Nutrition program boosts National School Lunch payments
The Agriculture Department increased reimbursements under the National School Lunch Program by a dime for free meals to 70 cents and set a 60 cent max for reduced-price lunches. The boosts are tied to six month food-price changes and take effect next Tuesday, benefiting about 85 percent of schools especially those serving free or reduced-price lunches to lower income students.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Nixon
Postpone Increase For Mail Postpone Increase For Mail
The U S Postal Service delays planned rate hikes set for January 5 to March 2. First class letters rise eight to ten cents, postcards six to eight, air mail 11 to 18 cents, with other second to fourth class increases also deferred.
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Washington
U.S. Postal Service
Cost of Living
Postal Service
Nudist Camps And Feeds Exempt From Price Controls
The Cost of Living Council announced that nudist camps, animal feeds, and broomcorn brooms are now decontrolled under Phase 4 price rules. Four minor sectors are freed, a move officials say will have a relatively small but positive effect on inflation.
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Washington
Cost of Living Council
U.S
Polk Hospital Overcrowding Plan Aims to Relocate Residents
Franklin AP reports the state will fund a two part plan to cut Polk State School and Hospital population from 2800 to 1800. About 100 to 200 residents will move to Park Nursing Home in Allegheny County or into foster homes near Venango County, with proper training and family connections in Pittsburgh. Additional 150 residents to foster homes by January 1975 and 100 by July 1 next year, following a Harrisburg agreement with the Office of Mental Retardation and Welfare Department.
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Pittsburgh
State Welfare Department
Colombatto
Polk
Harrisburg
State Office of Mental Retardation
Welfare Department
Calombatto
Erie Man Held In Rape Of Girl, 15
A 27-year-old Erie man Roy Rogers is jailed on charges of abducting and raping a 15-year-old Meadville girl. State police and about a dozen troopers using helicopter and dogs cornered him Friday in a wooded area near Titusville after spotting a pickup matching a description. He allegedly abducted the girl at gunpoint in Meadville Wednesday and drove her to a secluded spot for the assault.
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Titusville
Erie
Crawford County
Meadville
Roy Rogers
Here
Rogers
Shapp Defends Cerilli Nomination To Turnpike Board
Gov. Shapp defends Egidio Cerilli after auditor general reports questioned his nomination. He says investigations show no misconduct and Cerilli will be removed if proven. The news conference followed Casey’s call to withdraw Cerilli amid Westmoreland County concerns. Cerilli, 48, a Shapp organizer, joins a largely Democratic Turnpike Commission slate.
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Harrisburg
Shapp
Egidio Cerilli
Cerilli
Westmoreland County
Robert P. Casey
Albert M. Nichols
Westmoreland County ‘District
Torney
Ture
Turnpike Commission
Senate
Republican Turnpike Commission
Britain Faces Sharp Unemployment as Factory Week Begins
Britain heads into a harsh new year with a three day factory week as coal shortages and wage disputes bite. About 544,000 laid off on Thursday push unemployment compensation beyond one million in a 21 million workforce, with millions more likely out of work but not yet registered. Officials fear further layoffs when Heath's energy limits cut operations to three days a week in January, possibly affecting two million jobs temporarily. Miners' action and a coal shortage cripple production, while talks with the Coal Board stall. Rail slowdowns and oil pressures add to the strain, though 18,000 power engineers accepted a pay deal and will resume normal shifts by Wednesday.
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London
Britain
Financial Times
Edward Heath
Coal Board
Norman Siddall
Treasury Report cash position December 21 1973 details
Treasury figures show balance 8.9919 billion dollars as of December 21 1973 with deposits 130.786 billion and withdrawals 145.061 billion. Total debt stands at 465.342 billion and gold assets total 11.567 billion.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Pennsylvania High Court Upholds Shapp Interim Appointments
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled 4-2 that Gov. Shapp's 864 interim appointments after the 1971 adjournment were valid. The decision rejects Republican challenges, says such temporary recess appointments do not require Senate consent, and references a 1938 precedent.
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Pennsylvania High Court
Shapp
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
General Assembly
Stanley Stroup
Bedford
Richard Frame
Venango
Richard Tilghman
Montgomery
Pennsylvania
Senate
Louis Manderino
Ate
Nixon Attacked by Demonstrators at California Wedding
President Nixon faced a hostile crowd in La Jolla as demonstrators hoisted effigies and shouted impeachment while he attended the wedding of Dr. Walter Tkach to Cheryle Gaillard. The Nixon party entered through a rear gate and left amid chants, with one youth arrested for rock throwing.
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Walter Tkach
Cheryle Ann Gaillard
White House
Nixon
Tkach
Air Force
Ernest Gaillard Jr
Tkad
San Clemente
Bedford Mayor Faces Arson Charges Over 1969 Fire
Bedford Mayor Eldon Studebaker and Frank Grazier Merrill Klein face state arson charges for allegedly causing the 1969 New Hoffman Hotel fire to collect insurance. Arraignment set for Saturday. Federal indictments accuse the trio of a $300,000 insurance scheme. fourth defendant Carl Luick not named in state charges.
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Bedford
Eldon G. Studebaker
Studebaker
Frank E. Grazier
Merrill H. ‘Morrie’ Klein
Pittsburgh
Library
Carl Luick
Hoffman
Sewage Grants Released to Aid Rural Areas
Washington AP reports the White House released 30 million in congressionally sponsored grants to improve water and sewer systems in rural communities. About 120 million remains impounded, a partial reversal of a plan to withhold the full amount for the current fiscal year. The Agriculture Department said the 30 million will fund facilities for public health needs linked to water and sewer deficiencies, with Farmers Home Administration managing the grants.
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Washington
White House
Nixon
Congress
Agriculture Department
Farmers Home Administration
Welfare Dept to standardize health program accounting
Harrisburg AP says the Welfare Department will standardize the accounting procedures of all county mental health and mental retardation programs starting January 1. The new procedure will streamline the distribution of $65 million to the two programs.
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Harrisburg
Welfare Department
Viet Nam war clashes resume in South border region
Saigon reports renewed fighting along the South Vietnam Cambodia border with enemy forces attacking government positions near Bu Bong and Kien Duc. Casualties include 35 attackers and 8 government troops. In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge surround a government position on Highway 4 near Phnom Penh, with a relief column clashing with insurgents and the river town of Prek Pra reported abducted residents.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Bu’ Bong
Kien Duc
Phnom Penh
Prek Pra
Bassac
Phom Penh
Takhmau
Crackdown on Holiday Gas Gouging Ordered
Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork ordered a federal crackdown on gas price gouging over the New Year weekend. He telegraphed 94 U.S. attorneys to seek restraining orders against retailers charging excessive prices, noting reports of as much as 99.9 cents per gallon.
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Washington
ASP
Robert H. Bork
Bork
U.S
Fredonia Considers Annexation Suit Over School Area
Mercer County borough trustees may decide next month whether to continue a legal fight with Fairview Township over a disputed annexation. The case stems from Charles C. Clark and his wife seeking to have land moved to Fredonia so their children can attend the closer local school.
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Harrisburg
Mercer County
Les Harpst
Fredonia
Fairview Township
Commonwealth Court
Fairview
Charles C. Clark
Pairview
Clark
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Penndot
Shah
Casey
Tam
Bob Casey
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House
Cout
Manderino
Lefean
Samuel Roberts
Ernest
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Timothy Lee Hardin
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Grazier
Hollidaysburg Barracks
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Mercer County Common Pleas Court
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