Labor Alliance Slashes Spending Amid UAW Financial Squeeze
The Alliance for Labor Action halves its funding to about 2 million a year as UAW faces a budget crisis. Detroit meetings set a 5 cent per member contribution, down from 10 cents, with layoffs and deficits cited by Leonard Woodcock.
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Auto Workers, Teamsters
Detroit
UAW
Reuther
Leonard Woodcock
Ion
Woodcock
Auto Workers
Black Lake
Mich
Auto Workers Teamsters
Alliance For Labor Action
Aflcio
George Meany
Teamsters
Afl-Cio
Teamsters Union
Democratic Governors Urged to Launch Talent Hunt After 1970 Elections
Democratic governors urged to seek political talent after the 1970 elections to field a White House contender against Nixon in 1972. Gov. McNair of South Carolina warns current nominees lack evident support while Gov. Rockefeller leads a Rockefeller panel pushing federal education and health programs, tax increases likely.
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Lake OF the Ozarks, Co
White House
Nixon
Robert E. McNair
South Carolina
Lawrence F. O’brien
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Rockefeller
Washington
Congress
Conference Transportation Committee
Theederal
Johnson
O’brien
Fred R. Harris
State House
McNair
John N. Dempsey
Connecticut
Health Planning Council Approved by Frederick County Supervisors
The Region Seven Health Planning Council of Virginia was approved unanimously by the Frederick County Board of Supervisors as the planning agency for Region Seven. The county will have nine of 35 representatives, Winchester five, and regional boundaries include Winchester and Frederick Clarke Page Shenandoah and Warren Counties with about 106 000 people.
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Region Seven
Health Planning Council
Winchester
Frederick, Clarke, Page
Shenandoah
Warren
Carl S. Napps
Winchester Memorial Hospital
U.S. Congress
State Health Department
Virginia
Charlottesville
Roanoke
At-home Needlecraft Catalog Ad Promotes Patterns
Price Brookes urges readers to order wool fringe robes and instant embroidery patterns with sizes S 10 12 to L 18 20. The Winchester Evening Star offers mail orders for 50 cents per pattern plus 25 cents for Air Mail handling, with Catalogs listing 200 designs and several craft books priced from 50 cents to $1.00.
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Alice Brooks
Winchester Evening Star
Needlecraft Dept
Old Chelsea Station
New York
N.Y
Needlecraft
Fortune Admits Error on Penn Central Accounting Practices
Fortune magazine acknowledges errors in its August article on Penn Central accounting. The piece claimed unique methods produced a $4.4 million profit in 1969 instead of a loss, and a letter from Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. will detail the misstatements.
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New York
Fortune
Penn Central Co
Penn Central
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co
Interstate Commerce Commission
Sears recalls Touch-N-Go blender over shock hazard
Sears Roebuck and Co recalls white 10 speed Touch-N-Go blender model 663.82235 sold late 1969 to Aug 4 1970. About 1000 units. 15 possibly hazardous after factory sample showed a shock risk due to a base plate mismatch. Exchange or refund offered at Sears stores or catalogs with no injuries reported.
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Chicago
Sears, Roebuck and Co
Sears
James W. Button
Sears Laboratory
Button
Telephone Co to Spend 105700 on Area Work in Winchester
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia plans to spend 105,700 on two Winchester area projects. Sixty seven thousand seven hundred dollars funds an outside plant relocation along Rt. 657 east of Winchester near the Frederick County line. The project runs with highway construction and will place more than 4 miles of 5 to 1500 pair cable underground. Thirty three thousand dollars will add circuits for long distance service between Winchester and Staunton to meet future demand.
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Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Virginia
Winchester
C&p
Rt. 657
Interstate Rt. 81
Frederick County
Senators Seek Boundaries On Lockheed Bailout Proposal
Two senators urge a limit on a 200 million interim financing request for Lockheed's C5 supertransport. They seek amendment requiring approval by arms boards or courts, aiming to curb abuses and keep 42 planes due by June 30, 1971 on track, with added oversight reports and funding priority.
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Washington
Lockheed Corp
William Proxmire
D. Wisc
Richard S. Schweiker
R-Pa
Pentagon
Lockheed
Comptroller General
Secretary of Defense
C&O to Close Ore Handling Facility in Va
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway plans to close its eight million dollar ore handling facility in Newport News due to low margins and declining business. Ore imports fell from 793000 tons in 1966 to 135244 tons in 1969 with likely further drop in 1970. Unofficial reports say the pier would shut after August 31, affecting Union Carbide and other importers.
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Newport News
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
S. A C&o
Paul Blake
Union Carbide
C&o
Hampton Roads
Red Planet Mars Described as the Red World
The planet Mars is called the red planet because its surface material reflects red light more than other colors. The description notes Mars appears reddish due to its soil and dust composition.
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Mars
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Labor Alliance
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers
Democratic Party
Senate
Dempsey
Missouri
Warren E. Hearnes
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
By Price Brookes
By Magazine
Staunton
Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals
Tacoma
Wash
Crockett
Gene Crockett
Genia
Ronald Holt
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