Carter Moves To Strengthen Voluntary Price Guidelines
The Carter administration aims to rescue its anti inflation program by tightening voluntary rules. The Council on Wage and Price Stability asks 1,300 large corporations to report quarterly price data and targets five high rise industries for closer monitoring. It closes a loophole allowing higher costs to be passed to consumers.
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Washington
Council On Wage and Price Stability
Council
Carter
Wage-Price Council
Alfred E. Kahn Cane
Move Toward Mandatory Controls for Major Industries
The proposal frames reports as voluntary but signals strict oversight for key sectors. Five industries such as dairy, drug, electrical motors and generators, cement, and lead smelting face tougher reporting, with quarterly pre notices expanding beyond the largest firms.
Defense base closures cut 44,500 jobs nationwide
Plans to close and consolidate 157 bases would trim 44,500 federal jobs across 36 states and DC. Congress debates and defense officials schedule hearings though overall protests remain limited. Thirteen states gain net jobs while Vermont avoids impact. Ohio’s delegation weighs in on the proposals.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
District of Columbia
Vermont
Defense Department
Ohio
Tion
Defense
Harold Brown
Len Howard Metzenbaum
Florida
New Jersey
Fort Dix
Pennsylvania
Annville
Fort Indiantown Gap
Fort Meade
Carlisle
Carlisle Barracks
Chambersburg
Letterkenny
New Cumberland — Army Depot
Corpus Christi Army Depot
Texas
Philadelphia
Frankford
Pennsylvania welfare workers protest caseloads and vacancies
About 250 placard waving state welfare caseworkers protested outside county offices across Pennsylvania to demand filling 1,000 vacancies and ease caseloads. Union leader Andy Stern cited double and triple workloads and warned on welfare fraud and overpayments. A sit in occurred in Wilbur Hobbs’ office as workers pressed for talks.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Paul Zdinak
Pennsylvania Social Services Union
Sidney Blair
Indiana County Welfare Office
Blair
The
Gazette
Wilbur Hobbs
Southeastern Regional Welfare
Hobbs
Zdinak
Andy Stern
Dance at Club Savoy with Easter bunny photos event
Club Savoy hosts a Sunday dance from 8 to 12 with orchestra time before. members and guests invited. Easter Bunny photos offered Friday 6 to 9 and Saturday 10 to 10 at Regency Mall.
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Club
Savoy
Orch
Easter Bunny
Regency Mall
Hair Dryers Pulled From Sale Over Cancer Concerns
J C Penney and Montgomery Ward have withdrawn hair dryers from sale while the government investigates potential cancer risks. Metropolitan Edison and others are accused of a profit motive in restarting Three Mile Island nuclear plant. Details on page 3.
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J. C. Penney
Montgomery Wards
Metropolitan Edison
Three Mile Island
Radiation advisories after Three Mile Island release
Pennsylvania Governor Thornburgh urged residents within a 10 mile radius to stay indoors as a series of radiation bursts were detected from the Three Mile Island plant. Officials said the emissions had stopped and no evacuation was necessary, with cautionary guidance for the morning hours.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Dick Thornburgh
Three Mile Island
Paul Critchlow
Thornburgh
Critchlow
York
Dauphin
Lancaster
Cumberland
Natonal Guard
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Frank Ingram
Washington
Ingram
Charles Gallina
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Innocent Of Killing Three Girls Verdict Reached
Gene Leroy Hart was found innocent today of the 1977 sex slayings of three Girl Scouts at Camp Scott in northeastern Oklahoma. A twelve juror panel returned three blanket verdicts after deliberations, with emotional courtroom reactions from Hart supporters and grieving families. The trial focused on the rape and bludgeoning of Lori Farmer, Michele Guse, and Doris Milner at Camp Scott near Locust Grove on June 13, 1977.
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Oklahoma City
Gene Leroy Hart
Oklahoma
Hart
Eloise Gist
George Kelly
Garvin Isaacs
William Whistler
Lori Lee Farmer
Michele Guse
Doris Denis Miler
Camp Scott
Locust Grove
Byron reassigned from Indiana to Harrisburg central office
James Byron long time District 10 engineer in Indiana moves to PennDOT central office Harrisburg effective this morning. He will work with David Simms on state coal hauling road repair programs while Robert Maeser takes over District 10 temporarily.
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State Department of Transportation
Harrisburg
James Byron
District 10
Indiana
Penn- Dot
Byron
David Simms
Gazette
William Green
Green
Department
Jim
Robert Maeser
Western
Pennsylvania
Truck halts Pittsburgh Trolley Tunnel traffic
A 45-foot furniture truck driven by William Gann from Haulka Mississippi wedged in Port Authority Mount Washington tunnel during evening rush, rupturing trolley lines and causing about 20,000 commuters to be stranded as electrical fire started after the vehicle tore lines.
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Pittsburgh
Port Authority
William Gann
Haulka, Miss
Gann
Mount Washington
Quake Shakes Oahu and Kauai
An early today 4.0 Richter earthquake shook Oahu and Kauai with no damages or injuries. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the temblor centered 10 miles south of Pearl Harbor was not strong enough to generate a tsunami.
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Honolulu
Oahu
Kauai
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
Pearl Harbor
Obituaries: Mary Byrne Theresa Keller Margie Lawson
Mary R. Byrne 83 of St. Petersburg Fla formerly Blairsville Theresa Veschio Keller Blairsville RD 1 Margie L. Lawson 84 of Clarksburg West Virginia died recently.
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Byrne
Mary R
St. Petersburg
Fla
Blairsville
Truckers Near Wage Deal to Avert Weekend Strike
Teamsters and trucking industry negotiators, aided by federal mediators, reported “very close” progress on a three year wage and fringe benefits package. Talks continued after midnight Thursday with plans to resume today. The current contract covers 300,000 workers and expires at midnight.
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Washington
Teamsters Union
Teamsters
Penelec Slated For Probe
Harrisburg AP The Public Utility Commission dismissed a request to cut Pennsylvania Electric Co. rate hikes amid alleged mismanagement of TMI construction. It will probe Penelec and extend to Metropolitan Edison of Reading, co-owners of the $1 billion plant and site of the TMI-2 accident. The audit cited poor management and cost overruns. The consumer advocate filed the complaint.
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Harrisburg
Public Utility Commission
Pennsylvania Electric Co
Three Mile Island
John Stown
Metropolitan Edison
Reading
Susquehanna River
PUC
State
Consumer Advocate
Touche Ross and Co
Pizza Heist Prompts Mozzarella Mystery in New York
Police investigate theft of 700 cases of mozzarella valued at 250000 pounds from a Wisconsin farm truck stolen near Morgan's Old New York Grill on Manhattan's West Side. The cheese could yield tens of thousands of pies, prompting questions about motives and the chance to set a record.
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New York
Police Department
Ranco Cheese Co
Wisconsin
Scott Kowalski
Morgan
Manhattan
Lower West Side
Ricardo Gimenez
Gimenez
Mike Medina
Medina
Guinness
Pizza Inn
Little Rock
Ark
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