Nixon warns of brief inflation surge after price freeze
Washington AP reports the Nixon administration expects a temporary rise in living costs as the U S moves from wage-price rent freeze to a thaw. Economists fear the size and length of the surge could spark inflationary psychology despite optimistic notes from the Cost of Living Council and Labor Secretary Hodgson. December CPI due next month will reveal the extent of the acceleration.
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Washington
Nixon
Cost of Living Council
Labor
James D. Hodgson
Price Controls and Inflation Pressures After Freeze
The Cost of Living Council warns state trial controls may raise the CPI in coming months as reentry into an economy with postfreeze price movement proceeds. About one fifth of items remain exempt from controls, including used cars and rents, while the Price Commission allows price boosts to cover higher costs.
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The
Price Commission
Cost of Living Council
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Corry Eyes Six DA Aide as Kennedy Trials Six Months
Pressure from Harrisburg grows over appointing a Corry assistant district attorney. District Attorney-elect Gordon Kennedy plans a six month trial to assess need and cost, with six Erie County lawyers named as potential aides. Police and officials say help is sometimes needed, but city solicitor handles immediate matters.
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Harrisburg
Corry
Gordon Kennedy
The
Journal
Erie County
Erie
Bernard Siegel
Robert Chase
Frank Kroto
Charles Agresti
Joseph Messina
Alois Lubiejewski
Kennedy
William Peiffer
R. Budd Dwyer
Meadville
Dwyer
Eric
IGA
Edward Zarger
Rent rules outline from Price Commission affects households
Washington AP reports on rent guidelines from the Price Commission. The plan allows a 2.5 percent base increase plus potential rises for government cost surges and tax or fee changes. Average increases expected under 3 percent. some may reach 15 percent. Rent increases require 30 days’ written notice with reasons. Hardship, property improvements, and base rent all influence final amounts. Continued on back page. The Nativity scene was in living color at the Evangelical United Methodist Church on North Center street last night with youth members and real sheep despite the cold.
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Washington
The
Price Commission
C. Jackson Grayson
A— Grayson
Evangelical United Methodist Church
North Center Street
Geniece Coleman
Chris Huffman
Randy Huffman
David Aldrich
Pryor
Employers To Receive Back Hikes And Rent Flexibility
President Nixon cleared the way for retroactive payments to workers with frozen raises and allowed landlords to raise some rents beginning December 29 under complex rules. The Price Commission planned to roll back a 34.1 percent Blue Cross Blue Shield increase for 14 million federal employees and barred rate hikes to boost profits. The 90 day wage freeze ended last month and retroactive pay was enacted to cover increases due. AFL-CIO and NEA praised the move as aiding millions. The act extends authority for economic controls through April 30, 1973.
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Washington
Nixon
The
Price Commission
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
C. Jackson Grayson
Afl-Cio
National Education Association
Journal Column Helps Hopkins Welfare Work Crusade
A column titled Merry Christmas, Suckers appears on The Journal editorial page, prompting Rep. Forest Hopkins to adopt it in pushing a bill to require able bodied welfare recipients to work on public projects. Wesley C. Allen forwarded the clipping. Hopkins invites locals to send known cases for investigation.
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Forest Hopkins
Wesley C. Allen
Union City
Hopkins
North East
Allen
Bill Eaton
Corry Area FFA Members to Be Honored at Farm Show
Three Corry Area High School members Edward Walters John Eastman and Gary Chelton will be recognized at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg next month, with Eastman and Chelton set to receive Keystone Farmer degrees. Walters is also honored among seven Erie and Warren County FFA members chosen for special recognition.
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Erie and
Warren County
Future Farmers of America
Harrisburg
Corry Area
Edward Walters
Jack Walters
R.D. 1
Columbus
John Eastman
CAHS
Carl Eastman
R.D.1
Corry
Gary Chelton
Raymond Chelton
Chestnut Street
Eastman
Chelton
FFA
Pension Bill Author Seeks Half Cut After Draft Mistake
Harrisburg AP reports Rep. Harry A. Englehart plans to ask the Senate to halve a district justice pension bill after admitting a drafting error. The House version would pay three times the pension of other state workers. Englehart says it should be 1.5 times. He blamed the Legislative Reference Bureau for the mistake.
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Harrisburg
Englehart
Majority
Frank Mazzei
D-Allegheny
Senate State Government Committee
Hats Off To Policemen Ordered
LOCKPORT Niagara County Judge John V Hogan ordered Gerald Wagner 36 to tip his hat when meeting policemen for the next three years as part of a sentence for resisting arrest He also received three years on probation and a 500 fine on his guilty plea dated November 1 Ormaining background notes indicate the gesture was a court ordered act of respect within his sentencing.
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Lockport
Gerald Wagner
Niagara County
John V. Hogan
Wagner
Meadville Lawmaker Urges Traveling Tax Aid Offices
Meadville representative Dwyer urges Secretary of Revenue Robert P. Kane to set up traveling offices to help seniors prepare property tax refund applications. He proposes stationary offices in Shenango Valley Grove City Mercer Greenville Meadville Titusville and Corry with staff visiting boroughs and townships to assist elderly residents during winter. The letter follows Kane announcing about 60 offices opening February 1 to assist with refunds and notes over 600 requests for forms from low income seniors widows over fifty and the permanently disabled.
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R. Budd Dwyer
Meadville
Corry
Secretary of Revenue
Robert P. Kane
Dwyer
Kane
Shenango Valley
Grove City
Mercer
Greenville
Titusville
Bour
Dny
Families learn 18 Americans are POWs in North Vietnam
The news eased longtime anxiety for 18 families as their loved ones were confirmed alive and prisoners of the Viet Cong in South Vietnam. Relatives in Alabama, Nebraska and California shared mixed relief and shock, detailing decades of uncertainty since 1964 to 1969.
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Associated Preas
South Vietnam
Mandy Davis
Tuton
Ala
Thomas
Jerhardt Mehrer
Omaha Neb
Gustave
Cora Weiss
Committee of Liason
North Vietnam
Hey
Richard Fernandez
Paris
Omaha
Mehrer
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Michael Sekerak
Hope
Vientiane
Bob Hope
Laos
U.S
Hanoi
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General Assembly
Gussie
Alfonso Ray Miaté
Marine Corps
Riate
Zelda Tavinta
Bell Gardens
Calif
Mary Pepper
Valerie Kustiner
Danville
Floyd Harold Kushner
New York
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