Postage price hike delayed in bid to curb costs
Washington UPI reports the Cost of Living Council kept the first class stamp at eight cents for at least two more months and limited a proposed 19.8 percent rise in mail rates to raise $1.3 billion. The Postal Service sought $156 billion in 1974 to achieve break-even, with hikes possible March 1 after hearings and a plan to begin Jan. 5.
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Washington
UPI
Cost of Living Council
U.S. Postal Services
CLC
Boyle murder trial set for January 28 in Yablonski slayings
United Mine Workers president W A Boyle, wheelchair bound in bright green pajamas, pleaded innocent to three murder charges in the 196 Yablonski killings. The arraignment before Washington County Judge Charles Sweet followed as public defender Chris Velachos represented him.
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UPI
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W.A
Tony" Boyle
Yablonski
Boyle
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Jock’ Yablonski
Washington County
Charles Sweet
Chris Velachos
Inmate Letters to Santa from Lebanon Prison
Six inmates at Lebanon Correctional Institute wrote to Santa Claus and handed the letter to a jailer for mailing. The envelope carried a poem and each inmate listed unusual gift requests from a seven foot Frankenstein monster to a minibike and a crash diet.
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Lebanon, Ohio
UPI
Lebanon Correctional Institute
Santa Claus
Santa
James Abney
Meredith Pate
Gene Adams
Steve Sanders
James Taubee
James Sexton
Tarzan star Johnny Weismuller in serious condition
Johnny Weismuller, famed Tarzan actor and five time Olympic gold medalist, was listed in serious condition in a Las Vegas hospital after fracturing his hip in a hotel fall. He underwent hip surgery but showed signs of a heart ailment and remains under cardiac care with traction.
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UPI
Johnny Weismuller
Tarzan
Friday
Weismuller
Mullin Receives Second Life Sentence In Mass Slaying
Herbert W. Mullin was given a second life term by Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge William A. Ingram for second degree murder in the stabbing of Rev. Henri Tomei at St. Mary's Church in Los Gatos on November 2, 1972. Mullin, 26, already serves a life term for killing 10 people in the Santa Cruz area.
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Santa Cruz
CBS Sues Over Antitrust Action Aimed at TV Networks
CBS charged in federal court that the government’s antitrust suit against CBS NBC and ABC is designed to harass intimidate and stifle criticism of President Nixon. The network says the action violates First Amendment rights and retaliates against press criticism.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Columbia Broadcasting System
T 9
Nixon
CBS
U.S
U.S. District Court
Chemicals endanger California sea otters in Pacific
Sacramento reports rising ocean chemicals harming California sea otters. Hopkins Marine Station researcher Judson Vandevere told a Water Resources Control Board hearing that otters face hypertension, circulatory issues, and potential reproductive damage due to contaminants. He urged a 101 mile coast ban on discharges between Pacific Grove and Cambria to protect about 1,000 otters south of Alaska.
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UPS
Pacific Ocean
California
Judson E. Vandevere
Hopkins Marine Station
Stanford University
Water Resources Control Board
Vandevere
Pacific Grove
Cambria
Alaska
Steel price hike delayed by Cost of Living Council
The Cost of Living Council postponed indefinitely permission for 34 steel firms to raise prices, though it allowed higher scrap iron costs to be passed to consumers. The move blocks anticipated January price boosts by U S Steel and smaller producers across many products.
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Washington
UPI
Cost of Living Council
CLC
U.S. Steel Corp
Snow walk on 12 inches of snow in St Louis area
A man and his dog trek through 12 inches of snow under a barren tree. The snowfall this week in St Louis was the heaviest in a century for the area.
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St. Louis
California urged to grow its own oil
Lt Gov Ed Reinecke proposes growing oil crops such as tarweed to ease the energy crisis and suggests naval aircraft carriers and cruisers as portable generators if shortages worsen. State studies doubt feasibility, UC Davis researchers find low yield, and officials caution about DC to AC conversion and Navy cooperation.
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UPI
Ed Reinecke
California
Reinecke
State Energy Planning Council
Reinecker
el Dorado County
University of California
Davis
State Office of Energy Services
Als
Navy
Missile tests at Vandenberg launch 60 foot Minuteman
A 60 foot Minuteman TH missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 12:05 a.m. Tests aimed at a Pacific target 2,500 miles away. The 76,000 pound missile with a five foot diameter joins Minuteman 1 and Minuteman T1 in the 1.5 deterrent force.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Pacific Ocean
Air Force Systems Command
Space and Missile Test Center
Reagan admin tightens environmental impact rules in California
Sacramento officials tightening the law require detailed environmental impact statements for major projects. The revised guidelines force local governments to justify why a project does or does not need an impact report and prevent rubber stamping or sweetheart statements. Agencies must review proposals and form independent judgments before approval. The changes took effect immediately after filing on November 17.
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Sacramento
UPI
Reagan
Norman Hill
State Resources Agency
Hill
Skylab crew builds Yule tree for Christmas
Skylab 3 astronauts Gerald Carr Edward Gibson and William Pogue say they built a Christmas tree in the station while monitoring Comet Kohoutek. They plan to trim the tree later and joke about moths studied on board.
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UPI
Kohoutek
Gerald P. Carr
Edward @. Gibson
William FR. Pogue
Carr
Miss In
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Thornton
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