Deliverers Union and The Times Get Court Order
Date: 12 July 1973
Judge C E Stewart Jr on July 11 signs temporary restraining order preventing Newspaper and Mail Deliveres Union from issuing any new membership cards as result of charges filed by J R Patterson that union, with acquiescence of employers, discriminates against job applicants because of their race; order also enjoins NY Times from filling any permanent posts for deliverymen until hearing; Patterson asserts that he has been able to obtain only day-to-day work under 'shape-up' system and since '72 has been refused regular employment at Times; Patterson's complaint also names NY Daily News, NY Post, LI Press and Publishers Assn of NYC; holds that union has, thorugh 'father-son' arrangement, prevented blacks and other minority-group members from working as deliverymen on regular basis
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Stereotypers Halt Parleys On a Newspaper Contract
Date: 12 July 1973
Stereotypers Union Local 1 repts on July 11 that it has broken off negotiations with Publishers Assn of NY on new contract to replace 1 that expired on March 30; union sec K Kahn says meeting will be held on July 22 to decide on future action involving contracts with NY Times, NY News and NY Post
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Scholarships Are Granted By Scripps-Howard Fund
Date: 13 July 1973
trustees of Scripps-Howard Foundation on July 12 authorize record number of scholarships to go to undergraduates in field of journalism as well as cash grants to colls and univs; foundation pres M Meyer says that 101 students will have part of their coll expenses paid in '73-'74 yr through scholarship grants
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Haldeman Denials Contradict Witnesses; Haldeman 's Denials Contradict Testimony of Witnesses To Be Queried Again Controlled Cash Fund Generally Aware'
Date: 13 July 1973
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUMSpecial to The New York Times
David ROSENBAUMSpecial
Ex-White House chief of staff H R Haldeman has told Sen investigators that he took no part in planning Watergate burglary and did not know of efforts to block investigation and cover up facts until Mar '73; Haldeman's statements, in int with Sen Watergate com staff on May 4, contradict sworn testimony of other witnesses including ex-White House counsel J W Dean 3d, former deputy campaign dir J S Magruder and ex-Atty Gen Mitchell; Haldeman also denies any involvement in over-all Watergate affair in public statements, in civil deposition and in testimony given privately to Sen subcom; Fed prosecutors are known to believe that Haldeman played major role in scandal's cover-up; prosecutors are said to believe that Haldeman did so to protect Nixon's pol position in mos before '72 election and to prevent other illicit White House activities, such as 'plumbers' operations, from coming to light; Haldeman, in int with Sen com staff, refused to discuss any conversations he had with Pres or any knowledge he obtained in his position as 'conduit' of information intended for Nixon, citing exec privilege; Haldeman contradicts other witnesses in saying that he did not know that campaign official H L Porter had been induced by Magruder to commit perjury at Watergate trial; that he did not 'have occasion in Sept-Oct '72, after the return of the indictments, to congratulate Dean for the job he had done'; that he took no part in cover-up; that he did not know until Mar '73 that there was a White House cover-up of facts about burglary of Dem Natl hq; that it was possible that espionage repts were sent to his office before Watergate burglary but he does not recall seeing them and never ordered such material destroyed; Haldeman acknowledges that, for a time, he controlled a $350,000 cash fund and that, in Jan '73, then-Haldeman asst G Strachan turned money over to F C LaRue, aide to Mitchell; says he knew that 'defense fund' was being raised to assist Watergate defendants but that he did not know of any relationship between cash fund and 'defense fund' and that he believed 'defense fund' was intended only to pay defendants' legal fees; acknowleges that he approved hiring of atty D H Segretti, who has been accused of running illegal sabotage operation against Dem Pres candidates; says he insisted that there be 'specific stipulation that he was not to engage in illegal or improper activities'; says he was 'generally aware' of over-all plumbers project but did not know of activities of E H Hunt Jr and G G Liddy, 2 of plumbers who were later convicted in Watergate conspiracy
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GRAINS ADVANCE ON EXPORT NEWS; Sales to Soviet and China Also Buoy Soybeans
Date: 13 July 1973
By H. J. MAIDENBERG
H. MAIDENBERG
Soybean and soybean meal futures prices close on July 12 at daily permissible highs on Chicago Bd of Trade; rise attributed to Govt rept that 500,000 metric tons of soybeans have been registered for exports thus far in '73
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