December 1, 1965

strike averted as NLRB certifies Taxi Drivers Organizing Com as bargaining agent for 8,000 drivers in 30 of 79 fleet-owned garages; NLRB sets representation elections in 42 other garages for Dec 21; rules July 21 election legal, rejecting fleet owners charges that union had used intimidation; also rules com won right to represent 500 mechanics and maintenance workers in 20 of 35 garages where elections were held; Wagner had urged drivers at Manhattan Center rally to delay strike action so that bargaining with fleet owners could start within 48 hrs; offered to act as mediator; drivers empower union exec com to call strike

To be estab under Ford Foundation grant at Columbia-Presb Med Center; plans; Dr H C Taylor dir; comments, news conf

breakdown of computer ties up bookkeeping for 24 hrs; other major banks assist

Freed Amer POWs Sgt G Smith and Specialist/5 C D McClure, with Vietcong repr Le Van Diep, hold news conf, Pnompenh, arranged by Cambodia; illus; say they want to leave US Army to conduct campaign to get US out of Vietnam; hold 'Vietcong are the people'; say they were well-treated, well-fed and not brainwashed; insist they saw no regular N Vietnam troops; link their release to protests and demonstrations in US

Typographical error in Masters (NYC discount store) ad in NY Post lists TV set for $8.98 instead of $88.98; store besieged; sells 46 sets at $8.98 to appease crowd; Comr Pacetta says such error does not make store liable