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Taking a break from Little Miss Muffett, curds, whey and tuffet is A. Spider, seen here perched on the wrist of its owner. The tarantula is the pet of William L. Overal, Chicago graduate student.
Congress averts rail strike
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Congress rushed through emergency legislation Wednesday night ordering four shopcraft unions threatening a nationwide rail strike at midnight to stay on their job for another 37 days.
Setting aside President Nixon's proposed settlement of the long dispute, the Senate and House approved the no-strike freeze after 7 o'clock and sent it to the White House for Nixon's signature.
President Nixon signed the legislation just $3\frac{1}{2}$ hours before the strike was due to begin. The White House declared, however, that Congress "could have settled the matter in accordance with the desires of a majority of the workers involved as well as the carriers" by accepting the proposal Nixon made Tuesday.
Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said Labor Secretary George P. Shultz would try to get the unions and railroads to reach a voluntary settlement during the no-strike period, but Shultz conceded earlier in the day that prospect was dim.
The Senate, after a long day of cooperation between the two houses to agree on a bill, approved the no-strike measure 83-0 and the House passed it an hour later on a 343-15 vote.
It was Congress' third intervention in a railroad labor dispute in seven years, and this time is decided merely to bide for time, openly hoping the four unions and rail management could solve their disagreement over a new contract by themselves.
The administration made clear it held little hope of a voluntary settlement, a view shared by the holdout Sheet Metal Workers Union, whose objection to a proposed work rules change has deadlocked negotiations.
Failing a voluntary settlement, Congress will be faced with another threatened rail shutdown at 12:01 a.m. April 11 unless it comes up with a solution.
Senate leaders denied Congress was stalling on the issue. They complained that one day was not enough time to consider so sensitive an issue.
The last time Congress intervened was in 1967, when it ended a two-day coast-to-coast rail shutdown by referring a contract dispute to what amounted to binding arbitration.
Left in limbo, at least for the time being, was President Nixon's proposal to have Congress impose a contract settlement that rail management and unions had accepted Dec. 4 but which was later turned down by the membership of one of the four unions, the Sheet Metal Workers International Association.
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First the House Commerce Committee approved unanimously a 37-day freeze on union plans to strike the railroads. Then the Senate Labor Committee rejected the Nixon proposal, 8 to 6, and concurred in the House proposal.
Both measures would extend existing contract terms until April 11. The House made it a 37-day no-strike order after objections that a 30-day period originally proposed would end during Congress' Easter recess.
Union leaders were busy notifying locals that the strike was off even before the last vote was cast. They said they expected most shopworkers would comply
Senate committee passes credit bill
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The Senate Banking Committee Thursday approved a bill making it illegal to send credit cards to persons who have not ask for them and limiting cardholders to a liability of $50 if their cards are used without their authorization.
The measure, opposed by the administration, is expected to go before the Senate in a few weeks.
with Congress' will, but that there might be a few scattered wildcat walkouts or brief work interruptions by locals failing to get official notification.
About 10 hours before the strike was scheduled to begin, several hundred diesel shop workers walked off the job at Penn-Central's yards in New Haven, Conn. The railroad sought a temporary injunction at U.S. District Court to halt the walkout.
Ozark school readied for first lady's visit
POINT LOOKOUT, Mo. (UPI)
—All but a last-minute sprucing up of the 1,800 acre campus of the School of the Ozarks was completed Wednesday in anticipation of the scheduled visit Thursday of Mrs. Richard Nixon.
As one official put it, "The walks are swept, the grounds cleared, the floors scrubbed, the linen washed and the Ozark country ham's in the oven."
Students whom the first lady is coming to visit had volunteered their time to help get the campus ready in a spring house cleaning operation that normally would have waited several weeks.
Mrs. Nixon's visit to the 64-year old four-year coeducational college marks the end of a five-college tour that began Monday. She is expected to spend about five hours on campus.
Several hundred Springfield residents, including area officials, school children, girl scouts and a high school band and drum and bugle corps, are scheduled to participate in welcoming ceremonies for Mrs. Nixon at the Springfield Municipal Airport.
The reception list included Mrs.
Betty Hearnes, wife of Gov. Warren E. Hearnes, Mayor and Mrs. Carl Stillwell of Springfield and School of the Ozarks President M. Graham Clark and Mrs. Clark
Accompanied by two School of the Ozarks students, Miss Lola Jones of Belton and Jerry Branan of Chadwick, Mrs. Nixon will be brought by motorcade to Point Lookout.
The public was invited both to the Springfield Airport and to the campus entrance to participate in welcoming ceremonies, in which the president's wife will be greeted at the school by Gary Wortman of Arnold, Mo., president of the student body.
Mrs. Nixon's tour of the campus will begin with a visit to the weaving room at Friendship House, where she will see some 25 students operating the looms. A car will take the first lady down an avenue of about 200 American flags held by students.
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