Pre-Christmas Paycheck Uncertainty For 240000 Federal Workers
Federal employees face possible one week pay instead of two for December 13 checks if Congress does not approve a continuing resolution by December 8. The dispute centers on funding for abortions through HEW programs, tying routine payroll to abortion policy amid Senate and House wrangling. House Speaker ONeill notes the issue is highly emotional and urges resolution, while Senators push for broader criteria.
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Ashington
Congress
Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare
Senate
HEW
House
O'Neill
Bergland Allows Grazing on Set-Aside Wheat Lands
Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland approves grazing of livestock on wheat land set aside from production to cut grain output in 1978. He announced the decision while in Kansas City Missouri.
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Washington
Bob Bergland
Bergland
Kansas City
Agriculture Department
U.S
Akers Scheduled for Promotion and Washington Transfer
Fort Sill News Service reports Major General designate Akers will depart Fort Sill early next year to head the Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Research Development and Acquisition material plans and programs in Washington DC. He will be promoted before leaving, and Col. Eugene S. Korpal will serve as interim assistant commandant.
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Albert B. Akers
U.S. Army Field Artillery School
Fort Sill
Washington, D.C
Akers
Department of the Army
Donald R. Keith
Eugene S. Korpal
Field Artillery
Cleveland Schools Shut As Teachers Demand Late Pay
At least 47 of Cleveland's 174 public schools closed as hundreds of teachers refused to work until salaries were paid. NAACP planned court action to restore full operation while courts weighed orders about funds and loan repayments.
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Cleveland
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
U.S
Frank J. Battistti
NAACP
Ohio Board of Education
Cleveland Public Schools
Teachers’ Union
Teachers Union
Eugene Kolach
Ohio Supreme Court
Battisti
Rural Mail Boxes Chosen For One-Side Delivery Plan
Postmaster Kinley McClure reports Crystal Hills Addition residents agreed to one-side-of-street delivery starting December 5. Homes 101 to 142 SW 75th between Crystal Hills Drive and Cherokee Avenue will install rural-type mail boxes. only two complaints were logged in the survey. The plan follows a 1972 national shift away from door-to-door delivery.
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Crystal Hills Addition
75Th Street
Kinley McClure
Lawton
Crystal Hills Drive
Cherokee Avenue
McClure
Postal Service
U.S. Postal Service
Okie identity shifts from insult to pride in Dust Bowl era note
Fresno Bee columnist Woody Laughnan notes Okie has become a proud heritage in California and Oklahoma. University of Tulsa scholar Dr. Guy Logsdon traces the term from early print in 1905 to 1935 California usage and Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, with 22 percent of 1935 39 migrants from Oklahoma.
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Okie
California
Woody Laughnan
The
Fresno Bee
Dewey Bartlett
Dewey
Guy Logsdon
University of Tulsa
A. Times
Times
All Migratory
Oklahoma
Robert Quinten
Cameron University
Weather Forecast Calls For Cool Tonight and Warmer Weekend
The forecast shows cool tonight with a low near 30 and a high near 76 Friday. Wednesday's high was 57 with an overnight low of 31. The outlook calls for fair to partly cloudy skies and mild temperatures Saturday and Sunday, cooler Monday with lows in the upper 20s and highs in the upper 30s.
Lower Electric Rates Rejected by Energy Conferees
Washington AP report: Senate backed plan to give seniors over 62 the lowest electric rates, tied to industrial discounts, but energy conference negotiators vetoed the lifetime rate provision. A tax credit for elderly poor remains under review while crude oil tax support weakens in the House.
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Washington
Congressional Energy
Senate
Senate Energy
House
Bennett Johnston
D-La
Carter
Blasts at Durant Feed Mill Injure Five men
Five men were in serious to critical condition after two explosions destroyed a Durant Oklahoma feed mill and burned 17 workers. Eleven of the severely burned were flown to Baptist Burn Center in Oklahoma City. Four others remained hospitalized in Durant and Denison while two were treated and released. Authorities noted severe burns and speculated dust containing nitrates may have ignited the blasts.
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Durant
Okla
Oklahoma
Baptist Burn Center
Oklahoma City
Denison
Texas
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Shelly Hancock
Donna Malin
Voluntary Action Center
Armed Service Ymca
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6Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Federal Court
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Paul W. Briggs
James E. O’meara
Arnold Pinkney
Pinkney
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Woody Guthrie
Lawton Museum of the Great Plains
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