Butchers Strike Pickets Dallas Area Safeway Kroger A P Stores
In Plano and surrounding Dallas area, butchers walk picket lines over an 83-cent hourly raise cut by wage controls. Unionized meat workers and drivers protest outside Safeway Kroger A P Piggly Wiggly stores. furloughs and halted unloads disrupt daily supply. Negotiations expected in about six to seven weeks.
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Safeway
Robert Parsons
Gene Byrne
Plano
Byrne
Dallas
Riker
Butchers Union
Parsons
Mrs Ada Wilson Oversees Collin County Finances
Official profile notes Ada Wilson as Collin County treasurer responsible for county finances. She explains tax distribution and payments, works with the county auditor, and mentions growing duties as the county expands. Office sits atop a century-old building with drafty conditions and no third-floor fire escapes.
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Collin County
Plano
Ada Wilson
Treasuer
Wilson
Editorial on Gas Rationing and Public Responsibility
A reader notes that fuel shortages reveal a minority driving rules while the majority struggles. He cites Japan England and U S shortages, school and travel impacts, and argues rationing or strict rules are needed as some refuse to share the burden.
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Powers That Be
Nixon
United States
Japan
England
Texas State
Plano
Trucker Protest Blocks Ohio Toll Road Across State
About 4 000 trucks filled the Ohio Turnpike near Cleveland and Toledo as 200 patrolmen and National Guard units moved to clear blockades. I 75 near Toledo and I 70 into Columbus stayed closed while drivers faced club wielding troopers and sporadic movement resumed along the turnpike.
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Ohio
Cleveland
Toledo
Columbus
Perrysburg
State Highway Patrol
National
National Guard
Safety demonstration ends in blazing car trunk mishap
In Chattanooga Tennessee the highway patrol and police staged a public safety demonstration showing dangers of carrying gasoline in car trunks. A gas soaked trunk, rolling cars and staged flames ended with a real fire that firefighters promptly controlled.
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Chattanooga, Tenn
UPI
Tennessee Highway Patrol
Chattanooga Police Department
Hasti
Plano Board Keeps Drug Policy After Student Suspensions
The Plano school board upholds the districts dangerous drug policy with two suspensions at Plano High and one at Bowman Junior High for the fall semester. A second Plano High student is suspended for drug use at school. no appeal has been filed. The policy requires hearings after superintendent appeal and calls for expulsion or loss of credits for possession or influence of drugs in school or related activities.
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Plano
Plano High School
Bowman Junior High
School Board School Board
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Garland
Mike Newman
County
McKinney
Showtime
Plano Fine Arts League
B.J. McCutcheon
Suzanne Standerfer
Thomas Smouse
Plano High
SMU
Superintendent of Schools
H. Wayne Hendrick
Dr. Hendrick
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