Pay Board approves railroad wage hikes amid 46 percent rise
The Pay Board approved a contract for railroad signalmen delivering about 46 percent raises over 42 months starting January 1970. Initial increments of 1.0 and 6.9 percent were set by Congress, with 2.6 and 2.9 percent later recommended, justifying an exception to the 5.5 percent general guideline. The second major item reports indictments in Memphis for murder linked to a beating of Elton Hayes, and Creighton's cheerleading squad resignation prompting a university study into a National Anthem controversy amid student protests.
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New York Times
Washington
Congress
Omaha
Neb
Creighton University
Helicopters and aircraft downed in Vietnam and Cambodia
Field reports say five U S helicopters and three South Vietnamese aircraft were shot down in South Vietnam and Cambodia. At least two Americans were killed and seven wounded. no South Vietnamese casualties reported. A missile test against B52s near Laos failed. Shrike missiles were used but results unknown.
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South Vietnam
Cambodia
Dam Be
U Minh Forest
Mekong
Ex-paratrooper shoots at Ohio rental office. two wounded
Michael Bomar, 23, an ex Army paratrooper despondent over job prospects, stormed a rental office near Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, firing about 50 rounds from a .22 rifle. Air Force Sgt. Charles Rexrode and Billy McAvee were wounded. Bomar surrendered after four hours with police.
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Dayton
Ohio
Michael Bomar
Bomar
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Air Force
Charles Rexrode
Billy McAvee
Page Manor Apartments
Rexrode
Montgomery County
U. S
Nobel Prizes Awarded to US Canadian British Scientists and Neruda
King Gustaf Adolf presided as four scientists from the United States, Canada, and Britain plus Chilean poet-ambassador Pablo Neruda received Nobel Prizes in medicine chemistry physics and literature. Alfred Nobel economics prize went to US economist Simon Kuznets.
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Sweden
Gustaf Adolf
United States
Canada
Britain
Chile
Pablo Neruda
Earl Sutherland
Nashville
Tenn
Gerhard Herzberg
Dennis Gabor
Gabor
Alfred Nobel
Crash near Peoria killed everyone aboard in fog
NTSB preliminary findings confirm the Chicago and Southern Airlines twin engine plane tried to land in dense fog near Peoria on October 21. The crash killed 16, including airline president Frank Hansen, and cited a downed instrument landing system plus radar flaws.
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Chicago and Southern Airlines
Peoria
National Transportation Safety Board
Frank Hansen
Greater
Peoria Municipal
NTSB
Hansen
Ozark Airlines
Italian voting deadlocked in third presidential ballot
In Rome on the third ballot Socialist Deputy Premier Francesco de Martino gained six votes to reach 404, still short of the two thirds required. Senate President Amintore Fanfani led Christian Democrats with 384, as parties seek a breakthrough before Saturday's fourth ballot. A police brief from Murphysboro notes truck violations by Robert L. Casey, 24, with $15 fine for no flags or warning devices.
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Senate
Amintore Fanfani
Christian Democratic
DeMartino
Communists
Christian Democrats
Fanfani
Murphysboro
Robert L. Casey
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Carbondale
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Larry Grabb
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Peak’s Recreation Marine Sales
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