NEWSPAPER WAGE CUT BY PAY BOARD; 13.1% Rise Under Old Pact in Capital Goes to 8.5%
Date: 13 September 1972
By EDWARD COWANSpecial to The New York Times
Pay Bd on Sept 12 orders Washington Post and Washington Star-Daily News to reduce wages and salaries they pay to their mechanical employes; tells Post to cut pay of its news and commercial employes; order, signed by G H Boldt, is issued on strength of recommendations of 3-member panel that found that contract increases employes have been receiving cannot be fully justified in light of Nixon Adm wage-price controls program; 13.1% pay increase is reduced to 8.5%; Pay Bd spokesman repts reductions in pay will not be retroactive; says NY Times and NY News have submitted information but their cases have yet to be considered; Post pres J S Prescott says co will not ask bd to reconsider; Post's newspaper guild unit chmn R F Levey calls decision 'blatantly unfair'; says decision wholly fails to take into account increases in productivity that justify salaries negotiated
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INQUIRY ON ATTICA SCORES GOVERNOR OVER 1971 REVOLT; Report Says He Should Have Visited Site Before Order Was Given for Assault RIOT HELD UNPLANNED Group Finds Inmates Were Organized Spontaneously in Captured Prison Yard Inquiry on Attica Criticizes Rockefeller
Date: 13 September 1972
By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN
Michael KAUFMAN
NYS Special Comm on Attica, in concluding its final rept released on Sept 12, says that news coverage of negotiations between Attica prisoners, who took over inst, and state officials created 'air of unreality' and encouraged rhetoric rather than reasonable dialogue
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NEWSMAN IS CITED IN HOSPITAL INQUIRY
Date: 13 September 1972
Tennessee Sen Gen Welfare and Environment Com on Sept 12 ends its inquiry into alleged child abuse at Arlington Hosp and School for Mentally Retarded, Memphis, after ordering J Weiler, reporter for Commercial Appeal, to show cause why he should not be held in contempt; Weiler is ordered to appear before com on Nov 13; action is taken after Weiler, for 2d day, refuses to reveal his sources on news stories concerning hosp; com spent 3 days of investigation questioning newsmen and hosp employes about information leaks; orders Tenn Atty Gen to investigate perjury indictment against radio newsman J Pennington or hosp sec Mrs G Blood; Pennington named Blood as source of some information, but she denied charges
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Plan Dropped to Form A National Daily Paper
Date: 13 September 1972
Special to The New York Times
W H Pincus, exec editor of projected newspaper Washington Morning News, says on Sept 12 that 3 test issues of paper have been printed, but he and his assocs have been unable to raise $5-million needed to start operations
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Impeachment Group Wins a Stay of Injunction
Date: 13 September 1972
US Appeals Ct, NYC, Sept 12, grants stay of wk-old injunction against pol activities by the Natl Com for Impeachment, which seeks to impeach Nixon for his conduct of the war in Vietnam; stay granted pending hearing before ct on Sept 21
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Motion Dismissed To Lift News Curb In I.B.M. Lawsuit
Date: 13 September 1972
US Dist Ct Judge D N Edelstein dismisses motion filed by Assn of Data Processing Service Orgns (ADAPSO), United Data Centers and group's pres B Goldstein seeking to withdraw pretrial order restricting dissemination of news by lawyers involved in Govt's antitrust suit against IBM; says order follows appearance of several incorrect published statements and notes press and public may seek information about case from documents on file with ct's clerk
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3 Plead Guilty in Pocono Downs Fix
Date: 12 September 1972
Harness racing driver K Backer, owner A Bonura and owner-drivep-trainer B B Enslen plead guilty in Wilkes-Barre, Pa, ct to charges in connection with alleged fixing attempts at Pocono Downs in '71; charges stem from testimony by Pocono Downs drivers that they had been offered bribes to fix races; sentencing is set for Oct 16
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U.P.I. Names Boston Chief
Date: 12 September 1972
UPI names J F Wieck Boston Bur mgr
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