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City officials often complain about excessive wage demands by labor unions, but Edward A. Hanna, the may or of Utica, N.Y. (pop. 86,000), has hit on the most draconian of solutions. He cut the employees in the department of public works from 240 to 70 in 18 months after he took office...
...Utica's nine-member common council has vowed not to let Hanna make the same move with other city ser vices. The Teamsters, who represent the laid-off workers, have taken him to court to prevent him from contracting out the work. But during his first two-year term, Hanna fired one-third of the city employees, cut taxes twice, and turned a budget deficit into a surplus...
...Beechnut Gum, Beechnut Lifesavers, Beechnut Baby Food. This town, too, is tired and rickety. No one gets off there, and it seems like all the young people have moved out. This is beautiful country, up to Herkimer, anyway, where things flatten out and get boring near Utica and Rome. West toward Syracuse, still boring, which is hard to understand when ten and twenty miles to the south the apple orchards and Finger Lakes and Ithaca and now, a lot of condiminiums are incredibly more interesting. Past Electronics Park at Syracuse, which is a behemoth, GE's big plant, along with...
Haunted Grotto. The evening was an emphatic justification of the aims of the Jackson company. Until the founding of Opera/South, there was little opportunity in Mississippi for blacks to sing opera. The backing of three Jackson-area black colleges-Jackson State, Tougaloo and Utica Junior-has made a musical theater workable. Students sing in the chorus, build sets and fashion costumes. Bayou Legend's simple but effective one-piece set-a double-trunked oak tree that for the Act II duet between Bazile and Aurore turns magically into a haunted grotto-required only $2,000 of the company...
Voicing similar demands, other groups of farmers have staged their own slaughters in recent weeks, with photographers and reporters nearly outnumbering cattlemen. Near Utica, N.Y., dairy farmers herded 100 calves into a packing plant, killed them, and distributed the meat to local Mennonites. In Texas, a mass slaughter of 3,000 calves was halted last month, but only after a meeting was scheduled between farmers and Agriculture Department officials...