Blytheville Courier News (Newspaper) - March 4, 1977, Blytheville, Arkansas By GREGORY Press Writer - resulting from the severe winter and a big increase in number of pushed the unemployment rate up per cent in the jobless rate in January was 7.3 per all rise in persons of probably the was factor of 220,000 in the forced part-time jobs of production cuts resulting from economic Labor Department gave this breakdown of unemployment in various job categories in 5.8 per up from 5.6 per cent in 7.2iper up from 6.9 per cent. per down from 18.7 per 6j7 per the same as in and per up from 12.5 per 4.9 per up from 4.8 per cent. 6.9 per up per cent. collar 8.7 up from 8.4 per Labor ' monthly report showed that the main for the rise in unemployment was an large in the nation's up 630,000 to a total of Lator Department analyst said this partly resulted from a statistical correction for January when the size of the labor by 440,000 at the same time that jobless rate declined from December's 7J per cent to 7.3 per said the formula used in seasonally adjusting jobs figures probably figures on the decline in January and the increase in February in the size of the labor After discounting the decline and the he said the actual increase in labor ros more in February than Labor Department there were 400,000 more jobs during month for a total of 89 a total 2;5 million above a Unemployment increased by 225,000 to a total of 7.2 ' following a decrease of more than half a million in there was a decline ber of long-term unemployed so that the duration of unemployment fell from 15.5 weeks in January to 14.7.,weeks, in the in 21 erratic movement in me unemployment rate are partially the result of changes actual Department statisticians said the ployment in 7.8 pier cent rate in may have been largely duet to by many unemployed persons to stop looking for jobs because of the cold employment increased about 100,000 in December to over 88.5 But the big change came in a 560,-000 drop in the number of unemployed to a total of seven figures show those didn't find it they disappeared completely from the nation's labor can happen if they told government census takers that they were no longer looking for a even if the reason was the weather was too Any person aged 16 or older is counted in the labor force if Page 2 82- 72315 NO. 244 10 GEM'S 16 PAGES MARCH 4,1977 Jet Age I tu has become such a complicated business in recent says Mark staff of the Mississippi County Cooperative Extension Service that the service has been compelled to stay keenly aware ofthe agricultural is no longer says for one individual to be knowledgeable and well informed in the many areas that we Extension are concerned with the Extension Service in recent years has begun employing personnel who are more closely related to the field of their Bryles LARRY Extension with offices in Blytheville and has the same number of personnel we've always Bryles Bryles the personnel are somewhat more specialized since the services at the two offices were combined in 1972. Bryles supervises the activities of nine staff Naming off the Bryles gave a brief description of the duties of each member and the degree held by the county Extension who came to the county from Craighead County last has seven in Bryles Miesner has a master of science degree in county Extension is staff leader in the area of soybeans and holds an M. S. degree in county Extension specializes in providing educational and field service assistance to farmers in the area of Bryles Stevenson has a M. S. degree in county Extension has responsibility in Page 2 staff of tHe Mississippi County Cooperative Extension address files of farmers and other persons on the Extension Service with secretaries Rhonda Bessie News Photo by ' For Talk HAMMARLEY Associated Press ROdK - Gov. David hoine rule taxing to giye cities and counties the right to impose local taxes was ' passed the House but it a major portion of the original were also made to try to kill another of the governor's major proposals a to give and counties a portion tKe state's general House overwhelmingly passed the home rule taxing 87-1, but the measure prevents cities and counties from calling for local sales tax original would have allowed the local governments to call the local tax elections on sales and other local forces fought hard in previous weeks to prevent the exclusion of the sales but conceded they pass the without the exclusion in knew we pass the said Rep. Lloyd George of the director of rule in the said he very proud of the on passage of the and said it was per cent the I wanted to Pryor's plan give local governments a percentage of state funds thought the votes to gut general revenue is expected to net in fiscal 1979. would have taken 17 per cent of the state general revenue and given it to cities and would also have provided for a 3^per cent incentive where counties could receive that money if a true local income effect of Uie two amendments Alexander would have wording of the entire and would have left only the 3 per cent incentive for the local of the said the revision would keep intact the Revenue Stabilization which they said has the state solvent for will start shipping away and will start destroying the Revenue Stabilization Rep. Ode Maddox of Oden But supporters of the had worked for almost a year on the and said it will be a welcome relief for state give the people the right decide for what they want to do with the George you adopt these amendments we will be back to the same old important that we maintain the fiscal integrity we have gained through the Alexander finally killed the amendment by a The amendment first s but Pryor's supportera challenged tiie vote and it i turned out to come up short of needed votes for were