Rail Clerks No-Strike Pact Hailed
CHICAGO UPI Agreement was reached yesterday on a two year no strike contract between the railroads and 144000 Brotherhood of Railway Clerks members. The pact provides wage boosts and an eight holiday year, plus a two week vacation for workers with over two years service.
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Chicago
UPI
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
National Railway Labor Conference
John P. Hiltz Jr
Hill
Pael
Hiltz
Beally
Suspect Identified By Victims
A Lin ten New Jersey man Isiah Wells, 30, was held on rape charges in New York after three victims identified him. He faces grand jury action on charges stemming from attacks in Greenwich Village. Police sought the killer of Muriel Hartnagel, a Western Union employee found raped and strangled in Laurelton Queens.
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New York
Linten
Greenwich Village
Queens
Isiah Wells
Wells
Brooklyn
Muriel Hartnagel
Western Union
Laurelton
High Court Strikes Down Street Law
New York State Court of Appeals voids a city street encumbrance law used to bar Elliot Katz from distributing Vietnam protest pamphlets on a Queens sidewalk. The $2 conviction reversal cites overly broad language and potential arbitrary enforcement, ruling the statute unconstitutional while acknowledging its aim.
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Albany
N.Y
New York State
New York City
Court of Appeals
Elliot Katz
Queens
Katz
Appellate Division
State Supreme Court
Kenneth B. Keating
Taconic Kiwanis to Install Officers at Ladies Night
The Taconic Kiwanis Club announces Lt Gov Hugh Trainor as guest of honor at Ladies Night and the annual installation of officers beginning at 6 45 p m at Dave Victors Restaurant. Members and their wives will attend.
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Hugh Trainor
Taconic i Kiwanis Club
Dave Victor
Wallace Backers Seize Louisiana Democratic Committee Chair
Backers of former Alabama Governor George Wallace won control of Louisiana's Democratic state central committee by a 16 vote margin. The win likely secures Wallace the preferred slot on the 1968 ballot, forcing President Johnson to seek ballot access. An attorney aligned with segregationist Leander Perez captured the chairmanship.
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Baton Rouge
UPI
Alabama
George Wallace
Democratic State Central Committee
Johnson
Leander Perez
Wallace
Louisiana
Father Kills Tots and Wife Then Shoots Self in Monterey Park
In a Christmas decorated living room, Linda Weikert 9 and Eddie 7 were found dead. Their mother Alice Weihert 27 was wounded in the neck, and husband Lawrence Wallace Weihert 28 was found in the children's room with a gunshot wound. Police say the couple's children and wife were shot before he died. The mother was expected to survive. Investigators had not yet found a motive.
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Monterey Park
Calif
Linda Weikert
Eddie
Alice Weihert
Lawrence Wallace Weihert
Weihert
Los Angeles County General Hospital
Johnson and Aides Work On Budgets At Rancho
President Johnson spent six hours at his Hill Country ranch with eight staffers reviewing task force reports on new programs and the unfinished agenda. The group included Joseph A. Califano Jr. and five of his assistants, focusing on taxes, economic issues, crime and transportation. The session ran from 9 a.m. through lunch with no announced plans for tomorrow.
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San Antonio
Tex
Johnson
Hill Country
Texas White House
Price
Obituary notices from Troy area including Deis and Freckleton deaths
Funeral services were held for George A Deis of Sehaghticoke at Earl Memorial Chapel with Rev Elwood Case presiding. Franklin Freckleton 80 died at Veterans Hospital and is survived by wife Marguerite, son Dr Robert Freckleton, and three nephews. services planned in New York City. Mrs Emma Ott and Mrs Seymour also had funerals with local clergy officiating and Oakwood Cemetery interment. Mrs Margaret Smith of 1915 Highland Ave a Catholic volunteer and widow of John T Smith died at Samaritan Hospital. she was active in St Francis de Sales and Catholic Women’s groups and leaves three daughters.
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Deis
George A. Deis
Sehaghticoke
Earl Memorial Chapel
Elwood E. Case
United’ ‘Presbyterian Church
Sehaghtlicoke
Mr. Case
Franklin Freckleton
Veterans Hospital
Vorunam Hoos
Freckleton
Smith & Solomons Transportation Co
New York City
Marguerite van Gelder Freckleton
Robert Freckleton
Atlanta, Ga
Troy
Ott
Emma Ott
Bryce Ta ‘Iil
Robert M. Mars
Oakwood Presbyterian Church
Arnold, Thurman
Stanley
Delmar Ott
Elmwood Hill Cemetery
Marsano
Seymour
Frank J. Seymour
Northern Dr
South Street
Third Avenue
James Mittler
St. Bernard’s Church
Cohoes
James E. Martinez
St. Augustine’s Church
Oakwood Cemetery
Frank A. Marbot
Richard Moran
John J. Marbot
Ronald White
Margaret Smith
Margaret V. Smith
Highland Ave
John T. Smith
Samaritan Hospital
Green Island Catholic Daughters of America
Arthur N. Anderson
Robert E. Shirey
Augusta. Ga
Funeral Service Planned At Local Funeral Homes and Church
The funeral will be tomorrow at 8 45 a m from John H Clinton Funeral Home Washington Park and Third Streets. A 9 30 a m Requiem High Mass will be celebrated at St Francis de Sales Church. Interment will be in St Patrick's Cemetery Watervliet.
