11 Apr 1976
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1976
Page
1
Labor Department analysis shows a four member urban family needs 15500 yearly for a modest living, 22500 for some luxuries, or 9000 for austere levels. Fall 1975 prices rose 7 to 8 percent across budgets, with inflation driving costs up since 1974.
The Labor Department provides a list of metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas with three hypothetical family budgets in dollars for a typical four person household. The table outlines estimated costs for housing food transportation healthcare and other essentials across different regions.
Readers ask why the Fourth Street YWCA ended the Adult Day Care program citing new federal funding certification rules and higher per person costs at Wesleyan Arms and Presbyterian Home. The YWCA seeks elder programs with fewer restrictive guidelines.
Weary Asheville firemen watched skies for rain as wildfires raged across western North Carolina. Despite a 20 to 40 percent forecast chance, crews battled the Swain County blaze which expanded to about 50 acres and crossed lines into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Peachtree section. No injuries or structures damaged. hopeful to regain control by midnight as embers reignite.
Howard H. Callaway's Crested Butte partner, Ralph O. Walton, testified before a Senate Interior subcommittee that he felt double crossed when learning the Forest Service planned to block expansion of the financially troubled ski resort. Walton said he called Callaway, his brother in law, after a January 1975 notice, denied the expansion onto federal land. He denied pressuring for expansion due to resort debts of about 87 million dollars, while noting a long disputed plan and a later environmental statement tentatively approving the project.
Three hijackers linked to the Moro Liberation Front held 12 PAL employees as hostages aboard a Manila Airline jet in Bangkok for a third day seeking asylum. Negotiators used delay tactics while guards rotated every four hours and food was delivered to the plane.
Mrs Bailey, linked to turn of the century song Bill Bailey Won You Please Come, observed her 104th birthday Friday at Cedar Knoll rest home near Jackson. Sabah Williams, who married and later divorced Barkey, recalls Bailey as a philanderer while noting the creator Maghie Cannon wrote the song as a joke. Williams stayed friends with Bailey until his 1954 death.
In an exclusive AP interview, former military judge Reid Kennedy says other participants knew of and took part in the My Lai killings and should have been convicted, though he declines to name them. He notes Calley’s conviction and its reinstatement, and discusses the contested testimony from the My Lai hearings.
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