then confident they could defeat the so they decided to try and vote down the entire That attempt failed after the House voted to postpone action on the a revision drive Cecil Alexander of Springs and Doug Brandon of Little Rock said two days ago they devised two amendments that would have killed the original would give cities counties 6.27 per cent 4 Hays No. 3 Held police are seeking a black approximately 20 years today for the armed robbery last night about 9:40 of Hays No. 3 store at 1004 W. to said a black about 6 feet tall and weighing 140 entered the store armed with a small caliber pistol and demanded the contents of a cash register from Debbie a man reportedly escaped with about in cash and was last seen fleeing south on police Driver Milbum ot Arbyrd received serious neck and back injuries in a accident on Highway 108 south of Arbyrd yesterday Missouri State Troopers said car left the road and He was first taken to Dunklin County Hospital in Kennett and later transferred to Veteran's Hospital in troopers cause tot the accident has been troopers Suspect break-in Grocery in Hayti was discovered at 5 a.m. this by Hayti Pemiscot County Page 2 Fair and cloudiness and mild fair and cool Increasing cloudiness Saturday with for showers by High today and Saturday near 60, low tonight mid 30s. Precipitation 30 per cent Saturday ROCK - The resolution for ratification of the proposed Amendment to the U.S. Constitutif stayed the House Rules to the second setback of the week for the women's rights groups which support the in setback was the House decision to send the resolution from the House to the House did that by a maneuver that kept from They voted by standing up to be rather than by using the electronic voting which automatically makes a printed record of how each amendment would ban discrimination based on Press is a room in the White House complex now that looks like a bookie Or maybe one of those potboiler operations where telephone pitchmen sell stock in the Brooklyn is the heart of or President as it's the two-hour period Saturday afternoon when you can get on the telephone and talk with Jimmy Carter about whatever bugs of telephones are at one end of the complicated electronics equipment at the And in the like sits Emerson his Hnger on the Carter and Walter the two voices on the White House end of the radio talk will not be in the mission control center in the Old Executive Office They will be in the Oval seated before microphones and a television set that flashes the caller's name and its major role will be to say toll-free number to call is 900-242-1611." it's a 900 area code the He will also act as the talk show gently easing off the verbose and redundant and keeping things He can y will Be poised over a Stone's role will be very ready to strike When the show goes on the air at 2 p.m. Page 2 'SHOWTIME' Making Courier News TV tabloid will be sporting a new look and a new name The revised TV section will be called SHOWTIME and will feature a two-color to the this week the magazine will not contain TV listings for Friday and Saturday but will begin with Friday's and Saturday's listings for this week can be found on the respective comic pages of Friday's and Saturday's editions of The Courier The new tables will also be continued on the comic pages SHOWTIME will contain TV listings ior Sunday through Saturday instead of the Friday through Thursday format of the TV the TV section will continue to be published in each Friday edition of The Courier Ariz. - A blue rosary carried by Patricia Cady through a ordeal that ended when an escaped prisoner killed himself was still tightly when she arrived home late carried the rosary in my hand all the Mrs. Cady squeezed it as tight as I could until there was an imprint marked into my 32, was abducted last Friday outside the Pima County Hospital where she works as a said John who was an Arizona State Prison and his wlie 27, took her to where Bates killed himself in a motel Bates had fled from a hospital after apparently feigning an Bates WM charged Thursday in Cape with U.S. Magistrate John Oliver Jr. set bond at 1^,000. Late federal officials said Bates had been transferred to but her was feel now as though I have left one life behind and been given a chance for a new Mrs. Cady family and children all have a new meaning for me. The said she was able to survive her ordeal by drawing on her inner always knew I had the inner she just never tried it out said while she was worried about her family and tied so tightly at times that her hands became she was generally treated kindly by the she was never really sure if they would let me live or if I would It was a terrible yet somehow 1 felt that would be all being tide nude in the motel room Mrs. Cady was released about 20 before Bates killed said Mrs. a licensed practical tc drive her car In Las licenses plates on her car were exchanged with those from another in Kennett located the three at a local motel late Tuesday following a tip a relative of Bates who had been asked for lengthy confrontation with Bates attempting to persuade his wife to commit suicide with ONE Easterners may thaw out of the worst in history only be backed by an abnormally hot according to the of a National Weather Service 1.6 i poisoning people for a dollar farmer Ronald Thomas back tears when he told Michigan legislators his son been poisoned by 16 are up opposition to Paul Wamke as the Senate prepares for a long debate on his nomination as chief U. S. arms 16 OF value of grapes and long touted in folklore of many is boost from science with the that grapes kill 2 power companies seeking to force Westinghouse Electric Corp. to honor a contract to supply uranium at its current cost have settled instead for equipment and 2
