Ohio debuts flexible unemployment plan with higher benefits
Ohio launches an updated unemployment compensation law described as the most realistic in the state’s history. It raises weekly maximums to 114 dollars for claimants with four or more dependents and 77 dollars for those with none, sets 26 weeks of eligibility, links annual benefit adjustments to wages, and offers employers earlier access to reduced tax rates.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio
William E. Garnes
Ohio Bureau of Employment Services
Garnes
Brown quits Senate race to seek re election
Lt. Gov. John W. Brown withdrew from the Republican nomination race for the U.S. Senate on Monday and announced plans to run for re election. He denied GOP pressure to push Cleveland Mayor Ralph J. Perk into the race. Brown noted no truth to the pressure claims as he made the switch hours after U.S. Rep. Clarence J. Brown Jr. said he would seek re election instead of challenging the Metzenbaum appointed seat.
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Brown
Senate
Columbus
Ohio
John W. Brown
U.S. Senate
GOP
Cleveland
Ralph J. Perk
U.S
Clarence J. Brown Jr
Rohio
Howard Metzenbaum
National Guard flights resume after fuel relief
The Air National Guard and air Reserve training flights, grounded on December 22 due to a fuel shortage, are resuming. Pentagon spokesman Jerry W. Friedheim said the resumption follows a higher daily fuel allocation from the Federal Energy Office, totaling 637,000 barrels per day for Q1 1974, about 2 percent more than late 1973.
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Washington
Air National Guard
Air Reserve
Pentagon
Jerry W. Friedheim
Federal Energy Office
Sikh soldier on trial for beard and turban refusal
Pvt. Walter S. McNair, 19, from Gwin Michigan, a Sikh convert, faces court martial at Fort Monmouth New Jersey for refusing to remove his beard and turban and to cut his hair. The case highlights religious observance amid military duty. Separately, the U.S. protested to the USSR on January 10 1917 over harassment of American citizens in Moscow.
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Pvt
Walter S. McNair
Gwin
Mich
Ft. Monmouth
N.J
United States
Ussr
U.S
Moscow
Cast for Pirates selected by Middletown groups
Ronald Fetzer announces Gilbert and Sullivan Pirates of Penzance cast for March 1 and 2 joint Middletown Symphony Campus Community Players and Miami University Middletown Vocal Music Department. Ed Rivera leads as Frederic, Jim Felder as Pirate King, with Larry Moore Major General Stanly and Vicki Moore Ruth.
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Ronald Fetzer
Middletown Symphony
Campus Community Players
Middletown
Miami University Vocal Music Department
Ed Rivera
Frederic
Jim Felder
Larry Moore
Stanly
Vicki Moore
Ruth
Bob Harmon
Bob Wolford
Samuel
Marty Hensler
Warren Parker
Loyce Carpenter
Dianne Robison
Mabel
Edith
Linda Haggard
Kate
Helen Craycraft
Isabel
Beth Banzhaf
Andrea Kasarda
Diana Hensley
Snooky Barton
Nita Hall
Carolyn Moore
Mari Lynn Kieth
Stephanie Wallace
Beth Johnson
Geri Hart
State has 26 million on hand not a surplus
The state ended the fiscal year with 26.4 million in funds but officials say it is not surplus as the money is earmarked for items in the 1974 budget. Deputy director Robert Barrow notes surplus implies idle funds with no use. The Continental Congress sat in New York on January 11, 1785.
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Columbus, Ohio
Robert Barrow
Office of Budget and Management
Barrow
Continental Congress
New York
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N. Verity
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Middletown Independent Insurance Agents Association
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S. Broad St
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Miller Insurance
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Main St
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Crawford St
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