Inflation Jump in January Pushes Up Prices 0.8 Percent
Government data show consumer prices rose 0.8 percent in January, the largest monthly advance in 18 months, with food up 0.9 percent and fuels, autos, and clothing up 0.7 percent. Labor Department cautions winter weather may worsen inflation later this year. Real earnings fell 1.1 percent in January after inflation adjustment, and average weekly hours declined 1.1 percent.
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Washington
Labor Department
Court ruling could cost Ohio $95 million
A Franklin County Common Pleas Court decision says interest earned on highway funds since 1968 was improperly placed in the general fund. Judge Gillie set an March 18 hearing to fix amounts, with officials warning the ruling could drain $95 million and deny the transportation department about $7 million annually in interest. The case focuses on where interest should be deposited and potential broader implications for state revenues and other agencies.
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Columbus
Ohio
Common Pleas
Transportation Department
James A. Rhodes
William W. Wilkins
Franklin County
Gillie
House Fi
Nance
Myr H. Shoemaker
C-88
Bourneville
Department of Transportation
Shoemaker
House Moves Tax Package
Congress moves Carter stimulus plan with $50 rebate for most Americans and permanent tax cuts for 44.6 million households. House panel approved the measure 26 to 8 with May mailings for rebates and reduced withholding starting May 1.
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Washington
Congress
Carter
House
Ways and Means Committee
Change in Equal Yield Unlikely
Ohio lawmakers consider broadening the equal yield school subsidy to include cost of living and family income factors with $300 million in new money. A Senate leader doubts changes can occur this year. Gov Rhodes would not fund enough. The plan would keep equal yield at only half its goal by 1978 79 while the committee urges a $250 million boost in basic aid.
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Columbus
Ohio
House
Senate Education Review Committee
Senate
James A. Rhodes
Rhodes
Legislature debates equal yield and state aid formula
A House Senate study panel drafts an equal yield formula to direct state aid by local property tax effort. Senate leader Oliver Ocasek endorses ERC factors but doubts timing due to tax data. A new law requires Ohioans to list districts on tax returns if funding falls short of equal yield targets. calls to drop class-size and teacher salary mandates persist as Rhodes' budget faces scrutiny.
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House- Senate
Senate
Oliver Ocasek
Northfield
HEW launches drive to end discrimination in schools
The Carter administration uses fund cutoffs to enforce the 1972 law against sex discrimination in education. HEW will target sex segregated PE classes single sex organizations and scholarships while exempting contact sports and sex education. By March 15 a compliance list will name districts and colleges, with noncompliant schools facing loss of federal funds within 60 days.
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Washington
Honorary Service
Carter Ad
HEW
Califano
Glenn supports merging agencies into a Department of Energy
U S Senator John Glenn told a Senate hearing he backs combining federal environmental and energy agencies into a Department of Energy. He criticized government red tape and urged broader accountability while noting gas supply issues involve multiple sectors.
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Columbus
Ohio
John Glenn
Department of Energy
Glenn
Senate Energy and Public Uthies
Len Howard Metzenbaum
Metzenbaum
Massacres and Mobsters Tour of Chicago Unveiled
My Kind of Town in Highland Park offers a 3 1 2 hour bus tour of Chicago sites tied to mass killings mobsters and riots. Vic Giustino hosts with stops at Dillinger and Capone landmarks plus the St Valentine’s Day Massacre and Haymarket. Costing $7.50 per person the irregular schedule tour begins at the Adler Planetarium and opened to public in January.
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Chicago
John Dillinger
Highland Park
Fort Dearborn
Grant Park
Vic Giustino
Eastland
Iroquois Theater
Haymarket Square
South Side
Old Levee
Giustino
John’ Coughlin
Hinky Dink
Kenna
Scarface
Metropole
Capone
Mt. Carmel
Cicero
St. Valentine's Day
Dion O'Bannion
Holy Name Cathedral
Clark Street
Biograph Theater
Dillinger
Rosalie Dixler
Adler Planetarium
Soviets Reject U.S. Interference Over Human Rights
Moscow rejects Washington attempts to interfere in internal Soviet affairs about human rights. Anatoly Dobrynin urged Hartman that progress on SALT and prisoner releases hinge on U.S. attitude. Carter promised to help free prisoners of conscience and Sakharov sought aid for three ill dissidents including Ginzburg.
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Moscow
State Department
Tass
Washington
Anatoly F Dobrynin
Arthur Hartman
Cyrus R Vance
Middle East
Carter
Andrei D Sakharov
Dobrynin
Hartman
Salt
Soviet Union
Ussr
USA
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Sakharov
Alexander Ginzburg
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Nicolae Ceausescu
Romania
Soviet Bloc
Ceausescu
Paul Goma
Gunzburg
Mikola Rudenko
United States
Mayor proposes replacement of 13 maintenance vehicles
Mayor Donald Barrett will ask the City Council to fund replacement of 13 service and road maintenance pieces at a total between 90 000 and 110 000. He cites a survey that shows these assets are in poor condition and notes brick streets in Athens would be too costly.
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Donald Barrett
Barrett
Athens
Athens County approves higher water sewer rates for The Plains
The Athens County Commissioners adopt a new rate schedule raising water and sewer charges in The Plains. The minimum charge increases to 12.42 dollars monthly under the plan.
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Plains
Athens County
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Robby Smith
Wilkins
Gertrude Donahey
Rick Pfeiffer
Education Review Committee
Department
Joseph Califano Jr
Thomas A van Meter
R-19
Ashland
van Meter
Columbia Gas Transmission Corp
Hve
Soviets
U.S
Serge
Kovalev
Amnesty International
Ginzburg
Literary Gazette
Ginsburg and
Rudenko
Oleksa Tikin
Yuri Orlov
Europe
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