GM raises car prices second time during UAW strike
GM announces an average 24 dollar rise in new car prices as its UAW contract takes effect. The hike, 0.7 percent, adds about 10.6 million dollars yearly to consumer costs based on last year’s 4.5 million sales, while some models see up to forty dollar increases and wagon prices drop eighteen dollars. The Vega subcompact remains at two thousand ninety-one dollars.
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Detroit
General Motors
United Auto Workers
Lordstown
Ohio
UAW
North Olmsted school levy gains support from nineteen groups
A summary noting student and community backing for a special electron levy in North Olmsted as the school district seeks funding. The article mentions involvement by nineteen organizations and references related school board budget and building plans.
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North Olmsted
Grafton
Fuller Road
New London
Pag Avon Lake
Commty Solid Waste Disposal District
AY Contract Bridge
C-T
North Ridgeville
Woman repels robbery with six pack of beer at Elyria store
A quick thinking woman at Sam's Cut Rate in Elyria thwarted a robbery when she hurled a six pack of beer at the intruder. Police later stopped 24 year old James Howard after a description match on West Avenue. officers found toy metal pieces in his coat.
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Elyria
Sam Milner
Chestnut Ct
Lorain
Sam
Broad St
West Avenue
Howard
Starved Pakistanis crowd aid handout turns chaotic in Dacca
American relief mission led by Ambassador Joseph Farland arrives at Chubdia Island amid panic as two refugees are slashed by helicopter blades and others are injured while lines form for rice and supplies. Farland withdraws as helicopters dump 16 bags of food and more flights are arranged with help from Britain France and other nations.
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Dacca
East Pakistan
U.S
Bedlam
Joseph
Farland
Dir Chubdia
Samdbar
Ganges River
Maijdi
Henry Wiley Mosely
Army
Rex Davis
United States
Britain
France
West Germany
Saudi Arabia
Adm
S. M. Ahsan
West Pakistan
India
Indian Foreign Ministry
New Delhi
Joseph S. Farland
First liberty mission fail stalls more POW raids hint
The Pentagon says the failed mission near Hanoi showed resolve to free prisoners and left options open for future commando raids. Melvin Laird noted the stealth operation missed its targets as the POW camp at Son Tay had been vacated, with no inmates found.
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Washington
United States
Hanoi
Pentagon
Melvin R Laird
Laird
Uvem
Hamel
Son Tey
Wives of POWs praise U S rescue attempt
Three area women whose husbands are prisoners near Hanoi welcomed the daring raid inside North Vietnam. Mrs Bonnie Campbell of Amherst said she was delighted something was attempted yet disappointed the men were not freed. Mrs Harlan Chapman of East Ave noted the raid might prompt retaliation but would lift the prisoners' spirits. Mrs Patricia Turn of unspecified location said she would feel better only when the men return home.
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North Vietnam
Burton
Bonnie) Campbell
Amherst
Harlan
Josephine) Chapman
East Ave
Harlan Chapman
Ain
Robert
Patricia
Winter Storm Grips Large Area With Snow and Power Outages
A major winter storm blankets the nation from Chicago to the East Coast with heavy snow and cold. Up to a foot of snow, zero temperatures, and dozens of power outages are reported as travel worsens and schools close. The storm echoes a Thanksgiving week blizzard from 1950 with Cleveland and surrounding counties hit hard.
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Chicago
Toy
Oregon
Lower
Michigan
New York State
Ohio
Cleveland
National Weather Service
Ashtabula County
Lake County
Lake Erie
Geauga County
Cuyahoga County
Living Cost Index Shows Heavy Rise In October
Washington reports the consumer price index jumped six tenths in October, led by cars clothing gasoline and services. Prices are 5.9 percent higher than a year ago and weekly earnings slipped, reducing real pay by 0.8 percent from September and 2.0 percent from a year earlier.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Wintry Weather With Snow Flurries Across Region
Snow flurries and occasional squalls lessen through the day with drifting winds and persistent cold. Highs reach the upper teens to 28, then lows in the teens. Tomorrow stays mostly cloudy with a chance of light snow by afternoon and highs near the 20s. Sunset 5 02 p m Sunrise 7 2 a m.
Avon Lake men survive Canadian wilderness blizzard ordeal
Dan Schoenbach and companion Ricken Sretert endured a Canadian wilds night after a broken boat trailer wheel and a failed motor left them stranded 52 miles northwest of Sedbury Ontario. Sullivan stayed ashore to alert authorities while the two improvised a lean-to on an island and waited for rescue.
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Avon Lake
Dan Schoenbach
Conmdican
Schoenbach
Cherry Lane
Richard Sullivan
Bedd
Ricken Sretert
University Heights
Bef
Canada
Lake Onaping
Sedbery, Ont
Sullivan
Ware
Schoenbech
Rowme
Caine
Schoentech
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Ford Motor Co
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Sod
Frank Pilarczyk
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Pakistan
Air Force
Arthur D. Simons
U. S
Secretary of
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Glad U.S
Campbell
Hasband
Anan
South
Gulf States
Texas
Sretert
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