Auto Makers Make New Bid To Union
Detroit Aug 17 AP three automakers General Motors Ford and Chrysler offered three year contracts with higher wages larger pensions earlier retirement increased vacation and holiday pay and tuition refunds for education. Offers keep to economic terms while union polled for strike authority and sought broader plant agreement protections.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Lewis G. Seaton
Rioting in Suburb South of Chicago Involves Black Residents
In a White and Black crowd clash in a Chicago suburb, about 1,000 Black people battled police for hours as public safety units restored order. More than 30 injured, including seven children, and 25 Black arrests followed looting and a nearby liquor store incident.
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Dixmoor
Chicago
Ogilvie
Warning To Turks Greek Cypriots Cheer Soviet Aid Pledge
Greek Cypriots praising Soviet support urge President Makarios to seek Moscow arms aid. Khrushchev warns Turkey that attacks on Cyprus could backfire. Editorials hail the move as a turning point and call for Makarios to include Communists in his cabinet. Finnish mediator Tuomioja suffers a mild stroke delaying talks.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Cypridty
Makarioso
Moscow
Soviet Union
Khrushchev
Turkey
Ethniki
Sakari S. Tuomioja
Geneva
Athens
Ankara
Viet Cong Battalion Crashes Posts in Mekong Ambush
Aug 17 in Saigon AP reports a Communist battalion smashed two government posts on the Mekong River delta, ambushed a relief force, and caused 126 government casualties. A helicopter strike later killed 19 Viet Cong and forced about 40 to be carried off, marking a severe government setback with heavy weapon losses.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
Mekong River
Delte
U.S
Woman Dead Ties to Black Charlie Murder Trial
Autopsy shows a man and a woman found slain and charred in a farmhouse were shot before the fire. Wayne County officials identified them as Jerry Merritt and Mrs Belly Newton of Fairfield, linking to the Black Charlie Harris case where Merritt was a key witness. Arson suspected. a gasoline can found near the ruins.
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Fairfield
Wayne Couns
Wayne County
Eugene Leathers
Robert McNeill
Jerry Merritt
Belly Newton
Merritt
Charles
Black Charlie) Harris
H. $. Taylor
Harris
McNeill
Leathers
Courtney
Pond ‘Creek
Shelton
Sheltons
Sara Shelton
Cupid and Barry Goldwater at 1912 wedding scene
A 1912 Arizona Gazette account describes young Barry Goldwater at Miss Ruth Goldberg's wedding, stepping forth in white with a bow and quiver of arrows while a smiling usher guides him through palm-arched aisles as Ruth carries rose leaves in a white basket.
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New York Times
Washington
Sen
Barry Goldwater
Hazel Goldberg
Joseph Meltzer
Bary
Arizona Gazette
Smiley
Cupid
RFK Silent After Meet With Wagner
New York August 17 AP Kennedy and Wagner met for almost an hour but offered no decision on Kennedy entering the U.S. Senate race in New York. Kennedy left for Washington saying he did not know when he would announce plans. Wagner said he would decide soon whether to back a Kennedy bid as support grows, while Rep. Stratton of Amsterdam formally entered the race. Keating will announce his re election bid Tuesday, a Republican source said.
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New York
Robert P. Kennedy
Robert F. Wagner
U.S. Senate
Washington
Wagner
Kennedy
Samuel S. Stratton
Upstate
Amsterdam
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Health Plan Turned Down Washington
The Senate Finance Committee rejected two proposals to write a health care plan into social security. Gore and Ribicoff sponsored amendments to a House bill boosting benefits, but their measures failed. The committee advances a separate 4 percent benefit boost bill.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
King- Anderson
Johnson
Albert Gore
Abraham A. Ribicoff
D-Conn
Cass
Gore
Ribicoff
War on Poverty in Alexander County Presents Harsh Realities
Alexander County faces high poverty with 40 to 50 percent earning under 3146 yearly, many depend on public aid, and few youths reach GED levels. The report follows Tom, a 19 year old with part time work, plus details on aid, schooling, and welfare programs amid widespread economic hardship in Cairo and surrounding areas.
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Stephen Tatarsky
Tom
Alexander County
jLead
Alexander and
Pulaski
Wimpis
Williamson
Franklin
Jackson
Perry
Cook
Chicago
Alexander
Pope
Hardin
Cairo
Fom
Dept. of Labor
Rt. 51
Dept. of Public Aid
Magnitude of Poverty In Alexander County Revealed
Long fight figures show poverty in Alexander County with 48 percent of 4 000 families earning under 3000 yearly. National average 20 percent, education levels low limiting job opportunities. Of 9 489 adults 25 plus 30 percent have six grades or less, 80 percent of Negroes over 25 lack more than eight grades.
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Alexander
Alexander County
Hoffa Given Five Year Term In Chicago Fraud Case
Teamsters President James R Hoffa was sentenced to five years in prison to run after an eight year term in Chattanooga. He faced four five year terms and a $10000 fine for fraud in obtaining loans from the union pension fund. Jurors convicted Hoffa and six codefendants of conspiracy and fraud linked to a $25 million loan scheme and $1 7 million in kickbacks.
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Chicago
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
Chattanooga
Tenn
Richard B. Austin
Hoffa
Maurice Walsh
Austin
Walsh
Nashville
U.S. District Court
Teamsters Pension Fund
Florida
Alpine Bus Toll Rises After French Accident
An Alpine bus accident near Bourg St. Maurice on August 17 killed 17 people and seriously injured 16 others. The vehicle left the road and plunged 230 feet into a ravine during a children's vacation outing, as doctors battled to save the injured.
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Bourg St. Maurice
France
Weather outlook warm with slow rise in temps
The forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies with a gradual warming trend tonight into Tuesday. Low temperatures will be near the low teens tonight and highs Tuesday are expected in the 20s.
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Miles
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Cook County
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Little Barry
RFK
Kenneth B. Keating
Rn.y
State Dept. of Public Aid
Alabama
Parets
St. Louis
Vocanional-Technical Institute
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