_ Memphis mayor proposes
mge settlement for strikers
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ield
United Press International
MEMPHIS — Mayor Wyeth Chandler, trying to
the city from the grips of a walkout by police and
men, proposed a strike settlement Tuesday that
mately might let taxpayers approve or reject the
ikers’ wage demands.
handler presented to the City Council a plan cal-
;for the strikers to return to work immediately,
h sides would then present their “best offer” to a
eral mediator, who would choose between the two
;rs.
[fthe mediator chose the city plan, no further ac-
would be necessary. But if the union plan was
scted, a city-wide referendum woidd be held in
vemberon increasing the local sales tax to hind the
on pay package.
fthe sales tax increase is rejected, the city plan
uld remain in effect.
lie council did not immediately vote on the pro-
al, but council member Ed McBrayer said most
ncil members he had talked with “thought it was
id idea. ”
Jnion officials were reported in a meeting and
ild not be reached immediately for comment on
andler’s proposal.
refighters and police earlier Tuesday picketed
itation outlets and other locations to push their
nands for higher wages. The picket lines were
ir withdrawn, but many of the garbage collectors
refused to make their rounds,
snarl in garbage pickups would further com-
md an already tense situation In Memphis, which
immed with thousands of visitors who are marking
first anniversary Wednesday of singer Elvis Pre-
s death.
deanwhile, Mayor Chandler issued an ultimatum
firemen, who walked out in sympathy with strik-
krijuana limited side effects
Legal pot smoker dies
United Press International
tLBUQUERQUE — A cancer
ient, who won his fight to legally
oke marijuana to offset the side
sets of his treatment, died Tues-
,'at the age of 26.
Lynn Pierson helped persuade
Legislature this year to pass
at was believed to be the nation ’s
t law permitting the medical use
marijuana.
A spokeswoman at Veterans Hos-
where Pierson was admitted
raaldays ago, said he died at 7:50
Jm.
iPierson, a graduate business stu-
lent at the University of New
Mexico, claimed smoking marijuana
ised the side effects of
pbmotherapy for lung cancer.
ugh he was able to obtain
jnarijtiana illegally, Pierson lobbied
i the Legislature for a bill to allow
certain medical patients to receive
the drug legally.
Because of his efforts, the Legisla
ture approved a marijuana research
program to “further experimenta
tion and research and, at the same
time, provide relief for the pain and
suffering of cancer and glaucoma pa
tients.”
The three-member board of doc
tors created by the law unanimously
approved Pierson’s participation in
the program last month, but Pierson
said at the time there was a need for
further action.
“It (the fight) won’t be over until
marijuana is widely available
throughout America for use as a
drug by those who need it,” he had
said. “Then it will be oyer.”
He was asked why he spent so
much effort lobbying when he sim
ply could smoke marijuana illegally.
"For me, yes, it would have been
easier (to keep getting it illegally),”
he said. “But for a 60-year-old
cancer patient, no.”
He also said he had become wary
of dealing with illegal drug
suppliers.
“When you deal with them, you
deal with a criminal element,” he
said. “They carry guns, and when
you deal with them, it gets kind of
shaky at times.”
Pierson also did not put much
faith in federal approval of his par
ticipation in the program, which was
required before he could obtain the
legal supplies of marijuana, so he
began growing it in his back yard,
T don’t think they’ll (federal
agencies) come through with it,” he
once said. “They’ll hold it up as long
as they can.”
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The mayor also sought contempt citations in Chan
cery Court to enforce separate injunctions ordering
the 1,100 police and 1,140 firemen back to work, and
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Meanwhile, Tommy Powell, president of the
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With the exception of continued arrests of strikers,
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