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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 01, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes saturday october 1, 1977 teacher strike in mass ends Franklin mass. A Franklin schoolteachers ended a Hway strike Fri Day. The walkout had put More than 60 of them in jail and could Cost them thousands of dollars in fines. The contract was ratified unanimously a Union spokesman said. Those teachers not in jail or due in court headed for work. It was not immediately known when the jailed teachers would be released. The spokesman for the Franklin Educa Tion association bargaining unit for the 286 teachers said the three year contract provides a seniority clause protecting vet eran teachers during layoffs one of the main issues in the protest. Negotiators had agreed on the pact ear Lier in the Day and it was ratified by All the More than 150 Fea members who came to a hastily called meeting the spokesman said. Those jailed for contempt of court for defying Back to work orders were not Able to vote because Union by Laws require members to cast ballots in person. However Union officials said representatives made the rounds of six jails this morning outlining the school committee s offer. The agreement worked out Early Friday provides a 4 per cent pay boost in the first year 5 per cent in the second year and a Cost of living increase of Between 4 and 6 per cent in the third year. Teachers in this Community of 20,000 Are paid an average of $12,000 a year with starting pay for a first year teacher at $9,-500. Substitute teachers and parents were called in to teach classes during the strike. Sixty three teachers were jailed for re fusing to obey a Back to work order issued by Superior court judge John m. Greaney. Several other teachers were fined. Greaney said thursday he would order negotiations halted unless the Union and the school committee reached agreement. The judge had levied fines up to $1,050 per teacher by thursday and another judge John p. Sullivan said he would Issue fines totalling $1,850 by Friday if the strike continued. Sullivan told 20 teachers he jailed thurs Day i Hope you Don t confuse what you Are doing with the great acts of civil Dis obedience that led to the creation of this  there Are ii schools with 5,000 students in the system. Worker killed As Oil Rig tips Jakarta Indonesia a an Amer ican Oil Rig overturned off the coast of East Kalimantan borne killing a filipino worker and injuring three other men the government Oil corporation per Tamina announced. Per Tamina said the Rig was owned by Dolphin International inc. Of Houston tex., and the injured men were All foreign ers employed by Dolphin. Drugs technique cancel by Alton Blakeslee new York a cancer specialists say major Progress in treating forms of leukaemia with a combination of drugs has solidified the concept that other forms of cancer can be cured with chemicals. Title term cure was used repeatedly by researchers on thursday at a National conference on the Lymphomas and the leukaemia a As they discussed results in both childhood and adult leukaemia a blood cancer and Hodgkin s disease a cancer of the Lymph system. Most of the credit is Given to using combinations of drugs a technique begun about 10 years ago. Results since then have solidified the concept we can cure cancers with chemicals said or. Vincent j. De Vita jr., director of the division of cancer treatment of the National cancer Institute. The Institute and american cancer society Are sponsoring the conference. Now we have the tools to apply Sim Ilar techniques to More common cancers such As the breast and Colon or. De Vita said. He said it is too Early to Tell if drugs plus surgery will have the same beneficial Impact on breast cancers. Believers in drugs have used the word cured. We Are using it More often now. Some people Are living As Long As those who had no cancer or. De Vita said. When former leukaemia patients live Long enough to have their own families and Normal lives it is splitting hairs not to Call them cured said or. David j. Gallon winning smile mrs. Kathryn h. Wright of Oxon Hill md., beams after learning she had won an Irish Hospital sweepstakes drawing. She won $437,500. A photo Brown 3 aides to pay for olympics flight los Angeles a gov. Edmund Brownjr. Says the $3,000 Cost of chartering the Jet that took him to Colora do to seek the 1964 olympics will be paid by himself and three other passengers not the  governor said wednesday mat each person will pay $750 out of us own pocket the others Are his executive Secretary Grey Davis Richard Silberman Secretary of the state business and transportation Agency and los Angeles businessman Jan  s our contribution because we want to encourage contributions from the private sector he said. The . Olympic committee named Losangeles the american Choice to Host the 1964 summer games. Brown has said notate funds will be spent on the games. Of the Royal postgraduate medical school London England. We Are possibly begin Ning to see the same upswing in other forms of  thirty years ago the average survival rate for children with acute Lymphocyte in leukaemia All was Only two months. Now for 50 per cent it is five years with Many living and Well far longer said or. Emil Frei Iii of the Sidney faster cancer Institute Boston. Or. Joseph v. Simone of Stanford University and or. Donald Pinkel of Mil Waukee children s Hospital told of a group of More than 100 children with All who Are in remissions apparently Well three to 10 years after drug treatment was stopped. I think they Are fairly Safe now or. Simone said. Or. Emil j. Freireich of the University of Texas system cancer Center in Houston said drug combinations can bring Remis Sions in a majority of adults with acute Myel Genous leukaemia and a proportion of these patients Are being cured. Five years ago if you asked me if we were producing cures i could Only say rarely now i am certain of  National association for mental health the mental health association is a voluntary advocacy organization striving for More Community services promoting mental health and stimulating More research into the causes and Preven Tion of mental illness. 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