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Chrysler Gets $5 Million Job Training Contract At the same time, officials from the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce and the Dayton branch of the alliance are now in Chicago attending a symposium on training programs and other aspects of the program. Dayton has an application pending for a training contract estimated to involve between S3 million and $5 million in reimbursement money. The application was filed by the Chamber of Commerce which had formed a consortium of Dayton firms to seek partial reimbursement from the federal government for training provided hard-core unemployed persons being hired by Dayton firms under the program. Chamber officials said that more than 20 of the hundreds of Dayton firms taking on new employes under the program have joined the consortium and more may do so. ing 1,000 hard-core unemployed adults to work at Chrysler dealerships in 50 major American cities, including Dayton, said Simon.

These persons will be trained to work as service station attendants, lubrication specialists, used car lot technicians, licet maintenance technicians and used car reconditioners. said Simon. Under the second contract there will be an average training period of five weeks. The trainees under both Chrysler contracts will be paid while in training. Those trained for work at Chrysler dealerships will start at an average hourly rate of $2.13 an hour.

THE AVERAGE training cost for those to work at dealerships will be $742. Chrysler officials in Dayton declined comment today. By JOE FENLEY. Daily News Business Editor The single largest training contract under the National Alliance of Businessmen has been approved by the U.S. Department of Labor for the Chrysler Corp.

for projects in Dayton and five other cities. The contract, for $3,121,158, is to provide for the training of 2,000 hard-core unemployed persons to work in Chrysler plants in Dayton, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Indianapolis Toledo. Under the contract approved for Chrysler, the federal government will reimburse Chrysler up to the $5.1 million level i raining 2,000 persons to work in Chrysler plants. Michael Simon, a Department of Labor information officer, told The Daily News that Chrysler will train the new employes to work as assemblers, material handlers, drivers, press operators, power sewing machine operators, and spot gun welders.

THE TRAINING period will average 12 weeks but the actual training periods will range as high as 52 weeks, depending on the difficulty of tlie job, said Simon. Trainees under the Chysler program under the NAB program to provide permanent employment for the nation's hardcore unemployed adults will be assured jobs upon grandua-tion from the training program, it was indicated. The average starting pay will be $3.13 an hour for those hired and trained to work in Chrysler plants in the six cities, said Simon. A SECOND contract approved by the Labor department for Chrysler includes reimbursement to Chrysler for train DAYTON DAILY NEWS FINAL EDITION 96 Pages THE WEATHER fair and cooler tonight, 1 near 60. Thursday, mostly sunny with a high in the upper 70s.

Wralher Map on Pit Price 10 Cents Vol. 91, No. 278 Sccund Claw Postage Paid it Da1on, Ohio Dayton, Ohio, Wednesday, June 12, 1968 Standard Register Unions Approve Pact Housing Stimulus Urged 2 Striking Locals Agree; Electricians Meet Tonight By BILL LOHRER, Daily News Stall Writer Two unions striking the Standard Register Co. voted overwhelmingly today to return to work and end the walkout that has idled some 1,200 workers since May 1. of the Dayton POSTKAL LASKEY Branded by Publicity Printing Pressmen and Assistants union Local 54 and Lithographer and Photo Engravers International union Local 275 approved a new three-year contract by a vote of 168 to 52.

Some 475 members of the International Union of Electrical Workers Local 768 will meet tonight to vote on their contract offer. TDK TWO UNIONS who settled today include some 250 employes. The contract calls for a 30-cent hourly pay hike retroactive to Mar. 1 the first year, 27 cents the second year By JIM BLAND Daily News Staff Writer COLUMBUS Gov. James A.

Rhodes proposed establishment of two state agencies today to stimulate low and medium income housing de- elopment. Through Albert G. Giles, Ohio urban affairs director, the governor proposed legislation to induce private industry to assume the leading role ir eliminating substandard dwellings in cities. GILES ALSO was to apiiear before a Legislative Service commission committee to outline other plans. Rhodes proposed an urban redevelopment commission to designate blighted sections of ities to enable them to obtain tax breaks if local governments consent.

A proposed housing finance agency would issue and sell i nue ixwds for low-cost ins to be used in rehabillta-ti or construction of Tin: bonds would be bu ked by a pledge of revenues by the agency, the state iking no general obligation, the governor said. He also said no tax funds would be involved. Rhodes said the proposed tax abatements would apply only to the added value of Improved property. Existing tax duplicates would remain the same. CHOLOJS PAYS PRICE OF WAR AGAIN Laskey Hearing Granted Vietnamese forces besieged pockets of VC infiltrators.

That and Viet Cong shelling took its toll. Story on Page 5. UPI SAIGON The Cholon (Chinatown) section of Saigon, hit often by Viet Cong and allies alike, took another battering from both sides Tuesday. South Proctor Leading Race For CSU Presidency and 26 cents the third year. Also included during the first year is five weeks vacation for employes with 30 years or more service and paid insurance that reportedly amounts to S3.

