Tragic derailment fire kills teen in Harrod Ohio
A six car Erie Lackawanna freight train derailed near Harrod. Fifteen year old Betty Jo Sherard was killed by metal fragments from a chemical tank car while standing 500 feet from the wreck. Her father Bernard, 47, was injured with a broken leg as a fire and explosion spread to adjacent box cars. Evacuations and sheltering occurred as rescuers fought the blaze and secured the area.
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Ohio
Harrod
Here
Betty Jo Sherard
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Allen County
Edward Fair
Tair
Union hearing opens on De Silva control of clerks
A court ordered union hearing in Los Angeles reviews whether Joseph J. De Silva should retain leadership of the AFL-CIO Retail Clerks Union Local 7. Dissidents backed by the Retail Clerks International accuse the 69 year old president of mismanaging funds and seeking his ouster.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Joseph J. de Silva
Afl-Cio
de Silva
Retail Clerks International Association
International Association
U.S. District Court
David W. Williams
Nixon
Second sailor in Kitty Hawk riot guilty body
Seaman Cleveland Mallory 19 of Pittsburgh was convicted by a special court martial for assaulting two white sailors and rioting aboard the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. Mallory received a bad conduct discharge after 59 days pretrial confinement. The case was part of a race riot aboard Kitty Hawk on Oct 12-13 involving black crewmen. Airman Apostrophe Franklin Roundtree 20 of Philadelphia faced trial next.
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Cleveland Mallory
Pittsburgh
Robby D. Bryant
Appren
Franklin Roundtree
Philadelphia
Mallory
Jury finds Assembly report on Folsom unfounded
In Sacramento, the Sacramento County grand jury rebuked the Assembly Select Committee on Prison Reform and Rehabilitation for criticizing Folsom prison and its hospital. The grand jury said the committee’s allegations were completely unfounded and that the hospital’s chief medical officer Dr. Rosendale and the facility were unfairly maligned.
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UPI
Assembly
Folsom
Sacramento County Grand Jury
Assembly Select Committee On
Folsom Prison
David Rosendale
Grand Jury
Law and Law Enforcement
Union and oil firm in tentative two year pact in Texas City
Negotiators for American Oil Co and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union reached a tentative two year contract addressing core issues for about 1,200 OCAW members at Amoco's Texas City plant. The accord follows an earlier nationwide wage pattern settlement for 60,000 union workers and awaits rank and file approval next week.
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I'Ex
American Oil Co
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union
OCAW
Amoco
Texas City
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