Jobless rate soars amid recession era figures
United Press International reports March unemployment at 8.7 percent, the highest since 1941, with about 8 million people out of work and 1.1 million giving up job searches. Labor, teens, and nonwhite workers show significant spikes. bank rates also stay high as officials warn of continued job loss.
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United Press International
First National City Bank of New York
Labor Department
Department
Ford
San Diego
Treasury
William Simon
Complaint filed over CYA security after teacher murder
California State Employees' Association filed a complaint with the Department of Industrial Relations alleging lax security at California Youth Authority institutions. The move followed the murder of Maria Romero, 51, a Paso Robles School teacher found in a deserted classroom, with claims of isolation preventing help. Separately, Gov. Brown’s administration announced $3.4 million in federal funds to expand hot meals for elderly Californians over the next three years, as Obledo noted to reach more beneficiaries amid rising need.
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Sacramento
UPI
California State Employees’ Association
California Youth Authority
Department of Industrial Relations
Maria Romero
Paso Robles
Brown
Ford says Rockefeller Commission may reexamine Kennedy plot
President Ford, a Warren Commission member, suggested the Rockefeller Commission investigating the CIA might reexamine conspiracy questions in JFKs assassination if new facts justify it. He noted reporters asked about CIA involvement and said the commission may look again.
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San Diego
UPI
Ford
Warren Commission
Rockefeller Commission
Central Intelligence Agency
John F. Kennedy
CIA
Ford pardons sailors after sword scene at naval center
President Ford, calling himself an old Navy man, appeared at the Naval Training Center mess hall in San Diego joining about 900 sailors for dinner. He theatrically sliced a 350‑pound cake with an officer’s sword, joked about canceling the marching party, and awarded a playful presidential pardon amid cheers. In Long Beach, Willard Bell of Packard Bell was killed in the wreck of his yacht Cinco off Baja California, with three other passengers dying.
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San Diego
Ford
Naval Training Center
Long Beach
UPI
Willard Bell
Packard Bell Electronics
Mexico
Coast Guard
Bell
Newport Beach
Calif
Cabo San Lucas
Baja California
Mrs Scott Sends Note To Publisher In Hearst Inquiry
New York reports Micki McGee Scott wrote to a New York publisher about a book on women in sports. The letter says she cannot finish the project due to circumstances beyond her control. FBI has sought the Scotts since February and advised by attorney Charles Garry to avoid talking.
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New York
UPI
Micki McGee Scott
Patricia Hearst
FBI
Jonathan Segal
Quadrangle
New York Times Book Company
Segal
Scotts
San Francisco
Charles Garry
Scott
Garry
Bill Walton
Portland
Ore
Miss Hearst
Jack
Oberlin College
Major takes plan for refugees
In Singapore a South Vietnamese Air Force major and three officers seized a military plane and diverted it to Payar Lebar airport with 52 refugees aboard. Singapore authorities detained all 56 aboard as illegal immigrants and prepared repatriation.
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Singapore
UPI
Home Affairs Ministry
South Vietnam
Payar Lebar International
Truong Buu Dien
Americans open up hearts to Vietnamese orphans
President Ford announced plans to airlift 2000 South Vietnamese orphans to the United States. First transport brought 60 children to homes in California and New York groups called for rapid adoption while foster families spoke of mercy and readiness.
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United Press International
Saigon
Ford
United States
Mary Palmer
Goleta
Calif
Lua
Kala
Palmers
Los Angeles
Maria
Daniel Marchitello
Fountain Valley
Kim
World Airways
South Vietnam
San Francisco
Travis Air Force Base
California
San Diego
Louise Cooper
Miami Catholic Service Bureau
Robert Charlebois
Catholic Relief Services
New York
Chicago child dies in spring blizzard snowstorm
Three year old Nicholas Todarchick died of exposure after wandering from his home into fresh snow near Chicago. The storm killed 58 nationwide with 45 deaths in Illinois as winds and snow shut down O Hare Airport and major highways. National Guardsmen joined rescue efforts across Michigan Iowa and surrounding states.
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United Press International
Nicholas Todarchick
Chicago
Iowa
New England
O’hare International
O’hare
Michigan
District of Columbia
Wisconsin
Ohio
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Washington, D.C
Bribery Trial Tells of AMPI Cash to Connally
UPI reports Star witness Jake Jacobsen testifies he paid Connally ten thousand dollars in two installments in 1971 after Connally helped win Nixon administration approval for higher government price supports. He says they planned a cover up when Watergate probes heated.
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Washington
UPI
John B. Connally
Treasury
Connally
Texas
Jake Jacobsen
U.S
Nixon
Jacobsen
Associated Milk Producers Inc
AMPI
Houston
FBI
Watergate
Senate Watergate Committee
Ag Dept report links input sector to farmer relief and costs
Washington reports that improvement in the input sector of farming and food processing holds the key to easing farmers finances and restraining consumer prices. The ERS study The Food and Fiber System How It Works explains inputs include machinery fuel fertilizer and labor and notes rising input costs may push up consumer food prices.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Department
Economic Research Service
Mandatory prison bill for heroin pushers faces Assembly fight
Senate passed SB268 30 to 0 with no debate. Sen. Alan Robbins predicts a tough Assembly battle. The measure would bar judges from giving probation or suspended sentences to those convicted of selling heroin or possessing it for sale, backed by Attorney General Evelle Younger.
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Sacramento
UPI
Assembly
Senate
Alan Robbins
North Hollywood
Liberal Assembly Criminal Justice Committee
Robbins
Evelle Younger
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Paul Revere
Santa Barbara
Sgt
Charlestown
Campus Christian Fellowship
Hancock
SLA
H’ Street
Milwaukee
Blatz Beer
N.R
Beattie Motors
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