Little hope for mine settlement amid wildcat strike
Labor Day passed with little progress toward resolving a four week coal miners strike that idled 60 000 workers. Union officers urged end to walkout while rank and file ignored court orders and a federal judge set a 500000 fine if picketing continued past Tuesday.
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Charleston
W. Va
UPI
United Mine Workers International Union
UMW
Logan County
Harry Patrick
Bituminous Coal Operators Association
Washington
Local 1302
Roger Thompson
Logan
Patrick
U.S
KK. Hall
International
1976 Autos Ready for Introduction in Detroit Era
UPI reports the U.S auto industry starts rolling out 1976 models as analysts project 7.5 to 7.6 million yearly sales with imports near 1.6 million. Ford and GM set prices amid a slump, GM raising average car prices about 206 dollars and truck prices 357 dollars, while autos face a shift to smaller subcompacts.
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Detroit
UPI
U.S
Lee Iacocca
Ford Motor Co
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler Corp
American Motors Co
IMF meeting eyes voting dilution and gold sale plan
Washington reports IMF interim committee proposes trimming U S voting power from 24.8 to 20 percent while shifting decisions to 85 percent approval. One sixth of IMF gold would be sold to aid non oil exporting developing countries in Asia Africa and Latin America.
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Washington
UPI
International Monetary Fund
U.S
Treasury
William Simon
IMF
Simon
United States
IMF Gold Board
Windjammer draws crowds aboard the Eagle in New York
Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, the only sailing ship in U S service not fitting under Brooklyn Bridge, arrives in New York for an eight day preview of Operation Sail 76. Capt James R Kelly leads the 295 foot bark Horst Wessel built as a German training ship and war prize. Cadets at New London learn rigging and sea skills while sailors recall the ship’s romance and purpose as a training vessel.
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Richard Silk
EAGLE
UPI
Adolf Hitler
Horst Wessel
U.S. Coast Guard
James R. Kelly
Scituate
Mass
United States
Brooklyn Bridge
New York Harbor
Kelly
Lower Manhattan
New York
Hitler
Coast Guard Academy
New London
Richard Red’ Shannon
Honolulu
Coast Guard
Zorobra Returns to Burn at Santa Fe Fiesta
Santa Fe prepares for the Labor Day weekend Zorobra spectacle expected to draw about 30,000. The 40 foot effigy burns on a platform near City Hall to signal the Fiesta’s start, with fireworks and a long tradition tracing back to 1692 reconquest.
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Santa Fe, N.M
UPI
Zorobra
Santa Fe
Zouobra
Zozebra
Larry Mora
Santa Fe Fiesta Council
United States
Don Diego de Vargas
New Mexico
de Vargas
North America
Will Shuster
City Hall
On This Day History Notes From The Almanac
The Almanac recalls Aaron Burr’s 1807 treason acquittal under Jefferson. It notes Japan’s 1923 earthquake death toll near 150000 and thousands injured. It also mentions Britain and France’s 1939 ultimatum to Hitler and WWII onset. In 1946 Greece restored King George II after civil war.
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Aaron Burr
United States
Thomas Jefferson
Japan
Germany
Poland
Great Britain
France
Adolf Hitler
George II
Athens
Clayton C. Clapper 82 dies. memorial Wednesday in Washington
Clayton C. Clapper, 82, resident of Halcyon Apartments, died Sunday Aug 31 1975 at Washington County Hospital after a year and a half of ill health. A memorial service is set for 1 30 p m Wednesday at Jones Funeral Home. Memorials may go to the Washington County Hospital medical clinic. Born Jan 30 1893 in Venango Nebraska he was raised in Loveland and Washington Iowa and married Sylvia B Schenefelt on Dec 1 1916. He taught in Buhl Minnesota and Litchfield Minnesota before owning a Waseca Minnesota variety store retired 1957. He served on Waseca hospital board and was honorary member of Minnesota Sheriff’s Boys Ranch. Surviving: wife Dorothy Jean Clapper of Wilmette. two brothers preceded him in death.
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Clayton C. Clapper
Halcyon
South
Iowa Avenue
Washington County Hospital
Jones Funeral
William H. Kettlitz
Clapper
University of
Waseca
Minnesota
United Presbyterian Church
Dorothy Jean Clapper
Wilmette, N
Helen Coats dies in California at 61
Mrs. Helen Schoonover Coats, 61, died Sunday in San Leandro California after a lingering illness. She was born in Washington and worked at Montgomery Ward before moving west. Survived by three children David San Francisco Janice Jules Norma Machado of San Leandro, five grandchildren, three sisters and two brothers. Her husband Mr. Coats died June 22 1975.
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Helen Schoonover Coats
San Leandro
Calif
Washington
Henry J
Jesse Schoonover
Coats
Montgomery Ward
California
David
San Francisco
Eric
Janice) Jules
Bruce
Norma) Machado
After A Coronary booklet offered by Iowa Heart Association
The Iowa Heart Association releases a free booklet titled After A Coronary. It explains fears after a heart attack and guides patients on questions to ask physicians. To receive a single copy, write to Iowa Heart Association at 3810 Ingersoll, Des Moines, Iowa 50312.
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Iowa Heart Association
Ingersoll
Des Moines
Towa
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Robert Deira
Monetary Fund
Napoli
Pizza and Steak House
Windjammer
Old Man Gloom
Zozobrad
Zozobra
the Almanac
United Press Internation
Eric Curl
Ralph Curl
Stewart School
Sun
Washington, Iowa
Helen Coats
Iowa
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