City Will Set Up A Central Bureau For News Service
Date: 10 November 1975
Mayor Beame repts new NYC News and Information Bur will open Dec 1 to coordinate news operations for city agencies at yrly savings of $800,000; says it will replace publicity staffs of some of smaller agencies and supplement efforts of bigger ones and will be headed by Edward Silverman, present head of budget bur publicity; Silverman's survey of city press relations that led to restructuring proposal found public relations in mayoral agencies involved 150 persons at cost of $2.25-million; he says plan will cut staff by 50 (S)
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Times and Guild Intensify Talks In Bid to Avert Strike Tomorrow
Date: 10 November 1975
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
Newspaper Guild and NY Times on Nov 9 begin intensified negotiations in effort to reach agreement on contract and avert strike threatened for Nov 11; most critical phase of bargaining on issues relating to wage increase, job security, pension and welfare benefits and other proposed contract improvements is scheduled to get under way and will probably continue through night; mediator Theodore Kheel says he and mediators Hezekiah Brown and Mason Wye are deploying available manpower effectively to resolve differences; guild has already made strike plans, setting up picket line assignments, naming strike coms and distributing application forms for strike benefits (M)
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2D PACT REACHED BY 2 PAPERS HERE; Times and News in Accord With Stereotypers
Date: 09 November 1975
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
NYS Mediation Bd chmn Vincent D McDonnell repts on Nov 8 that Stereotypers Union Local 1 reached tentative agreement with NY Daily News and NY Times on new 3-yr contract; repts union's scale com will recommend acceptance, but no date has been set as yet for membership meeting; Stereotypers pres John Kennedy says agreement provides for wage increases similar to those included in earlier settlement between Newspaper Deliverers and 2 newspapers; negotiations between Times and Newspaper Guild appear to have reached critical stage because of guild's deadline for strike at 7 AM on Nov 11; mediator Theodore Kheel says there were no formal meetings on Nov 8 but that he had remained in touch with both parties; Mailers pres George McDonald says that various unions pledged their support to guild if there is walkout, with exception of Typographical Union Local 6 (M)
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Philadelphia Paper Pact
Date: 09 November 1975
negotiators for Newspaper Guild and Phila Inquirer and Daily News on Nov 8 approve tentative contract averting strike; Phila Bulletin repts on contract provisions (S)
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5 Are Selected for Cabot Awards
Date: 10 November 1975
Columbia Univ to present 37th annual Maria Moors Cabot prizes in inter-Amer journalism to Sam Summerlin (AP), Enrique Z Gibson (Caretas Peruvian Magazine), David Kraiselburd (El Dia Argentine Newspaper), Walter Everett (Amer Press Inst) and Norman Ingrey (Buenos Aires Herald); Summerlin and Gibson pors (S)
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Franco, Under Sedation, Is Stable After Surgery
Date: 09 November 1975
By HENRY GINIGER Special to The New York Times
Henry Special
flood of debate and pronouncements on possible dem change in Spain that are appearing in Spanish press has provoked alarm in conservative official circles and constant tightening of control; Alejandro Fernandez Pombo, publisher of RC daily Ya, was charged on Nov 8 with having violated const laws by trying to publish appeal to Prince Juan Carlos by liberal pol group, Tacito; is also being prosecuted for publishing news of meeting of Spanish Soc Dem Party which is illegal (S)
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Hearing Nears on $630 Million Libel Suit Involving Coast Resort
Date: 10 November 1975
By ROBERT LINDSEY Special to The New York Times
Robert Special
$630-million damage suit has been lodged against Penthouse Internatl Ltd, publisher of Penthouse magazine, and freelance writers Jeff Gerth and Lowell Bergman, for Penthouse article asserting that Rancho La Costa resort, Los Angeles, is brainchild of racketeer Meyer Lansky, that it was financed by questionable loans from Teamsters union and that, in gen, it is haven for mobsters; La Costa's principal officers are Morris B Dalitz, Allard Roen, Mervyn Adelson and Irwin Molasky; Adelson and Molasky are principal officers of Lorimar Productions, which produces TV series The Waltons (M)
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NEWS BLACKOUT ON TV IS ALLEGED; F.C.C. Hears Case Against Michigan Station Owner
Date: 09 November 1975
By AGIS SALPUKAS Special to The New York Times
Agis Special
FCC begins hearings into allegations that Harold F Gross, owner of Lansing, Mich, TV station WJIM, blacked out local politicians and suppressed news items in order to further his own interests (M)
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NEW C.I.A. REPORT HAS NO MORE PLOTS; Church Denies Additional Plans on Assassination Will Be Forthcoming
Date: 10 November 1975
By E. W. KENWORTHY Special to The New York Times
E. KENWORTHY
Sen F Church says he is thinking of leading effort to block confirmation of George Bush as CIA dir (S)
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Unwelcome News for Mr. Ford
Date: 09 November 1975
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker
T Wicker article contrasting econ implications of rise in wholesale prices and unemployment rate in Oct and Ford's insistence 'everything is just fine'; says Ford's election chances would be enhanced by determined attack on unemployment, coupled with controls on wages and prices when necessary; drawing
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