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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1977
Page
2
President Carter proposes a broad reform of welfare including up to 1.4 million public service jobs and a work benefit system replacing Aid to Families with Dependent Children. The plan covers income support for elderly and disabled, an expanded earned income tax credit, and guaranteed state fiscal relief. It would take effect in fiscal 1981 beginning Oct 1 1980.
Ottawa reports a nationwide airline shutdown as Canada’s 2,200 air traffic controllers strike halting most flights. Air Canada cancels about 15,000 reservations and routes travellers to U.S. border airports such as Bangor, Buffalo, and Seattle. CP Air cancels domestic flights, plans limited international service while Parliament convenes an emergency meeting to push legislation ending the walkout. CATCA seeks a 12.6 percent wage hike against an 8 percent government ceiling.
In New Orleans UP I report nuns say priestly ordination should be opened to women due to church activism, a priest shortage, and calls for shared decision making. Sister Kathleen Keating notes half of U S nuns belong to the movement and Vatican response is inadequate. Sister Mary Augusta Neal cites a 1967 study showing over 3,000 American nuns favor priesthood for women.
Central California wildfire known as Marble Cone, sparked by lightning near Big Sur, has burned over 74,500 acres with 30 percent containment. Firefighters concentrate on protecting the Carmel Valley watershed as more than 100 fires burn across drought-stricken western states, including large blazes in Lassen and Shasta counties and a Nome region fire in Alaska.
Beatrice Foods flags two days of testing to confirm if its whipped butter caused over 100 food poisoning cases in central Illinois and the St Louis region. Public health officials blame bulk whipped butter distributed in seven states including Illinois and Kentucky. Seventy Illinois cases and 36 in the St Louis area are noted with additional illnesses in Indianapolis. the recall covers Sugar Creek products and others across eight states.
Washington based UPI reports that 700,000 Bell System union members won a tentative three year pact aimed at reducing pay disparities with factory workers. The agreement includes a 31 percent wage bump aligned with auto and steel settlements, job security measures, pension enhancements, and six weeks paid childbirth leave plus extra unpaid leave, amid rising automation and militancy.
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