IRS Warns Stores On Posting Prices
Nationwide IRS spot checks reveal widespread noncompliance with posting freeze-period ceiling prices. Portney says stores have until January 17 to shape up as Price Commission rules mandate posting, with crews evaluating Phase 2 cost-of-living controls and ongoing checks through month end.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Service
Jerry Portney
IRS
The
Price Commission
Cost of Living Council
New York City
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Virginia
United States
Nebraska
Illinois
New Mexico
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Washington, D.C
Portney
Portnoy
Weather highs and lows loom across continental U.S.
The National Weather Service reported the day’s highest temperature outside Alaska and Hawaii as 86 degrees at West Palm Beach Florida. Massena New York registered a low of 25 degrees below zero.
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New York
Louisiana health worker visits Hawaiʻi on LA tour
Mrs. Hazel Meadows of Ruston, medical social worker for the Louisiana State Health Department in the Monroe district, returned from a three-island tour of Hawaii sponsored by the Louisiana Teachers Association. She met her former Louisiana Tech classmate Lois Thomasson Horne, now a Honolulu schoolteacher.
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Hazel Meadows
Ruston
Louisiana State Department of Health
Monroe
Hawaiian Islands
Louisiana Teachers Association
Honolulu
Meadows
Louisiana Tech
Lois Thomasson Horne
Horne
Nixon and Sato prepare for trade talks in California
President Nixon and Japan Prime Minister Eisaku Sato arrive for face to face talks at Nixon's Western White House in San Clemente. Treasury Secretary Connally had met Mizuta in Newport Beach signaling trade topics will dominate sessions with Stans and Tanaka. The U S presses Japan over tariffs quotas and investment limits.
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Japan
Eisaku Sato
el Toro
Calif
Marine Corps Air Station
Sato
Nixon
The
San Clemente
Ejisaku Sato
Secretary of the Treasury
John B. Connally
California
White House
Connally
Miko Mizuta
Treasury
Nellie
Mizuta
Newport Beach
Gerald [. Warren
Commerce
Maurice Stans
Kakuei Tanaka
United States
U.S
Grand Jury Flays Medicaid Funds Waste in New York
A grand jury alleges nearly a billion dollars in Medicaid losses due to fraud and mismanagement in New York City. Jule M. Sugarman disputes the figure, citing under 5 million in specific losses, while highlighting publicized issues from hospitals and persistent systemic problems.
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New York
New York City
Jule M. Sugarman
Human Resources Administration
Grand Jury
Manhattan District Attorney's Office
State Supreme Court
Jacob Grumet
John V. Lindsay
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Sugarman
Social Services
Health
Gumet
Auto Makers Post U S Record 10.16 Million 1971 Sales
Detroit AP reports 1971 U S auto sales topped 10 million for first time, reaching 10,155,411 including imports. GM led gains with 4,653,1894 cars, Ford up 7.6 percent to 2,877,357, Chrysler 1,388,070, American Motors 256,973. imports held about 14.6 percent of market.
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Detroit
United States
U.S
General Motors Corp
General Motors
Ford Motor Co
Chrysler
American Motors Corp.s
Youth Dies From Injuries Suffered In Wreck Here
Michael W. Collier aged 17 of Monroe died at St Francis Hospital from injuries suffered when his pickup collided Tuesday night with a gasoline truck at U S 165 By Pass and East Street. His 16 year old brother Bobby Collier survived with minor injuries. The gasoline truck driver Billy Joe Tucker of Downsville was uninjured. Survivors include parents Mr and Mrs George Collier of Monroe two sisters Kathleen and Mrs Glen McCulley both of Monroe paternal grandparents J D Collier of Monroe and maternal grandfather Albert Gullickson of Allendale Minn.
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Michael W. Collier
Old
Sterlington Road
Monroe
St. Francis Hospital
Collier
U.S. 165
East Street
Bobby Collier
Billy Joe Tucker
Downsville
Tucker
George Collier
Kathleen Collier
Glen McCulley
J. D. Collier
Albert Gullickson
Allendale
Minn
Warming trend forecast for Northeast Louisiana area
The region is expected to enjoy fair skies and a warming trend into Friday. Temperatures at Monroe Municipal Airport show a 32 degree high yesterday and a 124 degree low this morning with no precipitation.
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Louisiana
FAA
Monroe Municipal
Board declines to set pay guideline on aerospace raises
The Pay Board voted 12 to 0 to table a motion for a guideline on reducing a 12 percent aerospace pay raise. The action leaves unions free to renegotiate without public terms, while management and public members push for roughly an 8 percent target.
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Washington
George H. Boldt
Auto Workers and Machinists
Boldt
Leonard Woodcock
United Auto Workers
Floyd E. Smith
Afl-Cio International Association of Machinists
St. Louis
Chuckle Junior Executive as Secretary in Mini-Skirt
A caption notes a secretary in a mini-skirt walking by and jokes about who said she was all thumbs. The line plays on a pun about competence and appearance.
Price Cuts Spread On Steel Products
Armco Steel Corp and U S Steel Corp both cut prices on hot and cold rolled sheet and merchant quality bars as a price war spreads through the industry. Inland Steel and Bethlehem Steel reportedly matched moves, with discounts offered to large buyers and no published pricing formulas.
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Pittsburgh
Armco Steel Corp
U.S. Steel Corp
Middletown
Ohio
U.S. Steel
Inland Steel Co
Chicago
Inland
Bethlehem Steel
Bethlehem
Two U S Airmen Killed in Vietnam Action
Saigon AP report says two American airmen were killed last week after being shot down over Laos. The U S Command noted 50 Americans wounded including one in Laos, with 1 491 missing or captured. North Vietnamese Viet Cong deaths were claimed at 874 by allied commands.
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Saigon
U.S
Laos
North Vietnam
Higher Education Budgets Approved in Louisiana
The State Board of Education approved 104.3 million in operating budgets drafted by college presidents, noting the Budgets follow a board formula. Charles Colbert urged rejection as unreal, but the motion failed 8-2. Fred Tannehill favored 85 percent implementation and the board pushed ahead.
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Baton Rouge
State Board of Education
Charles Colbert
Metaire
Fred Tannehill
Pineville
New Orleans
Southern University
Tannehill
Board of Education
Nixon Aide Outlines Balanced Full Employment Budget Plan
Budget Director George P. Shultz said the administration will send Congress a 1973 budget that is expansive yet balanced on a full employment basis. He noted a possible small deficit for that year and warned against losing fiscal discipline as policies pay off.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
George P. Shultz
Shultz
National Press Club
Groups Protest AEC Dual Role
Six environment groups asked a federal court to end the Atomic Energy Commission’s dual role as regulator and promoter of atomic energy. They argue the split violates the Constitution and creates a conflict of interest, seeking a declaration that the 1954 Atomic Energy Act assigning both functions is unconstitutional.
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Washington
The
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Commission
Environment
U.S. District Court
AKC
River Stage Readings Show Changes and Gaps
River stage readings show Camden at 21.5 feet with a 6 foot fall and Monroe at 4 feet. other locations are not listed in the record.
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Camden
Monroe
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