Kathy Stephens marks 17th birthday with walk
Kathy Stephens, a Lemon Monroe High School senior paralyzed by a neck spinal injury while swimming, stood and walked on her 17th birthday three months after the accident. Doctors expect swelling to take a year to subside, but her mother notes a rapid improvement.
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Katherine Stephens
Good Samaritan Hospital
Cincinnati
Lemon Monroe
Woodridge Drive
Apt
Katherine Way
Trenton-Franklin Road
Peasttown
Kunzel Leads Ciney Symphony Into Pops Arena
Erich Kunzel named conductor for the Cincinnati Symphony’s pops phase, seen as Boston Pops heir by many. He notes no heir to Arthur Fiedler and hopes guest conductors appear after retirement. He has led Boston Pops as guest for nine years and conducted in London in 1976, planning more Boston appearances. The rest of the text shifts to Katherine Stephens’s recovery story, noting family support and prayers as she regains mobility with neck brace and cane, planning to attend Lemon Monroe game with Greenon.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Erich Kunzel
Boston Pops Orchestra
Arthur Feidler
Arthur Fiedler
Kunzel
Boston Pops
London
Boston
Don Altstaetter
Charlene Stephens
Katherine
Rodney Williams
Yankee Road
Greenon
Power blackouts predicted by 1979 by utilities
New York AP report cites NERC warning of broad power shortages by 1986 with curtailments and blackouts beginning as early as 1979. Officials blame environmental objections fuel choices rate relief and planning delays for worsening reliability.
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New York
National Electric Reliability Council
NERC
Savage
Senate Panel backs higher Social Security taxes for firms
The Senate Finance Committee approved a plan raising employer Social Security tax shares by 1987 while workers would pay more. Employers would tax on the first 100000 earnings with a maximum over 7000, and workers on the first 33900 with a max about 2385. Recipients’ earnings limit rises to 4500 next year.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Gaylord Nelson
Dwis
Nelson
Mitchell and Haldeman Seek Reduced Watergate Sentences
U S District Judge Sirica weighed clemency requests from former Nixon aides Roger Stalman? No HR Haldeman and John N Mitchell to cut eight year cover up sentences to time served. Mitchell cites arthritis need for hip replacement and heart condition while Haldeman calls imprisonment a burden on society and faces smear campaigns.
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Washington
U.S. District Court
John J. Sirica
HR. Haldeman
John N. Mitchell
Mitchell
Sirica
Maxwell Air Force Base
Ala
Haldeman
Lance testimony ends after Senate panel session
A Senate committee examining Bert Lance plans a rare Saturday session to finish testimony from President Carter’s budget director. Lance’s attorney weighs whether to press him on questions tied to a Justice Department probe into his use of bank airplanes.
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Washington
Senate
Bert Lance
Carter
Lance
Justice Department
Ohio Teachers Cite Apathy Disruption In Classrooms
Ohio Education Association members report rising discipline problems due to television influence drugs and alcohol abuse and a shift in attitudes toward authority. 78 percent say discipline is elusive and 8 percent say they have used a new state law to remove disruptive students.
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John W. Gonzalez
Associated Press
Ohio
Ohio Education Association
Steel coalition forms to push barrier-free market
The Steel Communities Coalition announced its goal of a clean steel industry able to compete in an increasingly barrier-free global market. Formed after a Sept. 8 Washington meeting, it includes 32 steel cities and counties and named William A. Sullivan acting director along with regional leaders like Youngstown Mayor Jack Hunter and Erie County NY official Edward Regan.
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Youngstown, Ohio
New Steel Communities Coalition
Washington, D.C
Youngstown
Jack Hunter
Sullivan
WREDA
Washington
Edward Regan
Erie County
N.Y
James Flaherty
Thomas Foester
Allegheny County
Thomas Barrett
Mahoning County
Quake Shakes Three Nations Rattling Northern Italy
A strong earthquake struck parts of Italy Austria and Yugoslavia early today with no casualties reported. Homes collapsed and power and water supplies were knocked out near the epicenter in northern Italy a region previously devastated by earthquakes.
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Trieste
Italy
Austria
Yugoslavia
Swine flu vaccine damage claims rise past 800
The Justice Department reports more than 800 damage claims filed from the defunct swine flu vaccination program with about 20 new claims daily. Neil Peterson said as many as 2,500 claims may arise from the vaccinations, which killed about 1,000 people.
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Washington
Justice Department
Neil Peterson
Department
House Health
Ohio loan scandal reaches new settlement in state case
Bonding firms representing former Ohio Treasurer John Herbert and deputy Robert Gardner agreed to a 1.1 million settlement with the state after the Ohio Supreme Court found them liable for civil damages in a 7.9 million investment tied to King Resources Co. in a long running capitol corruption saga.
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Columbus, Ohio
Capitol
Ohio
John D. Herbert
William J. Brown
Herbert
Robert F. Gardner
Ohio Supreme Court
King Resources Co
Denver
Colo
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Ciney Symphony
C.E. Winn
Norton Savage
Federal Power Commission
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House
Ways and Means
Richard Nixon
Steel Coalition
SCC
William A. Sullivan
Western Reserve Economic Development Agency
Niles
Bethlehem
Farrell
East Chicago
Ind
Donora
Steubenville
Buffalo
Gary
Conshocken
Monesson
Portsmouth
Cleveland
Middletown
Vienna
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