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Hospital withdraws
contract offer
SPRINGFIELD
A McKenzie-Willamette Mem
orial Hospital official said
Monday the hospital has with
drawn the contract offer that
nurses voted to accept in order
to end a strike that began July
14
Joe Johansen, assistant ad
ministrator of the hospital, said
the labor relations subcommit
tee of the hospital board met
privately Monday and confirmed
that the offer had been with
drawn
Johansen said negotiators for
the hospital and the Oregon
Nurses Association would re
sume bargaining Tuesday He
said the hospital would offer 8 5
percent pay raises in the second
year of a two-year contract as it
did before making the offer that
was withdrawn
The nurses' association
revealed Sunday night that its
striking members had voted
71-2 in favor of accepting the
hospital's offer of 9 percent
salary increases in the second
year of a two-year contract
The nurses rejected the offer
when the hospital made it at the
previous negotiating session
Sept 22 The nurses had asked
second-year raises of 10 per
cent plus a cost-of-living ad
justment
Nurses negotiators had
agreed to the hospital's offer of
11 4 percent first-year in
creases, to raise starting pay to
$8 69 per hour
Pickets remained outside the
hospital Monday
The strike is the longest by
nurses in Oregon history
Poles attack
price hikes
GDANSK, Poland
Angry smokers threatened
Monday to strike at mines and
factories across Poland unless
the Communist government
rescinds a "provocative" price
hike that doubled the cost of
cigarettes
But the Polish government,
ignoring a virtual ultimatium
from Solidarity union chief Lech
Walesa that the action would
spark a national "brawl," said
Monday it would be impossible
to suspend the price hike
Government source said the
price of the most expensive
brand of cigarettes might be
lowered if the union agreed to
talks, which some union
sources said might begin Tues
day in Warsaw
Prime rate falls
to 19 percent
NEW YORK
Banks nationwide matched a
half-percentage-point cut in the
prime rate to 19 percent Mon
day, and some economists said
it is likely the prime will fall to 18
percent
“There’s no question that it
has got to come down further,"
said Donald Maude, chief finan
cial economist at the investment
firm of Merrill Lynch, Pierce,
Fenner & Smith, Inc
Maude and other analysts
attributed the drop in the prime
to its lowest level in five months
to a decline in banks' cost of
funds and the impact of a
weakening economy on their
business
As recently as last month, the
prime stood at 20.5 percent, just
one point below its record-high
21 5 percent of December 1980
A widespread 19 percent prime
rate was last in effect the first
week in May
St. Helens
funds cut
WASHINGTON
Funds have run out for
dredging two rivers choked with
ash and debris from Mount St.
Helens' May 1980 eruption, but
the work will go on, members of
Washington state’s congres
sional delegation were assured
Monday
The delegation members met
with Senate Appropriations
Committee chairman Sen Mark
Hatfield, R-Ore , to seek $70
million needed by the Corps of
Engineers to continue dredging
and dam construction and
maintenance on the Cowlitz and
Toutle rivers in fiscal 1982,
which began Oct. 1.
"There's a great deal of con
cern out there (in Washington
state) right now because the
Reagan administration hasn't
asked for any fiscal 1982 money
to continue dredging," said
spokesman Rick Cocker in the
office of Sen Henry Jackson,
D-Wash., who requested the
meeting.
House passes
civil rights bill
WASHINGTON
In a rare congressional vic
tory for liberal Democrats and
civil rights leaders, the House
gave overwhelming approval on
Monday to an indefinite exten
sion of the 1965 Voting Rights
Act.
The House sent the extension
to the Republican-controlled
Senate where a much tougher
fight is expected on legislation
described by supporters as the
most successful civil rights law
ever enacted
Iran elects
new president
BEIRUT, Lebanon
Government firing squads ex
ecuted 129 leftists Monday and
Iran’s fundamentalist Moslem
regime proclaimed Hojatoles
lam Ali Khamenei president by a
record vote. Tehran's official
media reported.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomein
i’s government has announced
the executions of at least 1,195
government foes since the June
22 ouster of secular-minded
President Abolhassan Bani
Sadr. Leftists have been
blamed in the slayings of more
than 300 Khomeini supporters
during that same period
Tehran radio announced that
Khamenei claimed more than 95
percent of the ballots tallied
Luggage lost
at 1,000 feet
NEWARK, N J.
At least three pieces of lug
gage from a New York Air flight
bound for Washington dropped
out of the plane at 1,000 feet as
it took off from Newark Interna
tional Airport Monday morning,
officials said.
No one was reported struck
by the falling baggage.
Two of the pieces hit the roof
of a Sherwin Williams' paint
store in Newark and another
bag was found in the backyard
of a Newark house, Police Lt.
Armando Fontoura said.
Wyden proposes
waterway bill
WASHINGTON
Rep. Ron Wyden, D-Cre., in
troduced a bill Monday that he
hopes will be passed instead of
the waterway users legislation
submitted to Congress by the
administration of President
Reagan.
Reagan proposes charging
commercial users of U S. wa
terways fees that would be used
for maintaining and improving
the waterway system.
Wyden’s bill would institute a
tax on commodities being
shipped into U S. waterways
and would use the revenues to
pay for 50 percent of the water
ways maintenance and im
provement costs.
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