24 per week. Other fringe benefits include five weeks vacation for employes with 25 years service the second year and increases in jury duty pay and funeral leave and a picket line clause that says the two unions have the right to respect other unions' pickets. George Darner president of LPIU Loc al 275, said the vote taken today indicated a "pretly healthy acceptance of the company's offer." WILLIAM BOOS, president of the pressmen's union Local 54, said the settlement, was "the best one in the Dayton area so far." Darner said that the second year Ihe company will pay 25 cents ner man per week to the LPIU education fund and another 25 cents the third year. This fund is used to train and retrain union members for other jobs. Standard Register officials at noon issued the following report-to-work instructions EMPLOYES of the mechanical products plant, machine repair, experimental engineering departments and tool room are to report beginning with the first shift Thursday.

Employes of ihe Dayton printing plant are not to report until individually contacted by their supervisor. These plans are contigent upon the outcome of the IUE vote tonight, company officials stressed. The following year lie became Northeast Region director for tlie Office of Economic Op-portunity and later served as special assistant to OEO Director Sargent Shriver. The author of "The Young Negro in America. 1960-1980." Proctor was awarded the outstanding alumnus award from Boston university in 1964.

He received a distinguished service award in 1966 from the State University of New York. He is married and the father of four sons. DE GAULLE ORDERS RIOT CRACKDOWN President Charles de Gaulle has ordered a crack down on leftist student and labor rioters as news of the third riot death this week was disclosed. Page 6. INDKTMKNT FOR first-degree murder is reduced to first-degree manslaughter for second time in two weeks.

Richard Hine, Page 3. KENTUCKY POET has a 'notion' of a better life for mountain folk. Page 26. A CALIFORNIA police department is made up of former jailbirds, hippies and bums. Page 26.

RACK APPEARING in solid wall against gun conu-ol law. Page 31. HEART TRANSPLANT patient Dr. Philip Blaiberg showing some improvement. Page 36.

SCOTLAND YARD trying to find out what James Earl Ray did between May 17- 28. Page 38. REDS MADE OBVIOUS move to shore up sagging pitching corps in six-player deal with Braves. Si Burick, Pge 40. DEATH OF ROBERT Kennedy seems to have startled Rockefeller out of his trance.

Page 47. CHILDREN IN Model Cities schools would start at age 3. under plan envisioned by Arthur Thomas. Page 49. JESSE PHILIPS becomes chairman of the board, Robert Levenstein new president of Philips Industries.

Joe Fenley, Page 72. SIRHAN siRHAN seems satisfied with his treaunent in custody, ACLU attorney says. Page 81. signed early last month, effective in September. WHO ASSUMED the presidency in December, 1965, will teach law at the University of Cincinnati.

He had quit once before, shortly after a riot occurred last November. He was persuaded to remain. Proctor, a graduate of Virginia Union university. Cro-zer seminary and Boston university, is a native of Norfolk. Va.

He received a doctorate in ethics from Boston university in 1960. He did graduate study in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania (1944-45) and in social ethics at Yale (1945-46). He began his teaching career in 1949 at Virginia Union in 1949, becoming president in 1955. In 1960 he was named president of North Carolina college at Greensboro. He held the xist until 1964.

PROCTOR SLRVKD as director of the Peace Corps in Nigeria during a leave of absence from North Carolina 1962-63 and then as associate director of the Peace Corps in Washington. In 1964 he was named associate general secretary for public affairs with the National Council of Churches. By 0. r. KNIPPLNBURG Dally News Staff Writer Dr.

Samuel D. Proctor, president of the Institute for Services to Education in Washington, is the leading contender for president of Central State university. The one difficulty holding up his appointment is a commitment he has regarding another job. reportedly as a dean at the University of Wisconsin. The issue may be resolved by the time the committee seeking a new president for Central State meets in Wilber-force June 20.

I II Bl STAMANTE of Cleveland, chairman of the Central State board of trustees, said Proctor was one of three candidates seriously being considered for the presidency. Bustamante declined identify the otlier two persons. One is from out of state and the other in Ohio. W. O.

Walker, state industrial relations director, and a trustee, said the Ohio person is not a member of the Central State staff. A search has been under way for a top-ranking educator to become president of tht university since Dr. Harry E. Groves re COLUMBUS -(UPI)- The Ohio Supreme court agreed today to hear an appeal of Posteal Laskey .10, from a murder conviction and death sentence imposed in the fatal of a woman stenographer. La key a ttorney Bert Signer, based the appeal on grounds that publicity sur-rounding the "Cincinnati strangler" at the time of Laskey 's arrest created a climate of hostility and made it impossible for him to get a fair trial.

LASKEY, A NEGRO night club musician, had been scheduled to be executed in the electric chair July 8 for the Aug. 14. 1966, knife slaying of Barbara Bowman, 31, in Cincinnati. The Ohio Supreme court's acceptance of his appeal automatically stayed the execution date, which had been set by the First Ohio District Court of Apeals in March when it rejected a similar appeal by Laskey. LASKKY WAS ARRESTED Dec.

