Public backs six day mail delays study delays Saturday delivery
The Postal Service delayed plans to cut Saturday mail as Postmaster General Bailar urged a comprehensive public opinion study. He said the service would not reduce delivery until it is in the public interest and under Postal Rate Commission review. A Nielsen poll suggested 79 percent would accept fewer delivery days if rates drop, though surveys vary.
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San Juan
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Bailor
Congress
Commission On Postal Service
A.G. Nielsen
Independent Postal Hate Commission
Bailar
National League of Postmasters
Weather sketch of Virginia and North Carolina with mild temps
Mostly sunny in Virginia with highs upper 70s to low 80s and 60s to 65 at night. Southwest areas partly cloudy with a few showers possible and lows in the 60s. North Carolina sees sunny to partly cloudy skies with a chance of afternoon thundershowers and highs in the low to mid 90s in lower elevations, cooler in the mountains. Outer Banks near 70, mountain areas cooler. logs show calm winds and mixed readings, with a Friday to Saturday transition.
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Virginia
North Carolina
Phones Restored After Major West Coast Cable Damage
Pacific Telephone Co said service was back to about 75 percent of the West Coast early Thursday after an accident damaged six major underground cables. Roger Orr, spokesman, noted crews worked around the clock with hundreds of workers. Complete restoration timing unknown, Centrex systems for businesses expected by day’s end. Cables damaged during soil sampling for foundations of a new high-rise building in the business district.
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Pacific Telephone Co
West Coast
Centrex
Carole King Marries Rick Evers in Boise Ceremony
Carole King 35 and Rick Evers 30 wed in Boise in a small ceremony attended by close friends. King, born Carole Klein, moved from Boulder six months ago with Evers a native of Preston Idaho.
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Rick Evers
Carole Klein
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Boulder
Colo
Boise
Prosecution Eenmes Racketeering Case Involving Whitehead Officials
A grand jury charged Whitehead with five counts for accepting $500 on March 28 1975 and $300 on December 15 1975. The panel also named Holley Dowdy Henderson Boyd Barker as having offered gifts including carnal bribes to Whitehead while serving as commonwealth's attorney and connected Dowdy to several truck stops used to further unlawful conduct. Indictments detail fines and prison terms for each defendant. Whitehead faces up to 80 000 fine and 55 years, Dowdy up to 170 000 and 11 years, Henderson and Barker up to 110 000 and 70 years, Boyd up to 90 000 and 60 years, Holley up to 60 000 and 55 years.
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Henderson
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Barker
Commonwealth
Hillcrest
Hillcrest Health Center
Janet
Ring
Vance Acknowledges Private China Talks Ahead of Washington Visit
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance said specifics from Chinese discussions on normalizing relations would not be helpful to publish before reporting to President Carter. He described revealing Chinese talks as inappropriate and noted further discussions planned in the month ahead after a windup dinner.
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Cyrus Hungerford
Hungerford
Manilla
Ind
Pittsburgh Sun
Post-Gazette
Jimmy Carter
Franklin Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Hua
Mao Tse-tung
Vance
Carter
Washington
Misleading drinking study sparks Senate criticism
Senate subcommittee chairman Sen. William D. Hathaway denounces a New England Journal of Medicine report on the Honolulu Heart Study as dangerously misrepresented. He cites a six year survey of 7,705 Japanese descent men, arguing alcoholism is a major public health problem and that federal funded research urging drinking contradicts heart health warnings.
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Senate
William D. Hathaway
Maine
New England Journal of Medicine
Honolulu
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