The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 4

MONDAY JANUARY 9 1967 xnxu 'iACOMA Nivva iitibUNti Teachers End Strike Others Threatened Supreme Court Looks At Giant Rail Merger 511 Write Aliout Estate PHOTO JMKfE'S perior Court here Most of them asked for Infor-mation To be heard in court they would hnve to file an appli cation with the court and hire an attorney At least eight religious and educational institutions however will contend for the money cd in the will of James Kidd who lert $200000 to anyone proving the existence of the finul or researching the iitpjori salaries ranged from -5500 a year for beglners to $11250 a year for teachers with 36 years of service and advanced fee ted 650 schools and more than 570000 students The union representing 18500 of the 22000 public school teachers called off the strike when the Board of Education agreed to a wage and benefit package for the coming year The package mean $500 in wages and benefit for every teacher during the 10-month academic year WASHINGTON JP The hip- delay the merger originally set et business merger in t-S to go into effect Aug 1 On Oct history went before the Supreme IS the Supreme Court decided But the junior college strike came to a quick end Sunday night and the other two threatened walkouts nevei- materialized A four-hour afternoon session in Chicago resulted in cancellation of the Chicago Teachers Union's threat to strike clemcn-ary and high schools It would have been the first such strike In Chicago and would have nf- er academic credits The union had asked a million package The oa $4 million liil- Gcographic center of the DIs-li-ti-t of Columbia is near Fourth and Streets NW countered with a Under the old contract teach-tial offer Court Monday lor six hours of arguments The court must decide whether a lower court was correct in refusing to delay consummation of the $6-bIllion Pennsvivania-New York Central Railroad merger until the fate of three smaller Eastern railroads is settled A three-judge federal court in New York City refused Oct 4 to CHICAGO With Mayor Richard Daley as principal mediator two teachers' unions and their respective achoo boards Sunday reached tentative agreements ending one strife and averting another In Cleveland the threat of a strike by the Cleveland Education Association ended a few I tours before the Chicago settlements But public schools still faced threatened walkouts by anotlier teachers group and school custodians Mayor Daley emerged buoyant and grinning after eight hours of negotiations to announce the tentative agreement which would end a strike by teachers at eight junior colleges "Students will now be getting what they should full education" the mayor said Protest Workload Most of the 684 teachers at the city's junior colleges manned picket lines Friday morning when their demands for salary increases lighter loads and reduction in class size were rejected by the Chicago City College Board to review the decision and held up the deal until it could hear the case Fourteen lawyers were scheduled to argue the case Monday Court observer said this was me of the largest legal aggregations ever to argue a single case in the court Among them are the government's top Supreme Court lawyer Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall and Gov John Chafee of Rhode Island Shapp Opposed The case involves virtually every railroad in the Northeast none of them is attacking the merger itself The merger is opposed by industrialist Milton Shapp unsuccessful 1066 Democratic candidate for governor of Pensyl-vania and the City of Scranton Pa The railroads are interested primarily in the conditions the Interstate Commerce Commission set to protect three smaller lines which they said would be hurt substantially by the merger The three are the Erie-Lack-awanna Delaware A Hudson i and Boston A Maine The three want the merger held up until their own futures are decided by the ICC They struction is already under wayiwant t0 become part of the Norand the entire project is Western Railway Sys-uied for completion by the endltl'm- An ICC examiner recom-of 1968 mended this Dec 22 but no final Beach Road Pushed commission decision is expected 33 Million Asked For Freeway (Continued From rage One) for extending the freeway from Rosedale intersection northward to Purdy but construction on this latter link isn't scheduled to start until the 1969-71 biennium Of prime interest to the south of Tacoma is the "missing link" in the freeway between the Old Nlsqually Road south of Fort Lewis across Xisqually Flats and the Xisqually River to St Martin's College More than $67 million is budgeted for this project Con- Also scheduled for completion during the coming biennium is the four-lane highway from Olympia to Aberdeen Gateway to the state's ocean beaches Expenditures on this project against possible financial harm will total S44125600 with com- caused by the merger The ICC for a few months Want Protection The three also want to delay the merger until the ICC decides on conditions to protect them hearings on this last autumn and has the matter under consideration other railroads involved have attacked the pletion scheduled for the end of this year This wiU still carry the project into the next biennium which starts July 1 Highway 512 which provides a shuttle south of Tacoma from ine held The a snume suuui ui i acoma irom TMtmttn protective conditions Irom Interstate 5 to Puyallup has tw the another directions They say the conditions would create a community of interest between the three lines and the Penn-Central which would divert freight traffic away from them These railroads are the Baltimore A Ohlo-C hesapeake A Ohio Xorfolk A Western S516000 budgeted for constructing four lanes from Polk Street to McEachem Another 5382760 is budgeted for design and right of way for extending the four lanes into Puyallup at a later date To the north nearly 510 million is being spent on com- RFKs Appear In Suit Over Horse Death (Continued From Page One) Pande had been injured and was recovering at the time: Mrs Kennedy has said the horse was starving and in need of care Mrs attorney Harrington Williams said Mrs Ken nedv found the horse