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Newspaper
Sandpoint Daily Bee
Location
Sandpoint, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1973
Page
7
Paris reports merchants strikes expanding across the country with gas stations laundries and hairdressers set to close on Thursday. Housewives stockpile food while fruit sellers extend a six day walkout as government price controls threaten profits and rotting produce at Rungis market.
The House Judiciary Committee approved a bill to create a court-appointed Watergate prosecutor free of the executive branch. The Senate panel planned action on a similar measure, aiming for a November vote, with selection by DC district judges and monthly reporting to lawmakers.
A federal judge ruled Northwest Airlines guilty of widespread sex discrimination in hiring pay and promotions for flight crew staff. The ruling could yield retroactive pay up to 250 a month for about 1,100 stewardesses, with final damages to be determined. The suit began with 40 stewardesses in 1970 and grew to roughly 1,100 claimants. Similar TWA action is pending in New York.
UAW orders a new ratification vote at Ford Motor Co after skilled tradesmen at the Rouge complex in Dearborn rejected the pact last weekend. The move targets Ford’s 28 000 crafts workers and could prompt second votes at other facilities as leadership seeks approval of the October 26 agreement.
Sandpoint High School drama club Mime & Masque presents See How They Run a three act comedy directed by Miss Florine Dooley for four performances Tuesday through Friday. Local businessman Marvin Alexander once acted in the same play and his junior friend Chris Pietsch now plays the lead. Proceeds fund club activities and travel expenses plus royalties and advertising total about 300 dollars.
Grace Bruder received two jewel studded pins from Union Pacific at a Saturday banquet for 30 years of service. The event in Connies new banquet room included a retirement pin and a three piece luggage set, with Nels Pate reading a poem in her honor. Mrs. Bruder began with SI in 1943 as a telegraph operator clerk, serving at Eastport and Sandpoint without a blemish on her record.
Doyle Symms, Caldwell, retiring president of the Food Producers of Idaho, urged allowing Mexican nationals to enter the United States for set periods to ease migrant labor shortages. He noted American-born migrant laborers are fading away and local relief or year‑round workers could be displaced unless careful controls ensure local jobs.
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