Carter completes Cabinet with Califano at HEW and energy czar
President elect Carter named Washington lawyer Joseph Califano Jr to head Health Education and Welfare and former defense secretary James R. Schlesinger as energy czar. Theodore Sorensen was tapped for a top intelligence post as Carter hinted at a possible new Department of Energy to consolidate energy functions. Califano promised compassionate HEW service while Schlesinger would coordinate energy programs and draft a national energy policy.
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Schlesinger
Sorensen
Carter
Department of Energy
Department
Department of Interior
White House
Califano
HEW
People's Department
Rhodes Asks Action On Housing Bonds
Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes urged the legislature to move a constitutional amendment to validate a sidetracked housing program for low and moderate income families after the Ohio Supreme Court blocked a 1974 plan to issue state backed revenue bonds for private housing. Rep. Edward Feighan plans to push the measure for the June 1977 primary. The court ruling halted the bond plan but left the housing board with other duties including loan guarantees and seed money for nonprofit housing ventures.
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Columbus
Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Rhodes
Ohio Supreme Court
Ohio Housing Development Board
Atty
William J. Brown
William A. Losoney
Edward F. Feighan
Cleveland
John J. Gilligan
Feighan
Gilligan
House
Senate
Cuyahoga County
Brown
Supreme Court
Local Public Works funding bids rejected in Athens County
Athens County faced a setback as all 14 Local Public Works grant applications failed to gain approval. Officials stated no funds were awarded and reviewed next steps for the stalled projects.
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Athens County
Extradition Questioned in Mason Murder Case
John Lewis Young 32 of Mason faced extradition to West Virginia for the Berry murder, but the move faltered as the legality of extradition papers was challenged. Young remains jailed in Meigs County on the murder charge.
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Pomeroy
John Lewis Young
Mason
West Virginia
Young
Meigs County
Mary Lucille Berry
Shooting Death Probed in Vinton County Soldier Return
Tommy Thompson an 18 year old soldier home on furlough from Ft Knox Ky died early today from a gunshot wound of the stomach. Sheriff Jerrold Martin probes the death. Page 10.
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McArthur
Tommy Thompson
Vinton County
Ft. Knox
Jerrold Martin
Thompson
Widow appeals for missing husband abducted by guerrillas
Donna Niehous appeals to the Venezuelan public in an open letter to locate her husband who was abducted about ten months ago by an ultraleftist guerrilla group in Caracas.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Donna Niehous
Transit Funds Set For Urban Rail Pilot Areas
Washington Cleveland and three other cities were named Wednesday as pilot sites to receive Urban Mass Transportation Administration funds. The project studies benefits of automated downtown people mover systems for urban transit.
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Washington
Cleveland
Urban Mass Transportation Administration
Weather Outlook Cloudy Tonight With Snow Flurries
The forecast calls for cloudy skies tonight with a 30 percent chance of snow flurries and lows around 4 to 10 degrees. Friday will be mostly sunny with highs near 30 to 35 degrees and a continued snow chance of about 10 percent.
Christmas Bicentennial Crossing Reenacts Washington’s Delaware
Washington Crossing marks the bicentennial with a Christmas reenactment in Washington Crossing Pennsylvania. About 15,000 spectators expected to witness George Washington portrayed by St John Terrell as 1,000 volunteers reenact the 1776 river crossing amid icy Delaware conditions and wartime peril.
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George Washington
Bucks County
Joseph Reed
Bristol
Delaware River
Trenton
Washington Crossing
America
Delaware
St. John Terrell
Lambertsville
Bowman's Hill
Long Island
Fort Washington
Fort Lee
Allegheny
England
Europe
New Jersey
Washington
Durham
Easton
Marblehead
Mass
Johann Ball
Pennsylvania
Manger Square Prepares for Bethlehem Christmas Pilgrims
In Bethlehem Manger Square readies for Christmas Eve crowds estimated at 20 000 as Israeli soldiers set up barricades and search booths. Nine cruise ships arrive and El Al boosts capacity for Yuletide pilgrims while workmen finish decorating a 25 foot tree and a large TV screen for midnight mass at St Catherine’s Church.
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Bethlehem
West Bank
Manger Square
St. Catherine's
Elias Freij
Israel
el al
Christ
nameless donor brings Christmas to three Dyersburg children
An elderly man from Archbold, Ohio, 76, asked a pastor to help find three needy local children. The man funded new clothes, shoes, groceries, and a dinner, calling it a little miracle. The Rev. Phillip Cook coordinated the gifts after verifying the donor’s story and contacting welfare authorities.
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Dyersburg
Tenn
Phillip Cook
First United Methodist Church
Welfare Office
Cook
Archbold
Ohio
Santa and Snow Maid Visit Moscow Children
In Moscow a state run Santa and Snow Maid program will visit over 20,000 homes from Dec 26 to Jan 5. The municipal department trains volunteers, and private hiring is forbidden. Parents pay about four dollars for a visit before New Year and two dollars ten cents afterward. the Snow Maid keeps sixty percent of the fee as Santa delivers toys arranged in advance.
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Moscow
Valentina Lebedeva
Santa
Russia
Jan Santa
Snow Maid
Belfast Shoppers Frisked for Bombs
In Belfast during Christmas, shoppers pass through a steel cordon with soldiers and police screening at multiple gates. A ring of steel covers much of the main district with bomb sniffs and electronic checks as troops patrol. violence marks seven years of sectarian strife.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Santa Claus
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Califo
Lesinge
Bureau of Motor Vehicle
Niehous
Federal Communications Commission
Christmas Gift Guide
Santa, Snow Maid
Ireland
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