Bank designed to aid consumer in business
A new National Consumer Cooperative Bank opens with $300 million in loans to form cooperatives for car repair food housing and fighting high living costs. The bank will offer loans advances and technical help to organize co ops and aims to empower consumers including the elderly low income inner city residents and families.
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Michael J. Conlon Washington
UPI
Congress
Carol Greenwald
National Consumer Cooperative Bank
Miss Greenwald
U S presses World Court to order hostages released
The United States urged the World Court at the Hague to order Iran to free the 50 American captives, saying diplomacy and the United Nations offer the best path after four months of stalemate. Iran’s stance and parliament delays may push potential release timelines into May, while calls for force are discouraged.
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World Court
United Press International
United States
Iran
United Nations
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Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Richard Lugar
R-Ind
Kurt Waldheim
State Department
Mustafa Ali
Ayatollah Khomeini
U.N. Security Council
Cancer Society trims cancer screening tests scope
The American Cancer Society, in a shift from the 1950s, advises fewer cancer tests due to questions about their risk and cost. Annual chest X-rays for heavy smokers over 40 are dropped, with other screenings reduced in frequency. Still advised are monthly breast self checks for women over 20 and annual digital rectal exams for those over 40, plus yearly doctor visits after 40 to screen for various cancers. symptoms warrant immediate medical care.
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Washington
UPI
American Cancer Society
Vincent Devita
National Cancer Institute
Government information series begins in New Castle News
An information series for planning commissions and local officials runs Wednesday evenings in March and April. This week's topic covers the Pennsylvania Flood Plain Management Program led by R. Lawrence Bosselt of the Pennsylvania Department of Community Affairs. Subsequent weeks will cover water quality management, municipal revenue sources, subdivisions and local development.
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Pennsylvania
R. Lawrence Bosselt
Pennsylvania Department of Community Affairs
New Castle News
Former mental patient charged in kidnapping
Knoxville police charged Hilda Jean Lawson after she and Freddie Bennett abducted 5 day old Erica Adams from University Hospital. Lawson, a 26 year old former patient, claimed pregnancy and promised a baby to Bennett. the infant was returned unharmed within 22 hours. Knox County Detective George Hipshire called the case bizarre.
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Knoxville, Tenn
UPI
Erica Adams
University Hospital
Hilda Jean Lawson
Knoxville
Hipshire
St Mary's (Hospital
Joe Jenkins
East Knoxville
Miss Lawson
Steve
Connie Adams
Death Notices and Weather Report for Ellwood City Area
Death notices list Mrs. Donald Plassmeyer 46 Ellwood City Mrs. William Court 89 Oxford Pa Mrs. Robert L Weyant 50 Ellwood City Delores J Wheale 49 Bear 103 E Lincoln Ave Vera Roop 82 RD 4 Mrs Myra G Smith 78 Ellwood City Weather forecast for Western Pennsylvania flurries cold tonight low upper 20s partly cloudy cool Saturday high low 40s 30 percent tonight 10 percent Saturday Weather statistics for 24 hour period ending midnight March 20 Shenango River stage 8.66 feet Moraine State Park noon temperature 36 degrees winds 7 mph .25 rain attendance 888.
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Donald Plassmeyer
Ellwood City
William Court
Oxford
Robert L. Weyant
Delores J. Wheale
Bear
E. Lincoln Ave
Vera Roop
Myra G. Smith
Pennsylvania
Shenango River
Moraine State Park
Budget balance plan wins House Budget Committee vote
Washington United Press International A Democratic coalition fractured as Republicans joined chairman Robert Giaimo to approve a plan balancing the 1981 federal budget. The bill earmarks 611.8 billion dollars, targets a 2 billion dollar surplus, and contemplates a 20 billion dollar tax cut funded partly by oil import fees. Liberal Democrats protest amid cuts to social programs, urban aid, and defense, while GOP support signals a bipartisan push toward an Easter deadline.
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Washington
UPI
House Budget Committee
Robert Giaimo
D-Conn
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Carter
Stephen’ Solarz
D-N.y
Louis Stokes
Ohio
Giaimo
Democratic Party
Couple completes 67 day Atlantic raft crossing to Barbados
Dutch-born Margaretha Arens and Belgian partner Fons Oerlemans arrived in Bridgetown after 67 days at sea aboard the Fon. They departed Las Palmas January 13, endured storms and sharks, were towed by Coast Guard, and boast a woman man duo set to challenge records.
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Barbados
UPI
Margaretha Arens
Fon
Fons Oerlemans
Coast Guard
Las Palmas
Canary Islands
Oerlemans
Miss Arens
London
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