European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 05, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday August 5, 1978 the stars and stripes Page Detroit buses garbage trucks rolling from press dispatches Koit buses and garbage trucks i riday for the first time in four Days City workers ended a paralysing walkout after mayor Coleman agreed there would be no punitive against the strikers. A Many unneeded the largest groups involved in the Dis Pute sanitation workers and bus and garbage truck mechanics began return ing to work on the Midnight and Early morning shifts City officials said. Garbage trucks began downtown collections overnight and transportation officials predicted at least 70 percent of the City s buses which carry about 180,000 commuters daily would run. The Job action which virtually halted garbage pickups and bus service in the nation s sixth largest City entered on forced overtime and other provisions in existing group questions pacemakers7 use i on d Ali thousands of people needlessly receiving expensive Unnic pacemakers a group of heart i Sis reported thursday. In study published in the new eng journal of Medicine brings to Public in a longstanding controversy doctors Over who should be in id with a pacemaker which takes he natural control mechanism for heat. Ssue is whether people whose hearts ical systems Are partially blocked u receive pacemakers just in Case the system should go out. Which could Al study from the University of Oregon sciences Center Portland said should not. Specialists who discussed the report the controversy shows no signs of be ruled. Not enough is known yet about imaged the heart s electric system do before a person is in risk of dying re begins St recall of 8 vehicles troit a Ford motor co. Will the first 1.475.000 cars and Light e it built in North America in the 1978 to year to Correct an emissions defect company said thursday. Alve in the emissions control system t become disengaged and release Gas fumes into the air the company said maid a. Jensen director of Automo missions and fuel Economy con id a report by the bimonthly Trade cation. Ward s engine update. Ird said it will notify owners by mail to their cars to a dealer for inspection correction if necessary. Be recalled autos constitute about half Ned s output for the Model year. Ferd old about 2,270.000 cars in the United is this Model year. Trucks and Canad aies Are not included in that figure spokesman Chuck Gumushian the problem was first noticed by the Ornia air resources Board last no or. Ford investigated and made As Bly line changes in mid february he spokesman said it was a voluntary ii but that Ford had notified the . Iron mental Protection Agency of its. Gumushian said the recall covers All Model domestically built cars and trucks built before the february ice was included arc Ford of Europe s Ger built fiesta and Mercury Capri cars its courier Light truck made in Japan Yok Goyoco Ltd. Was Ford s 21st recall Campaign of bringing the total number of Ford pc recalled this year to about 5 5 Mil Ward s said. Otdies in f-104 crash Minto Italy api an f-104 Ji-1 or plunged into the Mediterranean 20 off this Southern italian City during Alian naval and air exercise killing lot. Officials reported suddenly from a Complete blockage they said. Inside the heart is a special tissue that carries electrical signals from the heart s upper two Chambers to the lower two Chambers the ventricles which do most of the pumping work. That tissue has three channels like three wires carrying the electrical impulses. If one remains open the heart still can beat normally. If All three go out. The heart either stops suddenly and the victim Dies at once or the heart continues beating at about half its Normal rate and the victim is in danger of dying unless he gets to a Hospital immediately. The Oregon group studied 257 patients and found there was no Way of telling who was in danger. At Boston s Massachusetts general hos Pital one of the nation s leading medical centers doctors already follow guidelines similar to those recommended by the Ore gon group. Even there about 5 percent of people who receive pacemakers have Only partial blockage. There s a tremendous confusion of Arti cles just like this groups in one Hospital saying one thing at another saying some thing else and they re All Good groups but their information is conflicting. U leaves the practitioner up in the air As to whose article to believe said or. John Warren Harthorne. A heart specialist at mass general. Or. John a. Kastor of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital Philadelphia said studies at his Hospital Duke the University of Miami and the University of Illinois at Chicago have made Progress in finding the High risk patients by a computerized study using wires inserted directly into the heart to measure the electrical signals much bet Ter than an Electrocardiogram can. My opinion is Well be Able to select out certain patients at High risk but we won t know that for several Kastor said. Open window policy contracts which expire in 1980. Union leaders in late night huddles with rank and file members of american federation of state county and municipal employee locals persuaded workers to return to work while negotiations with the City continue. A thursday afternoon meeting Between Young and of some leaders apparently was the key to breaking the impasse. The mayor promised no punitive action against the workers. We have assurances from the mayor that the attitude of the City is one of willingness to resolve the problem said Bob Johnson president of Michigan of some Council 25.young said. We have agreed to sit Down at the bargaining table and Deal expeditiously with All issues before us. I think there has been a spirit of cooperation on both sides. The Union says they will appear before their members and advise them to get Back to work. I believe this will accomplish the other disputes garbage Man in Baton Rouge. La. Thursday ended a one Day strike to press demands to be allowed to join a new Union but a Wildcat strike by trash collectors in san Antonio. Texas entered its Lith Day and Federal officials were trying to deter mine if firings in that strike were racially san Antonio. Maurelio Ortiz director of the Justice department s Community relations services in Dallas said he was investigating charges of racism in the firing of 157 City employees involved in a Wildcat garbage men s strike that began july 23. Many of the trash collectors Are mexican americans. Ortiz said his office originally deter mined that the firings were based on Noth ing More than the labor dispute but he said the persistent charges of racism led him to reopen the Antonio City manager Tom Lluc incr has hired about 100 new garbage men and trash collections have been running smoothly for the past Baton Rouge trash collection was even better than average thursday As 38 of the City s 39 garbage trucks were operating the Best turnout in four or five months. The workers contract with the Ameri can federation of state. County and Muni Cipal employees expired tuesday and they sought permission to reorganize under a different Union but the Council has refused to allow leaders said their men would walk out again next week if the Council took no action. The Council has indicated that it will not change its stand. Of time some Lellow interested in luring people into his pad must have pilfered this sign from some source and nailed u to the Side us this building in new York Lily the least he could have done is provide u ladder. A i1 photo aug. 5. 1948 a three judge Federal court in Santa be n.m., granted indians living on reservations and in Pueblo Vil Lages the right to vote in new Mexico. The decision swept aside a Section of the state s Constitution which barred indians not taxed from the polls. Al c. 5, 1958 the census Bureau in Washington reported that Southern Ami lies Are the largest. The smallest Are in the West. In the South the Bureau said the average family has 3.74 members. The aver mgr fur the West is 3.51, for the Northeast 3.55 and Lor the North Central stairs 3.57. The National average is 3.61 members. At. 5.1948 i Ope Paul i speaking at i a Secl Gandolfo Italy defended his encyclical of birth control again while tacitly acknowledging it us the most controversial document of his pontificate
