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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1980
Page
8
A newspaper review notes that despite moves to widen ZIPs to nine digits and to adopt universal IDs, the push is stalling. It highlights pervasive numbering—from Social Security to licenses, credit cards, passports, PINs, and phone digits—while consumers resist replacing price tags with UPC scans.
AP dispatch notes Reagan inheriting a troubled landscape as Electoral College meets. Poland unrest, Iran hostage prospects unclear, high prime rate near 20 percent, inflation around 13 percent, personal income up about 8 percent. Unemployment at 7.5 percent. Luxury watch sales booming despite overall economy. Murders of John Lennon and Michael Halberstam spark crime fears. Weather and crime indifferent to presidential action. Fed and Kremlin hard to sway.
The Kansas Court of Appeals ruled indigent parents are entitled to court appointed counsel in custody proceedings including temporary custody cases. It ordered a lower court review of Marilyn Dickey’s case to determine indigence and potential reversal if she lacked funds, stressing the due process right in custody actions. In Arkansas, FBI arrested a 54-year-old Missouri man for allegedly extorting Wal-Mart for 1 million dollars with threats of bombs in several stores.
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