9, 1966, a few hours after Hie slaying of an 81-year-old woman the sixtli slaying attributed by Cincinnati police to the "Cincinnati strangler." Laskey was not harged with being Ihe strangler. He was tried and convicted in Miss Bow-man's death in April, 1967, in Hamilton county Common Pleas court. No conclusive proof is known to exist that Laskey is the strangler. But there have leen no more of the strangulation murders such as those that panicked Cincinnati before Laskey's arrest. The tax breaks would be in force for 20 years, or until the total equalled improvement costs.

SOLUTIONS TO BLUM housing offered were as diverse as the witnesses in the first of two days of hearings held by i he committee here Tuesday. Other hearings are to be staged in major cities early next month. Officials of the Galbreatli Mortgage which has of-li es In Dayton, announced plans at the hearing for Dayton area projects, including a major apartment project which had been announced earlier. Newly announced by Gal-breath is the availability of SI 5 million through the Equit-able Life Assurance society for new residential construction and rchabilitaUon of existing housing In the core areas of Columbus and Dayton. tiALBRF.ATH officials also discussed the previously announced construction of a 100-tinit rent-supplement apart-menl project for the elderly in West Dayton under the spo Turn to HOUSING, Page 3, Col.

1 Avco Hit by Strike aNQNNATI-OPi-Approxi-mately 430 employes of Avco Corp. electronics plant went on strike at midnight Tuesday night and pickets were set up at the plant. High in the 80s: It's Cooling Off Everything is relative. The weather forecast is fair and cooler with a high in uV 80s today and a low in the 60s tonight. A month ago, such a forecast mighl have been labeled a heat wave.

But now, the forecast is a definite rmomoter-come-down from the recent 90 or near-90 readings. A COLD FRONT a i ng through the area Tuesday afternoon mixed with the warm, moist air in place and produced an active squall line over the state. Amusements 57-59 Ask and Answer 55 Business News 72-74 Comics 94. 95 Crossword Puzzle 94 Dear Abby 53 Deaths. Funerals 75 Dr.

Alfred Meager 35 Earl Wilson 59 Editorials 46, 47 Feature Page 26 Heart to Heart 54. 56 James Reston 47 News in Brief 76 Obituary Notices 83 People 38 Sports 4045 Star Gazer 94 Television 95 Tell It to Tammy 55 Uncle Ray 78 Vital Statistics 80 Women's Pages 51-56 Your Stars 57 Today's Chuckle They say TV is really still in its infancy. That helps explain why you have to get up so much to change it. Grievances Aired; Atlanta Convicts Free Hostages Mvffarily Strike Lasts 4 Hours mU holding the Atlanta fcdtral penitentiary under agrrul to ditcu their grievances only with reporter. Willi William and David Nordan of the Atlanta Jnnnml ir red the prison.

Here in their ntory. By WILLIAM B. WILLIAMS aod DAYDJ NORDAN (t Sir Th i i m. Jonnul ATLANTA Four Atlanta Federal penitentiary inmate who were holding 22 hostages Tuesday in a clerical section of the prsion submitted a list of nine grievances against conditions most eople have assumed the federal systems for America's lawbreakers is without fault. "In fact, on many occasions, state penal authorities have pointed at the federal system as a 'model' to make their prisons by.

Well, I'm sure that most persons who see this and know that we hold 23 hostages in the so-called 'model maximum security' federal prison will realize once and for all that something is wrong with this system. "And, if we have to die to bring some of its faults to light, then we'll die. I sincerely, hope, however, that it doesn't come that. But it may. Several shots have been fired at us already and shots were returned.

If Mr. (Warden Olin Black-well plans on killing us and not looking at his corrupt system for rehabilitating federal prisoners, then he for at least his name) will go down in infamy. In brief, here are our grievances: "The parole officers are appointed at whim from custodial status, and many of them have no social training at all. They are literally detested by every Inmate in this prison. And that's an understatement.

Something must lc done to place social workers In this prison who will help the men and not simply sit up in their offices earning fat salaries. 'The sgr-old gripe The dining room and the fond. If a man it working on some detail and is caught, for instance, Turn to CONVICTS', Page 4, Col. 1 A four-hour wildcat strike against Megacity Transit Lines. Inc.

disrupted service briefly today. A company spokesman said the 35 persons Involved In the work stoppage, which began at 4:40 a.m.. returned to their Jobs at 8:40 a.m. iflr a meeting with the president of the local union. Arthur Clayton, vi.e president in charge of alterations for the line.

said the dispute grew out of employe fears of work loss arising from the termination of a leao on the Fairbora line. i in the institution. Prison authorities and inmates came to lerms in settling the grievances early this morning. Inmates released all hostages and turned over their weapons once the grievances and settlements were printed in the Atlanta Journal. The list of grievances was drawn up by Inmate Frederick Freeman Leister who acted as spokesman for the prisoners.

There was a two-paragraph preamble to the ffrievances Williams "OW.n THE YEARS most riots and prta 'it cliMurbam.es have occurred In state Institutions, and ATLANTA FEDERAL PRISON GUARDS CKOI'CH BEHIND AUTOS Four Inmates Hold Hostages in Administration Building UPI.

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