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...Angeles Free Press, another 16-page tabloid, comes out weekly, claimed a circulation of 9,000 on its second birthday last week. Editor and Publisher Art Kunkin, 38, a former machinist who studied at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, sees his paper as "a forum for free expression of critical comment and dialogue." Kunkin keeps a closer eye on local problems than does EVO, started a commendable series of sociological studies of Watts almost immediately after the riots last summer. The Free Press fills its classified column with ads that are often explicit and occasionally written...
...machinist's union represents 34,4000 mechanics and related ground service employees at Eastern, National, Northwest, United and Trans World Airlines; the corresponding workers at American and Pan Am are represented by the Transport Workers Union, the same union that crippled New York City with a subway strike in January...
...mere existence of a rival union is enough to agitate the machinist's leaders, who because of their union's strong tradition of local democracy, are never took secure anyway. Add to this the fact that the transport workers' contract with the airlines expires in about three months, and that the rank and file of that union is still heddy over the New York victory (where they won wage increased of about 7 per cent), and the pressure on the machinists to come up with a fat raise is almost overwhelming...
Sims, 43, an Athens machinist, and Myers, 26, a textile worker, showed no emotion when U.S. Attorney Floyd Buford, a Georgia native, accused them of "actively participating" in the slaying. His chief witness, ex-Klansman Thomas "Big Tom" Stephens, a truck driver, related that a garage operator told him the night of the slaying that Sims and Myers "was out chasin' a nigger car with D.C. tags on it." Stephens also testified that he later heard the pair "discuss a shootin'," adding: "I heard one say he tried to get the other one not to kill...
...seniors are Henry C. Binford '66 of Winthrop House and Washington, D.C., John H. Erickson '66, of Dudley House and Brainerd, Minn., William P. Frerking '66, of Quincy House and St. Louis, Mo., James H. Kettner '66 of Adams House and Saginaw, Mich., and Peter B. Machinist '66, of Lowell House and Manchester...