Electricians Win Five Hour Day and Pay Rise
Union electricians won a five hour work day and a pay raise after a week long strike against about 600 contractors. The 125 contractors granting the settlement set the five hour day to begin July 1 with $4.96 an hour for five hours and time and a half for a sixth hour totaling $7.44. The broader industry shutdown by Building Trades Employer Association affected about 100,000 construction workers.
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Union l Electricians
Building Trades Employer Association
International Brotherhood of Electric Workers
Meir Visits Tokyo as Japanese Chorus Hails Hebrew Anthem
TOKYO UP I reports Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir began a seven day official visit greeted by Japanese students singing the Hebrew national anthem. The article strings together assorted brief items from UPI style wire blurbs including aquarium foster care, parole denials, a San Quentin birthday, Oregon Trail library find, and quirky city notices across several American locales.
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UPI
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Elsie
Mame
Alice
Annabelle
Fritz
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Stannard
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Titov Visits Burma Amid Burma Visit Promises
Soviet space man Gherman Titov arrived in Rangoon on a Wednesday for a Burma visit after flying in from Indonesia. The trip signals ongoing Cold War era relations and Titov's itinerary includes meetings with local officials and public engagements.
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Rangoon
Burma
Gherman Titov
Indonesia
Peace Group Attacks Cuba Links in Inter-American Report
The Inter American Peace Committee denounces Castro regime ties to communism and subversive acts as a principal cause of tensions in the Americas. It asserts Cuba aligns with the Sino Soviet bloc, rejects inter American obligations, and campaigns propaganda through radio and print. Members from El Salvador Uruguay Colombia Venezuela and the United States approved the report. It will go to the January 22 foreign ministers meeting.
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Americas
AME
Cuba
Ot Ingle
Cubal
White House Receives 900 Books From American Booksellers
President Kennedy received more than 900 books for the White House library. The American Booksellers Association calls many significant works from the past four years essential. The collection includes The Strategy of Peace by the President and The Enemy Within by Robert F. Kennedy.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
White House
American Booksellers Association
Robert F. Kennedy
Undefined manuscript line hints at vintage newspaper notice
Fragmentary OCR text suggests a historical church or publication notice with references to circulation and a Sunday issue. Names and exact dates are unreadable, but hints point to a second class matter notice for a local newspaper.
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Avessions Beach
Housewife to Play Lady Godiva in Coventry Festival
Coventry officials announced Joyce Parker a 31 year old housewife and mother of a one year old will portray Lady Godiva in the 1962 cathedral festival wearing flesh colored tights.
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Coventry
England
UPI
Trale
Unclear Formula Promises Victory at Atlanta Seminar
A speaker at an Atlanta seminar presented a controversial formula to defeat rivals. Frank Ry Barnett, director of a strategic institute, urged repeating a provocative approach described as a "goof-off" tactic to achieve a talistic victory.
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Nism
Frank Ry Barnett
Institute For American Strategy
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