Carter names 3 to Cabinet posts
President elect Carter announced three more Cabinet picks at a national news conference. Patricia Roberts Harris was named HUD secretary becoming the second woman and first black to join his Cabinet. Harold Brown would lead Defense and Ray Marshall would head Labor.
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Joseph A. Califano Jr
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Defense
James R. Schlesinger
Ford
Central Intelligence
Theodore Sorenson
John F. Kennedy
U.S
Griffin Bell
Atlanta
Duke University
Juanita Kreps
Bob Bergland
D-Minn
Food price decline aids modest November inflation drop
The first drop in food prices in eight months kept November CPI up only 0.3 percent, matching October. Real take‑home pay rose 0.8 percent, the largest monthly gain in over a year, while the 12 month CPI rose 5.2 percent.
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Washington
Labor Department
Ford
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Medicare review planned to curb provider abuse
A program review team for Medicare is formed in Kansas City to curb abuses by hospitals nursing facilities home health agencies physicians and suppliers. Four physicians three other health care professionals and two consumer representatives will join the team with final penalty decisions by HEW.
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Kansas City
Donald Mings
Social Security
Mings
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Kansas
HEW
David Mathews
Medicare
Daley dies at 74. Chicago mourns the longtime mayor
Chicago reels as Mayor Richard J Daley dies at 74 after chest pains. Aldermen ponder succession with Ald Wilson Frost likely acting mayor. potential heirs include Ald Michael Bilandic, Ald Edward Vrdolyak, and Daley's son Richard. Daley lay in state at Nativity of Our Lord Church. Mass planned Wednesday.
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Daley
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Frost
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Edward Vrd
Olyak
Richard
Bridgeport
Shirley Connors
Thomas Coogan Jr
Coogan
Illinois
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Michael Daley
County Wexford
Ireland
Eleanor “Sis” Guilfoyle
City Hall
DePaul University
Springfield
Senate
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Firsts mark Reva Bosone's long political career
A profile of Reva Beck Bosone highlighting her many firsts as a woman in law and politics. It notes her roles as the first woman attorney in Utah to try major cases, the first woman judge in Utah, and pioneer positions in Congress and federal agencies. The piece covers her later life in Kansas, family, and reflections on discrimination and the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Reva Beck Bosone
America
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John F. Kennedy
Thomas Hart Benton
Averell Harriman
Irving Stone
Utah
U.S. House of Representatives Interior Committee
Contract Board of Appeals
U.S. Post Office Department
Bosone
University
Department of Labor
Reva Beck
Reva
Salt Lake City
U.S
Kansas DOT unveils seven year highway plan in Topeka
The plan lists bypass projects on K 10 east of Lawrence and 1 million in U S 56 work as main area items through 1983. The U S 59 bypass around Lawrence is not funded yet and remains in location studies with possible later funding. 238 000 for railroad crossing work in three Lawrence spots and 1 3 million planned highway work through 1983 with interstate plans to 1987. Governor Bennett released the program detailing 3 400 miles of state roads and the 1987 interstate outlook. Douglas County officials note no new 59 bypass details since last summer’s meetings. West of Lawrence notes efforts to raise priority once location studies finish.
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U.S. 56
Topeka
Kansas Department of Transportation
DOT
U.S. 59
Transportation Department
Robert Bennett
Douglas County
Dean Sanderson
Federal Highway Administration
Glenn West
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
West
Department of Transportation
Haskell
East Lawrence
Temperature on mark for debut of winter
The article notes winter begins today with forecast highs in the upper teens and a bleak chance of a white Christmas. Meteorologist Phil Shideler of the National Weather Service in Topeka predicts normal Christmas highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s with no significant snow.
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Phil Shideler
Kansas
National Weather Service
Topeka
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