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Settlement progress seen in auto strike
DETROIT (UPl)- The first signs of progress toward settling the Ford Motor Co. strike surfac- ed Thursday amid rumors the company was preparing "a new offer for its 170.000 workers in the ninth day of their walkout.
The optimistic signs came as the four U.S. auto makers reported mid-September new car sales that were the fourth highest in history despite the strike.
For the first time since foimal bargaining resumed Mondlay. spokesmen briefed newsmen with optimistic statements that some progress was being made.
Other company sources indi- cated that top Ford negotiators were huddling on their first revised offer since the one they made the day before the strike started."
Should Ford make some move- ment on a key union demand for reducing work time to create more jobs. it could touch off intensive weekend bargaining. But even if there is a settlement by early next week. the strike still would drag on for at least another week while an agreement is ratified.
_ Industry executives are hopeful the strike can be ended before it cripples the year-long economic recovery and the introduction 0
I977 model cars.
“We're inching along and accomplishing some things in the non-economic areas." a Ford spokesman said. A United Auto Workers spokesman agreed there had been a “perceptible change"
in the atmosphere in the bargain- ing suite since Wednesday.
The four American companies sold l84.20l cars. up 8 per cent on a daily average from last year. Analysts said the Ford strike. which started midway through the Sept. 11-20 period. cut sales by “a few thousand" cars.
Ford said its sales topped year-ago levels by 17 per cent and were the third best ever for a
Students get whacked or must eat cigarettes
HUME. Mo. (UPl)— Three high school students were caught with cigarettes in their pockets and were given a choice of punish- ment-two swats with a paddle or eating the evidence.
Terry Weatherman. 15. and Bill Adkins. 14. chose the latter. It made them ill and their parents
angry. The two had to eat the
cigarettes they and one other boy had - 18 in all. The third boy took
fhis swats. leaving Adkins and
Weatherman nine each to down.
Kenneth Hightower. principal at the school in this town 68 miles south of Kansas City. gave them five minutes to accomplish the task.
“lf I gave them a length of time
mid-September period. General Motors sales were up 5 per cent. and Chrysler increased 15 per cent. Ailing small car specialist American Motors slipped 40 per cent below a year ago.
For the first time since Monday when formal bargaining resumed to end the walkout by 170.000 workers. Ford spokesmen briefed newsmen on the status of the talks.
any longer than that they would piddle around." the principal said. “But l feel like if the kids make up their own mind. it's up to them."
Weatherman and Adkins later became ill at school and Adkins began spitting up blood that night. Mrs. Adkins took her son to a nurse in a nearby town. and Mrs. Weatherman followed suit the next morning.
The mothers took the boys out of school in protest. and threaten to keep them out.
Superintendent Charles Robert Allen conceded the punishment was rather harsh but said the school needs discipline because some of its I00 students often smoke and chew tobacco on the school grounds.
Frldlya September 24, 1976 Connecticut Daily Campus Page 5
The Nation In Brief
Viking 2 yields no conclusions
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — The possibility that there is life on Mars is far from having been established by the latest biological tests from a second Viking lander on the red planet. scientists
reported Thursday.
At the same time. the experiments performed so far have not produced sufficient evidence to rule it out. one of the group
emphasized.
Prosecution zeroes in on Saxe
BOSTON (UPI) — The prosecution set out Thursday to prove Susan Saxe was part of a team of bandits which robbed a Boston bank six years ago and killed patrolman Walter A. Schroeder
during the holdup.
“The Commonwealth intends to prove that each and every one of the persons named in the indictment played an effective role in the robbery of the bank in which a policeman was killed and thus each one involved in this joint enterprise was ati agent of the
others." opening statement.
prosecutor John T. Gaffne_v said in his 2.l«mllltltL‘
House kills future fuel support
WASHINGTON (UPI) —— The House voted I93-I92 Thursda_\ to kill a $4 billion federal support program for the fuels of the future. “We don't need this bill." Rep. James Collins. R-Tcs.. said. “And we certainly don't need to go off half-cocked in the last day \
of this Congress."
“What's the alternative?" Rep. Louis Frey. R-Fla.. asked. "Spend $35 billion next year to bring oil and gas in from other countries or put $3.5 billion into new energy tecluiologics."
Church weary, ends convention
MINNEAPOLIS (UPI) — The Episcopal Church. weary. bruised and praying for reconciliatioti. ended its o5th trietniial General Convention Thursday much as it started: debating the
issue of women's ordination.
The l.000 la_v. clergy and bishops also adopted a host of other. mostly minor and internal hottsekeeping rcsoltttions as they finished the I3-day convention which will change forever the 3
million member denotninatioit.
Hearst awaits final sentencing
SAN FRANClSCO(UPl) — For Patricia Hearst. Friday is a day she has had nightmares about for more than t\\o years —~ the day of her final sentencing for bank robbery.
The 22-year-old newspaper heiress was convicted last March of a $l0.000 batik robbery April IS. I974. which occttrred just ll) weeks after she was kidnapcd half-nttdc and screaming from her Berkeley apartment by the Syntbioncsc l.ibcration /\rtn_\.
Then I9. Miss
Hearst said she was
cinbracitig the
revolutionary catisc of her captors’.
Rockefeller, Albert trade racist quips
W':\5H|l‘»(i'l’UN (UPI) -- Un- the president of Liberia to ad- William R. Tolbcrt Jr. to be
ayvarc their banter was being recorded. House Speaker Carl Albert and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller Thursday traded good-ltumorcd —- but slightly racist ~ » quips as they waited for
dress a joint meeting of Congress.
"Are there many Liberians that are niti|attocs‘."' Albert asked Rockefeller as they waited on the spcaker’s rostrum for Pre .ident
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Rockefeller replied in a low voice: “Most are strictly black."
“But they got a class. system." he added. recalling Liberia's cre- ation by /\merican slaves repa- triated to Africa in I847.
“The blacks who went back to Liberia took on all the characteris- tics of southern whites. And they treated the local blacks..."
His voice trailed off.
Albert responded: “And they never let the local blacks in on anything!"
Rockefeller intcrjccted: "Oh. no. They slightly changed their speech. btit only slightly."
Albert continttcd the thought. sayitrg, "but only slightly..."
Then. Rockefellerspotted Sen. Edward Brooke. R-Mass.. leaning on a cane and vigorously shaking the hands of members of the diplomatic corps as they filed into the chamber.
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