Aluminum Wages Below Decent Level Sparks CIO Action
Washington The CIO Steelworkers backed a demand for higher pay at Aluminum Co of America ALCOA claiming 95 percent of its 22 000 workers earn less than a decently necessary living wage The union cites weekly wages eight to thirteen dollars below the Bureau of Labor Statistics budget of 79 73 for a family of four and pushes for an eighteen cent hourly increase amid a Wage Stabilization Board probe and prior strike threats Marvin Miller notes ALCOA starts pay below 1 50 per hour with incentive earnings chain.
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Washington
CIO Steelworkers
Aluminum Co. of America
ALCOA
Bureau
Old Indian site in Ontario dated at 2690 years by carbon tests
Excavations near Port Franks Ontario uncover signs of Indian life at three levels. Charcoal samples analyzed by Chicago physicists dated to about 2690 years ago, plus minus 220 years, with bones pottery and flint chips found beneath the surface.
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London
Ont
Ontario
Port Franks
University of Western Ontario
University of Chicago
Chicago
Wilfrid Jury
Museum of the
Jury
Ohio
Mississippi River
Quaint Old Laws Still On Books
New York legislators note many outdated laws remain on the books across the U S. Examples include bans on taking a lien to the movies in Baltimore salting railroad tracks in Alabama knocking freight cars off tracks in Maryland or walking backward on Sundays in Devon Connecticut. Arthur Knowles says ICC creation in 1887 aimed to curb railroad monopoly. today railroads face other forms of regulation. Other cited jurisdictions list shooting rabbits from streetcars in Indianapolis driving blindfolded in Birmingham shaving on Sundays in Connecticut and slapping a man in Georgia. Grady Cox, Memphis repairman, recalls a customer with a picture but no sound on a TV who removed the sound from another set.
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Baltimore
Alabama
Maryland
Devon
Conn
Arthur Knowles
Railroad Club of New York
Interstate Commerce Commission
Knowles
Indianapolis
Birmingham
Ala
Youngstown
Connecticut
Georgia
Memphis
Tenn
Grady Cox
Cox
Spray protects citrus and avocados from fruit fly
University of California scientists report a new spray sterilizes against the oriental fruit fly and preserves California citrus fruits, also safeguarding avocados from damage according to the researchers. The breakthrough promises noninjurious protection across crops.
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Berkeley
Calif
University of California
California
City Council to Discuss How Elyria Operates Tonight
Ralph Terry president of the Elyria City Council and Dale Kellogg councilman at large will discuss Your City Council and How It Operates on WEOL at 8 tonight. This second Know Your Town broadcast covers problems facing Elyria and city department operations. Questions mailed to the station will be answered in later programs.
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Ralph Terry
Elyria
Dale C. Kellogg
WEOL
DDT Absolved As Human Killer
In Cincinnati Dr Francis F Heyroth assistant director of the University of Cincinnati Kettering laboratory says no deaths have been clearly recorded as caused by DDT except when people themselves attempted self harm He notes that any insecticide will carry some mammal toxicity and that the risk to humans is generally acknowledged but not proven as a direct killer in ordinary use.
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Cincinnati, O
Francis F. Heyroth
University of Cincinnati
Kettering Laboratory
Public health value of insecticides emphasizes benefits
Dr. Heyroth argues insecticides outweigh harms, citing Kettering lab studies on DDT dangers and noting 80,000 insect varieties cause $4 billion in North American crop damage yearly. He says insecticides boost food supply and curb diseases like typhus, plague, and malaria.
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Dr. Heyroth
Kettering Laboratory
North America
Heyroth
Monkey Outwits Rescuers in Circus Escape
A group of men chased an elusive monk who had escaped from a circus. Each time the rescuers climbed a tree, the monkey leapt to another tree and grinned at his pursuers, outsmarting them in a comic scene.
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Johnson
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Excello
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Miller
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Elyria Savings Bank
Elyria, Ohio
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Voice of America
International Soundphoto
Boston
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Museum of Science
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America
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