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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday. Sept. 3, 1985
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Chicago teachers approve strike vote
United Press International
Chicago teachers voted overwhelmingly yesterday to go on strike, approving the third walkout in as many years against the nation's third largest school system.
Back-to-school teacher walkouts already have idied nearly 46,000 students in Illinois and Michigan while strikes loomed in Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco and Akron, Ohio.
A last-minute appeal by Illinois Gov. James Thompson failed to bring the Chicago Teachers Union and
Board of Education into agreement, and union president Jaceline Vaughn announced the strike vote shortly after 8 p.m.
Of 28,000 rank-and-file union members, the teachers voted 3,548 to 494 to reject the latest wage increase offered by the school board, almost certainly delaying the scheduled start of school tomorrow.
Thompson called on the two sides to meet last night because he said many teachers had told him, "Governor, make them give us the money you gave them." School officials
"We are fully expecting negotiations to continue," Vaughn said in announcing the vote. But, she said, if an agreement was not reached by 10 a.m. today, students would miss at least one day of school.
maintain they have offered all they can afford.
A strike would the eighth in Chicago since teachers were granted collective bargaining rights 18 years ago. The most recent strikes were in October 1983 when school was shut down for 15 days and in December 1984 when teachers walked out for 10
days.
Some 431,000 students will have an extended vacation if teachers strike for the third year in a row. Schools superintendent Manford Byrd Jr. said Sunday a strike would be "tragic for the youngsters in the city and their parents."
In Washington, Seattle school officials in an advertisement in yesterday's Seattle Post-Intelligencer urged 3,700 union teachers to participate in a strike vote today, but did not recommend a position.
Forests blacken as unchecked fire continues
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Fires have scorched more than 70,000 acres in Montana, Idaho, Washington, California and Wyoming
A widespread blaze raged unchecked yesterday in neighboring national forests of Idaho and Montana, but firefighters gained on brush and timber fires in three other western states.
No containment was yet in sight for the fire, which blackened more than 31,000 acres in Idaho's Salmon National Forest and Montana's Bitterroot National Forest, officials said yesterday.
The two-state fire, which was ignited during a July 20 lightning storm, was believed contained on Aug. 5. But it jumped fire lines last weekend and 1,000 firefighters from half a dozen states battled in an effort to regain the upper hand.
In Washington, the effort was succeeding to extinguish fires that charred about 34,000 acres in three counties, officials said.
Containment was 95 percent complete for the largest of the Washington blazes. The 250,000-acre Barker Mountain fire destroyed at least 15 houses and threatened the town of Tonasket before being
stopped 200 yards from the city limits Friday.
Three other Washington fires that covered 2,700 acres in Okanagan County were fully contained, and a 1,200-acre fire in Olympic National Park in the western part of the state was 80 percent contained.
Wyoming firefighters, helped by overnight rain and hail, brought under control a 1,028-acre fire in Grand Teton National Park that destroyed 10 buildings and forced
temporary closure of / the park's south entrance.
Containment was reached yesterday morning for another Wyoming blaze that burned 6,681 acres of timber, sagebrush and grasslands in the Rattle Snake Hills about 50 miles west of Casper.
In California, firefighters set backfires to try to quell an apparent arson blaze that fanned out over 1,700 acres of brush in rugged footills near Vacaville.
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