Price Report Shows August Increases Across Food and Raw Materials
The August wholesale price index rose three tenths of one percent led by food and finished goods with higher steel, lumber, and metal product costs. Egg prices jumped over twenty three percent while fresh produce rose six percent, pulling the overall index to 114.9 with a year over year gain of four percent. Organic labor’s George Meany signaled possible wage talks ahead of the November 13 freeze end, while import surcharges get partial relief and Nixon delays blue collar pay raises to February 15.
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Washington
Nixon
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Organized Labor
George Meany
White House
Treasury Department
United States
National Education Association
Donald E. Morrison
Treasury
Charles E. Walker
Walker
Morrison
NEA
San Clemente
Corry Teachers Seek Pay Hike Amid Wage Freeze
Corry teachers association moves to meet with Schools Superintendent Ray Elsen to push for this year’s pay raise or confirm its obstruction by the federal wage price freeze. David Simmons and Mrs. Donald Allen reported at a Northwest Regional PSEA meeting that Millcreek and Harborcreek districts are already approving higher wages following guidance from a PSEA official. About 70 teachers’ representatives from Erie, Crawford, Forest and Venango counties attended.
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Corry
David Simmons
Donald Allen
Corry and Sparta Teachers Associations
Edinboro
Pennsylvania State Education Association
Simmons
Pennsylvania
Millcreek
Harborcreek
PSEA
Washington
Erie
Crawford
Forest
Venango
Withholding Shift for New Pennsylvania Tax Owed April 15
Pennsylvania wage earners face a tax shortfall as the 2.8 percent levy applies to gross income retroactive to June. Employers may withhold 5.4 percent later in the year for some workers to avoid extra owed taxes. average employees would need 3.5 to 4 percent to offset deficits. Net state yield listed at 772 million after subtracting 135 million from the illegal tax. Exempts for aged poor disabled and under 18 discussed.
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Harrisburg
Robert P. Kane
Pennsylvania
Commonwealth
Kane
Revenue Department
Guv
Shapp
House
State Students Take Part In Fluoride Test
Harrisburg AP The Department of Health says about 106000 Pennsylvania youths will take part in fluoridation programs in public schools and day centers this year. Programs are available to pupils not drinking fluoridated public water. Fluoride can be added to school water, applied to teeth, or taken as tablets. About 58000 students in 25 districts will stage mass brush-ins under a hygienist, 44000 will receive fluoride tablets, plus 1400 in day care centers and 200 in special education classes. Three rural schools have fluoridated well water for 2800 children. Tooth decay from fluoridated birth water can be reduced 60 65 percent.
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Harrisburg
Department of Health
Pennsylvania
David Wallace
Department
Division of Dental Health
Wallace
Virginia Court Rules GIs Insurance Paid Despite War Claim
The Virginia Supreme Court held that the United States’ involvement in Vietnam is not a legal war and ordered payment of a $1,000 life insurance policy for Calvin B. Cook’s survivor. The decision reversed a lower court ruling that denied benefits due to an exclusion for death in war. Christine Jackson of Petersburg benefits as Cook’s grandmother.
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Richmond
Virginia Supreme Court
United States
Vietnam
Calvin B. Cook
Insurance Company
North America Assurance Society of Virginia Inc
Petersburg
Hastings Court
Thomas C. Gordon Jr
Cook
Christine Jackson
U S Officials Question State Legislator Expense Hikes
In Harrisburg AP reports that while the state Treasury processes $300 monthly expense increases approved last June for legislators, some federal officials doubt the raise fits under the federal wage price freeze. The new allowances were to start July 1, but comments reflect uncertainty.
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Harrisburg
Commonwealth
State
Treasury Department
Monwealth
Capitol
Robert Stevens
Atlantic
Office of Economic Preparedness
Ronald Lench
Lench
Stevens
Pittsburgh
Nixon
James E. Quinn
Internal Revenue Service
Steven
Philadelphia
Quirin
Washington
Anthony May
Gov
Shapp
Police Charge Mini Bike Rider In Corry
City police stopped James A. Saxman 20 of 140 Ridge Street on Concord Street at 10 30 last night for riding a mini bike illegally. Charges include driving without a license no headlights no headgear failing to stop at a stop sign and operating an unregistered vehicle. Information on charges filed with district Justice Porter Auer.
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James Rhodes
James A. Saxman
Ridge Street
Concord Street
Saxman
Porter Auer
Police Wonder What Caused Wild Shootout
In Pittsburgh two men, including a police desk sergeant, were critically wounded in a street shootout outside Precinct Station Two. Investigators pursue a motive as a former mental patient, John Mangham, 26, faces assault with intent to kill and firearms charges after allegedly grabbing the officer's gun during an argument on a Hill District sidewalk.
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Pittsburgh
Robert Colville
John Mangham
Mangham
Mayview State Hospital
Carnegie
Hill
Colville
Harold Friedman
Friedman
Fri In
Loneliness and devotion mark McCormack vigil in hospital
Washington AP observes the final scene of John McCormack's enduring romance as his long bedridden wife Harriet Joyce lies nearing death at Providence Hospital. The 87 year old, a veteran congressman and former speaker, remains at her side, hearing her breathe and kneeling in prayer beside portraits of Jesus. Their 50 years together shaped his political ascent from a Boston youth to 21 terms in Congress.
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Mangham
William Bailey
Friedman
Mercy Hospital
Bailey
Presbyterian Hospital
Washington
Harriet
John McCormack
Speaker
John William McCormack
Providence Hospital
McCormack
Jesus of
South Boston
Congress
Boston
Massachusetts
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