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UAW in Walkout; Agreement Is Near
DETROIT—(UPI)—The strike deadline for Ford Motor Co. passed at 9 a.m. today only minutes after the company had made a third offer to the United Auto Workers Union.
John S. Bugas, Ford vice-president, said the company has made a "third offer which was a refinement of our second offer."
He made the disclosure after the union had called for a "30 to 45 minute" recess only 20 minutes before the strike deadline for 98,000 Ford hourly-rated workers.
As the negotiations resumed, the strike by the UAW against Ford had already started, with 62,250 men in 31 of 86 plants and parts depots walking off the job in the first 45 minutes after the 8 a.m. strike deadline expired.
Upon returning to the negotiations, Walter P. Reuther, President of the UAW said, "It's not too long now, we are getting close. The most rewarding thing is that free labor and free management can get together for the good of the public as a whole."
But Carl Stellato, president of Ford Rouge Local 600 and a top UAW negotiator, told newsmen one major problem - plantwide seniority - was blocking settlement and the strike will continue until it is settled.
When asked if this meant a settlement, Reuther said, "It means we are getting close."
Walter P. Reuther, president of the UAW, and Carl Stellato, president of Ford's giant Local 600, walked out of the bargaining room at 7:40 a.m., and said the union had asked for the recess.
Stellato emphasized "There has been no extension of the strike deadline" for the 98,000 hourly-rated Ford workers.
"There is something new," Reuther said, "and we're going to analyze it."
But he declined to say whether the "something new" is an offer.
He said the strike machinery "is in progress" but pointed out that if a settlement is reached "that
problem (a strike) would take care of itself."
In 1955, when the UAW negotiated three-year contracts with the industry, Ford also was the initial target.
Workers walked off the jobs briefly when a settlement was not reached by the deadline then. However, an agreement was reached shortly after the deadline and the strike was brief in duration.
Ford vice-president John S. Bugas had said "it looks like a possibility" for agreement on a contract before the strike deadline when negotiators returned to the bargaining table after a breakfast recess.
Professor Gets Research Grant
A $2,300 grant from the U.S. Public Health Service has been awarded to Dr. Duane Wenzel, professor of pharmacy. The grant is for preliminary research on drugs which improve the activity of the heart during heart failure.
"Since the late 16th century we have known that drugs such as digitalis affect the failing heart this way, but we haven't known how or why," Dr. Wenzel said.
Wednesday, Sept. 17, 1958 University Daily Kansan
If valuable information is found from this preliminary study, the research will be continued.
Recent investigations in New England indicate that it costs five and one-half cents more to produce eggs from a flock of 100 birds as compared to one containing 5,000 birds.
Hoffa Proposes Monitor Drop
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Teamsters Union President James R. Hofa today defied court-appointed watchdog monitors and called for a union election after next Feb. 1 "to get rid of" them.
The union's executive board authorized the election only hours after the majority of the three-member monitor board had announced it would ask a federal court whether the union could hold an election without permission of the monitors.
Monitor chairman Martin F. O'Donoghue said a petition asking for a ruling would be filed quickly, possibly today, with Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts.
After conferring with the monitors. Hoffa went into a closed-door huddle with his executive board and emerged after midnight to announce plans for the union election.
Hoffa said the board had received telegrams from a majority of teamster joint councils throughout the nation urging it to hold the convention. He said they wanted to turn the union business back to its elected officials. He said the convention "in effect would be to get rid of the monitors."
Italian Bird Lovers Back Hunting Ban Bill
ROME—(UPI)—A bill submitted to parliament by Italian bird lovers wuold ban bird-hunting as an "offense against morality."
The bill, sponsored by seven members of parliament, would outlaw the shooting of "pigeons, sparrows, starlings, turtle doves or any other live bird."
Sponsors of the measure cited reports that hunters killed more than 1,000 birds a day during the 11-day world pigeon-shooting championships in San Remo eight years ago.
The Health News Institute reports that most antibiotic plants employ 50 to 100 people who do nothing but insure constant quality of the end product.
Four Men Assigned To KU NROTC Staff
Four Navy men have been assigned to duty on the KU Naval ROTC unit staff this fall. The new men will fill the positions of executive officer, supply instructor, fire control instructor and clerk.
Commander Francis A. Lewis, the new executive officer, has just returned from Greece where he served with the U.S. Military Aid and Advisory Group.
Commander Lewis was graduated from the University of Maryland in 1941. He enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1940 and after attending midshipman school in 1941, he was commissioned as an ensign.
Lt. Sappanos entered the Navy in 1945 after doing undergraduate work at Dartmouth College and receiving his degree from the University of Illinois.
During the war, he served aboard the USS Monssen and the USS Wickes. He saw duty in the North Atlantic, Guadalcanal, the Aleutian and Kurile Islands, the Philippines, and Okinawa.
Lt. Louis M. Sappanos, supply instructor, has just returned from two years active duty in the Pacific aboard the USS Seminole.
Fire Control Technician Donald W. Darby has joined the Navy staff after spending the last two years on active duty in the Pacific aboard the S. N. Moore.
During World War II he saw active duty in the Pacific in Australia, New Guinea, the Admirality Islands, the Philippines and Korea In 1951 Chief Darby returned to Korea during the conflict.
Gunners Mate 1/C William E. Peiffer came to KU from duty in the Pacific. He spent two years aboard the Willard Keith, two years aboard the USS Albany and saw duty a-board the Newport News, USS Salem and the USS Oil Orion.
During World War II Peiffer was aboard the Shelbarke and the Sheldrake through campaigns at Saipan, Guam, Okinawa, China and Korea.
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To Investigate Quiz Shows
NEW YORK — (UPI) A special grand jury was empaneled today to hear evidence from the New York county district attorney's office in connection with charges of "fixes" on certain television quiz shows.
General sessions Judge Mitchell B. Schweitzer told the jurors he would not charge them with any 'specific provisions of the penal law' regarding the evidence. Judge Schweizer said, however, that he agreed with the district attorney's office that an early hearing of the 'allegations, denials and counter-charges' was necessary in the interest of fairness.
Judge Schweitzer told the grand jurors that their only concern will be the television investigation and that it will take "a substantial amount" of time.
District Attorney Frank S. Hogan began investigating the fix allegations late last month after the quiz show "Dotto" was abruptly taken off the air as a result of charges it supplied answers to favored contestants.
A former contestant on the quiz "Twenty-One" then charged that he had been forced to give a wrong answer after having been fed correct answers leading to $50,000 in winnings. His charges were denied and counter-charges made against him.
The first interdenominational college in America--Ulson College at Schenectady, N.Y.-was chartered in 1795.
Beaver Island was settled in the early 1840's by a colony of Mormons.
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No one knows exactly how many of you students will choose to enroll in each course. The people responsible for guessing how many books should be ordered for each course do the best they can, and most of the time they guess very close.
BUT- Sometimes certain courses astound everyone and the enrollment in them goes way beyond expectations, or in some courses the guess is simply too small. And, out of nearly 1,000 courses, sometimes we plain goof on a few.
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