Union votes 32 cent package to end 23 day strike
Local 132 of the Amalgamated Transportation Union approved a 32 cent package and fringe benefits, ending a 23 day strike against United Traction Co. with a 202 to 44 vote and 36 abstentions. Immediate 13 cent rise starts today, plus 7 cent in duty and 12 cent in January 1969. drivers to $2.85 and mechanics to $3.05 per hour. Edward Guire described the deal as the best obtainable at the time.
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Amalgamated Transportation Union
United Traction Co
Edward Guire
Union
Albany Strike HQ Deliberates Benefits and Raises Deal
Strike headquarters at 1044 Broadway Albany debated benefits including an extra paid holiday, birthday, vacation changes. Eight years service earns three weeks, twenty years four weeks. A cost of living clause seeks a one cent raise per 0.6 rise in the Cost of Living Index effective next October.
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Broadway
Albany
Albany transit strike tensions push cost of living outlook
Officials say May and September 1969 increases are possible if living costs rise further. City authorities anticipate incomplete bus service this morning with near full operation by evening rush hour. Mayor Erastus Corning 2 mediates, federal involvement continues.
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Albany
Erastus Corning
B52 Bombers Blast Infiltration Route
American B52 bombers raided Mu Gia Pass in Laos and North Vietnam. The strike marked the first raid in 10 months on the Ho Chi Minh Trail route and targeted truck parks fuel depots and supply concentrations. Additional raids damaged targets in Hanoi Haiphong area and heavy weather limited fighter-bomber activity. South Vietnam reported scattered ground fighting and Viet Cong mortar shelling of headquarters.
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Saigon
Mu Gia Pass
North Vietnam
Laos
U.S
Hanoi-Haiphong
Mu Gia
Cambodia
South Vietnam
U.S. Air Force
Panhandle
Governors Split On Viet War Endorsement and Tax Debate
Twenty Democratic governors endorsed President Johnson’s Vietnam policy while Texan John Connally voiced hopes Republican state executives will support it. Michigan Gov. George Romney criticized the policy as a bleak Southeast Asia outlook, and Ronald Reagan suggested the U S may be winning the war more than publicized. The Democratic caucus, about 45 governors, reaffirmed their St Louis stance ahead of a governors conference cruise to the Virgin Islands. The leaders also discussed Johnson’s proposed 10 percent income tax surcharge and agreed a tax hike is needed.
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New York
Johnson
Vietnam
John Connally
Ron
Giana
Michigan
George Romney
United States
Southeast Asia
Ronald Reagan
California
Virgin Islands
Iowa
Harold Hughes
Connally
Hughes
U.S
Alibi Witnesses Testify In Civil Rights Trial
Alibi and character support for 18 white men charged with conspiracy in the deaths of three civil rights workers continues as defense lawyers near the end of their lengthy witness list. Judge Harold Cox halts trial for the weekend, warns jurors not to discuss the case, and orders the seven women and five men home. Witnesses describe defendants' activities, while federal case links the killings to a planned plot by Ku Klux Klansmen after the men were arrested for speeding and later killed.
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Meridian
Miss
U.S. Dist
Harold Cox
Cox
Justice Department
Michael Schwerner
Brooklyn
Andrew Goodman
New York
James Chaney
Neshoba County
Cecil Price
James E. Jordan
Travia Calls Charter Best Document For State
New York AP report says Assembly Speaker Anthony Travia, after the constitutional convention, calls the proposed charter the best document for New York or any state. He defends it as a single package and rejects Blaine amendment criticisms, citing its replacement by the First Amendment and judicial review for church and state separation.
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Nisw York
Ap) — Assembly
Anthony Travia
Travia
Wins Radio
Brooklyn Democrat
Supreme Court
Assembly
Pope instructs lay Catholics to heed hierarchy and serve
Pope Paul VI told 2,500 lay delegates at a World Catholic conference that laymen may be apostles in the church but must stay under church hierarchy. He warned against competing with clerics, urged defining lay roles, and noted the birth control debate as a major friction point while affirming authority of bishops and the pope.
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Vatican City
Romancal Council
St. Peter's Basilica
Catho J
Gates
George
Heneghan
St. Louis
Jesus Christ
Philip Louis Daniel
London
Pope Paul
Laity
Homes Destroyed By Wind Swept Flames
An AP report from Los Angeles details fast moving brush fires fanned by high winds that killed one person, and destroyed 24 homes while burning 24 000 acres. In Chatsworth 22 homes were lost with 30 damaged as wind eased. The death involved Mrs Janett Cameron of Simi Valley. Fire officials noted fluctuating counts earlier and said the Chatsworth fire remained active overnight but diminishing winds reduced residential threat. A separate fire north of Fontana in the San Bernardino mountains was contained after reaching five acres.
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Chatsworth
Calif
Los Angeles
Janett Cameron
Simi
San Fernando Valley
Rudy Landgraft
Fontata
San Bernardino Mountains
Santa Paula
North American Rockwell Corp
Hacienda Heights
Jake S. Dukes
Roy Rogers
Dukes
Chatworth
Missing Boy Reunited With Laytons After Kidnapping Charge
A 9-year-old boy reported missing near Buffalo was found by police with John C. Wood 25, a friend of the Laytons, in Binghamton. The boy was placed in Children's Aid Society care as Wood faced a state kidnapping charge in City Court. The case remains under investigation.
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Binghamton
Burton Layton
Buffalo
William
Athol Springs
John C. Wood
Laytons
Children's Aid Society
Wood
John Affeldt
Affeldt
Mideast Compromise Seen As Possibility
UNITED NATIONS, NY AP Egypt shows willingness to compromise before critical talks with the United States on Israeli Arab war settlement. Mahmoud Riad and Arthur Goldberg to meet in New York as U Thant notes possible Security Council basis for Middle East action. Diplomats say Egypt aims for quick council action to avert General Assembly debate next week.
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United Nations
Egypt
United States
Mahmoud Riad
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
Goldberg
New York
U.N
U .Thant
Security Council
Council
General Assembly
Middle East
Suez Canal
Israel
Ford Strike Negotiation News Blackout Continues
DETROIT AP A UAW Ford bargaining session ran 10 hours then recessed with no clear progress reported. A news blackout remained in effect after 10 p.m. Tuesday as talks continued today. Walter Reuther did not appear for press comments despite extended negotiations.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers and
Ford Motor Co
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Glens Falls Minister's Wife Killed in Car Crash
Mrs Diane M Honeywell 30 of 145 Main St South Glens Falls was killed when her car collided with a northbound vehicle on Route 4 near Whitehall. Her 21 month old son Benjamin was treated for head injuries and a fractured arm, while Rev William T Honeywell sustained a fractured jaw and contusions. The other driver Wy man Brush 63 of Schenectady and his wife Theresa 63 suffered minor injuries. State Police and local officers investigated the crash.
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Glens Falls
Whitehall
Glens Falls Hospital
Crash
Diane M. Honeywell
Main St
South Glens Falls
William T. Honeywlel
First Presbyterian Church
Glen Street
Benjamin
Wyman KE
Brush
Regent St
Schenectady
Honeywell
Jeff Jeg
Theresa
Washington County
Gordon Gould
Rooper A. C. iPauquette
Joseph Lyons
Whitehall Police Department
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Niles
Riverside County
Norco
Ventura
Saticoy
Ventura County
Mideast
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