extreme condition" and was trying to save it Leg Hurt Zemo's wife was among those testifying Monday She said Pande thoroughbred bay yearling had Injured its right back leg and had not been eating because of its ailment She said "everything that could be done for it he (Zemo) was doing for Mrs Kennedy's attorneys pointed to Zemo's previous plea of guilty to cruelty charges in 1963 Pande died Oct 13 1963 five days after Mrs Kennedy came to its aid On Nov 7 1963 Zemo was convicted of cruelty to animals fined $250 and given a six-month suspended jail sentence after Mrs Kennedy testified about rescuing his "obviously starv ing" horse from a chicken coop Now' Zemo is suing wealthy Mrs Kennedy for damages on the ground that she directed her groom Richard Mayberry take Pande to her McLean Va home and then "refused to return the horse and has never returned the Mrs Kennedy 88 was riding in the Virginia countryside with some of her children when they came upon Pande Skin and Rones In papers filed in answer to Zemo's suit Mrs Kennedy1 lawyer said the horse appeared to Mrs Kennedy be starving literally reduced to skin and bones and in great danger of The lawyers said Mrs Kennedy directed Mayberry to lead the horse to her home and give it attention She also notified the Animal Welfare League of Fairfax County Mrs lawyers stated and a league agent promptly went to the premises and responsibility for the horse and its further The league brought the cruelty to animals charges against Zemo pletion of Highway 167 the i Solons Hear CIA Leader WASHINGTON JP Congress starts taking a new look today at the war in Vietnam Richard Helms director of the Central Intelligence Agency testifies at a closed meeting of a special Senate CIA subcommittee headed by Sen Richard Russell D-Ga The CIA has been reported as skeptical of whether the bombing of North Vietnam targets is damaging Hanoi's will to continue the war Helms is expected to discuss this Next Monday Secretary of State Dean Rusk briefs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee headed by Sen Ful-b right D-Ark That session also will be closed But Rusk will testify before the committee in a public session Jan 23 Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield says recent remarks from Hanoi could be indicators of willingness to talk peace but Henry Cabot Lodge US ambassador to Saigon labels them public opinion ploys And two House Republican leaders say they want the Democratic administration to set forth its objectives in Southeast Asia Here are the highlights of comments on Vietnam made! Sunday by Mansfield on ABC's and hy Lodge on a CBS special program "Lodge in Vietnam" and by House GOP Leader Gerald Ford and House GOP Conference Chairman Melvin Laird on NBC's "Meet the Mansfield He is by the interview which Pahm Van Dong (premier of North Vietnam) gave to Harrison Salisbury" of The New York Times which reported Dong as saying North Vietnamese conditions for peace could be made the basis of negotiations em Maryland and the Chicago A Eastern Illinois Brazil Gas Tank Blows East Valley Freeway" It Includes $2436000 to be expanded from East Main Street in Auburn to South 276th Street in Kent and $7436000 to South 228th Street A total of $1150000 has been budgeted for improvements to the Echo Lake cutoff highway which provides a shortcut to Snoqualmie Pass from Tacoma and points south Cowlitz Bridge The major projects in Lewis Countv will be completion of SANTOS Brazil JP A gas tank explosion before dawn ripped roofs from slum houses and shook this giant coffee port Monday the Cowlitz River Bridge at I Officials said there were no Mossvrock Dam on the White I deaths Reports on the number Pass' Highway at a cost of of persons injured fluctuated be- tween 150 and 800 But a check of Santos' hospital showed that 20 persons were brought in with blast injuries A spokesman said IS of them were in grave condition The explosion was about mile from the center of Santos and nearly four miles from the coffee port installations the largest in the world Exclusive Club For Worst Boys NASHVILLE Tenn JP The dub sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce here is about the most exclusive one in town The only boys who can belong are those with the worst police records The organization is SCORE $889700 Though the budget can be balanced without a boost in the gasoline tax there Is still talk of an increase of 1H to 2 cents to provide for additional construction If the Legislature approves an Increase a major portion probably will be earmarked for relief of traffic congestion in urban areas Machines Now Harvest omatoes ST LOUIS Mo Mechanical harvesters are finding new fields to conquer Dr Edwin Crosby of the National Canners Association reported recently that mechanical pickers gathered 75 per cent of the canning tomatoes in Call- to come to meetings and talk about their problems that is said here stays here" says Lynch Bennett of the sponsoring Junior Cham her "If they talk about a crime for which they haven't been arrested we don't tell We promised there would be no police no social workers no preachers We give them the opportunity to think things through for Tass MOSCOW The letters in Tass the news agency quoted by Western reporters in the Soviet Union stand for the Russian for Telegraphic Agency for the Soviet Union fornia last summer and that short for "Street Corner Offense Reduction Experiment" The youths are paid $2 and given a free meal in order to get them progress is being made in pickers for cucumbers cherries cabbage apples and citrus fruits TRIG DRYER No matter what the weather outside there's always in your electric dryer Yiith just a touch of a dial low cost electricity dries your clothes quickly gently completely day or night in any kind of weather Flameless electric clothes dryers cost less to buy You save from $20 to $40 when you buy ELECTRIC They are less expensive to maintain too Market research shows the maintenance costs of electric dryers is less than half the cost of other types And with no pilot light your electric dryer costs nothing when not in use Operating costs are lower too only pennies a month on the low low rates of our Tacoma City Light 05).