PAY AND HOURSCUT AT CAPITAL PAPER; Guild Employes at Star Will Work a Four-Day Week to Prevent Layoffs Plan Offered by Guild Some Employes Object 'Sincerely Appreciative'
Date: 11 December 1974
By MARTIN ARNOLDSpecial to The New York Times
Washington Star-News on Dec 10 announces that 560 employes, including reporters and editors, will work 4-day wk for 4 days' pay, as alternative to large-scale layoffs; becomes 1st paper in US to have 4-day wk; plan will go into effect after Christmas; Joe L Allbritton, publisher, makes announcement (M)
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Presidential Press Talk Without TV Advocated
Date: 10 December 1974
White House deputy press sec John W Hushen says he would like to see some Pres news confs held without live TV coverage, speech at Natl News Council meeting at Boston Univ's School of Public Communications; school's dean, John Wicklein, had charged that TV had turned Pres news conf into 'Pres's medium' (S)
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Press Party at White House
Date: 10 December 1974
Christmas reception will be held at White House Dec 19 for members of news media who regularly cover Pres family (S)
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Paper in Capital Votes on 4-Day Week; Losses Seen Continuing
Date: 10 December 1974
News and business employes of Washington Star-News on Dec 9 vote to initiate 4-day work wk, at 4 days pay, in move to avoid threatened layoffs; Star-News says in Nov that it lost nearly $15.5-million over last 4 yrs, including nearly $5-million in '73; Joe L Allbritton, who took control of newspaper as publisher in Sept, has indicated that losses are continuing; econ move appears to be unprecedented in newspaper indus (M)
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3 Boys Among 29 Cited for Heroism In Aiding the Police
Date: 11 December 1974
NYC Police present 29 civilians with awards for outstanding acts of heroism; recipients include John Golding, 9, Joseph Golding, 11, Timothy McNellis, 14, who pursued and showed police hiding place of robbery suspect, Rev Albert Lorenzo Wingfield, Daily News reporter Cass Yanzi, lifeguard Michael Cordes and Police Acad candidate Salvatore D'Angelo, 20 (M)
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F.C.C. Judge Renews WPIX License
Date: 11 December 1974
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
FCC Adm Law Judge James F Tierney grants WPIX Inc renewal of its license to operate on Channel 11 and disqualifies application of challenging group, Forum Communications Inc, which has contested license in proceedings that have lasted over 5 yrs; action is climax to hearing that has been widely regarded by communications attys as test case of FCC's standards for broadcast performance when station licenses are challenged by citizens' groups; decision reverses recommendations of FCC Broadcast Bur in Aug '73 that WPIX should be disqualified as licensee for engaging in questionable news practices and misrepresentations to FCC; Frum pres Lawrence K Grossman will appeal decision; WPIX exec vp Levitt J Pope does not confirm repts that co's legal expenses in defending license exceeded $1-million; among those who testified in support of WPIX were Mayor Beame (then Controller), NYS Atty Gen Louis J Lefkowitz and former Mayor Robert F Wagner (M)
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