Jobless rate hits decade high in December
Washington reports the December jobless rate at 6.1 percent, the highest in ten years, with 5.21 million unemployed after seasonal adjustments. The Labor Department notes a rise from November and a record 80.13 million employed, while Negro unemployment reaches 10.3 percent and white unemployment 5.4 percent. The report impacts 1978 budget projections and wage price policy, as Shultz discusses economic plans and a delayed aerospace pay decision.
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FDA Halts Routine Bathing Of Newborns In Rotating Nurseries
UPI reports Canadian doctors warned against routine bathing of newborns after the FDA restricted hexachlorophene use. Lab tests show dangerous labels for certain products, with high quantity items sold by prescription. Dr Jeffrey Bishop, head of the advisory bureau, says doctors should discontinue routine bathing in nurseries.
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Embezzler Ordered to Repay Funds to Grateful Dead
Leonard B. Hart pleaded no contest to embezzlement of funds from the Grateful Dead while manager. Marin County judge dismissed two counts, ordered $31,250 bail returned to the band as partial repayment. Hart arrested in San Diego and to appear in Superior Court on remaining counts.
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Fire hits cottage at Gallipolis State Mental Hospital
A fire at Gallipolis State Mental Hospital damaged a working cottage as most of its 50 residents had left for their jobs at the dairy farms and other projects. Police Sgt. Garland Nibert said there were no injuries and one inmate remained unaccounted for but later deemed safe.
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Morse seeks Senate seat in Oregon bid
Wayne Morse filed candidacy to challenge Republican Mark Hatfield for Oregon's 5th Senate seat. Morse, 71, aims for a return as a freshman with experience and influence, while Hatfield has not stated plans. Morse pledges a frugal campaign and refuses public debates that could invite legal action.
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School bus flips near Manila injures two students
A school bus carrying 35 children from the US Air Force base near Clark Air Field slid off an embankment five miles north of Manila. Two students were hospitalized with non critical injuries while the rest were treated for cuts and bruises and released. The bus was on route from Angeles City housing subdivisions to the base modular school when it left the road.
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Soviet Seaman Rescued After 500 Mile Ice Pack Flight
A Russian seaman Bashamakay V. Andreevich, 44, on the Soviet trawler Landegorsk 54, suffered a burst appendix and was evacuated by a U S helicopter from an ice locked vessel 500 miles from Nantrak Island. The rescue involved a C130 refueling the helicopter, then delivering the patient to Bethel and on to Anchorage. The patient was reported in satisfactory condition.
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Court ends fight over bigamist’s estate split by two wives
In Los Angeles a judge ruled that two women who shared Peruvian bigamist Abel Vargas Jr. must divide his $1,064,165 estate after his 1969 death in a car crash without a will. Vargas, a traveling salesman, married Mildred in 1929 and Josephine in 1945, fathering children with both. The court noted possible additional wives in South America but ruled on the two US marriages and their offspring.
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Girl held on charge of slaying cops
In a storefront magistrate's office near the motel where Tobbers fatally shot two Delaware state policemen a 14 year old mother was ordered held without bond for their murders. Irving R Hoge 0 the companion for whom Ming Dohrotensk left her husband and her two year old daughter Ja Toledo was shot to death Wednesday night in Church Hill Md. All death capped a three state police manhunt culminating in a Homei pershour vito chase. Police said Miss Dobro lenski and Hog committed several robberies in Michigan and Ohio. Before dawn Wednesday police said they robbed at motel in Delaware and one just over the Pennsylvania border. Delaware troopers Ronald K Carey 20 and David C Yarrington 24 were shot down while investigating the second of the two hold ups. Carey died immediately and Yarrington the next day Hog and Miss Dobrolensk elittled a massive manhunt in a heavily wooded stow used by a petroleum company to store fuel tanks they clambered over a hatched wire chain Ink fences surrounding the tanks but hours later troopers chased down the couple's stolen car on Mary Janits eastern shore and shot Hog when he rammed their police cruiser.
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FBI report cites violence decrease in 1971 nationwide
FBI says racial disturbances and campus unrest fell in 1971. 109 racial disturbances in cities versus 140 in 1970. 85 school disturbances in four months of the 1971-72 year versus 160 previously. Hoover notes campus dissidence cooling though no campus counts released yet.
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Smoking seen as global health problem by PHS
A U S Public Health Service report says cigarette smoking rose worldwide last year and is a major health issue. It notes bans or reductions in advertising in Finland Ireland the United States and West Germany with many countries restricting TV and radio ads. The survey also highlights rising smoking in tobacco producing nations and reflects varied government steps to curb the habit.
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Tobacco advertising bans and safety campaigns spark regional debates
A clipped report notes Singapore bans tobacco advertising in workplaces while Finland urges chest examinations for longterm smokers. Sweden’s tobacco industry reportedly publishes ads advising safer smoking and urging consideration for nonsmokers amid a broader global discussion on tobacco control.
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