Atlanta fires trigger mass walkout and job replacements
Mayor Sam Massell ordered 1400 workers fired for not returning to work after a four day walkout. Some 2500 walked off Tuesday but 1421 absences reported yesterday. Pickets to be at personnel office. 300 National Guardsmen on standby. 1100 of 1400 Public Works employees stayed off. 20 garbage trucks escorted by police.
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Atlanta
Massell
Gaap
Sam Massell
Nut
Shapiro
National
Public Works Division
Woman cashes prize check at Chicago bank
Barbara Young of Pratt Kansas beams after cashing a $25,000 prize check from an aluminum foil company contest at a Chicago bank. The event photos caption notes the top prize and her ecstatic celebration.
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Barbara Young
Pratt
Chicago
Elyria Dairies Fire Ruled Arson Damages At Least 40000
Fire officials say the Elyria Dairies blaze at 123 Lake St was deliberately started in two places by burglars. Damage is estimated at 40000 with investigations by the fire department arson experts and state authorities ongoing. The plant’s milk processing operation continued without interruption. The incident follows a prior 1962 blaze at the same building.
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Elyria
Ernest Seabold
Spring Arrives Quietly Amid Gloomy Lorain County Skies
The scene outside Lorain County shows no signs of spring with bleak, unchanged landscapes and chilly forecasts. Meanwhile about 225 American tourists including Arthur Miller are trapped in Cambodia amid political turmoil and seek exit to Thailand.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Arthur Miller
Cambodia
Palm Sunday Open House at Al's Barber Shop
The notice announces an open house at Al's Barber Shop located at 113 East Ave with an opening on March 23 in the afternoon.
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Palm Sunday
Al's Barber Shop
East Ave
Rubbish crisis nears in Lorain County with costly fix
Lorain County faces a looming trash disposal crunch with potential high cleanup costs or overburdened landfills unless a solution is found. The piece by Bob Eisenbarth and Norma Jones notes the urgency and implications for local residents.
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Lorain County
Bob Eisenbarth
Norma Jones
Weather outlook with rain and snow across the state
Mostly cloudy today tonight and tomorrow with light rain spreading south and southeast this afternoon across the state. Snow mixed with rain tonight and again tomorrow. Temperature highs around the 40s and lows in the 30s with notable cold yesterday and today.
Mail Strike Halts Elyria Postal Service Link to Cleveland
Elyria mail flow halted by nationwide strike. only local Elyria mail processed. All outward mail to Cleveland suspended. shipments routed via Cleveland Hopkins Airport by limo. 75 local members of the National Association of Letter Carriers meet Monday evening to decide on joining the strike. Lorain post office also holding mail for non local points as members vote.
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Elyria
Postal Inspection Office
Cleveland
Here
Elyria City
Harold C. Olmsted
Olmsted
Cleveland Hopkins
National Association of Letter Carriers
Cleveland Street
Abbe Road
Lorain
Woman manager fights off robber in Oberlin motel
Grace Taylor, 50, manager of the Sunset Motel in Oberlin, reported an armed intrusion at about 2 a.m. A man entered the office posing for a room, pulled a small revolver to her throat, but Mrs Taylor screamed for her husband Henry and wrestled the gunman away. The assailant fled. deputies continued the investigation.
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Oberlin
Grace Taylor
Sunset
Lorain County
Fighting rights chief shot down in Detroit
Burton Gordin executive director of Michigan Civil Rights Commission was found shot to death beside his car in a downtown Detroit parking garage. Police reported no motive or suspects and said the slaying did not appear connected to his civil rights work.
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Detroit
UPI
Burton Gordin
Michigan Civil Rights Commission
Gordin
Chicago Letter Carriers Go On National Walkout
Chicago postal workers join a nationwide strike defying union calls to return to work. Central Post Office in Chicago acts as the nation’s main distribution hub and the walkout halts mail across 12 states triggering embargoes in New York and surrounding areas.
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Chicago
Central Post Office
National Association of Letter Carriers
New York City
New Jersey
Connecticut
New York
Inflation remains a threat as price rise continues
Washington officials say inflation is not stopped and risks of a recession persist despite tighter fiscal and monetary actions. They urge Nixon to urge moderation in prices and wages while noting markets are more competitive and demand has eased but not enough to halt inflation.
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Washington
UPI
Gerald R. Ford
Republican House
Nixon
Arthur F Burns
Federal Reserve Board
Senate Banking Committee
Burns
Medina County mail deliveries stall amid Akron postal strike
Medina County mail service slowed as Akron based postal strike extends to the county. Final deliveries from Akron occurred yesterday to Spencer and nearby Litchfield and Medina. Homerville reports no mail as route drivers refuse to cross the picket line at Akron. Local processing continues, but Akron will not accept mail.
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Spencer
Medina County
Akron
Walter Bullman
Litchfield
Medina
Mail carriers strike swells across Ohio and Cincinnati
Thousands of Ohio postal workers walked off the job in a spreading strike that shut major post offices in Akron Cleveland Fairlawn and Barberton and hit 49 substations. In Cleveland about 2,000 vote to join. strike spreads to Cincinnati. Officials warn of disrupted communications and voter operations as state and federal leaders condemn the action.
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Ohio
Akron
Fairlawn
Barberton
Cleveland
Harold Loewe
Branch 40
National Association of Letter Carriers
Cincinnati
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