Mayors Propose Urban Development Bank and Aid Plan
Chicago report outlines a new national urban strategy led by the U S Conference of Mayors. Newark mayor Kenneth Gibson urges Carter to appoint an urban ombudsman or domestic White House council. Detroit mayor Coleman Young criticizes Carter aide Howard Samuels as the plan seeks emergency funds and an urban investment policy.
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Jonathan Wolman
Chicago
Congress
Jimmy Carter
Newark
N.J
Kenneth Gibson
U.S. Conference of Mayors
America
Gibson
Carter
White House
Urban Development Bank
Carter Administration
Coleman Young
Detroit
Howard Samuels
New York
Commerce
Lyndon Johnson
Modest Inauguration Planned For Carter In 1977
Carter inauguration planners promise a modest ceremony, avoiding Nixon’s $4 million extravaganza. Bar dyl Tirana and Vicki Rogers chair committees, with no announced overall budget yet. Weather and protocol shape details, while platform work proceeds near the Capitol east front.
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Washington
Jimmy Carter
Richard M. Nixon
Bardyl R. Tirana
Carter
Congress
Capitol
Thomas Jefferson
Carter Promises Labor Backing With Jobs Push
In the post election period President elect Carter aligns with AFL CIO head George Meany, signaling top level jobs and labor backed legislation. Unions seek bargaining rights, merchant marine favors, workmen’s compensation standards, and repeal of right to work. Carter pledges early job programs and consultations with business and labor leaders.
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Washington
Jimmy Carter
George Meany
Aflcio
Carter
Jerry Wurf
American Federation of State
Wurf
Atlanta
Meany
Walter Mondale
Vice
Why some streets are paved with federal funds in High Point
A reader asks why street paving in southeast High Point is free to homeowners while others pay. The city cites federal Urban Renewal funds, used in blighted areas, making contributions to paving nonchargeable to property owners.
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High Point
Jim Oliver
Oliver
He Leaves Two Families
South Dakota economic development chief Bob Martin died at 52 leaving a wife and four children in Pierre and a wife with five children in Sioux Falls. Attorneys seek his estate, noting no will. State officials discuss the shock and ongoing investigations.
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Sioux Falls
S.D
South Dakota
Pierre
Bob Martin
William Janklow
Jack Allman
Martin
Allman
State Tourism Department
Eight Die In Three Blazes Across Southeast
Three fires kill eight people in the Southeast including four in a Birmingham Alabama boarding house, three in a mobile home near Lookout Mountain Georgia, and one at a Marietta Georgia gasoline station. Angela Cardians, 15, died in a utility building behind her father’s station. Investigations underway into heater related causes.
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Associated Press
Birmingham
Ala
Lookout Mountain
Marietta
Cobb County
Angela Kay Cardians
Angelia Boley
Elet W. Wright
Don W. Wyatt
Birga
Bob 'Sus Holley
Young
Bus Workers in Charlotte Walk Out
About 10 000 riders faced alternative commutes as a second day of a strike hit Charlotte’s municipal bus system. Some 180 drivers and maintenance workers walked out after contract talks broke down, with City Coach Lines and AFL-CIO United Transportation Union at odds over a two-year deal.
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Charlotte
R. H. Phillips
City Coach Lines Inc
City Coach Lines
Charlotte City
David Burkhalter
Afl-Cio
United Transportation Union
Joseph Paquette
Hunt aims selective staffing after 1973 firings
Governor elect Jim Hunt plans to avoid wholesale personnel cleansings like the 1973 actions. He intends to appoint a team to key policy posts, with some early moves anticipated next month. Hunt also favors reorganizing agencies by restoring an economic development focus within a commerce board.
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Raleigh
Jim Holfhouser
Jim Hunt
North Carolina
Psigne
Hunt
Pearce
David Flaherty
Department of Natural and Economic Resources
Dept. of Commerce
Conservation and Development Board
General Assembly
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Mr. Samuels
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Conference of Mayors
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Tirana
Vicki Rogers
Spiro T. Agnew
William H. Taft
Senate
John F. Kennedy
William Henry Harrison
Harrison
Pennsylvania
Muhammad Ali
Deer Lake
Orwigsburg
P.F. A
Cape Hatteras Stamp and Coin Co
Greensboro
Plaza Center
Battleground
Scott
United States
Greensboro Stamp Club
Donald Mason
P.O
Gary Pearce
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