As of April 4 tNt limes News strike is in it's 31st 4 u.ay. Recent negotiations give tentative signs of end ling the strike by the Erie l!wspaper Guild. The Guild first star ted the strike on March 6, with the Stereotypers Union joining the Guild on March 13. Three more unions printers, pressmen, a n d mailers all refuse to cross the picket lines. Management personnel and some union people who did decide to work allow the Times to put out a limited newspaper of approximately 30,000 daily copies (90,000 is near normal) and n early 65,000 Sunday copies, as against 90,000 normal. No home deliveries are being made in the-county, and the papers are sold mostly by machines and newsstands. Basic goals sought for in union settlement are a thirty dollar raise ( over two years), hospitalization benefits and improved pen sion programs: One other factor involved in settle ment is the fact that the Times is erecting a brand new building at Twelfth Sassafras to Twelfth 'Pz Myr tle. Within the walls of this new building will b e more -mechanization, and therefore some employee s are looking for job securi ty claunes or provisions in their contracts. A possible break is in sight as the Times offered the Printers Union a $l3 raise per year for 3 years which will presumably be accepted. This same will in probability be offered to the Guild. However due to inflationary trends, the Guild dislikes signing for more than two years at a time but even: with $l3 a year for on_l_y two years this would be $4.00 short of the requested $30.00. POPULA.TION EXPLOSION (Pittsburgh) A population explosion occur— red recently among the sea horses at the Aqua Zoo in Highland Park. A male sea horse--es happens only among sea horses gavebirth to several hundred progeny - 9 also as happens only among sea horses. Baby sea horses about an inch long are now floating in an iso— lation tank heated to 68 degrees ' eating newly hatched brine shrimp (which are crustaceans like lob— sters) and hoping they live to become adult sea horses. Female sea horses transfer fertilized eggs to be incubated in the abdominal pouch of the male. After a gestation period of about 25 days, the male exper— iences labor pains and releases his offspring. It would ' of course s be fas— cinating to talk to a hippocampus hudsonlas 9 the ichthyological name of the species. Women of the world who often have com plained that men don't knew suf— fering because they have not ex,- perienced labour pains would more than meet their match in the sea horse. z /9:Cy
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers