Flexitime offers hope for workers in an eight hour day
New York experts praise flexitime as a solution for work life balance, noting benefits for mothers with young children and potential for broader adoption. Despite Carter administration support, many U.S. employers resist, though European firms report 8 to 40 percent adoption. Advocates cite better morale, less tardiness, and empowered employees, while firms like Keyboard Communications already tailor shifts to family obligations.
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Christen Kammerer
American Management Association
J. Harvey Bolton
Arthur Peck
Nora Bardok
Nancy Blanchard
Barbara Sackett
Flexitime
OSHA Burden Eased If Small Firms Exempt From Rules
Senate backed a measure to strip about two million employees and ten million workers from OSHA oversight, exempting firms with ten or fewer employees in low injury industries. House-Senate talks must reconcile differences, consumer costs may fall as compliance paperwork drops.
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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OSHA
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Playmates of the Towpath Recalls Canal Family Life in Middletown
A Cincinnati newspaper reprint recounts Mrs. George Knapp of 501 Crawford St detailing the Huber family on the Miami Erie Canal. They crewed the Baltimore, hauled bricks and ballast, schooled when frozen, and lived aboard from the 1850s until Captain Huber retired near LeSourdsville.
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George Knapp
Crawford St
Miami-Erie Canal
LeSourdsville
Toledo
Baltimore
Chris Huber
Middletown
Huber
Excelle
Middletown Journal subscription rates and delivery options
The Middletown Journal lists post office and home delivery rates with daily and Sunday prices. It details motor route costs, calendar month rates, four week periods, and U.S. and foreign mail subscription prices, all payable in advance.
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News Journal, Inc
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First Ave
Middletown
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U.S.A
Runaway Daughter Returns With Dog in Surprise Home Visit
A family recalls a daughter aged seven who ran away with Kona the Wonder Dog only to return after a brief trek to a pyracantha bush. After a playful homecoming, the girl unpacks a suitcase full of belongings, revealing she planned a longer absence but chose to stay.
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Kona
My only regrets and thanks to Godspell summer theater
In a letter to the editor a participant reflects on the summer theater production of Godspell. The writer praises the program started ten years ago under Jon Butch, notes long rehearsals and discipline, and thanks directors Bill Landen Debbie Weineke Carol Saunders Scott Harris and Ken Long. The writer laments this was Jim Butch's last directing assignment and hopes more area people witnessed the joyous, loving celebration of the show.
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Bill Landen
Debbie Weineke
Carol Saunders
Scott Harris
Ken Long
Jim Butch
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