European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday May 30, 1977 the stars and stripes Poge 7 aluminium Union oks new contract Miami Beach. Fla. A the Alu Minum workers International Union agreed to a new three year labor contract saturday with Reynolds metals co. And the aluminium company of America Alcoa providing for substantial improve ments in wages benefits and Job Security. The agreement achieved prior to tues Day s expiration of the current labor pacts is subject to ratification by Union locals representing about 9,000 members at is Reynolds plants and 14,000 at eight Alcoa locations. The new contract Calls for an across the Board wage increase of 80 cents an hour. Including an initial hike of 40 cent effective monday and four other 10-cent increases during the life of the addition Cost of living adjustments will be made each Quarter instead of Annu first adjustment of 15 cents an hour goes into effect for Reynolds said the first Cost of living adjust ment was already being paid its employees. Union members Are expected to vote on in proposals within a average aluminium Industry wage prior to the agreement was $7.68 per hour according to the . Labor department. No Cost estimate for the settlement was Given but Reynolds negotiators said the agreement will be a costly one for the a participant in a body painting contest has us hide decorated with a sign spoofing the one at left. Black s Beach hiding place for a sign in the la Jolla area of san Diego the nation s Only municipal nude Beach marked its third anniversary sunday. Residents of the fashionable neighbor Hood on Cliffs above Are finally getting used to the situation officials say. A Birds called peril to livestock Agency aiming of Golden eagles Washington a the Interior department is considering killing Golden eagles a rare and protected Bird of the arid West that sometimes preys on live Stock. The limited killing of problem eagles would not markedly affect the Breeding populations and might stave off mass kill Ings by private individuals said Harve Willoughby regional director of the . Fish and wildlife service in Denver. Willoughby gave that assessment while describing a recent meeting attended by livestock growers Federal biologists and others to formulate a Golden Eagle management the meeting was to Dis cuss what is described As increasing livestock predation by the Birds. . Fish and wildlife spokesmen emphasize however that no plan has been adopted to kill any Birds of prey. In recent years the service has trapped problem Birds and released them in Distant areas. Sam Marler a wildlife service spokes Man in Denver said when you develop Aplan you have to consider All options adding that killing an Eagle would be considered a last option in any plan. A few ranchers at the meeting suggested that Only a few eagles would need to be killed. Marler said. If the dead Birds were left lying on the ground to rot the the surviving eagles would View their deceased Brethren and leave the area. Marler related. The National Audubon society reportedly has sent a letter to the Interior depart ment protesting any plan that would permit the killing of Golden eagles. A . Fish and wildlife sen ice spokes Man in Washington confirmed the Agency was in the process of preparing a Golden Eagle management plan to curb the Birds from preying on animals Marler made no estimate of the number of lambs killed by eagles. But he said sheep ranchers in Montana Wyoming and Texas have complained about eagles prey ing on their noted that government workers re moved 1-15 Golden eagles from one ranch i Montana in 1975 under the trap and trans Plant program. The eagles were released in Yellowstone National Park. The population of Golden eagles in Nort America is estimated at 40,000, Marler said adding that no precise figure is Avail eagles currently arc protected by Law. A special exemption from the Secretary of Interior is needed to kill one. A Law passed in 1962 provides a sentence of up to a 10,000 Fine and two years imprison ment for killing one of the Golden eagles have been killed legally since 1971, said a . Fish and wildlife service spokesman the service last year made several Tele vision spots urging individuals not to Kil Birds of prey. Narrated by actor Paul Newman the Public service announce no it portrayed the Golden Eagle As one of the nation s rare Birds of prey. Entire aluminium agreement covers Union members at the following Reynolds plants Bato Rouge la. Be Wood. A. Corpus Christl Tex. Elf Terhell Ala. Longview Wash. Louisville by. Massena . Rich mond va., and St. Louis. Alcoa plants include Davenport Iowa Evansville and Lafayette bid. Lancaster and Lebanon a. Massena. N.y., an Vancouver and Wenatchee. Wash. Housing rules made More permissive Washington a the government is opening Public housing to unmarried couples living together and to homosexual couples if they can show a stable family action taken quietly earlier in May by the department of housing and Urban development is subject to the approval of local housing accepted for Public housing have traditionally been Low income mar ried and heterosexual or have met state tests for a common Law relationship. The expanded concept of the family is very Brand new and liberalized the country s housing policy said Priscil Labanks the Hud housing program specialist who wrote the new rules. She said she wrote the rules to eliminate discrimination against unmarried persons who live to Gether. About 1.3 million adult men and women lived together As unmarried heterosexual couples in 1976, according to the census Bureau. The number doubled from 1970.under the new regulations a family consists of two or More persons sharing Resi Dency whose income and resources Are available to meet the family s needs an who Are either related by blood marriage or operation of Law or have evidenced stable family Little response the department got very Little response to its new concept of the family which covers family units among 1.5 million Public housing apartments and 333,000 Pri vate housing units for which the Federal government May pay rental subsidies this fiscal 49 letters commenting on Hud s dec. 16 recommendations Only six mentioned the new definition of the family. Two correspondents thought the family definition was unclear two approved of it and the other two disliked of Laden executive director of the Albany housing authority though thud should exclude two adults of the same it i Shirer of a company that Man Ages housing projects in St. Petersburgfla., expressed displeasure on March in two months after the official comment period the definition of a family was ambiguous. Shirer wrote does a Monitor six months constitute a stable relation ship dues the word of the resident suf he just beat death to get diploma san Antonio Tex. A Bill Lud Wikowski was determined to receive his High school diploma at the same time his classmates did when his class was attending the Holmes High school graduation ceremonies Friday night Bill was in a Hospital where doctors were fighting a losing Battle against the cancer that had struck the former Star linebacker s officials delivered Bill s diploma to him. An hour later he s friends said the 18-year-old youth never lost his spirit after learning he had cancer last Spring. His cancerous prostate land and bladder were removed by surgeons in fall Bill was honorary Captain of his football team calling the Coin toss a every game. He said he lost Only one Call. The previous season Bill had been using his s-Fuot-11.210-Pound body to Knock Down opposing Ball carriers several Colleg teams expressed an interest in him after his Junior year. By last november he weighed Only 155 pounds. He never let up in his studies finishing seventh in his class at the 2,800-Studcnt school and getting a four year scholarship offer from Princeton. Bill was in and out of hospitals through out the school year. He entered for the last Lime five weeks ago
