PATERSON BATTLE ON MEASLES LAGS; Outbreak in Its Third Month Despite Health-Unit Efforts Most 7-Day Variety Lack of Shots Cited
Date: 11 January 1974
Special to The News York Times
Paterson, NJ, measles outbreak continues despite 2 days of free immunizations and widespread publicity; Health Dept dir Robert A Callahan comments; calls immunization campaign failure; says those affected are primarily 1- to 5-yr-olds in Paterson's more econ depressed Spanish and black communities; Newark repts upsurge in measles since Dec 1; supervising health physician Dr William Spinosa says outbreak is result of mobililty of unimmunized population; Paterson to hold another immunization day Fed 3 (M)
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ACCORD IS REACHED BY PAPERHANDLERS
Date: 12 January 1974
Paperhandlers Union on Jan 11 reaches tentative 2-yr agreement with NY Times, NY Daily News and NY Post; union pres Timothy Hunt and Printing Pressmen's Union pres William J Kennedy comment (S)
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Kugler Asks Liberalizing Of 'Right to Know' Laws; A Report to Cahill
Date: 12 January 1974
By RICHARD PHALONSpecial to The New York Times
NJ Atty Gen George F Kugler Jr on Jan 11 proposes broad liberalization of state's 'right to know' laws that would make it easier for private citizens to gain access to govt information; proposals would establish Public Information Comm with quasi-judicial powers that would serve as kind of ombudsman for individuals who feel they have been wrongfully denied information by exec branch of state govt; Kugler urges that individuals who prove in ct that they have been unfairly denied information by any branch of govt be allowed to recover their legal costs; Kugler's asst Edward C Laird comments (M)
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MEDIA ARE SCORED BY FRED FRIENDLY; He Finds Excessive Useof First Amendment Slogan Excesses Are Cited Applied to Papers
Date: 12 January 1974
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
Former CBS News pres Fred W Friendly on Jan 10 is critical of Miami Herald, which last summer refused to print lr from candidate for state office in which he replied to Miami Herald ed charging him with breaking state laws during teachers' strike; Fla Sup Ct ruled that under state's 'right of reply' statute, which Friendly describes as 'probably unconst,' that newspaper had to publish candidate's reply
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