wilson expects no full committee action this year, while Frank Thompson Jr. previews hearings on state and local employee strike rights, but offers no guarantees of approval. The issue follows public outcry over police and firefighter walkouts in San Francisco and other cities this summer.
Longshoremen in New Orleans resume a grainloading boycott bound for the Soviet Union. International Longshoremen's Association Local 1418 chief Alfred Chittenden says workers will defy loading until court orders. The Anna M vessel remains at Reserve 40 miles up the Mississippi River awaiting a possible federal court order.
A federal grand jury in Detroit launches a probe into the disappearance of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa. U.S. Attorney Ralph Guy aims to unravel the mystery by subpoenaing more than 70 witnesses. The FBI will seek to preserve custody of an automobile believed to hold a clue to Hoffa's July 30 disappearance.
In a seven state wildcat walkout, fringe area miners planned to return to work while hard core southern West Virginia strikers kept boycotting the pits abandoned Aug. 11. A U.S. District Court order threatened a $500,000 fine plus $100,000 daily penalties if the strike persisted after Labor Day weekend.
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