Truck Crash Closes Route 699 Near Teall Avenue
A dump truck overturned after turning onto its side near Teall Avenue at 9:45 a.m. Police reported no serious injuries and were reviewing details. Earlier a concrete mixer rolled over at Ontario Avenue and Lakeside Road in Geddes at 3:50 a.m. with driver James W. Carr escaping harm.
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Teall Avenue
Saunders
James W. Carr
Markum Hollow
Tully
Ontario Avenue
Lakeside Road
Geddes
Robert Conway
Conway
Allied workers vote on Solvay plant contract amid strike
More than 400 Allied Chemical office staff and 1 400 striking workers at the Solvay plant vote on a two part contract. The master agreement covers six New York plants with a 52 cent first year raise and 40 cent raises in years two and three. The contract excludes mandatory overtime and preserves seniority rights as union leaders push for terms.
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Allied Chemical Corp
Solvay
Allied
Jamesville
Donald Daley
Louis Thomas
Daley
Thomas
New York
Young Maritville boy gets Capitol flag for Bicentennial
Ten year old Guy Tara receives a U S flag flown over the Capitol as a special Bicentennial gift from Rep William Walsh after writing a heartfelt letter about America. Walsh responds praising Guy's patriotism and his hopes to visit Washington one day.
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Guy Tara
Maritville
Guy
William Walsh
Walsh
Washington, D.C
Washington
America
Bill Walsh
Senators press pension reform as top Albany agenda
Senate and Assembly members from Central New York urge early passage of Kinzel Commission based pension reform. The plan would require new public employees to contribute three percent of salaries toward pensions and eliminate employer funded social security, with a three percent escalator for inflation.
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Tarky Lombardi Jr
Martin $. Auer
Syracuse
Albany
Lombardi
R-50th Dist
New York
Kinzel Commission
Auer
Hy Miller
Thomas J. Murphy
Onondaga County
Licly
City Hall honors 21 policemen and firefighters for heroism
Syracuse ceremonies at City Hall awarded 21 men for acts of heroism in 1975. Four received top honors: the Arthur Jenkins Award, the Herald Award, and the Francis Hendricks Awards. Others earned Merit and Valor Awards from local police and fire associations.
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Syracuse
City Hall
Arthur Jenkins
Herald
Francis Hendricks
Syracuse Police and Fire Departments
William D. Cotter
The
Herald-Journal
Daniel Boyle
Frederick C. Wheeler
W. Colvin St
Jenkins
Syracuse Herald
Lee Alexander
Dennis Mangan
E. John Shirley
Syracuse Police Benevolent Association
James Driscoll Jr
Thomas Stassi
Richard D. Myers
Robert H. Korkue
Gary Miguel
Walter Kuss
Lewis J. Brunelle
George Bush
Thomas C. Galvin
Gerard A. Verrillo
Syracuse Fire Officers Association
Syracuse Firefighters Association
Thomas F. Humberstone
Gerald Luzzi
Gerald E. Grasso
Charles 8. Warren
Ronald J. Merrill
Henry F. Boynton
Strike Halts Oberdorfer Foundry Operations in DeWitt
About 20 pump division workers honored picket lines today, shutting down all plant operations. Some 250 foundry workers began the strike yesterday after their contract expired Saturday, with a two day sympathy strike by pumps. Federal mediation is being called in to assist negotiations as leaders decline to discuss contract details.
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Pump Division
Oberdorfer Foundries Inc
DeWitt
Dennis Dwyer
Dwyer
Robert Teska
United Auto Workers
Teska
Tim Kneale Welcomed Back as National Spelling Bee Star
Tim Kneale, an eighth grader from Walter Wheeler Middle School, returned home to a hero’s welcome with signs and 200 classmates in Tim is No 1 shirts. He will face Regents earth science exams and other tests while aiming to present his school with an engraved plaque from the bee.
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Jeanne Bednarski
Knealer Middle School
Tim Kneale
Walter Wheeler Middle School
Tim
Knealer
Robert Kneale
Cedarvale Road
Hancock International Airport
Washington, D.C
Stiffest Onondaga County Drug Sentence Issued
Ex Watertown man James A. Fitzgerald received six years to life in prison under the Rockefeller Drug Laws for a second degree cocaine felony. The 25 year old, arrested May 29, 1975 at Hancock International Airport, allegedly had about a pound of cocaine strapped under his pants. Prosecutors say the sentence is the highest drug felony term in the county.
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Watertown
Onondaga County
James A. Fitzgerald
Daytona, Fla
John P. Wegerski
Fitzgerald
Hancock International Airport
BCI
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Allied Workers
William D. Cotterick
C. Wheeler
Lee Alex Second
Ander
Freder
Martville Boy
Frederick W. Patchett
Syracuse Fire Department
PBA
Paula Cochran
Wanda Wall
Dick Meyer
Herald- Journal-American Spelling Bee
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