Wholesale Prices Increase Slightly Amid Downturn in Food Costs
Washington AP report notes July wholesale prices rose 0.1 percent while food costs fell for the third month, prompting economists to call the rise modest and caution that drought could lift prices next year. Analysts expect food prices to stay soft in 1983 before a potential rebound in 1984, with meat prices likely to climb after livestock liquidation ends.
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Washington
Sandra Shaber
Pennsylvania
Chase Econometrics
Reagan
Tampa
Fla
Labor Department
Donald Ratajczak
Georgia State University
Michael Evans
Washington, D.C
Evans Economics
Ratajczak
Evans
Ms. Shaber
Three Principals Named By Mercer County Board of Education
Bluefield High School gains Billy J. Norton as principal replacing Kessinger at Bramwell High. Kessinger moves to Bramwell. Irene Pauley named Princeton Junior High principal. Effective next Monday, board reorganizes county schools and fills Oakvale vice principal vacancy with John W. Fleming. Norton 47, longtime Mercer educator, and his wife Etta Mae both local teachers, have two children.
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Jim Gilbeath
Ly Telegraph
Princeton
Billy J. Norton
Bramwell High School
Bluefield High School
Mercer County Board of Education
Bluefield High
Michael W. Kessinger
Bramwell High
Irene Pauley
Mercer
Princeton Junior High
Arthur W. Steller
Dr. Steller
Oakvale
Pauley
Mercer School
John W. Fleming
Steller
Kessinger
Jack E. Byrd
BHS
John T. Disibbio
Billy J. Keatley
PJHS
Norton
Bramwell
Gary High School
East Tennessee State University
Johnson City
Radford University
Radford
Etta Mae
Mercer County
Nortons
John
Amy
McClure Hearing Probes Mining Plan Change After Blast
Federal hearing into the McClure No. 1 coal mine disaster continues in Wise Virginia with UMW safety experts citing a plan change that may have allowed methane buildup. Clinchfield Coal Co President Gene Matthis defends the plan while MSHA inspectors cleared the mine for reopening. Union officials voice concerns about gas detectors and a three entry design versus the planned four entries. The investigation expected to conclude as MSHA prepares a final report in about two months.
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Wise
UMW
McClure
Clinchfield Coal Co
Gene Matthis
Dickenson County
Virginia
Frank O’gorman
U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration
McClure No. 1
Clinchfield
United Mine Workers
MSHA
Robert Phillips
UMW District 28
Phillips
Matthis
Gasoline Prices Cut and Trend May Continue
New York AP report says several oil firms cut wholesale gasoline prices on Friday and analysts foresee a continued downward trend for weeks as demand stays weaker than expected. Labor Day could see pump prices easing, with autumn stabilization anticipated.
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New York
Dan Lundberg
The
Lundberg Survey Inc
Los Angeles
Standard Oil Co
California
West
Phillips Petroleum Co
Midwest
Texaco Inc
Louisiana
Tennessee
Mobil Corp
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Wisconsin
Ernest McClelland
Platt
Oilgram
New
Reagan Says Castro Sells Youths As Cannon Fodder
President Reagan in Tampa accused Cuba of selling its young men as Soviet cannon fodder for Kremlin subsidies and called Cuba the economic basket case of the hemisphere. He urged Hispanics to back a tougher stance on Central America and planned further stops in El Paso and La Paz during a 25 day trip. Demonstrators protested U.S. policy as Reagan praised Cuban flags from supporters.
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Tampa
Fla
Reagan
Kremlin
Cuba
el Salvador
Honduras
Guatemala
Central America
United States
Florida
el Paso
Texas- Mexico
la Paz
Mexico
Miguel de la Madrid
U.S
Caribbean
Fidel Castro
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Andrew Nestor
Spanishburg
Mercer County Horseman's Association
Fred Brown
Comn
Richlands Hospital
Mountain State
Deere
Tom Burns
Standard of California
Lundberg
Castro
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