Strike averted as Ford pact reached with UAW
Detroit UAW leaders announced a tentative three year contract with Ford Motor Co ending the planned 185000 member strike. Bargaining units remain at Ford World HQ in Dearborn while the Ford Council reviews the package before member ratification. The deal mirrors Chrysler in parts and includes retirement benefits after 25 years for 9000 Ford workers and wage and cost of living provisions. Local negotiations continue and details are to be released as needed.
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United Auto
Ford Motor Co
UAW
Leonard Woodcock
Ford
Woodcock
Buta Union
Cleveland
Wil
Chrysles
Yord
Malcolm Denise
Chrysler
WROSL
Word of Canada
General Motors of Canada
Ford Council
Waodcock
Halageecajont
United Auto Workers
Leonhard Woodcock
Delaware crossing art sold for 260000 at auction
A Long Island collector paid 260000 at an Eastman Johnson painting auction for Washington Crossing the Delaware. The 122-year-old work, about two square yards, mirrors Emanuel Leutze's larger painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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New York
Long Island
Eastman Johnson
Washington Crossing the
Delaware
Emanuel Levize
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Butz under probe in Califorine case
Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz is said to be under investigation for attempting to influence an FTC inquiry into Heublein Inc.’s 1959 acquisition of United Vintners Inc, a California wine growers cooperative. The Star-News says Cox’s task force handled the inquiry and that Butz urged delaying the challenge to aid Nixon's reelection.
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Washington
UPT
Earl L. Butz
Investigaton
Federal Trade Commission
California
Heublein Inc
Washington Star-News
Archibald Cox
Auether
Cox
Star-News
Hutz
Miles Kirkpatrick
PTC
Heublein
United Vintners Inc
FTC
Bureau of Competition
Star- News
Butz
Kirkpatrick
Nixon
Star News
Barry Kalb
Bufe
Lead levels found in air along California freeways
Sacramento California officials report high lead particles in freeway air with Los Angeles readings aligning with prior studies. A Crocker Nuclear Laboratory UC Davis study measured up to 10 micrograms per cubic meter at 306 feet downwind from Hawthorne, while earlier 26 micrograms were found along the LA basin freeways. Senator Moscone called the situation intolerable and dangerous.
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California
George J. Taylor
State Air Resources Board
Los Angeles Area
Taylor
Aulet
Crocker Nucleas Laboratory
Davis
University of California
San Diego
Hawthorne
Tylor
Los Angeles Basin
George Moscone
San Francisco
Spiders and parking tickets warned by local readers
The note warns that black widows thrive in the Southland garages and advise clearing clutter and using insecticide as a last resort. It also explains consequences of unpaid parking tickets in Long Beach, including bench warrants, jail risk on arrest, and police checks that may recognize habitual offenders.
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Long Beach City College
W.C.C
Long Beach
Second sales tax on processed film questioned
A reader asks if charging sales tax on both purchase and processing of film is legal. Officials say if the processing and printing are billed together the entire amount is taxable, while fabrication labor like processing for prints is taxable. Labor tax exemptions cover repair installation and service. A separate case involves a photographer sent to Huntington Beach to reshoot customer pictures after a loss in the mail. the client is told not to lose faith as the photographer can reshoot.
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F. J
Lynwond
Arthur Brown
California Board of Equalization
Brown
Feauty
Spectrum 2000
Huntington Beach
Anthony Palumbo
Feu 2000
Action Line
Palumbo
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