South Carolina's Labor Market and Wage Pressures
South Carolina shows low unemployment at 1.2 percent in manufacturing but per capita income ranks 47th. The state attracts new industries with wages above the $3.11 average, prompting two wage increases in a year for textile workers.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Development Board
State Employment Security Commission
Piedmont
Employment Security Commission
Greenville
Folkman
Michigan
North
Midwest
Milk boycott urged by S C store amid price rise
Charleston AP reports the Broad Street Piggly Wiggly signs a milk boycott over higher prices. Milk minimums rose 9 cents to 84 cents a half gallon as of December 1, with no sales drop shown. Dillon AP notes a murder suicide at a Dillon home, Bryan Carter shooting his wife Joanne after unemployment. Beaufort AP says autopsy ordered for Wilbur Arnold 52 whose body was found in a bedroom closet during a robbery. hands and feet tied and house ransacked.
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Charleston
Broad Street Piggly Wiggly
South Carolina
Dairy Commission
Dillon
Joe Hayes
Bryan Carter
Joanne
Hayes
Carter
WDSC
Beaufort (Ap
Wilbur Arnold
Beaufort County
L.W. Wallace
Arnold
Republican Party Worker Anticipating Ford Visit
Georgia GOP Chairman Bob Shaw said Vice President Ford may attend the biennial Republican strategy session in Atlanta. Ford’s presence depended on briefings he might need during a weekend rally for 13 Southern states. Concerns over his schedule kept the visit uncertain.
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Atlanta, Ga
Republican Party
Gerald Ford
Georgia
GOP
Bob Shaw
Ford
Shaw
Textiles Not Laying Off Employees
Donald Comer Jr. of the American Textile Manufacturers Institute says the textile industry is hiring despite the energy crisis. He notes fuel savings from conservation programs mean reductions in fuel would not affect total employment, only possibly hours worked.
Burley Market Won’t Push Cigarettes Up
Lexington Kentucky AP report quotes Dr Milton Shuffett an agricultural economist at the University of Kentucky saying higher burley prices paid to farmers this year would not raise cigarette prices. He notes that the tobacco now being sold would be aged before consumption and thus not immediately affected.
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Lexington, Ky
Burley
Milton Shuffett
University of Kentucky
Shuffer
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TW. Thornhill
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Ekerr
Reg
Sy Ea
Wan Tad
Laurens St
NIKKO
TDK
TDDK
CSRA
Trinitron
Sony
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