Nationwide strike vote to be counted for Greyhound drivers
Up to 14000 Greyhound bus drivers and terminal workers will have their ballots counted tomorrow on authorizing a nationwide strike. The Amalgamated Transit Union had earlier struck in 1974, settled on a 1 percent raise, and the wage was about 6.21 dollars an hour under the old contract. Greyhound president Harry Lesko cited earnings decline as justification for resisting higher wage and pension demands.
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Greyhound
Amalgamated Transit Union
Greyhound Lines
Harry Lesko
Killer of 7 committed at CSU Fullerton shooting
Edward Charles Allaway, a former Sunday school teacher from Dearborn Michigan, was found insane and committed to Atascadero State Hospital after a July 12 1976 library shooting at California State University Fullerton that killed seven people. The judge warned he should never be released.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Edward Charles Allaway
Dearborn
Mich
California State University
Fullerton
Superior Court
Robert Kneelard
Allaway
College Library
Atascadero State Hospital
San Luis Obispo County
Kneeland
Judge orders disinterment of 32 graves for 160 poor
Essex County Superior Court Judge Arthur Dwyer ruled Richard Iacobucci must pay for disinterments and proper reburials with dignity under state supervision. The Gunther Funeral Home operator admitted packing bodies of poor people into graves between 1973 and 1976 for Newark’s Division of Public Welfare. New burials to start by month’s end.
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Essex County Superior Court
Arthur Dwyer
Richard Iacobucci
State Board of Mortuary Sciences
Iacobucci
Gunther Funeral Home
Newark
Division of Public Welfare
Defense witnesses missing in Sixteenth Street Church bombing case
Defense attorneys say witnesses who could exonerate Robert Chambliss have died, arguing the prosecution has an advantage due to the long gap since the 1963 bombing at Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Chambliss, 73, faces first degree murder for 11 year old Carol Denise McNair’s death.
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Birmingham
Ala
Robert Edward Chambliss
Art Haines Jr
Chambliss
Clarence Dill
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Carol Denise McNair
Atlanta parents sue over desegregation plan and housing patterns
Black parents in Atlanta sue for a city county desegregation plan claiming housing patterns keep schools segregated. University expert Taeuber testifies neighborhoods remain as segregated as in the 1950s. Detroit context notes elderly cold risk and potential hunger tradeoffs for seniors nationwide.
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Atlanta
Karl Taeuber
University of Wisconsin
Taeuber
Honolulu smoking rule may affect national convention site
Honolulu Mayor Frank Fasi said the Democratic Party must accept the city's public indoor smoking ban if it holds next year's mini-convention there. The site selection committee toured Honolulu as one of four potential cities, with members debating the impact of the ban on delegates and local residents.
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Honolulu
Frank Fasi
Democratic Party
Project Sit In brings parents into classroom day
In Pickerington Ohio 83 parents sign up for Project Sit In to observe classes at Pickerington Middle Senior School. Marc Johnston 17 skipped school. his mother Jean sat in for him. Parents observed algebra English history and Perspective on Death.
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Pickerington, Ohio
Marc Johnston
Dick Ball
Pickerington Middle-Senior School
Marc
Jean
Ball
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