Large Firms Seek Price Holds in Report to Price Commission
Washington AP The head of the Price Commission says about 30 percent of the 1 500 largest firms have asked to hold price increases. About 26 percent have filed or intend to file for increases. remainder undecided. The firms cover over 100 million in annual sales. The commission also weighs rent control guidelines and health cost limits due Wednesday. The Pay Board reviews a UAW aerospace contract with roughly 30 percent pay rises planned. Rail groups seek 2.5 percent freight rate rise pending broader rate action. Congress advances a 13 week unemployment benefits extension for states with 6.5 percent jobless.
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Price Commission
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Rent Advisory Board
United Auto Workers Aerospace
Eastern
Southern and Western Railway Associations
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
House-Senate
State Officials Scrutinize Blue Cross Rates in Kansas
In Topeka the State Insurance Department disapproved a 3.2 percent rise in hospital rates for Blue Cross Plan 65 and halted a 15 percent hospital-rate request. The department approved a 15 percent hike for Blue Shield doctor services for the Community Rated Group. Blue Cross Blue Shield serves about 739,000 Kansans, about 41 percent of the population.
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Topeka
State Insurance Department
Fletcher Bell
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Kansas
George Beverly
The
Health Insurance Organization
Insurance Department
Youth 18 Repeats Kindness from Nashville Boys Club
In Nashville Tennessee an 18 year old, now a service station manager, returns to the Nashville Boys Club Christmas tree lot to honor a promise. Five years earlier a contractor gave a 13 year old Ken Norton a $100 bill and told him to keep the change as a donation to the club. He buys a tree with a $100 bill to repay the help.
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Nashville, Tenn
Nashville Boys’ Club
Nashville
Young Norton
Ken
Family Med Center Opens in Wichita
Gov. Robert Docking spoke at the opening of the New Family Practice Center at Joseph Hospital in Wichita. He called it a high quality medical facility and said it is the first family practice center built for this specific purpose in Kansas. He noted pride for Wichita and all Kansans.
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Wichita
Kan
Robert Docking
Joseph Hospital
Docking
Kansas
Judge Urges No Mercy For Manson
In Los Angeles AP reports, Charles Manson leaves court for San Quentin Death Row after a jury’s death verdict for Tate killings. Judge Choate imposes life imprisonment but stays the stay pending appeals in conspiracy counts tied to Hinman and Shea.
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Charles Manson
San Quentin
Superior Court
Charles H. Older
Sharon Tate
Manson
Sheriff's Department
Choate
Gary Hinman
Hinman
Donald “Shorty
Shea
D. B. Cooper Hijacking Note Claims Final Peace
A Los Angeles Times copy of a typewritten note signed D B Cooper claims the Thanksgiving Eve hijacking was a bid for peace of mind and that the author would not be caught. The letter says he took $200000 from Northwest Airlines, jumped from a 727 near between Seattle and Reno, and that he has 14 months to live. FBI says the note is being reviewed and papers were sent to major outlets, though Times and Post said they had not received it.
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Northwest Airlines
Los Angeles Times
D.B. Cooper
Portland
Ore
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Mexico
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Nev
FBI
New York Times
Seattle Times
Washington Post
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China
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Fecteau
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Mass
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Grayson
Ken Norton
Family Med Center
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Massacusetts
Lawrence Kansas
Whelan's, Inc
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Yopeka
Raymond Choate
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Bill Vile
Parsons
House OF Name Brands
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City
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American Hoopliel Association
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