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John H. Clinton
Washington Park
Third Streets
St. Francis de Sales Church
St. Patrick's Cemetery
Watervliet
Giant plantain yields 323 fruits go on display in Puerto Rico
In Mayaguez Virgilio Justiniano grew a single plantain cluster of 323 foot long fruits, far surpassing the usual 36. After months of building supports to keep the top from toppling the structure collapsed, four men hoisted the plant into rafters of a produce warehouse, turning it into a tourist attraction.
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Mayaguez
Puerto Rico
Virgilio Justiniano
Battle of Labels in New Delhi Demonstration
A New Delhi paper reports students protesting English language ties to license plates. A teacher asked a student to reveal a coat label in English and ordered it removed from his clothing, prompting a retreat by the group.
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New Delhi
Food Costs Placed At Nearly a Quarter of Income
Government statistics show the average American family spends 24.5 percent of its income on food. This highlights food affordability pressures facing households as prices remain elevated in the current period.
World’s Fair Loss Revealed in $21.1 Million Audit
New York auditors report the 1964-1965 World’s Fair loss at 21.1 million dollars. The audit notes projections of a surplus were incorrect and the fair issued only 38.4 cents per dollar borrowed. It details Robert Moses receiving 1.05 million in salary and annuities through 1975, plus 209,687 in deferred compensation and 120,000 in annuity premiums.
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NEW York
Mario A. Procaccini
Corp
Fair Corporation
Robert Moses
Moses
Fair
Designer Of Top Dams Dies At 88
John Lucian Savage, famed dam designer for Hoover and Grand Coulee, died at 88 in Englewood Colorado after a long illness. As Bureau of Reclamation chief design engineer for 21 years he led over 40 major dam projects and later advised 19 nations on water resources projects worldwide. He helped develop standard construction techniques and inventions in the field.
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Englewood
Colo
John Lucian Savage
Bureau of Reclamation
Savage
Federal Agency
Switzerland
India
Palestine
Mexico
Ceylon
Spain
Afghani
Iran
Australia
Troy Man Hurt Falling Through Windows on Porch
Clarence O'Dell aged 44 of 2187 Twelfth Street was treated at St Marys Hospital for a hand cut and a cut over the left eye after his hand went through two windows and he fell from the porch at that address. He was taken to Central Police Station and then to the hospital by Ambulance Service Corp. Five stitches closed the hand wound and one closed the eye cut. Patrolmen Brearton and Nelligan investigated the accident.
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Clarence O'Dell
Twelfth St
St. Mary's Hospital
Central Police Station
Ambulance Service Corp
Frank J. Brearton Jr
James L. Nelligan
Radio Patrol
Miller Backs Rockefeller as GOP presidential pick
Buffalo report says William F. Miller, former GOP national chairman, endorses Nelson Rockefeller as the best Republican candidate for president. Miller notes Rockefeller is the most effective campaigner and imagines a ticket with Ronald Reagan for vice president, while criticizing George Romney and calling Nixon a potential but flawed candidate.
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Buffalo
N.Y
William &. Miller
Nelson A. Rockefeller
GOP
Rockefeller
Barry Goldwater
Miller
George Romney
Michigan
Ronald Reagan
California
Buffalo News
Richard M. Nixon
Engineer’s Hydraulic Innovations Shaped California Dams
A noted engineer contributed to the construction of Shasta, Parker and Imperial dams and the All American Canal in California. His work advanced hydraulic engineering and large-scale water projects shaping the state’s infrastructure history.
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Shasta, Parker and Imperial Dams
All-American Canal
California
U S Steel Raises Prices On Strip And Rails
U S Steel Corp boosted prices by 5 per ton on cold rolled carbon steel strip and railroad rails, affecting about 24 percent of shipments. The increase takes effect January 8. The firm also cut wrought steel wheel prices by 34 percent to pre November 27 levels, affecting roughly half a percent of shipments.
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Pitsburgis
U.3 Steel Corp
Interlake Steel
Rohm Strip Steel
U.S. Steel
Barnard to Visit LBJ at the Texas Ranch
South African surgeon Dr Christian Barnard, famed for the first heart transplant, will call on President Johnson at the LBJ Ranch this morning. He plans to meet Johnson and Mrs Johnson around 1 pm EST, after traveling from Chicago to San Antonio. Barnard recently transplanted a heart in Louis Washkansky on December 3, who lived 18 days before dying from a lung infection. The donor was Denise Darvall, a 25 year old woman killed in a car crash near Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town.
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San Antonio
Tex
Christian Barnard
Johnson
LBJ
Texas White House
Barnard
Chicago
New York
London
Louis Washkansky
Denise Darvall
Barnard’s Hospital
Groote Sehurr
Cape Town
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Lynn Donaldson
Yonochas
Troy Cohoes Ywca
Troy YW
Miss Donaldson
Laurie DiStefano
Rosemary Laiacona
Nancy Melsom
Vera Farrell
Risa Jacobs
Wallace Backers Control Committee
CALL
Loyd Wackler
White House
Hackler
Newsmen
Tomorrrow
Joseph A. Califano Jr
Harry _ oe
McPherson
Larry Temple
Donald A. MacNintch
Toms
Califano
River
Nwa
John T. Califano
the Smith Jr
Fairbanks
Alaska
Harold VanDer Washington
North Greenbush
Atomic Energy Commission
Agriculture and Housing and Urban Development Departments
Hackley
George Christian
Washington
Battle OF Labels
Dick Turner
Pet
Troy Man
Rocky
U.S
Dr. Barnard
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