Carter official backs consumer boycotts to curb inflation
Washington AP An inflation adviser said the Carter administration may ask consumers to boycott stores and other businesses that raise prices beyond government guidelines as a way to enforce voluntary wage and price restraints. Other options include denying revenue sharing funds to noncompliant states, pending Congress approval.
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Carter
Alfred Kahn
Associated Press
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Illinois
West Virginia faces heavy rains and widespread flooding risk
Five counties placed under small stream flood warning as National Weather Service warns of possible river flooding. Evacuations along Four States Reservoir area. damaged earthen dam on Terebaugh Creek and a new bridge on the West Virginia Turnpike opened at 7.9 million. School canceled and roads flooded. rainfall two to three inches with more forecast before potential snow. Authorities urge moving to higher ground and cautious travel.
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Scott Widmeyer
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Marbone
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Bean Fork
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Missouri Branch
Drift Creek
Ashbury
Wayne County
Kilgore
Cabell County
Tennessee
Kentucky
West Virginia Turnpike
Bluestone River
Charlton Bridge
Bluestone
Golda Meir Dies at 80 in Israel Home
Golda Meir the longtime Israeli leader died at 4 28 p m Friday in Hadassah Hospital after a long battle with malignant lymphoma Officials said the cause was cancer of the lymph system and the illness had been kept private during her tenure as prime minister from 1969 to 1974 Family members were with her at the bedside in the final hours Survivors include her son Menachem her daughter Sarah and sister Clara Stern of Bridgeport Connecticut
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Golda Meir
Israel
Hadassah Hospital
Moshe Dayan
Switzerland
America
Meir
Milwaukee
Palestine
United States
Carter
White House
Hadassah
Menachem
Sarah
Clara Stern
Bridgeport, Conn
Unemployment Holds Steady In November 1978
Washington reports that white adult men gained sharply in November while the overall unemployment rate stayed at 5.8 percent. The Labor Department says total payrolls rose by 540000 with white men filling most of the new positions, reversing prior gains by women who had captured most of the year’s 3.3 million added jobs.
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Teamsters Union
Kahn
Teamsters
Washington
Labor Department
Department
Bluefield Community Christmas Tree Fund Nears Goal
Donations reach 999 dollars about 20 percent of a five thousand dollar target ahead of the December 24 Tree Party for about one thousand underprivileged Bluefield children. The call persists for local gifts to Box 208 Bluefield Telegraph, with supporters listing multiple contributors and memorial gifts.
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Bluefield Community Christmas Tree Association
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
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West Virginia Faces Flash Flood Watch and Snow Likely
Weather across the state. Potomac highlands and eastern panhandle under flash flood watch with heavy rain at times. Snow expected this afternoon in the northern panhandle and elsewhere tonight with much colder temperatures. Snow flurries Sunday and subfreezing lows. Highs today mid 50s to 70s regionally, with 20s to 40s tonight and Sunday.
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Eastern Panhandle
Northern
Panhandle
Survivors testify before grand jury in Ryan murder probe
Survivors of the Peoples Temple mass poisoning and deaths testified behind closed doors as the grand jury investigated the Jonestown killings of Rep. Leo Ryan and four others. Nine survivors entered the witness room while federal authorities dropped arrest warrants for eight Temple members who died. The panel seeks to determine if a US conspiracy to murder Ryan originated domestically and to confirm identities of those who fired the fatal shots.
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Dcalif
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Larry Layton
Georgetown
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