Lightning safety and job data mingle in warning bulletin
UL urges shelter and avoidance of metal objects during storms with priority options from protected buildings to dense woods. Separately Labor Department data show March job openings rising 24 percent year over year led by waiters and waitresses at 10,662, with material handlers and secretaries also in demand. The CPSC warns pedestal sump pumps and Fast Heat immersible heaters pose electrical shock risks and urges returns and safety hotlines.
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Garmso
Underwriters Laboratories Inc
Labor Department
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Agway
CPSC
G. L. Electric Flashcat Co
Harper Woods
Mich
Commission
Maryland
Desert Sights and Odd Facts from L M Boyd
A collage of quirky musings by L M Boyd includes desert life contrasts with Seattle and Idaho, Q and A trivia on pay phones and colonial breakfasts, odd laws about bathtubs, a hippo mouth image, manatee yarns, marriage odds, vending tape players in West Berlin, and a note on mail to Weatherford. Copyright 1978 Crown Syndicate Inc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Berlin
L. M. Boyd
P. O
Weatherford
Crown Syndicate, Inc
Inflation fight turns up ideas for wage restraints
New York AP analysis describes the White House voluntary wage and price restraint plan proposing CEOs take 5 percent compensation limits. It cites Henry Ford II, Steven Ross, and Harold Geneen at specified 1978 caps. Labor unions, especially high visibility ones in trucking, steel, autos, and rail, are viewed as crucial to success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
White House
Barry Bosworth
The
Council On Wage and Price Stability
Henry Ford II
Ford Motor Co
Harold S. Geneen
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
Bosworth
Court expands pregnancy rights in Pennsylvania ruling
Pennsylvania Supreme Court upholds a Commonwealth Court decision that pregnancy benefits must be covered in disability or sick pay plans. The ruling, cited by Homer Floyd of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, says excluding pregnancy benefits discriminates against women and strengthens state protection beyond federal law. The case centers on Carole Anderson, a teacher denied 27 days of sick leave when pregnancy benefits were excluded.
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Harrisburg
State Supreme Court
Homer Floyd
The
Pennsylvania Human Rela
Tions Commission
Pennsylvania
Floyd
Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission
Upper
Bucks County
U.S. Supreme Court
General Electric
William William H. Rehnquist
U.S. High Court
Moro Kidnapping Update Prompts Wider Italian Search
Police widened their hunt for Aldo Moro after anonymous calls claimed his Red Brigades captors had issued a death sentence. Investigators noted nine communiques typed on an IBM machine, with consistent typist quirks, while reports linked to Moro’s 61 years with the Christian Democratic Party remained unconfirmed.
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Rome
Aldo Moro
Red Brigades
Terracina
Moro
Milan
Turin
Genoa
Christian Democratic Party
Gerund
Italy
Abortion murder trial ends in deadlocked jury
In Santa Ana California the abortive baby murder trial of Dr William Waddill ended in a seven five deadlock over brain death and the charge of murder by omission jurors favored acquittal or questioned the prosecution claim no strangulation the jury foreman said the panel initially split nine to three for conviction May 15 hearing set for retry status uncertain as district attorney weighs re prosecution and defense sees the result as exoneration
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Santa Ana
Calif
William Waddill
Waddill
John Thomas
Pt Baby
Superior Court
James K. Turner
Janet
Orange County
Turner
Delaware and New Castle Counties Weather Outlook
Cloudy periods with sun this afternoon and Sunday. highs mid-50s to low-60s, lows mid-40s to low-50s. Rain chance 10 percent through Sunday. extended pattern shows Monday rain possible, then clearing for Tuesday and beyond. Winds variable around 10 mph or less. Overnight tide times listed from Chester Tidewater Terminal.
State Lottery Results and Bonus Numbers Across States
Pittsburgh AP reports Friday May 5 1978 lottery numbers for Pennsylvania New Jersey and New York. It lists Super 50 Cent and 17 for $1 Lotteries weekly picks with several numeric codes including bonuses 64 895 and state totals. Additional Pennsylvania Bakers Dozen Big 50 and bonus figures are provided along with New Jersey Millionaire Finalist and Pick 4 results and New York weekly draws with multiple prize amounts.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Bakers Dozen
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L.M. Boyd
California
Desert
Seattle
Idaho
Oregon Coast
New Haven
Conn
Mermaids
Warman
Steven J. Ross
Warner
U.S
Supreme Court
Pennsylvania Supe Court
Robert Chatterton
Charles Weedman
Malbour Watson
Weedman
Delaware County
New Castle County
Philadelphia International
Chester Tidewater Terminal Pier
Elkins
Stroud
Providence Road
Media
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Ewe Eeessins Avc
American Tel
Atlantic-Richfield
We Aneeteeen Stents Gs
British-Petroleum
Power & Light
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Fedders A.C
General Motors Ee
Gino’s Peace
Gulf Oi Ceeverteevevereee
Gulf & Western Leen Sewereeeesese
Litton Industries Conveseeevseess Penwalt Corp
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Wena Eserewebeee
Delaware County Daily Times
Central States Publishing, Inc
Mildred Ave
Primos, Pa
Clifton Heights
Andrew Watson
Holiday Inn J Airport South Industrial Highway
Essington
St. Michael’s School
7Th & Avenue of States
Chester
Philip Gerber
Howard Gerber
Optometrists
Ave. OF the States
tRemont
Edgmont Avenue
Brookhaven
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